tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-355192612024-03-07T05:05:14.238-04:00Photo in Natura | nature transforming peopleA dynamic and personal extension of photoinnatura.com websiteDaniel De Granvillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10642010412453327607noreply@blogger.comBlogger94125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35519261.post-81102292555676866362013-03-04T10:04:00.000-04:002016-06-26T21:43:47.274-04:00Closing Time<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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For years I’ve been trying to keep two parallel versions of Photo in Natura’s blog, one in Portuguese (my mother tongue) and another in English for my readers overseas. Since 2006 I managed to do this, but just barely. Due to the lack of time, on many occasions I did not translate some of the original posts to English, which was kind of frustrating.<br />
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Given the conditions, I have decided that I will no longer keep this English version updated. The decision was not an easy one, but I took into account the recent evolution of online translate engines such as Google Translator. It is obviously not a suitable tool if you need to properly translate a text to send to someone at work, but it is enough for people to read and understand a blog post, for example. You will find the translate tool at the top of the gadgets sidebar, to the right of the post's title. And, of course, be very welcome to explore all the previous posts in English, there's a lot of stuff from past years :-)<br />
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Daniel De Granvillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10642010412453327607noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35519261.post-22687952615421997602012-12-30T16:00:00.001-03:002012-12-30T16:00:37.664-03:00Happy New Year!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b><i> Photo in Natura’s card<span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span>with images taken</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b><i>Artwork and Photos: © 2012 Daniel De Granville | Photo in Natura </i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">... and 2012 ends with excellent news for us: my picture of a diver with an anaconda is among <a href="http://g1.globo.com/natureza/noticia/2012/12/veja-dez-fotos-de-animais-selvagens-que-chamaram-atencao-em-2012.html" target="_blank"> the year's TOP 10 wildlife shots</a>, according to Brazil's main news portal (Globo’s G1). It’s the only image taken in Brazil that made it to the final selection!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br />And finally, we’d like to share PHOTO IN NATURA's card, with a selection of images taken on each month of this year. We are very thankful to all the friends, clients, business partners and employees that hired us, joined us in the field or gave us useful tips for these images to be recorded! All the best, Happy 2013 and see you next year :-)</span><br />
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<br />Daniel De Granvillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10642010412453327607noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35519261.post-6574993035117069682012-01-15T20:57:00.006-03:002012-01-22T13:34:20.918-03:00Dive with Anacondas hits the web and goes viral<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">.<br />.</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br />UPDATE 2 (22 Jan 2012 @ 1 PM):<br /></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/divers-bravely-capture-footage-giant-anacondas-video.html" target="blank">Another very nice and informative text in English</a></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br /><br /><br />UPDATE 1 (17 Jan 2012 @ 7 PM):</span><br /><a href="http://www.brazildispatch.com/2012/01/giant-anaconda-photographed-underwater.html" target="blank">a good text in English telling more about the "anaconda hype"</a><br />.<br />.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiARriMwkuPXCMwR43KpGGGL7JOO5G0McyXKsFr6dIvnJBjU1Ea1Awf9bWDO_bwhmFPx-oW9tMVqiwMDicOAfZ_-NNDGw-IQV4k0yamAoXjVxK4WI6VFdWmhF1czrCS9IuHL5DT8Q/s1600/sucuris_capa_g1_globo_15jan2012.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiARriMwkuPXCMwR43KpGGGL7JOO5G0McyXKsFr6dIvnJBjU1Ea1Awf9bWDO_bwhmFPx-oW9tMVqiwMDicOAfZ_-NNDGw-IQV4k0yamAoXjVxK4WI6VFdWmhF1czrCS9IuHL5DT8Q/s400/sucuris_capa_g1_globo_15jan2012.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5698000612037909986" border="0" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:85%;">The story about diving with anacondas<br />was today's main subject on the local news...<br />(screen capture from g1.globo.com </span><span style="font-size:85%;">website</span><span style="font-size:85%;">)<br /></span></div><br />About two days ago, some Facebook friend found and commented about the pictures that I took in Aug 2010 of a team of photographers diving with anacondas here in Bonito (Brazil). The photos ended up on my wall and - for some reason that I'm still trying to understand - had hundreds of hits during the last 48 hours, much more than when I originally posted them.<br /><br />And so I got a call from G1 (Globo), Brazil's #1 news portal, who wanted more information to publish an article using the pictures. I agreed as long as there was no sensationalism, that the text had an educational approach to demystify these snakes.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivwTTiCK1au2OLp0-kfcaSxzeWe7YG0nV8Q4Hj6GW1Vry55xIhyphenhyphenCLiWOfMbre1S0fsyeGUTVVuLZrxvrVw5i9Y6T5muA8Tu4P6xoedtw713jczKBj-NdBXFJmZXm7eAuUTGxk1Pw/s1600/sucuris_capa_globo_ponto_com_15jan2012.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivwTTiCK1au2OLp0-kfcaSxzeWe7YG0nV8Q4Hj6GW1Vry55xIhyphenhyphenCLiWOfMbre1S0fsyeGUTVVuLZrxvrVw5i9Y6T5muA8Tu4P6xoedtw713jczKBj-NdBXFJmZXm7eAuUTGxk1Pw/s400/sucuris_capa_globo_ponto_com_15jan2012.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5698000618463655618" border="0" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" >... and featured as a highlight at Globo.com,<br />Brazil's major news portal.<br /></span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" >(screen capture from globo.com website)</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></div><br />Today the <a href="http://g1.globo.com/mato-grosso-do-sul/noticia/2012/01/fotos-de-sucuri-embaixo-dagua-em-bonito-em-ms-viram-hit-no-facebook.html" target="blank">story</a> was published and is going viral, since it was featured nationwide on the main pages of Globo.com and G1, besides being the day's main article at G1's regional portal in Mato Grosso do Sul State. The best of all is that the regional team of G1 did a wonderful job and strictly followed my recommendation and remarks about the text that should follow the images. A goal for environmental education and awareness!<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><blockquote><a href="http://g1.globo.com/mato-grosso-do-sul/noticia/2012/01/fotos-de-sucuri-embaixo-dagua-em-bonito-em-ms-viram-hit-no-facebook.html" target="blank">Read the story (Portuguese only, maybe you can try Google Translator)</a><br /><a href="http://photo-in-natura.blogspot.com/2010/09/57-meters-of-anaconda.html" target="blank">Read about this adventure at PiN Blog</a><br /><a href="http://photo-in-natura.blogspot.com/2010/09/video-diving-with-anacondas.html" target="blank">Watch my video of a dive with anacondas</a><br />.<br />.<br />.<br /></blockquote></div>Daniel De Granvillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10642010412453327607noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35519261.post-80031942174542989032011-12-26T12:59:00.001-03:002011-12-26T13:24:01.225-03:00New Year's Card<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span>.<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">.<br /></div> This year <span style="font-weight: bold;">Photo in Natura</span> adopted a slogan that faithfully represents the importance of nature in our lives. So, these are our wishes for 2012: LET NATURE TRANSFORM YOU!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixBDYpCGKT3DRMmuQrkc_yoUk0XS7um5h7VZLVajSaqmENH8siFecc5ok3cflnLGSLTn_C8z544VHKN10cK090OlHdH9XPDpHtlxH7iBX3SZLCMs_wqKxjbncQ_wgO6SK8FJ6k0A/s1600/cartao_card_pin_2011_2012_ver_4.jpg"><br /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixBDYpCGKT3DRMmuQrkc_yoUk0XS7um5h7VZLVajSaqmENH8siFecc5ok3cflnLGSLTn_C8z544VHKN10cK090OlHdH9XPDpHtlxH7iBX3SZLCMs_wqKxjbncQ_wgO6SK8FJ6k0A/s1600/cartao_card_pin_2011_2012_ver_4.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixBDYpCGKT3DRMmuQrkc_yoUk0XS7um5h7VZLVajSaqmENH8siFecc5ok3cflnLGSLTn_C8z544VHKN10cK090OlHdH9XPDpHtlxH7iBX3SZLCMs_wqKxjbncQ_wgO6SK8FJ6k0A/s400/cartao_card_pin_2011_2012_ver_4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5690469058782927522" border="0" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Artwork and Photo: © Daniel De Granville, 2011<br />[CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE]</span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">.<br />.<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> To help protect the macaws, please visit <a href="http://www.projetoararaazul.org.br/" target="blank">www.projetoararaazul.org.br</a></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center; font-style: italic;">.<br />.<br /></div>Daniel De Granvillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10642010412453327607noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35519261.post-19098125555129927582011-08-20T20:19:00.002-04:002011-08-20T20:23:34.207-04:00New Pictures in our Image Bank<blockquote></blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivI76nbFUUHKjhpyz2s-yFSaKVRlxYkI1CYkmr0w6F85iLGI8bayu649uwMgZ3gqQggibstKObk2P8rMnsgplogF4v_GpYWBoSJdp18RGxmSXfQ9xmTk6DhbzyguRrhyphenhyphen9KTXae_Q/s1600/rppn_eeb_dg_larva_mariposa_sphingidae_20110402_0039+-+C%25C3%25B3pia.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivI76nbFUUHKjhpyz2s-yFSaKVRlxYkI1CYkmr0w6F85iLGI8bayu649uwMgZ3gqQggibstKObk2P8rMnsgplogF4v_GpYWBoSJdp18RGxmSXfQ9xmTk6DhbzyguRrhyphenhyphen9KTXae_Q/s320/rppn_eeb_dg_larva_mariposa_sphingidae_20110402_0039+-+C%25C3%25B3pia.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5643089468051908914" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;">Larva of a moth (Sphingidae)</span></span>.
