Category: Wildlife photo
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Soon: A new lens in my bag
Happy news here: I finally bought a lens I wanted for quite some time. I found and paid on eBay a Minolta APO G 400mm f/4.5 (Yes! The old white lens that is renowned so much for its optical and mechanical quality, while being nearly impossible to find in auctions). It will go really well…
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Brown-hooded Gull
Click on the thumbnails image to enlarge them Brown-hooded Gull (Larus maculipennis, Mouette de Patagonie). Brazil, 2007.
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Kelp gull
The largest gull of South-American continent, easily recognized from its plummage and the red spot on the inferior mandible of its yellow beak. Click on the thumbnails image to enlarge them Kelp gull (Larus dominicanus, Goéland dominicain). Brazil, 2007. Note: These kelp gull photos are the beginning of a series of images I brought back…
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Big cat photos (James Pan)
A few top-quality images taken by James Pan. Felines, lovely big cats and other animals shot in perfect portraits.
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Jaws, on firm ground
Feline teeth are their most prominent exterior feature. Since the prehistoric Smilodon (the smiling feline) and its gigantic canines, big cats use their impressive dental characteristics to hunt. On the Laelaps web site, you will find a detaileld article on feline teeth, from yesterday to nowadays: What big teeth you have. Please, also notice the…
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Free nature wallpapers: Sand
Some abstract images of sand. Shot in Lagoa do Peixe (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) in 2008. To me, they looked a little like some satellite photos of the planet Mars. Click on the thumbnails if you want to access the 1280*1024 versions Those photos can be used freely for your own wallpaper (on your…
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Big cats roam free in UK (Really!)
Great Britain does not look like the place to look for big cats, but there are some large felines clearly not indigenous roaming freely in the United Kingdom. It is such a big thing that there is an investigative group collecting evidence about them: panthers, lions, cheetahs in the cold weather of England or Scotland.…
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Cheetahs and elephants roaming free in USA
Yesterday, we were speaking here about prehistoric big cats in places where they disappeared (e.g. Europe). Today, I want to point at a surprising proposal made by Josh Donlan. Recognizing that many big cats were roaming in North America tens of thousands of years ago, he want to re-introduce lions, cheetahs, elephants and other large…