Category: Nature and global warming

  • Wallpapers: Quality photos

    It is always more pleasant to work with a nice wall paper on your PC (or Mac) desktop. Here are two interesting source sof beautiful wallpapers based on photographic quality images: dozens of nature-oriented images (including some cartoons) on UsingMac.com; ligthning and storms (15 images). Downright spectacular.

  • Camouflage in nature

    Camouflage in nature

    A very nice set of camouflaged animals. Source: Daily Mail.

  • Can you buy a giraffe?

    When I look into the logs of my web site, I sometimes discover bizarre little gems. For example, I recently noticed that somebody reached my web site through a search engine looking for: “buy a giraffe“. I still wonder whether he or she was looking for the real animal or a poster or photo of…

  • Sun rise

    Sun rise

  • Lion portraits

    Lion portraits

    I published a few shots of lions. Portraits taken in the Masai Mara park (Kenya). My prefered is the following one: If you click on the thumbnail image, you will enlarge it. And you may notice that the photographer (and its car) are appearing in the eye of the lion. 😉 But there are several…

  • The Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala

    The Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala

    Awesomely superb, “The Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala” is an illustrated book (download in PDF) by James Bateman that you can find in Botanicus.org wbe site of the Missouri Botanical Gardens.

  • Back from Masai Mara

    After about 10 days out of France, I am back from the Masai Mara National Reserve (in Kenya). I brought back about 30 GB of wildlife photos (around 1700-1800 images) to be sorted out in the coming days. You can expect series of published images here on a regular basis.

  • Goblin shark in action

    This little shark (goblin shark in English, Mitsukurina owstoni) lives in the deeps of the ocean, and has an extensible mouth. See it in action against a human diver (don’t worry, there is no blood and wounds). Link to LiveLink

  • Landscape photograph lesson in Zion National Park

    Autumn in the Utah, Zion National Park: A great location for photo and landscape photo lessons from Brett Higgins. Video link