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<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfn-REiJbzumkvokQuxUb10Q_43oUQPXibqX2XFOlShAkB-G01M-oQm0jGv27Tm9VaLsWnUgHQHjEfI0deMw_EO3SAXSOaSaWA-f6pG-UNMMkoqbJa35NDki0fN2KFuA2DFY18jA/s1600/rppn_eeb_dg_equipe_botanica_20110402_0085.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfn-REiJbzumkvokQuxUb10Q_43oUQPXibqX2XFOlShAkB-G01M-oQm0jGv27Tm9VaLsWnUgHQHjEfI0deMw_EO3SAXSOaSaWA-f6pG-UNMMkoqbJa35NDki0fN2KFuA2DFY18jA/s320/rppn_eeb_dg_equipe_botanica_20110402_0085.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5643089469923116498" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;">Researchers collecting botanical samples in the Pantanal.</span></span>
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<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrBeGtBsgqgzXJhXdDk4O6V7RglSmeonSfGp8cKI9_F-EawS4GJ8Xee7InBx4oO8yuYMrQuPecXQD9xTHXzvxTCHq0L5ppOjDhMargzynfTzIhwgOf7LdqZArLj8H-wNJBTmJlMA/s1600/iris_neomarica_candida_jardim_csbyo_20110814_0027.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 180px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrBeGtBsgqgzXJhXdDk4O6V7RglSmeonSfGp8cKI9_F-EawS4GJ8Xee7InBx4oO8yuYMrQuPecXQD9xTHXzvxTCHq0L5ppOjDhMargzynfTzIhwgOf7LdqZArLj8H-wNJBTmJlMA/s320/iris_neomarica_candida_jardim_csbyo_20110814_0027.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5643088766423512338" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;">Detail of a Walking Iris flower.</span></span>
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<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJa5ZpAdD-KMyttig1-PE_hVbHDkx7a61xF11dK00U0d9IJ-ny2Cc1jYsSkC4AcdNFCCExZ6mc5wxesWk7SF_M04r-xJUXLoNTml-HHjRp_CqNHlgruh8TJWyuw3TMwE6HDmN8tA/s1600/temp_patagonia_glaciar_perito_moreno_20110426_0046.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJa5ZpAdD-KMyttig1-PE_hVbHDkx7a61xF11dK00U0d9IJ-ny2Cc1jYsSkC4AcdNFCCExZ6mc5wxesWk7SF_M04r-xJUXLoNTml-HHjRp_CqNHlgruh8TJWyuw3TMwE6HDmN8tA/s320/temp_patagonia_glaciar_perito_moreno_20110426_0046.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5643089461603803618" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;">Ecotourists walk over Glacier Perito Moreno, </span></span>
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<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg4if4xpbpJLFnz_Ttb_POCkpg6sKkeEaksX2XmQ3Vc9dnD4bgi4RqoXPxwsTpid8QOvXU123uGpaDv40NiDig8IE_iekmBUIW4gug_QwHgN3GzkL1qLgqBl4S3Fnz6tTZTXlIkw/s1600/rppn_eeb_dg_pantanal_amolar_20110401_0112.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg4if4xpbpJLFnz_Ttb_POCkpg6sKkeEaksX2XmQ3Vc9dnD4bgi4RqoXPxwsTpid8QOvXU123uGpaDv40NiDig8IE_iekmBUIW4gug_QwHgN3GzkL1qLgqBl4S3Fnz6tTZTXlIkw/s320/rppn_eeb_dg_pantanal_amolar_20110401_0112.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5643088759575128274" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;">Serra do Amolar, Pantanal of Mato Grosso do Sul.</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span>
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<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1NuCXc9KWJ9unTx-AsWL8NU2ovXJ58G6_iSDvpMaon8tGvb5bNkHaqt66yLSE3E4RwZMuFdNwroGSKRBrE6rsDFxqI42_PLS-xtY6UUo1ye5VvWOZcJSrL71SYNuGoLHC7dJkVA/s1600/temp_curso_foto_cgr_20110528_0012.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1NuCXc9KWJ9unTx-AsWL8NU2ovXJ58G6_iSDvpMaon8tGvb5bNkHaqt66yLSE3E4RwZMuFdNwroGSKRBrE6rsDFxqI42_PLS-xtY6UUo1ye5VvWOZcJSrL71SYNuGoLHC7dJkVA/s320/temp_curso_foto_cgr_20110528_0012.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5643088770031486338" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;">Capybaras in Campo Grande (Mato Grosso do Sul).</span></span>
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<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqUUkKp5lgFoOKlvmvXX6W-CWafIa0OmKhSeHXB46YAGLZr0TIuDWJt6azXDMC0R6-QRrq8I6dO4uDRchPkxhAKBvwoPD-wXZkMe4s4U5PF7-JhHZV8PrsfPkwIqWS2BZZk__IAg/s1600/principe_negro_nandayus_flores_ag_pant_20110801_0049.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqUUkKp5lgFoOKlvmvXX6W-CWafIa0OmKhSeHXB46YAGLZr0TIuDWJt6azXDMC0R6-QRrq8I6dO4uDRchPkxhAKBvwoPD-wXZkMe4s4U5PF7-JhHZV8PrsfPkwIqWS2BZZk__IAg/s320/principe_negro_nandayus_flores_ag_pant_20110801_0049.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5643088766110930274" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;">A Black-hooded Parakeet in the Pantanal.</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span>
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<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKaXVkQxlYJYMBk15duMiDuwyIa71xM2u2EFyaLz2Xc1fCwW3k8HjRqkzVbjnU2fbPGaxioGLa6uXxbv5UdtocQcO61TpXd3wSpV26Ir_G_VtGTZbE2n9uC1rCmCQWys9oIObM5w/s1600/temp_tierra_del_fuego_ushuaia_20110411_0005.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKaXVkQxlYJYMBk15duMiDuwyIa71xM2u2EFyaLz2Xc1fCwW3k8HjRqkzVbjnU2fbPGaxioGLa6uXxbv5UdtocQcO61TpXd3wSpV26Ir_G_VtGTZbE2n9uC1rCmCQWys9oIObM5w/s320/temp_tierra_del_fuego_ushuaia_20110411_0005.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5643089464929509474" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;"> South American Sea Lion, Beagle Channel,
<br />Ushuaia, Argentina.</span></span>
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<br />Daniel De Granvillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10642010412453327607noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35519261.post-15169224356717042762011-03-15T11:57:00.002-04:002011-03-15T12:04:21.641-04:00Pantanal: Two Days and Much Water<div style="text-align: center;">.<br />.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQcfFDlMLo5lEY57JzXYCxxt0YzjkcpfrZh-5mHbI1n_Bzw8yZY64tS_dletnWMoMh-FTfNlZjNf33S3R5YO3AnleuLbOZMExh3GkQM_u0PhR6AVK2objEm5Pynxz5hmROdQIWkQ/s1600/pantanal_estr_alagada_arr_20110311_0005.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 213px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQcfFDlMLo5lEY57JzXYCxxt0YzjkcpfrZh-5mHbI1n_Bzw8yZY64tS_dletnWMoMh-FTfNlZjNf33S3R5YO3AnleuLbOZMExh3GkQM_u0PhR6AVK2objEm5Pynxz5hmROdQIWkQ/s320/pantanal_estr_alagada_arr_20110311_0005.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584328282938990898" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Water, water, everywhere...<br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><span>Foto: </span><span>© Daniel De Granville, 2011</span></span><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWpbc5nCyn0A7wvp-6U8h4GTv5qZoUB6xRCsYHcO-DoVM3dGe6tt2Ngf337JZaNoJbpI2yx0FwulV5gcqtV5I8rgXHteYtvniJZiEGKH2R72qTwGql6-R6ar5M4ozst2y6wvWWkg/s1600/pantanal_estr_alagada_arr_20110311_0007.jpg"><br /></a><br />Upon leaving the paved road, we took a gravel path into the Pantanal, in search for a neat place to watch birds. The way seemed good and the place was promising, up to the moment when we started to see some water on the track, then more and more water. We drove a little further and decided to stop and check out the conditions more carefully.<span style="font-style: italic;"> “Will the car make it?”</span>, we wondered. I started to take some pictures while we pondered, when all of a sudden something appears way back, coming on the path.<span style="font-style: italic;"> “If that’s a car, it means we can go too”</span>. But no: it was a boat! All we could do was admire the scene, take some more shots and turn around with the car. This is the Pantanal.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQcfFDlMLo5lEY57JzXYCxxt0YzjkcpfrZh-5mHbI1n_Bzw8yZY64tS_dletnWMoMh-FTfNlZjNf33S3R5YO3AnleuLbOZMExh3GkQM_u0PhR6AVK2objEm5Pynxz5hmROdQIWkQ/s1600/pantanal_estr_alagada_arr_20110311_0005.jpg"><br /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWpbc5nCyn0A7wvp-6U8h4GTv5qZoUB6xRCsYHcO-DoVM3dGe6tt2Ngf337JZaNoJbpI2yx0FwulV5gcqtV5I8rgXHteYtvniJZiEGKH2R72qTwGql6-R6ar5M4ozst2y6wvWWkg/s1600/pantanal_estr_alagada_arr_20110311_0007.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWpbc5nCyn0A7wvp-6U8h4GTv5qZoUB6xRCsYHcO-DoVM3dGe6tt2Ngf337JZaNoJbpI2yx0FwulV5gcqtV5I8rgXHteYtvniJZiEGKH2R72qTwGql6-R6ar5M4ozst2y6wvWWkg/s320/pantanal_estr_alagada_arr_20110311_0007.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584328276952278018" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Who said that roads are solely for land vehicles?!</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><span>Photo: </span><span>© Daniel De Granville, 2011</span></span><br /></div><br /><br />This was the most striking experience of these two days that <a href="http://www.photoinnatura.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=71&Itemid=115#BIOTIETTA" target="blank">Tietta</a> and I spent in the town of Miranda (Mato Grosso do Sul), where we will soon present the course <span style="font-weight: bold;">“Training birdwatching guides in the Pantanal”</span>, promoted by <a href="http://www.photoinnatura.com/" target="blank">Photo in Natura</a> in partnership with <a href="http://www.wcs.org/" target="blank">WCS</a> and <a href="http://www.aguasdopantanal.com.br/entrada-ing.htm" target="blank">Águas do Pantanal Inn and Tour Operator</a>, among many other supporters. The objective is to qualify tour guides, group leaders and other professionals who are interested in learning about this promising and fascinating activity that brings together leisure, conservation, profit and job opportunities.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMG-yVe6fqPBK_be2ZugP5EVtnigWcORiZwtXeFL1aOsNslWS1U-cppAHqrPtq8Q4sSTPVvgSGIYXmvq-W_xaF02k1yJi779C7-L7UClet4sgdPImsnvB7FHjZz8532mXC-1vIYg/s1600/revoada_aves_panatanal_arr_mir_20110311_0007.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMG-yVe6fqPBK_be2ZugP5EVtnigWcORiZwtXeFL1aOsNslWS1U-cppAHqrPtq8Q4sSTPVvgSGIYXmvq-W_xaF02k1yJi779C7-L7UClet4sgdPImsnvB7FHjZz8532mXC-1vIYg/s320/revoada_aves_panatanal_arr_mir_20110311_0007.