A visit to an historic gold mine in regional Victoria. The mine has long ceased operations but the ghosts may still be present! They left their clothes hanging in the old change room….
A visit to an historic gold mine in regional Victoria. The mine has long ceased operations but the ghosts may still be present! They left their clothes hanging in the old change room….
The capuchin is considered a “New World” monkey being distributed throughout Central and South America. There are numerous sub-species (with dispute among naturalists as to naming conventions and the actual numbers) across 2 genus. This individual was photographed early morning close to our lodgings in Brazil’s Pantanal region.
Floating along the rivers and channels of the Pantanal, Caiman are seen in large numbers. Family portrait? Caiman were often seen motionlesss on the river banks, jaws open to regulate the animals body temperature. Fly crawling on caiman. Notice one of the teeth from the lower jaw visible through a hole in the edge of the upper snout. Fly on Caiman Adorned with swamp vegetation.
The Yellow-billed Cardinal (Paroaria capitata), photographed in Brazil’s Pantanal region, where it is a common sight. A species in the Thraupidae or Tanager family, it is also found in the neighbouring countries of Paraguay, Bolivia, Uruguay, and the northern parts of Argentina. Despite its common name, it is not very closely related to the Cardinals of the Cardinalidae family which have a wider distribution into North America. These birds were photographed early morning requiring ISO 2000, not a […]
The Clarke family: The mystery that never was. As reported on Petapixel (and elsewhere) large numbers of people were completely fooled by the story of a family that supposedly vanished only to be uncovered later entombed in a makeshift brick structure. The story was entirely fictional being generated, complete with convincing “photographs”, by artificial intelligence. From Petapixel – AI image of Clarke family fools internet I see so many people uncritically parroting nonsense online, it is so easy to […]
Anyone who’s followed my photography for any length of time will have detected that I am often drawn to graphic shapes and lines and perhaps fairly formal compositions. Today I go back into my archives to rediscover a series of images I captured whilst visiting the Falkland Islands a few years back. Aging paintwork, textures, a sense of neglect….
Following on from yesterday’s post, another shot from the Falkland Islands. Perhaps this has the makings of an ongoing theme …. “bones on textured backgrounds” 🙂 This time a skull (I should think from a sheep) on a rusting sheet of iron.
For something rather different. The red chair….. Photographed at the Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway. Highly reflective glass and steel surfaces and deliberately blow the highlights allowing the red chair to be the key element.
