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Portrait by @marcovernaschi • From the series MACONDO • Los Apóstoles, 34 °C • Pedro and Juan, close cousins and dedicated fishing partners, hail from a large family committed to the Pentecostal Church. They live by the riverbanks of El Horno, their lives woven between the ciénagas and participating in their community. Despite their faith and the nickname ‘los Apostoles,’ they find themselves grappling with the repercussions of a dwindling fish population, a consequence of the harsh impact of extreme temperatures. As no miracle seems to feed their nets during El Niño, Pedro and Juan are contemplating alternative avenues to sustain their livelihood. Pedro has taken up a part-time position at a hotel in Mompox. Meanwhile, Juan is training as a preacher with aspirations to serve his church full-time. He believes that through practice, he can acquire the skills to heal the souls of the community members. #MACONDO delves into the complexities of existence along the Magdalena River amidst an exceptionally challenging climatic backdrop, entwining the essence of Colombian magical realism with climate resilience. . . . #marcovernaschi #macondo #magicalrealism #colombia #gabrielgarciamarquez #climateresilience #elniño #fineartphotography
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Photo by @thomas.nicolon // There’s nothing quite like the sunrise over the rainforest. Shot in Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park, Republic of Congo. // Follow me @thomas.nicolon for more photos from central Africa.
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Photo by @TimLaman . The milky way shines through a gap in the rainforest canopy in Borneo. While on assignment for NatGeo documenting the biodiversity of Borneo’s Gunung Palung National Park, this was literally the only clear night I had out of several months in the forest. Most evenings, clouds always form over the rainforest, so seeing the milky way was a spectacular sight. I painted light with a flashlight onto the foliage around the gap to accent the scene and clarify the sense of place. You can see read the story in the Feb 2024 NatGeo magazine or at the Link in Bio @TimLaman . Thanks to everyone at the National Park @btn_gn_palung , and @SaveWildOrangutans for making the shoot possible. #milkyway #stars #rainforest #lightpainting #borneo #gunungpalungnationalpark .
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Photo by Robbie Shone @shonephoto words by Denise Hruby @denisehruby | The Alps’ magical ice caves risk vanishing in our warming world. For centuries, this spectacular underworld recorded the local climate and entranced visitors. Now its fairy-tale features are receding, drip by drip. Water percolating into freezing alpine caves like this one called Eiskogelhöhle, high in the Tennen Mountains south of Salzburg, Austria, sculpts itself into mesmerizing structures: huge Damoclean icicles, cones rising from below, and floor-covering cascades. They can be thousands of years old.
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Photos by @MichaelGeorge // If you’re searching for the world’s tallest palm trees you’ll find them in the Cocora Valley in Colombia where the wax palms can grow up to 200 feet tall. My partner is half-Colombian but grew up in the US. Last year we took two weeks to visit the country and reconnect him with it. Every place from Bogota to Minca was beautiful in its own way, but the highlight was visiting Salento, the nearest town to the Cocora Valley. This quiet area is surrounded by coffee farms, rivers, and natural beauty. Though the palm trees are both whimsical and strange from afar, the 7.3 mile loop trail allows you to walk among them and feel their height soaring above you. Some of the trees have lost their palms and end up looking like giant toothpicks in the landscape. Along the way we had the clouds from the cloud forest roll in a few times, giving us an ever-changing mix of fog and sun. For more photos and writing from my travels, follow along @MichaelGeorge . // #colombia #cocoravalley #palmtrees #palmtree #travel
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Photos by @FransLanting and @ChristineEckstrom // Apes and humans are close cousins on the great tree of life and we can learn a lot about ourselves by paying attention to our next of kin. That simple, yet fundamental, notion drove the great primatologist Frans de Waal to pursue science with an empathetic perspective throughout a long and illustrious career during which he consistently challenged simplistic conventions that kept apes and humans apart. Our shared background—we were both Dutch, shaped by the 60’s, and influenced by ethology pioneers like Niko Tinbergen and Konrad Lorenz—and our common interest in bringing apes and humans together, led Frans and me to collaborate on a book about bonobos published nearly 30 years ago titled “Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape.” At the time, bonobos were not well known and were called pygmy chimpanzees. Our goal was to elevate them and help people understand their differences with common chimps and their shared kinship with us. Today, few people use the term pygmy chimpanzees anymore and bonobos have attained cult-like status because of their matriarchy and liberal attitudes towards sex. Frans spent many thousands of hours observing primates be themselves and he had a remarkable ability to turn his insights into writing that transcended the rigid boundaries of science. It made him an influential commentator about the human condition. Every one of his books provided a new mirror through which we could see ourselves reflected in the lives of other sentient beings. Frans passed away on March 14, 2024, at the age of 75. His thoughts will be with us for a long time, but his unique personality will be sorely missed by everyone who knew him. @Frans_deWaal #FransdeWaal #ape #human #bonobo #chimpanzee #empathy #science #ethology
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Photo by @kiliiiyuyan // Cousins from North Greenland push baby prams across sea ice to attend the annual dogsled race, one of the most important community events. Transportation in the area around Qaanaaq is almost entirely on foot, or by dogsled. The Greenland sled dog remains one of the most important animals to the people of Qaanaaq, a relationship going back millennia. Follow me @kiliiiyuyah , for
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Photo by @thomas.nicolon // Crossing paths with an elephant in the thick tropical rainforest is both a thrilling and terrifying experience. Forest elephants are quick to charge when feeling threatened. To be in their presence is an unparalleled wildlife encounter. Shot for @wcs_congo in Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park, Republic of Congo. // Follow me @thomas.nicolon for more images from central Africa.