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584328272403386482" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Birds take off from the flooded fields along the road in Miranda</span>.<br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" > </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><span>Photo: </span><span>© Daniel De Granville, 2011</span></span><br /></div><br />Speaking of courses, it seems as 2011 will be the year in which Photo in Natura will become known as a service provider for professional qualification activities related to wildlife. More soon!<br /><div style="text-align: center;">.<br />.<br />.<br /></div>Daniel De Granvillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10642010412453327607noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35519261.post-44722065112191798782011-02-08T19:34:00.003-03:002011-02-08T19:37:01.129-03:00Bonito Field Guide:Second Edition<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZJfUDgVjBwAZl4kb_xh8QDc_dVyriQ3sz4Km7ct8Vr9Jb4opIIp0-acaGtB12beXmj-onOhlGsm47bzzpuEBHNSOb4GXPFHnkNDloHWzL7676Ez9dQ2hcQZMRiurpJ1HWiloSJw/s1600/capa_gcb_2011_espiral.png"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 185px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZJfUDgVjBwAZl4kb_xh8QDc_dVyriQ3sz4Km7ct8Vr9Jb4opIIp0-acaGtB12beXmj-onOhlGsm47bzzpuEBHNSOb4GXPFHnkNDloHWzL7676Ez9dQ2hcQZMRiurpJ1HWiloSJw/s320/capa_gcb_2011_espiral.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571442647369111298" border="0" /></a>The First Edition of our <a href="http://www.guiasdecampo.com.br/english/" target="blank">Bonito field Guide</a>, published in 2005, is sold out. Five thousand copies were sold or given away for tour guides, schools, libraries, environmental ograns, NGOs and other institutions, with the objective of fomenting environmental education in a regional level, through estimulating knowledge of our fauna and flora.<br /><br />Therefore, we now present the "<a href="http://guiasdecampo.blogspot.com/" target="blank">Bonito Field Guide – Second Edition</a>". The new version brings a brand new and redesigned cover, much better picture quality, corrections and scientific updates.<br /><br />The cover price is <span style="font-weight: bold;">BRL 28,00</span> and the book can be bought through the website www.guiasdecampo.com.br.<br /><br /><span>* Bonito Field Guide is the first guide of fauna and flora dedicated to the <a href="http://www.pantanalbonito.tur.br/msdatabank/view/bonito_eng.htm" target="blank">Bodoquena Plateau</a>.</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZOZ-XhEjp9cLBuv1IU851OkefQkgy9vFOo2rHA6hqiANBXi_hIZeAxF1fzngX9PYqisecz_EhnvD26vrzqV7At8jnkX0PXrsbQizZ7VrRGa0eid0h4UI0qGjK5CwW8JwOWqufZA/s1600/samples_gcb_2011_px_mam.jpg"><br /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS7AqR_Y7J79BcYl8IT3khTStznSoZZznfTA-hriZZjXWjozxPfUf4NcZGsqdJWqcg6iVQUuruyUSgyJ32OTbYz3SZI_vZhJ18Kxc_vFNRN0E_oxY83fSjsDjylL8A93vfEkGgxw/s1600/samples_gcb_2011_faun_guav.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 298px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS7AqR_Y7J79BcYl8IT3khTStznSoZZznfTA-hriZZjXWjozxPfUf4NcZGsqdJWqcg6iVQUuruyUSgyJ32OTbYz3SZI_vZhJ18Kxc_vFNRN0E_oxY83fSjsDjylL8A93vfEkGgxw/s320/samples_gcb_2011_faun_guav.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571442944998563746" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZOZ-XhEjp9cLBuv1IU851OkefQkgy9vFOo2rHA6hqiANBXi_hIZeAxF1fzngX9PYqisecz_EhnvD26vrzqV7At8jnkX0PXrsbQizZ7VrRGa0eid0h4UI0qGjK5CwW8JwOWqufZA/s1600/samples_gcb_2011_px_mam.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 298px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZOZ-XhEjp9cLBuv1IU851OkefQkgy9vFOo2rHA6hqiANBXi_hIZeAxF1fzngX9PYqisecz_EhnvD26vrzqV7At8jnkX0PXrsbQizZ7VrRGa0eid0h4UI0qGjK5CwW8JwOWqufZA/s320/samples_gcb_2011_px_mam.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571442941869241186" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Sample pages of the Bonito Field Guide, Second Edition</span></span>.<br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Photos: © 2005 Daniel De Granville | Artwork: © 2005 Kiko Azevedo</span></span><br />.<br />.<br />.<br /></div>Daniel De Granvillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10642010412453327607noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35519261.post-66398803258816354632011-01-31T09:07:00.004-03:002011-02-25T01:17:21.730-04:00Frogs and Otters<div style="text-align: center;">.<br />.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE3zpP9l8bXa4MEclFfuhMcStkMpVICMHIl-bCh1RLStn-N9IlR2RJxrv-fgkNnNOv0Hygoz0f73YYT_7qpnepY5OIKrlevPs9BsjRqiRsCQ4ryUOg6oS1QZbF-aN3cye3bt5smw/s1600/ariranha_pteronura_sub_oda_20110129_0004.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE3zpP9l8bXa4MEclFfuhMcStkMpVICMHIl-bCh1RLStn-N9IlR2RJxrv-fgkNnNOv0Hygoz0f73YYT_7qpnepY5OIKrlevPs9BsjRqiRsCQ4ryUOg6oS1QZbF-aN3cye3bt5smw/s320/ariranha_pteronura_sub_oda_20110129_0004.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568393402924835218" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Posing for the curious photographer.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Photo: © Daniel De Granville, 2011</span></span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAOYMvpdhxNqLOiD1ukrmNZCNtYpcLGUD1Ir13hM7bFi3SjbkIvKiTHeheFktNYgEf8ZVydXl7Q3OpPHQLCejBGNZ9_Iv_oXzJZxctwTCW8b8ysYClTeO5w67mYtT_vLhKYxdSYg/s1600/perereca_melanophryniscus_fulvoguttatus_csbyo_20110124_0016_fb.jpg"><br /></a>This year started off kind of slow: no guiding trips, no official photo shoots so far. But it doesn’t mean that my cameras are taking a break – the past week was particularly productive.<br /><br />Last Monday, I was just getting out of bed to start a new week, when one of my neighbors calls: <span style="font-style: italic;">“Daniel, I’m sorry for calling so early, but I just found this rare and unique frog in my garage and am saving it for you to photograph, please hurry!”</span>. I dressed quickly, picked up my Brazilian Amphibians guide book and went to see it. After identifying the species as a <span style="font-style: italic;">Melanophryniscus fulvoguttatus</span>, I placed it on a nice leaf on the ground, took these pictures and let it go.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAOYMvpdhxNqLOiD1ukrmNZCNtYpcLGUD1Ir13hM7bFi3SjbkIvKiTHeheFktNYgEf8ZVydXl7Q3OpPHQLCejBGNZ9_Iv_oXzJZxctwTCW8b8ysYClTeO5w67mYtT_vLhKYxdSYg/s1600/perereca_melanophryniscus_fulvoguttatus_csbyo_20110124_0016_fb.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAOYMvpdhxNqLOiD1ukrmNZCNtYpcLGUD1Ir13hM7bFi3SjbkIvKiTHeheFktNYgEf8ZVydXl7Q3OpPHQLCejBGNZ9_Iv_oXzJZxctwTCW8b8ysYClTeO5w67mYtT_vLhKYxdSYg/s320/perereca_melanophryniscus_fulvoguttatus_csbyo_20110124_0016_fb.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568394610574223650" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">My wife likes to call this one "The Yoga Frog"!</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;">Photo: © Daniel De Granville, 2011</span></span><br /></div><br /><br />Even though it does not appear as endangered according to <a href="http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/54821/0" target="blank">IUCN’s Red List</a>, this may change at any time, as amphibians suffer global impacts. The species has a quite restricted range, covering part of Mato Grosso do Sul in Brazil, a portion of Paraguay and a bit of Argentina. So, if you want to see this exquisite frog, you must come to the region where I live!<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm4fZr_e_jlFi2tqZxDSebH5yFHaJ-OfNqG3PgifBFKca8dSJgioVYUUxa2NHrqdgk_j1-6Vxipe4Hs1Mjdb_PPRZozie1WTTamGwwnez1PQ_YSJKaswoMQQpWTjAbSMrF_64PAA/s1600/perereca_melanophryniscus_fulvoguttatus_csbyo_20110124_0020.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm4fZr_e_jlFi2tqZxDSebH5yFHaJ-OfNqG3PgifBFKca8dSJgioVYUUxa2NHrqdgk_j1-6Vxipe4Hs1Mjdb_PPRZozie1WTTamGwwnez1PQ_YSJKaswoMQQpWTjAbSMrF_64PAA/s320/perereca_melanophryniscus_fulvoguttatus_csbyo_20110124_0020.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568394607422590402" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Back to normal.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;">Photo: © Daniel De Granville, 2011</span></span><br /></div><br />A few days later, some tour guides with whom I am friends mentioned that a Giant Otter was showing frequently at one of the region’s river springs used for snorkeling programs. I made my plans and spent nearly 10 hours over the weekend inside the water to try and photograph it. Even though I succeeded, I am still not satisfied with the images and want to get some different situations. This means that I must go back to the river again, what a sacrifice : -)<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVj3rQi07YY2gR84BYc0sGHST7px0jyAmR5dtZfKdabBPDFBOS9q4q2RUm88xBJho3dxhRh9iAw6HVgvgtWwaZyy3iG9Kyl3_RtfmlV2SA9AXISpD8kqKussrD9C1GVSpHflsUyw/s1600/daniel_ariranha_samuel_DSC01325.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVj3rQi07YY2gR84BYc0sGHST7px0jyAmR5dtZfKdabBPDFBOS9q4q2RUm88xBJho3dxhRh9iAw6HVgvgtWwaZyy3iG9Kyl3_RtfmlV2SA9AXISpD8kqKussrD9C1GVSpHflsUyw/s320/daniel_ariranha_samuel_DSC01325.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568393413590411938" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Giant Otter: up close and personal.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;">Photo: © Samuel Duleba, 2011</span></span><br /><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC0XZ4qP-rZc4SCq4TtwiLRUoiVBsd1ojsSBY1mWbZO35yb5c2DRXSWzoM_1zAOa1aqY3BVG7Jl5M5mq0z8cvW0UFOBwQ81oQQhHlxfJmAUsSMAiaKul1AcUKwKWKQ5X4cCnG3dw/s1600/rio_olho_dagua_vulcao_ext_turistas_20110130_0001.