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Piranhas in the river in the Amazon Peru. You can easily go for a swim, they will not harm you at all in spite of what many people think.
Amazon kingfisher just emerging out of the water with its catch. From the moment they leave their branch to dive in for the fish and come back up it seems it's just a second. I took hundred of shots this day and most of them show only water or just a part of this fast moving bird.
Pantanal, Brazil
Teatro Amazonas
Ornamentos sobre as colunas do piso térreo – é uma homenagem aos grandes dramaturgos e compositores clássicos.
Manaus
Amazonas, Brasil
Art week Gallery Theme
18 June to 24 June our theme is:
~~~ My Favorite Museum ~~~
By far the most common kingfisher that we encountered during our time in the Cano Negro Wildlife Refuge in Costa Rica was the Amazon Kingfisher. This female was quite a great model.
We will be doing this trip again next spring, if you think you might be interested more information is available here: www.texastargetbirds.com/group-photo-trips/2018-costa-ric...
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Chloroceryle amazona
While taking a dip in the Amazon today, I saw this Piranha staring at me intending to nibble on my toes. :-))
Here is the full diorama of all four Amazon builds created for mine and Bartu's Amazon collaboration!
First of all: Be sure to check out the Full Video of this build! This includes Bartu's masterful compositions, which is how this collaboration really comes alive! Don't miss it! :D
Hope you've enjoyed this collaboration! It has been quite a different one, working in two separate mediums, but I really want to thank Bartu for initiating this! It's been a very fun, interesting and intense month! Thanks!
One last thing: You seriously need to check out the VIDEO result of this collab to see how the music and lego builds work together. If not, you will just be seeing half of it :)
The third installment in mine and Bartu's Amazon collaboration: Destruction.
There are many threats to the Amazon forest, one of them being small illegal gold mines that both destroys and poisons the forest by ruining the soil and dumping mercury waste. This build portrays such a mine.
This is a more somber theme than the previous two, as is the intention. Colors are more muted, with more olive and dark green. The dark tan ground is mostly exposed with vegetation struggling.
The whole setup is very makeshift and temporary, and nothing here is made to last. People are here to get what they can and then move on, giving no care to what state they leave things in. I tried to portray this by making things rather messy and cluttered.
One of the things I was pondering for a while was the inclusion of minifigs in the build. I've had many interesting conversations on whether it would be wise to include them or not. It was important for the build that the issues were not trivialized by making it childish or less natural. With a medium that is often seen as a toy this can sometimes be tricky. For this purpose I went with flesh heads rather than yellow ones, and made sure to avoid any polarizing facial expressions, like the standard "bad guy" faces.
Though certainly not innocent, the workers are not the main culprits in this, but rather other people who are far away from what is actually happening, bear the biggest blame. Often these people who are the main cause of this are not even found in South America, but may reside in Europe, Asia or North America, and this was something that was unfortunately not possible to portray in this build.
When it comes to Lego techniques, much of the focus here was on the man-made parts, which I don't build that often. The nature is not really something new, but I do like the staggered wedge plates technique for a varied incline.
On his side, Bartu created some fantastic sounds, made by on his violin, mimicking the sounds of ongoing destruction of the forest.
Hope you like the build, and that you feel this issue has been properly portrayed.
Amazon Kingfisher (Amazonasfischer - Chloroceryle amazona), January 2017, Los Dos Laredo Park, Texas
This delightful little hummingbird is the smallest of the Peruvian Hermits and common in many of the lowland Amazon rainforest lodge gardens, doing their rounds of the flowers for their sweet nectar.
Suze Lewis de Amable
Fujifilm X-T3 - Fujifilm 100-400mm
Tambopata, Peru - June 2020
Arguably the longest river in the world, the Amazon meanders its way from the towering Andes in Peru to the sweeping coastline of Brazil, where it empties into the vast Atlantic Ocean. The Amazon River and its tributaries is located in Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, and Brazil. The entire river measures over 4,000 miles from its source to the river mouth. However, the exact length of the Amazon is arguable as the location of its start and end points have both been disputed historically. The Amazon River is currently alleged to be 6,992 kilometers long.*
*https://www.rainforestcruises.com/amazon-river-peru-map
A composite image of the wreck of the Amazon under southern starry skies. I'm not sure about posting this as it's not my usual style: I like to use infrared, long exposures, modified lenses and tilt-shifts to create an interpretation that is still strongly linked to the subject in front of me. In this case I've combined a single 2-second image of the shoreline with a 21-minute night sky exposure taken 3 weeks later from my backyard.
I really like the end result but it just doesn't feel honest, in the way of my usual techniques.
cotorra
La cotorra de La Española o cotica (Amazona ventralis) es un loro endémico de la Isla La Española, República Dominicana y Haití. Ha sido introducida en Puerto Rico y en las Islas Vírgenes de los Estados Unidos donde se ha reproducido y está establecida.
