This lovely Boreal Owl was spotted by Amy outside the kitchen window yesterday evening. I managed to shoot about 250 images of it in about 1/2 hour before my fingers got too cold and I ran out of memory. About 20 minutes later it was finally chased off by a pesky Gray Jay.  

The image above is Adrees Latif’s winning image for this year’s Pulitzer Prize in photojournalism. The image depicts a scene from the Burmese riots. On the right is a Japanese videographer as he is fatally wounded (still holding his camera). The rest of the image is a dramatic tangle of pain and

In this addition from South America: Amazonian Ants in My Pants.

 

I’m back in Rurrenabaque (however briefly) after two successful trips to

very different parts of the Bolivian Amazon.

 

On the 8th of February I joined a small group of other travelers and we

boarded a motorized dugout canoe and

Here is the next addition from my S. America travels. This one from Rurrenabaque in upper Amazonian Bolivia.

 

The image above is from the along the shore of the Beni River near Madidi National Park. It was in the evening after a long day of rain had finally cleared off.  Taken with my Canon 40D

Well for those readers of my blog, but not my emails, below is a the second edition of my updates from South America. This sent from Bolivia in early February.

 

The image above is an old Quechua woman I had the pleasure of photographing while I was on Taquile Island in Lake Titicaca, Peru.

 

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Another example of the superb images of a time past. This from Lewis Hine’s series from the 1920s on child labor. The odd thing is that the comments section from some of these images almost bemoan the fact that we didn’t still have these photo opportunities. Of course the reason we don’t have

Thanks to a link on the PhotoShelter Collection Blog I just discovered a superb photographer. Erika Larsen’s imagery is severe and beautiful. Her two galleries on hunting are absolutely wonderful  and completely without judgement. She leaves the viewer in charge of what judgement to make of the