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC0XZ4qP-rZc4SCq4TtwiLRUoiVBsd1ojsSBY1mWbZO35yb5c2DRXSWzoM_1zAOa1aqY3BVG7Jl5M5mq0z8cvW0UFOBwQ81oQQhHlxfJmAUsSMAiaKul1AcUKwKWKQ5X4cCnG3dw/s320/rio_olho_dagua_vulcao_ext_turistas_20110130_0001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568393422848242178" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">If YOU were a Giant Otter,</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">wouldn't you LOVE to live here too?!</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;">Photo: © Daniel De Granville, 2011</span></span><br /></div><br /><br />Different from the little frog, this big semi-aquatic predator appears as <a href="http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/18711/0" target="blank">endangered according to IUCN</a>. So, the privilege (not only mine, but for all tourists who are seeing it) is incommensurable. I must thank these critters for giving me such a good time this past week : -)<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh3ymCeHt87FD4BZ5RyktBjMZrogrqELjiojGFaURM3o5yzx7VxQD1x3tTJVBHXw7Dv3IUrW5DbJuvpKTtGMHThDPYJYRxzluNz54d09Bq7upR-o7DCMMSl0Ck4R-6q-xgw-dvUg/s1600/ariranha_pteronura_sub_oda_20110129_0058.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh3ymCeHt87FD4BZ5RyktBjMZrogrqELjiojGFaURM3o5yzx7VxQD1x3tTJVBHXw7Dv3IUrW5DbJuvpKTtGMHThDPYJYRxzluNz54d09Bq7upR-o7DCMMSl0Ck4R-6q-xgw-dvUg/s320/ariranha_pteronura_sub_oda_20110129_0058.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568393424368101970" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Plenty of fresh food, just pick one.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;">Photo: © Daniel De Granville, 2011</span></span><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFHnFBEXe4ZbTuS4vQiSKW79j_dEg_j6dIaoIl88pAehGF-peI4Ys-CS3fG6ljGdcjoBMDg743NDWigRikFXkU7KKTBpqJRKfBRqT8vMg7GhQuYsa0torCqDPSyK62TtRxRvlEqw/s1600/ariranha_pteronura_com_peixe_oda_20110129_0021.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFHnFBEXe4ZbTuS4vQiSKW79j_dEg_j6dIaoIl88pAehGF-peI4Ys-CS3fG6ljGdcjoBMDg743NDWigRikFXkU7KKTBpqJRKfBRqT8vMg7GhQuYsa0torCqDPSyK62TtRxRvlEqw/s320/ariranha_pteronura_com_peixe_oda_20110129_0021.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568393408853340258" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">He ate this "corimbata" fish like<br />if it was</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> a bag of potato chips.</span></span><br /> <span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;">Photo: © Daniel De Granville, 2011</span></span><br />.<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-size:85%;" ><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">(UPDATE: AS OF FEBRUARY 25, 2011, AFTER EXTENSIVE WEB SEARCHES ON IMAGE BANKS AND TALKS WITH PHOTOGRAPHERS, I AM QUITE SURE THAT UNDERWATER PICTURES OF GIANT OTTERS IN SUCH CLEAR WATERS ARE EXTREMELY RARE, IF NOT UNIQUE!)</span></span><br />.<br />.<br /></div>Daniel De Granvillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10642010412453327607noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35519261.post-52047147180098438132011-01-17T18:32:00.002-03:002011-01-17T19:19:22.919-03:00More than 1.000 Pictureson Our Site!<div style="text-align: center;">.<br />.<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuacNA08UGxTHL97ekcr4XCCnegbqGEBlAqVt2tGX_bZ7TsUac1U3Hik6QAkzvIzjJ_W7g2-D3bJqGxwy_8Dkl__DNy_u3Nx-WUo6LKYNTdnaEXh2umMShhgRQlAQLIDTdmu4lkA/s1600/folha_invertebrados_miniaturas.jpg"></a><a href="http://www.photoinnatura.com/index.php?option=com_banners&task=click&bid=15" target="blank"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 242px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuacNA08UGxTHL97ekcr4XCCnegbqGEBlAqVt2tGX_bZ7TsUac1U3Hik6QAkzvIzjJ_W7g2-D3bJqGxwy_8Dkl__DNy_u3Nx-WUo6LKYNTdnaEXh2umMShhgRQlAQLIDTdmu4lkA/s320/folha_invertebrados_miniaturas.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5563279298884955266" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Artwork and Photos: © Daniel De Granville, 2003-2010</span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><br /></div><a href="http://www.photoinnatura.com/index.php?option=com_banners&task=click&bid=15" target="blank"> Photo in Natura's Image Bank</a> was updated today, with more than 150 new pictures added.<br /><br />We now offer over 1,000 images available for online searches, selected from nearly 40,000 that are part of our files.<br /><br />How about a quick visit to check them out?!<br /><div style="text-align: center;">.<br />.<br />.</div>Daniel De Granvillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10642010412453327607noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35519261.post-50372800789101181102010-12-17T09:54:00.001-03:002010-12-17T09:59:58.059-03:00One more time, New Year!<div style="text-align: center;">.<br />.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb_6SzN2BQuyRUmQz2ccwk6FZLcVFIXD_zNPT0qbBISRF66FUoIxHHZVCksBASKcY52daBJ8h4QCl031NVMVYym4vzAtGFI0A9ebjRxIg8op0T_DIBiTfT7ZfEzSK1syhCVm3hhw/s1600/cartao_pin_2010-2011.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb_6SzN2BQuyRUmQz2ccwk6FZLcVFIXD_zNPT0qbBISRF66FUoIxHHZVCksBASKcY52daBJ8h4QCl031NVMVYym4vzAtGFI0A9ebjRxIg8op0T_DIBiTfT7ZfEzSK1syhCVm3hhw/s400/cartao_pin_2010-2011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5551632884762216770" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO ENLARGE</span><br /></span></div><br /><br />Dear friends, colleagues, business partners, clients and collaborators of Photo in Natura:<br /><br />Once again the time has come to send best wishes for the new year, so here is Photo in Natura’s card with our hopes for 2011.<br /><br />We chose a small sample of everything that we saw and photographed this year at our backyard, without leaving home.<br /><br />All the best and Happy New Year!<br /><br />Daniel and Tietta<br />Photo in Natura<br /><div style="text-align: center;">.<br />.<br />.</div>Daniel De Granvillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10642010412453327607noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35519261.post-9872811191855689762010-09-28T10:44:00.001-04:002010-09-28T10:46:16.836-04:00New Postcards<div style="text-align: center;">.<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4qFnX__VKfzNKzFpuXqQ4T5SoL_5ibPboDV5b1LCNN20Qfzlhjf3SgqAvksA-YLfgxhWtfCHADL053SxEC_sNfZC3JsB1JYKpP7hjNGloAtU4pbGSutD-2Chm_0oiOSFzCYHmqg/s1600/postal_gruta_frente_lr.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4qFnX__VKfzNKzFpuXqQ4T5SoL_5ibPboDV5b1LCNN20Qfzlhjf3SgqAvksA-YLfgxhWtfCHADL053SxEC_sNfZC3JsB1JYKpP7hjNGloAtU4pbGSutD-2Chm_0oiOSFzCYHmqg/s400/postal_gruta_frente_lr.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5521973117839050034" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Photo and Artwork: © Daniel De Granville, 2006-2010</span><br /><br /></div>The new postcards of our exclusive <a href="http://www.photoinnatura.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=41&Itemid=153" target="blank">collection</a> have just arrived – now we have 20 different models printed in special, high quality paper. This time we chose to show two scenes that are icons of Bonito: the Lago Azul (“blue lake”) cave and the Monument to the Piraputangas, at the city’s main square.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.photoinnatura.com/index.php?option=com_contact&task=view&contact_id=2&Itemid=169" target="blank">Contact us</a> and get them while they’re hot!<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD3Kcb9-xt_AshWNp5PGzLw4d62kS2XDGe6Ett9WL4YzB4k8lA-_gNe4mVOhRxtQysIj5CtTulnboVYDyznhme5yuQVn1ulmp71clQ1FDbZ-yetlOqAMBogpfDmubP4B0q4XR-Xw/s1600/postal_piraputangas_frente_lr.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 264px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD3Kcb9-xt_AshWNp5PGzLw4d62kS2XDGe6Ett9WL4YzB4k8lA-_gNe4mVOhRxtQysIj5CtTulnboVYDyznhme5yuQVn1ulmp71clQ1FDbZ-yetlOqAMBogpfDmubP4B0q4XR-Xw/s400/postal_piraputangas_frente_lr.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5521973124565162978" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Photo and Artwork: © Daniel De Granville, 2008-2010</span><br />.<br />.<br /></div>Daniel De Granvillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10642010412453327607noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35519261.post-35304275638059734482010-09-18T20:34:00.003-04:002010-09-18T20:39:03.175-04:00Expedition, Part 3: Pantanal<div style="text-align: center;">.<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">READ PARTS <a href="http://photo-in-natura.blogspot.com/2010/09/57-meters-of-anaconda.html%E2%80%9D" target="blank"><span style="font-style: italic;">1</span></a> and <a href="http://photo-in-natura.blogspot.com/2010/09/expedition-part-2-stingrays.html" target="blank">2</a> OF THIS STORY</span><br />.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWtxNMClEyv3W_zbI1BTAmuh_d0O6FrycSVaehBFDyj7__WPqh4L4w_ADZDaT6wj0x32eLebgTeFecjRtagErD9kt34HUhscJniUQMQIIuP9KFQBsPA7QjpIym2mIV531_heT7zQ/s1600/jiri_fotog_capiv_pantanal_mt_ar_20100823_0002.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWtxNMClEyv3W_zbI1BTAmuh_d0O6FrycSVaehBFDyj7__WPqh4L4w_ADZDaT6wj0x32eLebgTeFecjRtagErD9kt34HUhscJniUQMQIIuP9KFQBsPA7QjpIym2mIV531_heT7zQ/s320/jiri_fotog_capiv_pantanal_mt_ar_20100823_0002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517891189139908866" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Smile, you are being photographed!</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Photo: © Daniel De Granville, 2010</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-style: italic;">“What’s so special about the Pantanal?”