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Photo by @philipcheungphoto // An empty Santa Monica beach in March 2020, a day before California Governor Gavin Newsom issued a stay at home order to slow the spread of COVID-19. Photographed for @nytimes #coronavirus #covid19 #santamonica #losangeles #california Follow me @philipcheungphoto for more images and stories
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Photo by @GerdLudwig // Wreckage of electronic devices in the Control Center building of DUGA-1, also known as the Russian Woodpecker, a large radar installation near Chornobyl, was built during the Cold War. It played a crucial role in the Soviet early-warning radar system for ballistic missiles. With its distinctive tapping noise, it earned the nickname “Russian Woodpecker” in the West. Last November, after engaging in negotiations for 10 months, I made my way back to Chornobyl. During this visit, I had the opportunity to see the DUGA-1 project and its towers, which are over 150 meters tall and 750 meters long. These towers had sparked global curiosity and conspiracy theories when they were operational. Despite its military function, DUGA-1 caused widespread interference in global radio communications, leading to diplomatic tensions. Abandoned after the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, DUGA now stands as a silent symbol of the secretive Soviet era. #chornobyl #chernobyl #ukraine #exclusionzone #duga #USSR Be sure to follow me @GerdLudwig as I’ll be sharing additional images and stories from my recent journey to Chornobyl in the upcoming weeks.
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Photos by @TimLaman . Do you want to become a master at shooting birds in flight (with a camera, that is)? My new course “Birds, Camera, Action” explains my approach to focusing, exposure, and camera handling for success. Special offer for only $49 right now. Price goes up next week, so follow the Link in Bio @timlaman to my Bird Photography Masterclass or visit Here are some flight shots I use as examples in the course. In the course, I cover the different approaches used in all these different situations to capture the action: 1) Anna’s Hummingbird, California 2) Scarlet Macaw, Mexico 3) Cobalt-winged Parrots, Ecuador 4) Rhinoceros Hornbill, Thailand 5) Red-and-Green Macaw, Brazil 6) Black-capped Chickadee, Massachusetts 7) Wandering Albatross, Drake Passage . . #birdphotographymasterclass #wildlifephotography #birds #birdphotography #albatross #macaw #parrot #hornbill #hummingbird #chickadee
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Photos by @gabrielegalimbertiphoto | Grandmas are the best cooks! Boonlom, a 69-year-old grandmother of young Mai (in the photo between the speakers), spent all her life in Bangkok—and she considers herself the best cook in her neighborhood. Until a few years ago, she ran a small street restaurant, the kind you find everywhere around Southeast Asia, where people eat simple dishes, standing or sitting on stalls on street corners. Her restaurant is run now by one of her daughters, who has changed it slightly: in what once functioned as their garage, her daughter has arranged four square tables and customers finally can eat properly. The average cost of a full meal at her restaurant rarely goes beyond two dollars! Here’s a typical recipe: Kai Yat Sai (stuffed omelette) Ingredients for two: 100 gr minced pork; 3 eggs; seed oil; soya sauce; fish sauce; salt and pepper; sugar; two tomatoes; one white onion; 5 baby corns; and a small bowl of steamed rice. For the Filling: Mince pork, chop the onion and baby corn, dice the tomatoes. In a wok, use a spoon of seed oil and heat until the oil is hot, add pork, and cook for one minute. Add a spoon of soya sauce. Heat for one more minute, and add the onion, tomatoes, corn, a spoonful of sugar, and one of fish sauce. Saute for 3 minutes. For the omelette: Whisk eggs with a pinch of salt. Heat oil in the wok, draining it to leave just a film. Pour in the eggs, and heat for just over a minute, moving the wok in a circular motion to create a thin, large omelette. Place the filling in its center and wrap the omelette around it. Cook the omelette for one more minute, turning it a couple of times. The dish is ready to be eaten. #grandma #food #thailand
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