Category: Social issues
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Tanzania 2013
After quite a long leave of absence, here are again news of my photo trips to a more opulent wildlife and more generous nature than under our mild latitudes. This year, my first travel has been bringing me to Tanzania that I never visited before. So, you’ll find here -day after day- snapshots from the…
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Mountains in motion
A lovely movie that has been collecting awards for the amazingly beautiful landscapes and time-lapse sequences of night and day mountain images from the Canadian Rockies. Vimeo link I heartfully recommend this mountain photo-sequence or video; I don’t know how to describe it. But I love it.
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Rhinos fly the chopper
The WWF has a wide Black Rhino Range Expansion Project which is trying to ensure a better future for the Black Rhinoceros species. They are under a severe threat because their horn is considered as the source of a powerful medicinal drug in several cultures. The black rhino is protected and poaching is slowly reducing…
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Fight between an ant and a spider
And the winner is not the one you would bet on. You must always stay very attentive to the very last move of your opponent under the microscope (or the video camera with a macro-photography lens). Spider attack from Ahmet Ozkan on Vimeo.
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The woodpecker book
Woodpeckers are birds which are often superb and specially pleasant to watch and photograph. But picidae (the family of most birds we group under the generic name of woodpeckers) also have their illustrated monograph. ‘Monographie des Picidées’ @ Harvard University Library {volumes II + III}. This is the result of digitization of a reference book…
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Underwater ballet with an octopus
YouTube link Octopus ballet.
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Free fonts by the thousands
You can’t have too many fonts for your computer. Or can you? Actually, I am trying to make sure that you will get much more than you can swallow here: tens of thousands of character fonts. Not only a bunch of them, but two sources of the nicest kind. FontPark is nothing less than a…
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The ladybug and the sprinkles
Ladybugs are little carnivorous insects and this one probably considered these sprinkles as a potential meal. But the result is really fun: YouTube link