</span>. The question, asked when the team is deciding whether the original itinerary will be changed or not, claims for an easy – but not necessarily short – answer. So, I prefer to offer an abridged version of my lecture that I keep in my laptop. At the same time, I give a partial answer, saying that the abundance and profusion of wildlife in the Pantanal – specially at this time of the year – is something fascinating and indescribable for animal lovers. I explain that, upon crossing the gateway which indicates the beginning of the Transpantaneira Road, the landscape changes abruptly and the animals put on a show before our eyes.<br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><table><tbody><tr><td><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZI9JbA_orQTfjVTCqrcWnIqhgmOKBPyzEc2Gpp3FM4Q_Y9Ew251nahUsQ_j5indccUx55bwZVYQkaOJbpG83tyxDx6i7E5F6_JDEVUsSrGD0MlhGMPSAr_3Ahy9I0K5bl6Ox6RQ/s1600/jacare_caiman_pant_transp_mt_20100824_0001.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZI9JbA_orQTfjVTCqrcWnIqhgmOKBPyzEc2Gpp3FM4Q_Y9Ew251nahUsQ_j5indccUx55bwZVYQkaOJbpG83tyxDx6i7E5F6_JDEVUsSrGD0MlhGMPSAr_3Ahy9I0K5bl6Ox6RQ/s200/jacare_caiman_pant_transp_mt_20100824_0001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517903739468629810" border="0" /></a></div></td><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3bC2OcTebfj8HWVZjLvistchgEXbcDf2JAu8Y6bowkTWFnThBwlIEMwR-hepMqToeMRAv46o-PeT5Leoe5-igzmQ0A5L_ksEpJZEKXneSwQGE9V9p6rDIQkPUGJwJOIROy4Av0g/s1600/jacar%C3%A9_come_peixe_pant_mt_20100824_0008.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3bC2OcTebfj8HWVZjLvistchgEXbcDf2JAu8Y6bowkTWFnThBwlIEMwR-hepMqToeMRAv46o-PeT5Leoe5-igzmQ0A5L_ksEpJZEKXneSwQGE9V9p6rDIQkPUGJwJOIROy4Av0g/s200/jacar%C3%A9_come_peixe_pant_mt_20100824_0008.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517904176685468642" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSPbS6G3Ji9BThbbvctzimLqBq73uYkbbrW4ywpWncbkj5u-jBpw4a8OKyTTLzB6KPBQXZ7WDG-hj-YWPimxvhXV6TVrUWhkeXrbOeBvETP6FuRI6XcotJV9sT3-R21_zpQbtWjQ/s1600/jacare_caiman_pant_transp_mt_20100824_0001.jpg"></a></td></tr> </tbody></table><div style="text-align: center; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size:85%;">While one caiman seems full of hunger...<br />... the other </span><span style="font-size:85%;">carries its banquet, a freshly caught armored catfish.<br />Photos: © Daniel De Granville, 2010</span><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Franco jokes:<span style="font-style: italic;"> “oh, so you are saying that, at one side everything is calm, but all of a sudden, starting at this spot that you mentioned, the animals decide to show off and make a parade in front of the cameras?!”</span>. I reply: <span style="font-style: italic;">“ex-act-ly”</span>. He laughs.<br /></div></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">We left Nobres by the morning, quick stop for lunch in Cuiabá, siesta in the van on the way to Poconé and finally the Transpantaneira. Almost everyone is asleep, already tired as we enter the second half of our intense trip. I, sitting by Ismael (our driver), keep my eyes open looking for animals. I ask Ismael to stop at the gateway. “Here begins the Pantanal”, the sign says. Everyone wakes up, gets off the vehicle to take some pictures, and I suggest that they leave their cameras ready.<br /></div><br /><br /><table><tbody><tr><td><div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6a1OoacccUeyIhVv06W7-xvFyvE3tRd0I1ETzgYZAggdo8Z__EcYp_MNmPOi4AxP3_yHRo6k14Iih-U6ZuizX9Yan594_5hGG5upGPxvLyGfKhDnqCKWJx1l0WWRX4xSKrT4HWg/s1600/anta_tapirus_pix_pant_mt_20100823_0032.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6a1OoacccUeyIhVv06W7-xvFyvE3tRd0I1ETzgYZAggdo8Z__EcYp_MNmPOi4AxP3_yHRo6k14Iih-U6ZuizX9Yan594_5hGG5upGPxvLyGfKhDnqCKWJx1l0WWRX4xSKrT4HWg/s200/anta_tapirus_pix_pant_mt_20100823_0032.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517904168217801730" border="0" /></a></div></td><td style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPU2uHTDC3WMsXjX-TKLa9ivEVOiHNxm79HQHAsr_rLr0lJ7dUJwjOczWLh10SrJHzqRk8WtTtYq6X2KYi2n7X9FIFs-loo1aMQ4VCFgp-lAB6HNGEBamDX3CA3yU3nXT69Amlpg/s1600/blastocerus_hydrochaeris_pant_mt_20100824_0010.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPU2uHTDC3WMsXjX-TKLa9ivEVOiHNxm79HQHAsr_rLr0lJ7dUJwjOczWLh10SrJHzqRk8WtTtYq6X2KYi2n7X9FIFs-loo1aMQ4VCFgp-lAB6HNGEBamDX3CA3yU3nXT69Amlpg/s200/blastocerus_hydrochaeris_pant_mt_20100824_0010.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517904175122284642" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSPbS6G3Ji9BThbbvctzimLqBq73uYkbbrW4ywpWncbkj5u-jBpw4a8OKyTTLzB6KPBQXZ7WDG-hj-YWPimxvhXV6TVrUWhkeXrbOeBvETP6FuRI6XcotJV9sT3-R21_zpQbtWjQ/s1600/jacare_caiman_pant_transp_mt_20100824_0001.jpg"></a></td></tr> </tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >(E) A Brazilian Tapir is followed by a swarm of insects while crossing the river.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >(D) ... Pantanal diversity: Marsh Deer, Capybara and Cattle Tyrant</span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" > share<br />one of the diminishing pools.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Photos: © Daniel De Granville, 2010</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />The van goes a few kilometers ahead and at distance we see the first bridge with some water underneath, packed with Caimans into a heap. Among them, wading birds are having a feast with the stranded fish that are dying by lack of oxygen. I turn back and see everyone’s flabbergasted gaze, fascinated with such a concentration of animals at a single spot. I look at Franco. He says nothing, but it's needless – his smile seems to say <span style="font-style: italic;">“yes, Daniel, you were right when I made that joke about the animals’ parade”</span>... For the first time in our expedition, I was not apprehensive or tense with the possibility of not finding animals for them to photograph. The spectacle that we saw during the next two days is summarized on the pictures of this post.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Next week, Part 4 (and last) of our adventure:<br />Dolphins in the Amazon.<br /></div></div><br /><br /><table><tbody><tr><td><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM9170g3788ZXVKc4ZOJq2A0Sf96DTF0aNk1u5EhFRr7Y-1lhZhSprMStdtrUeRjGsJCAYWmGtGZx1ytpOYEQ1PZllPSoOqYbkF4e0TEtrqoECE3eitqfitU7rXSHuGZKj8-NkSQ/s1600/pantanal_bandos_aves_torre_araras_20100822_0004.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM9170g3788ZXVKc4ZOJq2A0Sf96DTF0aNk1u5EhFRr7Y-1lhZhSprMStdtrUeRjGsJCAYWmGtGZx1ytpOYEQ1PZllPSoOqYbkF4e0TEtrqoECE3eitqfitU7rXSHuGZKj8-NkSQ/s200/pantanal_bandos_aves_torre_araras_20100822_0004.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517903719644961202" border="0" /></a></div></td><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQiGibhytGZ3kuie4Q_uW1EfN_iDzftlfQ17jy9ENZxH00Wkd391woh9zCg0KlOEjikAtCUS0i7iKrxG8Hd2CYErQMC6zLpTLMzuerQVA5eqyrVm_UCwvOru0wuI6pXPVmeNHCYQ/s1600/ninho_jabiru_pant_mt_p_em_20100824_0005.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQiGibhytGZ3kuie4Q_uW1EfN_iDzftlfQ17jy9ENZxH00Wkd391woh9zCg0KlOEjikAtCUS0i7iKrxG8Hd2CYErQMC6zLpTLMzuerQVA5eqyrVm_UCwvOru0wuI6pXPVmeNHCYQ/s200/ninho_jabiru_pant_mt_p_em_20100824_0005.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517903743197643746" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSPbS6G3Ji9BThbbvctzimLqBq73uYkbbrW4ywpWncbkj5u-jBpw4a8OKyTTLzB6KPBQXZ7WDG-hj-YWPimxvhXV6TVrUWhkeXrbOeBvETP6FuRI6XcotJV9sT3-R21_zpQbtWjQ/s1600/jacare_caiman_pant_transp_mt_20100824_0001.jpg"></a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table><tbody><tr><td><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSfExYdI7co1fT2aftpej9INi-FW8yp_nF8YvHx7nZ-xhtEd35RUlXU-Z5z9XGop71Z2ZMUUJBAZ53ZwWa5XazqxzUTcAliTz0cpBPzfms0MOgNUyjYq2QGY6i831KH_RRFlBAsQ/s1600/pi%C3%BAva_tabebuia_pantanal_mt_pix_20100824_0002.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSfExYdI7co1fT2aftpej9INi-FW8yp_nF8YvHx7nZ-xhtEd35RUlXU-Z5z9XGop71Z2ZMUUJBAZ53ZwWa5XazqxzUTcAliTz0cpBPzfms0MOgNUyjYq2QGY6i831KH_RRFlBAsQ/s200/pi%C3%BAva_tabebuia_pantanal_mt_pix_20100824_0002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517903704176864450" border="0" /></a></div></td><td style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHC6-NJ6Iiu2RvXONeE4G-d3kBjHjLb17vaEUJpdOaOGCfHco5KKfPtcCwYYQZeXA0Re-vpilol_YC-MKnTkCbvgZx56kMf50UNsi4wMMzXrP0mA0D5wXj6aAhyphenhyphenZ2kLL2Nc4GImQ/s1600/carneada_pant_mt_pix_20100824_0003.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHC6-NJ6Iiu2RvXONeE4G-d3kBjHjLb17vaEUJpdOaOGCfHco5KKfPtcCwYYQZeXA0Re-vpilol_YC-MKnTkCbvgZx56kMf50UNsi4wMMzXrP0mA0D5wXj6aAhyphenhyphenZ2kLL2Nc4GImQ/s200/carneada_pant_mt_pix_20100824_0003.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517903709690254786" border="0" /></a></td></tr> </tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Clockwise from top: (1) Flooded field sprinkled with wading birds in search of fish; (2) A Jabiru Stork's nest; (3) A cow is butchered without ceremony at the river bank; (4) One of the last Piúva (Tabebuia) still in bloom.</span><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Photos: © Daniel De Granville, 2010</span><br />.<br />.<br />.<br /></div><br /></div>Daniel De Granvillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10642010412453327607noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35519261.post-47433109702149624062010-09-13T18:50:00.002-04:002010-09-13T18:55:16.833-04:00Expedition, Part 2: Stingrays<div style="text-align: center;">.<br />..<br /><a href="http://photo-in-natura.blogspot.com/2010/09/57-meters-of-anaconda.html" target="blank"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >SEE PART 1 OF THIS STORY </span></a><br />..<br />.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjphN5o17n5ssaHt8jSDF2GTxb_i4qF4Y_c1QDxXKWOa5xQ_vp-0iD36ChaGxBDt24SzLGF6vV_8EzNjhcw55fMP8tvWM_LgEN_IyTLCg6IIJMvqwZq8EiTcuR8TN_OelIsS0M6w/s1600/arraia_potamotrygon_tst_nob_mt_20100820_0002.