Es una especie que está en peligro de extinción debido a su comercialización y destrucción de su habitat.
Esta especie de psitacido se puede identificar por su color verde brillante, frente blanca, manchas negras alrededor de los oídos, en el vientre tiene plumas rojas y amarillas, su cola es verde y roja y de forma cuadrada y sus alas tiene algunas plumas azules. Su pico es fuerte. Se alimenta de frutas, cereales y verduras en su habitat natural. Puede llegar a vivir hasta 50 años en la vida silvestre. Forman pareja para toda la vida y vuelan en bandadas surcando los cielos.
Las principales amenazas a las poblaciones silvestres son el saqueo de los polluelos o pichones para el tráfico de mascotas, así como la pérdida de hábitat por la tala por el avance de la frontera agropecuaria y la producción de leña y carbón.
Si las autoridades no toman medidas estrictas con las amenazas, la destrucción de su hábitat y el saqueo de sus nidos, esta especie caerá en riesgo de desaparición.
se alimentan de semillas y frutas a elevaciones medias a altas en los arboles.
Anidan en cavidades de arboles donde ponen de 2-4 huevos, tambien se han reportado anidaciones en repisas rocosas y pequeñas cuevas en laderas calizas.
la Epoca de reproducción es de Febrero a Junio.
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The Hispaniolan amazon or Hispaniolan parrot (Amazona ventralis) is a species of parrot in the Psittacidae family. It is found on Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and has been introduced to Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
The main features that differentiate it from other amazons are the white forehead, pale beak, white eye-ring, blue ear patch, and red belly.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, and plantations. It is threatened in its home range by habitat loss and the capture of individuals for the pet trade.
The presence of this bird outside of its native Hispaniola is due to it being introduced, this in part from a release of birds raised in captivity as a studied rehearsal for the re-colonization program of the highly endangered Puerto Rican amazon.
Clasificación científica
Reino:Animalia
Filo:Chordata
Clase:Aves
Orden:Psittaciformes
Familia:Psittacidae
Subfamilia:Psittacinae
Tribu:Arini
Género:Amazona
Especie:A. ventralis
(Müller, 1776)
Riverbend Business Park,
Big bend, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada,
“the primary Amazon distribution facility in Western Canada.”
Visit Amazon River Now!
Place: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Glint/213/27/22
Full of wonderful plants reproducing real life on the amazon river!
The wreck of the Amazon under southern starry skies.
Composite of 21-minutes night sky and 2.5 seconds for shoreline.
Amazon tree boa (Corallus hortulanus) - Yasuni National Park, Ecuador
The family Boidae includes some of, and in fact THE largest snakes in the world. The really big species like anacondas and adult boa constrictors don't tend to climb so much and many of the other species stay low despite not attaining huge sizes (rainbow, rosy, rubber, etc boas). However, there's an entire genus of boas that don't get so big and are well adapted to life in the tree tops. There are 9 species and they all spend the vast majority of their time in the tree tops only infrequently descending to near ground level. While still quite hefty animals they remain comparatively slender compared to terrestrial boas of the same size and as adults feed largely on birds, arboreal mammals like mouse opossums, and other animals they encounter high above the ground.
Dedicated to my friend Maria Rafaela (LightSpectral). Happy birthday to you!!!
Thanks, Ilca, once more time. You made the difference. Amazon River, Brasil.
Have a good day my friends.
Esta é a primeira de algumas fotos que revelam um lugar especial, no Amazonas, e que infelizmente "ainda" não conheço: São Gabriel da Cachoeira.
Quando as vi, não pude resistir e quis "guardá-las" aqui, assim como mostrar a quem acessar estas páginas, um pouco dessa linda terra.
(os créditos das fotos são de Elizeu Malvão, militar e marido de uma grande amiga minha, Cleo, que viajou a trabalho p/ esse "paraíso" e gentilmente cedeu as fotos p/ editá-las aqui)
Comunidade Catalão
Em foco, a Escola da comunidade
In Focus, the Community School
Lago do Catalão
Rio Negro, Manaus
Amaonas, Brasil
Arguably the longest river in the world, the Amazon meanders its way from the towering Andes in Peru to the sweeping coastline of Brazil, where it empties into the vast Atlantic Ocean. The Amazon River and its tributaries is located in Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, and Brazil. The entire river measures over 4,000 miles from its source to the river mouth. However, the exact length of the Amazon is arguable as the location of its start and end points have both been disputed historically. The Amazon River is currently alleged to be 6,992 kilometers long.*
*https://www.rainforestcruises.com/amazon-river-peru-map