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjphN5o17n5ssaHt8jSDF2GTxb_i4qF4Y_c1QDxXKWOa5xQ_vp-0iD36ChaGxBDt24SzLGF6vV_8EzNjhcw55fMP8tvWM_LgEN_IyTLCg6IIJMvqwZq8EiTcuR8TN_OelIsS0M6w/s320/arraia_potamotrygon_tst_nob_mt_20100820_0002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5514980610983847746" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">Another mission accomplished:<br />please welcome the freshwater stingray!</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Photo: © Daniel De Granville, 2010</span><br /></div><br />Ten days and <a href="http://photo-in-natura.blogspot.com/2010/09/video-diving-with-anacondas.html" target="blank">57 meters of anaconda</a> later, already with the feeling of "mission accomplished", it was time to leave Bonito in search of our trip’s second objective: the freshwater stingrays. After my pre-production research, the region of Nobres – in the Savannas of Mato Grosso – was chosen as the ideal spot. Even though we had found some rays in Bonito, the visibility conditions in this new region were more promising, since – according to what we had heard – they occurred in areas closer to the river springs, where the water tends to carry less sediments, which is good for photography.<br /><br />Upon arrival in Cuiabá, our local support team – Hélio and Jadilson – were already waiting. We followed on to the region of Bom Jardim, a district of Nobres, where we were supposed to stay for the next four days, before heading on to the Amazon to search for Pink River Dolphins. After settling down in our lodge we met for the traditional logistics discussion and, for the following day, decided to explore a river where the chances of finding stingrays were good.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCLOXZTIWeQPzmN7AbTKiTCu1BEWolnXKF-P74laIFC2Jb6ngyjDwRQCv0j7FSkBCN8CWuCTBpqZ6edaWON4GEJxsORjFNAkkcjdiW8ETkB5VMkMd5J1CTt-lAMcqYFVWwid5QXw/s1600/fotograf_arraias_rt_nob_mt_20100820_0001.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCLOXZTIWeQPzmN7AbTKiTCu1BEWolnXKF-P74laIFC2Jb6ngyjDwRQCv0j7FSkBCN8CWuCTBpqZ6edaWON4GEJxsORjFNAkkcjdiW8ETkB5VMkMd5J1CTt-lAMcqYFVWwid5QXw/s320/fotograf_arraias_rt_nob_mt_20100820_0001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5514980584670190706" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">Our well equipped Shaowen, before the first<br />encounter with a ray, tries to overcome a fallen tree,<br />while little fish seem amused by the view.</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Photo: © Daniel De Granville, 2010</span><br /></div><br /><br />Next morning. After the detailed preparation of all necessary gear – masks, regulators, fins, tanks, weight belts, neoprene wetsuits, snacks, sandwiches, drinks, cameras, lenses, batteries, vehicle, etc, etc, etc – we left on our new adventure. The first hour, at least for me, was rather tense, since we did not see a single stingray in the river and I could catch a certain glimpse of frustration coming from the rest of our team – specially after such as blast with anacondas. That’s when our guide Jadilson suggested: <span style="font-style: italic;">“Let’s continue downstream through the part that tourists don’t go, because stingrays are shy and may be concentrated elsewhere. But it will not be an easy drift, since there are fallen branches and trees both above and below water”.</span> Said and done: it was really a more complicated way down the river, with all the gear getting tangled on the vegetation, but our reward came soon: at the first 100 meters of this new way, stingrays started showing up. And after the first one came another, and another, and another, until we totalized eight freshwater stingrays of various sizes to appease our photographers.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYSL0ysClh-Lg-hbAwhFYVEf9iB-1HoizMdN70y6n3XKYBrgO2_X4lJHptdGk576b3SPd-HzH_1O2ET52gSNlNCuK5myFlKaw2rGnD4p95gegnhfpx75nWrs0WWc1oYQ9fbJ6ffg/s1600/fotograf_arraias_rt_nob_mt_20100820_0026.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYSL0ysClh-Lg-hbAwhFYVEf9iB-1HoizMdN70y6n3XKYBrgO2_X4lJHptdGk576b3SPd-HzH_1O2ET52gSNlNCuK5myFlKaw2rGnD4p95gegnhfpx75nWrs0WWc1oYQ9fbJ6ffg/s320/fotograf_arraias_rt_nob_mt_20100820_0026.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5514980604194649890" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">Jiří photographing one of the eight stingrays<br />that we met on the same stretch of the river.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Photo: © Daniel De Granville, 2010</span><br /></div><br /><br />The sudden success was so surprising that, after the first day was gone, the team considered that they had photographed stingrays in every possible way. So, a change of plans became a possibility. They asked for my suggestion and I – eternally in love with the Pantanal – recommended a two-day “pantaneira” expedition. Even though there was nothing underwater to be photographed there, they surprisingly agreed... The story goes on in the next post!<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkunypeesSMUqAHp9Vyi9pycUeAV1bOLXL7IfRkGcxw016qPINJZFVhYn3Jf3RqoI5UVWKFmSsadM5mSQ5p49N0S0K0Ag358SzcgQyTW2f0nwIU4YwJn2xHrS_eRS_Eg9G__p31A/s1600/buritis_lag_ar_nob_mt_20100821_0002.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkunypeesSMUqAHp9Vyi9pycUeAV1bOLXL7IfRkGcxw016qPINJZFVhYn3Jf3RqoI5UVWKFmSsadM5mSQ5p49N0S0K0Ag358SzcgQyTW2f0nwIU4YwJn2xHrS_eRS_Eg9G__p31A/s320/buritis_lag_ar_nob_mt_20100821_0002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5514980582774406194" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">A pause on the dives to watch the flight of the macaws </span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">before saying goodbye to Nobres.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Photo: © Daniel De Granville, 2010</span><br />.<br />.<br />.<br /></div>Daniel De Granvillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10642010412453327607noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35519261.post-49901906420086096672010-09-07T07:58:00.002-04:002010-09-18T00:00:34.680-04:00Video: Diving with Anacondas<div align="center">.<br />.<br />.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCJxnrNToFyApPjy331XZDc86_NWK5PlvlXYjLqsogO_5dPC9kL6kgmqRkNDnsLAaiDSx37oIrOqtmVmFEOPA1G-J58SCqBF6PLZwnKv7ImSCY7urbO-F9e2IxgsrIsXZOmOGH2A/s1600/franco_sucuri_camjuc_20100818_0056.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCJxnrNToFyApPjy331XZDc86_NWK5PlvlXYjLqsogO_5dPC9kL6kgmqRkNDnsLAaiDSx37oIrOqtmVmFEOPA1G-J58SCqBF6PLZwnKv7ImSCY7urbO-F9e2IxgsrIsXZOmOGH2A/s320/franco_sucuri_camjuc_20100818_0056.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5513155777296720642" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">Underwater, face to face with a peaceful anaconda<br />Photo: © Daniel De Granville, 2010<br /></span></div><br /><br />I am back to my office after the <a href="http://photo-in-natura.blogspot.com/2010/09/57-meters-of-anaconda.html" target="blank">adventures</a> with underwater photographers <a href="http://www.banfi.ch/" target="blank">Franco Banfi</a>, <a href="http://www.uwphoto.cz/" target="blank">Jiří Řezníček</a> and friends through the Cerrado, Pantanal and Amazon. On the next posts I will tell more about what happened after we left Bonito, but I can already anticipate that it was a blast!<br /><br />For today, I invite you to watch a video clip that I took of our team diving with anacondas. More soon, enjoy!<br /><br /><div align="center"><br /><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/14684682" frameborder="0" height="300" width="400"></iframe><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/14684682"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">VERSION WITH ORIGINAL AUDIO AT VIMEO</span></span></a></p><br /><br /><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/vITPzHBe-04?fs=1&hl=pt_BR&rel=0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vITPzHBe-04?fs=1&hl=pt_BR&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vITPzHBe-04" target="blank"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">VERSION WITH AUDIO EDITED BY YOUTUBE</span></span></a><p></p><br />.<br />.<br />.</div>Daniel De Granvillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10642010412453327607noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35519261.post-67924804299221783042010-09-03T18:16:00.004-04:002010-10-05T15:40:34.066-04:0057 Meters of Anaconda<div style="text-align: center;">.<br />.<br />.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYSNu1ny9NFP7e-jC51ecuylCaHIm8WeC45WzIpf3M-zvH9G_Q2yObCALa_Za_XNEUH4JDUSIzdCUfwf9phsajQ9S8p-5RSFkAMe_fLLZv9u-GrDejk16apQw2uKJho8bo81m5Zw/s1600/sucuri_franco_banfor_20100810_0066.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYSNu1ny9NFP7e-jC51ecuylCaHIm8WeC45WzIpf3M-zvH9G_Q2yObCALa_Za_XNEUH4JDUSIzdCUfwf9phsajQ9S8p-5RSFkAMe_fLLZv9u-GrDejk16apQw2uKJho8bo81m5Zw/s320/sucuri_franco_banfor_20100810_0066.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5506551694031318722" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Franco Banfi, in the water, up close and personal</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" > with the second anaconda that we found</span><span style="font-size:85%;">.<br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Photo: © Daniel De Granville, 2010</span><br /></div><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >I spent the last three weeks working with <a href="http://www.banfi.ch/" target="blank">Franco Banfi</a> from Switzerland and <a href="http://www.uwphoto.cz/" target="blank">Jiří Řezníček</a>, from Czech Republic, two renowned underwater photographers that came to Brazil with the objective of photographing anacondas, freshwater stingrays and pink river dolphins. To accomplish these tasks, we traveled for 21 days through rivers in the Cerrado, Pantanal and Amazon Forest. Joining us were Shaowen and Jana, also photo enthusiasts and lovers of nature adventures. I will tell you the stories on my next posts along September.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">***<br /><br /></div>It was about eight in the morning when I left home with an unusual task: to find anacondas basking in the sun on river banks. After a sequence of very cold nights, the thermometer outside was showing 12 °C (54 F) as the lowest temperature overnight, and the sun shining strongly, still near the horizon, was the sign of a warmer day. Perfect for my upcoming mission.<br /><br />The first part of our trip started here in Bonito, always with the indispensable presence of <a href="http://www.ygarape.com.br/" target="blank">Juca Ygarapé</a> and our “henchman” Dudu, besides the long distance support of Carol from <a href="http://www.ambiental.tur.br/" target="blank">Ambiental</a>, who was always backing our needs with impecable competence. If the challenge of finding the snakes made Juca and I remain tense during the weeks before our clients’ arrival, with the possibility of not living up with the team’s expectations, the first day in the field was enough to fascinate and tranquilize us. After all, in the first hours of our adventure – that included going down waterfalls with a boat loaded of heavy and expensive equipment, passing under fallen trees, walking through saw grass and coping with bloodthirsty black flies – we already found two huge Yellow Anacondas in perfect conditions for our job.<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3PNtlQXp5vAXNu-BcyGeOuvNjyVad0xtDQsUcygBa8hTA0yNR-hWDY1729lWgqWV0axWpMfICYM9tpz-d9q1-xsbMBMjeZOPLLUqW4FTxrngTKWCCHahd_ngKzt31tWNculKUaw/s1600/banfor_vista_pt_20100814_0002.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 180px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3PNtlQXp5vAXNu-BcyGeOuvNjyVad0xtDQsUcygBa8hTA0yNR-hWDY1729lWgqWV0axWpMfICYM9tpz-d9q1-xsbMBMjeZOPLLUqW4FTxrngTKWCCHahd_ngKzt31tWNculKUaw/s320/banfor_vista_pt_20100814_0002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5506551677616772802" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size:85%;">The anaconda’s house...<br />Photo: © Daniel De Granville, 2010</span></span></div><br />Relieved with the sensation of “mission accomplished” (even though our demanding photographers did not consider that they had the ideal shots, what took us to the same place five more times), we went on with our activities and the encounters with these serpents succeeded repeatedly. To such extent that, after the sixth anaconda sighting, we started reckoning our success rate in total meters of anaconda (57 meters / 187 feet in total!).<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0oDYrnxZV-faQjGuG-8VMZesNGqpoZgmVVJPLim5SBIwVNbt_rhEZJ6eJJGrI_kt5r0bACSqZlfgByTDRBBcRy54b5KIPQPwft2wxUvdFHT4lahZkHNHzSb-woCOu26S-NKSH4g/s1600/sucuri_eunectes_banfor_20100810_0031.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0oDYrnxZV-faQjGuG-8VMZesNGqpoZgmVVJPLim5SBIwVNbt_rhEZJ6eJJGrI_kt5r0bACSqZlfgByTDRBBcRy54b5KIPQPwft2wxUvdFHT4lahZkHNHzSb-woCOu26S-NKSH4g/s320/sucuri_eunectes_banfor_20100810_0031.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5506551689479393442" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">... and the house’s owner!</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;">Photo: © Daniel De Granville, 2010</span></span><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /><br /></span></div><br />It is worth remembering that, due to the difficulty of finding anacondas in the wild and the fact that they were the trip’s major objective, 70% of our time in Bonito had been reserved for us to search for them. Since we had such a high success rate in the first days, we decided to invest in the second critter of our list, the freshwater stingrays. Here, once again, success and mission (almost) accomplished, since we were able to find many of these fishes posing for Franco, Jiří and their companions at the bottom of the river.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLW_-QtdWMZaOBY16IQm4apRzdngQv1TUnfOblIpg4OG4szDMcwEulYpi9O4wbjFFsoRWF9sRe7v0HotMmX6zn14kMeTIU4KOelB9IBjldaEE_r_e5Q1rDvRRsNBi9Rn8dluo1kw/s1600/franco_jiri_fotog_arraia_frm_20100812_0003.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 213px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLW_-QtdWMZaOBY16IQm4apRzdngQv1TUnfOblIpg4OG4szDMcwEulYpi9O4wbjFFsoRWF9sRe7v0HotMmX6zn14kMeTIU4KOelB9IBjldaEE_r_e5Q1rDvRRsNBi9Rn8dluo1kw/s320/franco_jiri_fotog_arraia_frm_20100812_0003.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5506551698891764258" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Franco has a good time with a stingray</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> surrounded by little fish...</span><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Photo: © Daniel De Granville, 2010</span><br /></div><br />In short, when we reached Day 9 of our expedition, we had already found two of the three main species that our clients were looking for, which meant more time to go for even better pictures and explore other natural wonders that these regions offer, such as macaws, caimans, caves and crystal-clear rivers full of fish. What did we see afterwards? Wait for next post :-)<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg5i77DZ3bVKIajaOk92ew51nwJ-xbS686ZF9rhFV8UMVAtk4yOIIqL6JmAhHrYAYVfIA7z9DDLY1CGbNceMOn91trQ6SaU0uPr8RPfFGA-zRmQYjaqp96PeUwlEODaGf_1Fwkbg/s1600/exped_francon_merg_an_20100813_0006.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg5i77DZ3bVKIajaOk92ew51nwJ-xbS686ZF9rhFV8UMVAtk4yOIIqL6JmAhHrYAYVfIA7z9DDLY1CGbNceMOn91trQ6SaU0uPr8RPfFGA-zRmQYjaqp96PeUwlEODaGf_1Fwkbg/s320/exped_francon_merg_an_20100813_0006.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5506551683124825042" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Besides anacondas, freshwater stingrays and caimans, the program included relaxing dives in crystal-clear rivers full of life.<br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" > </span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Photo: © Daniel De Granville, 2010</span><br />.<br />.<br />.<br /></span></div>Daniel De Granvillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10642010412453327607noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35519261.post-68643926936287558482010-08-07T15:57:00.001-04:002010-08-07T16:00:37.372-04:00Photo in Natura Made in Japan!<div align="center">.<br />.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmoGof9IaHrotzVpXhRpxVhr3-KD-NGBW2ULvL7U_h1IxWfI6BzK89rVWriHx0mJur8BqeK8h8GmBAefJ5WCKepApneXJ3IVFMFdFM1fB9fBx0GN_oVu2_95qEYywXoBhbwxo1fg/s1600/sotokoto_201009_header.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 131px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmoGof9IaHrotzVpXhRpxVhr3-KD-NGBW2ULvL7U_h1IxWfI6BzK89rVWriHx0mJur8BqeK8h8GmBAefJ5WCKepApneXJ3IVFMFdFM1fB9fBx0GN_oVu2_95qEYywXoBhbwxo1fg/s320/sotokoto_201009_header.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5502397624466431714" /></a><span style="font-style:italic;">Header for the article about Brazil at Sotokoto’s website<br>Photo: authorship not informed<br> (or maybe it is somewhere in the text...)</span></div><br /><br /><a href="http://www.sotokoto.net/jp/latest/?ym=201009" target="blank">Issue # 135</a> (September 2010) of <a href="http://www.sotokoto.net/" target="blank">Sotokoto</a>, Japanese outdoor lifestyle magazine, has just been released. This edition’s highlight is <span style="font-style:italic;"><span style="font-weight:bold;">“Brazil, The Biodiversity Wonderland”</span></span> and the cover shows a picture of a pair of Hyacinth Macaws. Pantanal and Bonito got 10 pages! Of these, two bring 17 pictures and an interview about my life as a photographer and guide in the Pantanal.<br /><br /><div align="center"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSWZFA0dbhQjJzHbJy_-4rdbbzw0TcSBoVcLBdx9UebIQXenGU7edX3v_WSk4hB-RsYepzkn5XUgO6wBfMf2whLIdwf-sa1_Dcf7il6_g8MdxzYddPuipqhrmcdddeyGIwef7y6Q/s1600/sotokoto_cover_201009.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 194px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSWZFA0dbhQjJzHbJy_-4rdbbzw0TcSBoVcLBdx9UebIQXenGU7edX3v_WSk4hB-RsYepzkn5XUgO6wBfMf2whLIdwf-sa1_Dcf7il6_g8MdxzYddPuipqhrmcdddeyGIwef7y6Q/s320/sotokoto_cover_201009.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5502397614840761442" /></a><span style="font-style:italic;">The cover of Sotokoto’s issue # 135</span></div><br /><br />I hope that this publication brings more visitors from this very distant country who is one of the world’s leader in number of birdwatchers, and whose tourists always show fascination and excitement for our natural beauties.<br /><br />The interview deserves a chapter of its own: my friend Hiroya Hatori, an excelent tour guide in Mato Grosso do Sul, had told me about a Japanese photographer - <a href="http://www.uruma-photo.com/" target="blank">Uruma Takezawa</a> - who was coming to Brazil and wanted to meet me, maybe negotiate some pictures for an article. Time went by, I was on a filed trip when Hiroya e-mailed me assigning a date for our meeting.<br /><br /><div align="center"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_P6szzXX86ETj6xe2lH0gErZ9D16wJ2X4CS-JMwD-lV0N6OrQS-jUETiNJtglis82Skk0qxi6kAAjcoA85LhyAlsVC9NeBvsSeF4diXMagKT4d7csIGGadxGt3XgMKEigtCa6qg/s1600/sotokoto_09_pantanal_5.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 256px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_P6szzXX86ETj6xe2lH0gErZ9D16wJ2X4CS-JMwD-lV0N6OrQS-jUETiNJtglis82Skk0qxi6kAAjcoA85LhyAlsVC9NeBvsSeF4diXMagKT4d7csIGGadxGt3XgMKEigtCa6qg/s320/sotokoto_09_pantanal_5.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5502397636375033346" /></a><span style="font-style:italic;">(click on the picture to enlarge)</span></div><br /><br />It was a pleasant afternoon of July when both arrived at my house, and only then I understood that the visit would include an interview. I had loads of things to do in my computer (but was not feeling like doing), so I loved the chance of leaving the office aside for some time – and without feeling guilty, after all I was going to talk about work. The conversation went on swiftly for almost two hours, as evening came and Uruma enjoyed the passion fruit juice made with the pulp of fruits picked at our backyard. The result can be seen at the pages displayed on this post – as long as you can read in Japanese, of course!<br /><br /><div align="center"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimQqtbWQScGk64mloZE_IuCfDTAsGKYbmdTsKE7mgMWFMvR-rdGQUHPfbw49jxwVrmFS5_SpAentOBQQHkyxLkVvc6V4saMHFBE7bpuSyBlUTwBqlCgYNMwmiWMjXeSexhVYAFQg/s1600/sotokoto_09_pantanal_6.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 255px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimQqtbWQScGk64mloZE_IuCfDTAsGKYbmdTsKE7mgMWFMvR-rdGQUHPfbw49jxwVrmFS5_SpAentOBQQHkyxLkVvc6V4saMHFBE7bpuSyBlUTwBqlCgYNMwmiWMjXeSexhVYAFQg/s320/sotokoto_09_pantanal_6.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5502397634190333634" /></a><span style="font-style:italic;">( click on the picture to enlarge)</span><br />.<br />.<br />.</div>Daniel De Granvillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10642010412453327607noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35519261.post-81966784052078038652010-08-03T18:14:00.009-04:002010-08-03T19:01:48.550-04:00News in Six Acts<DIV ALIGN=CENTER>.<br />.<br />.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8Lql6GIfKLLHn7H9UGuCv_lT5GNhBtKfDawvoWPvMv4fg4JEoUBK7-XkZRuHWDPOEw-gS2d5bPOfj_dVLFp4-DMXeTiI5ZoycppWjq-CQp6Puaj6kYNGHqMwjFCohkgimbm1s1Q/s1600/gamb%C3%A1_didelphis_quint_csbyo_20100628_0009.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8Lql6GIfKLLHn7H9UGuCv_lT5GNhBtKfDawvoWPvMv4fg4JEoUBK7-XkZRuHWDPOEw-gS2d5bPOfj_dVLFp4-DMXeTiI5ZoycppWjq-CQp6Puaj6kYNGHqMwjFCohkgimbm1s1Q/s320/gamb%C3%A1_didelphis_quint_csbyo_20100628_0009.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5501311267804799666" /></a><span style="font-style:italic;">Even though I have been out most of the time, this cute opossum came to say "hello" at my backyard on the first morning after I arrived from one of my field trips. <br> Photo: © Daniel De Granville, 2010</span></div><br /><br />Staying on the road has been the rule for me during the past months. This means that I am keeping busy, which is great, but also makes it quite difficult to update my blogs. The Portuguese version does receive more constant posts, but doing the same in English has just not been possible. However, today I decided that I should try and change this. So, what I will do is tell in brief lines what I have been up to lately, and along the next weeks I will try to tell more stories. So here we go:<br /><br /><br />1) In May I started a freelance job for Petrobras, the Brazilian oil company. This was the first time that I really got an assignment because of my <a href="http://photo-in-natura.blogspot.com/2007/03/back-to-school-back-to-so-paulo.html" target="blank">postgrad course in Science Journalism</a>. They hired Canal Azul, a production company from São Paulo who specializes in nature programs, to produce a series of 36 videos about the socio-environmental projects that Petrobras funds across the country. I was in charge of part of the field production, directing the interviews, taking still photographs and writing the texts that will come as a supplement for each video. Our team traveled across 11 Brazilian States and covered a wide range of subjects. The trips ended last week and the results will be out soon.<br /><br /><DIV ALIGN=CENTER><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbxJ8vCNXz1qLzETVmZznq3EFOo4cWB6oYmTLyVgoTr4fzFM4Cbq_o1-WUDANkEtr9366RSHeMiPQLC_MjXSjVuZovP-76OBlmAwqW6VjUmJyJFGwKfU9CgrDlvwKV4H3YL1LIBw/s1600/catv_pet_cerrado_eriocaulaceae_piren%C3%B3polis_go_20100523_0043.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 213px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbxJ8vCNXz1qLzETVmZznq3EFOo4cWB6oYmTLyVgoTr4fzFM4Cbq_o1-WUDANkEtr9366RSHeMiPQLC_MjXSjVuZovP-76OBlmAwqW6VjUmJyJFGwKfU9CgrDlvwKV4H3YL1LIBw/s320/catv_pet_cerrado_eriocaulaceae_piren%C3%B3polis_go_20100523_0043.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5501312368163471810" /></a><span style="font-style:italic;">A type of pipewort blossoms in the Brazilian savannas, one of the areas visited during this assignment. <br> Photo: © Daniel De Granville, 2010</span></div><br /><br /><br />2) Still in May, I led a trip of Brazilian students for Ambiental Expeditions to the region of <a href="http://www.worldgreatestsites.com/serra-da-capivara-national-park_brazil.htm" target="blank">Serra da Capivara</a>, a beautiful area in the middle of the Caatinga (Brazil’s harshest shrubland environment) known as one of the world’s most important prehistoric rock art sites.<br /><br /><DIV ALIGN=CENTER><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiowNSv5jBkAstyiOAUCFgLKZ4_A7rk1Yu9ZrqbEdYmKtjVvKLVo1hdQ8IX1A3zYRD_zgg46S5ttLVDJRcYLoHK9P91tfQH5o1K-FxrOZYtacrUTF49lsGAcNpjt66esNAfTCpKPQ/s1600/serra_capivara_pi_vista_baix_andorinhas_20100519_0025.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 213px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiowNSv5jBkAstyiOAUCFgLKZ4_A7rk1Yu9ZrqbEdYmKtjVvKLVo1hdQ8IX1A3zYRD_zgg46S5ttLVDJRcYLoHK9P91tfQH5o1K-FxrOZYtacrUTF49lsGAcNpjt66esNAfTCpKPQ/s320/serra_capivara_pi_vista_baix_andorinhas_20100519_0025.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5501314572587962434" /></a><span style="font-style:italic;">The sunset paints the rocks red at Serra da Capivara while hundreds of swifts dive into the canyon to spend the night.<br> Photo: © Daniel De Granville, 2010</span></div><br /><br /><br />3) During this period I was contacted by Geo Saison, Germany’s #1 travel magazine, who wanted to publish the first picture that I ever took of a jaguar in the wild, back in 2003. Then, some weeks later, Sotokoto – an outdoor lifestyle magazine from Japan – requested an interview and some pictures of the Pantanal, 17 of which will be published in their next issue, together with stories from my life in the wetlands.<br /><br /><DIV ALIGN=CENTER><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkDDo8EMV5tb8LD8G1nUrQjp2gdMueikw5Ppn6EHwk4WWJLdapTVm0Rw6vzngqblbfKGYDKWLhfG_3E_gPOGpQxo-zvfJYAZVc2YXrsqX-xPt7qrnX04qNUkvqYpSO-xbsujss5w/s1600/ddg_panth_onca_r_cuiaba_2003_SCCR_01_publ_geo.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 155px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkDDo8EMV5tb8LD8G1nUrQjp2gdMueikw5Ppn6EHwk4WWJLdapTVm0Rw6vzngqblbfKGYDKWLhfG_3E_gPOGpQxo-zvfJYAZVc2YXrsqX-xPt7qrnX04qNUkvqYpSO-xbsujss5w/s320/ddg_panth_onca_r_cuiaba_2003_SCCR_01_publ_geo.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5466440910510149570" /></a><span style="font-style:italic;">The very first jaguar that I ever saw now makes it to Germany!<br>Photo: © Daniel De Granville, 2003</span></div><br /><br /><br />4) Early June, back home for a few days. Just in time to: (a) inaugurate a picture exhibition at a local Social and Environmental Fair; (b) help Tietta on setting up our gigantic "Gallery Forest" banner where kids had to find birds hidden in the trees; (c) participate in the launching of the book marker collection with some of my nature photos.<br /><br /><DIV ALIGN=CENTER><table border="0" width="120"><tbody><tr><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitFuR_wUeKLPAwn4rdgQGBXLG0v8GZsN22SokyhdCIReqL2RpQNkZ3JXADgaZUqIOigCh8sPa4XMdPbW0gjjXX8oVYfp0R0NEp3S4NHm2ZqEx61D5Qdg2uyi7nW7wVKyXcuwl3TQ/s1600/marca_livros_iasb_sucuri.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 79px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitFuR_wUeKLPAwn4rdgQGBXLG0v8GZsN22SokyhdCIReqL2RpQNkZ3JXADgaZUqIOigCh8sPa4XMdPbW0gjjXX8oVYfp0R0NEp3S4NHm2ZqEx61D5Qdg2uyi7nW7wVKyXcuwl3TQ/s320/marca_livros_iasb_sucuri.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5478208133231233154" /></a></td><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_qRbJRjCAxgy_qv9CguYAse2pRRsbNUbcOMOaBMV5nDQtYsQGnTXH0X_RQ8gQiZgPMcA7soHFddDZOng2NPd1nJNkFVOZVFzl8lMdwc_AanKWyhEtQVgPi7Ho2VisztdygT8R-Q/s1600/marca_livros_iasb_ariranha.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 78px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_qRbJRjCAxgy_qv9CguYAse2pRRsbNUbcOMOaBMV5nDQtYsQGnTXH0X_RQ8gQiZgPMcA7soHFddDZOng2NPd1nJNkFVOZVFzl8lMdwc_AanKWyhEtQVgPi7Ho2VisztdygT8R-Q/s320/marca_livros_iasb_ariranha.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5478208127667622466" /></a></td><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTwNKtx6cmleqs5EdWtzGkb_WTEqFGyHOo6ZE4CHcYNie-t2Ckim2EFqt6exZbXScK4hY7cLMQlM8K9xo1L5ffLcsUjRbHh-WvXtUSWPqeEWZwmovMVAmCuacWFRpU_VKaBFz6Gg/s1600/marca_livros_iasb_bacuri.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 80px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTwNKtx6cmleqs5EdWtzGkb_WTEqFGyHOo6ZE4CHcYNie-t2Ckim2EFqt6exZbXScK4hY7cLMQlM8K9xo1L5ffLcsUjRbHh-WvXtUSWPqeEWZwmovMVAmCuacWFRpU_VKaBFz6Gg/s320/marca_livros_iasb_bacuri.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5478208124312730290" /></a></td><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTq0Lbg4bOH1fbbiwfY-G9vWd8k0kHZA8l6pLwVfjkQBbb11yNWz9XC4ZI8pg5rKJrRYcTms4uSnrSIl5gCvflrgd_QRcoNF05qNeQikGeGuX14eFDxk66Ut02qXU4X1WhwcNppQ/s1600/marca_livros_iasb_udu.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 82px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTq0Lbg4bOH1fbbiwfY-G9vWd8k0kHZA8l6pLwVfjkQBbb11yNWz9XC4ZI8pg5rKJrRYcTms4uSnrSIl5gCvflrgd_QRcoNF05qNeQikGeGuX14eFDxk66Ut02qXU4X1WhwcNppQ/s320/marca_livros_iasb_udu.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5478208118927727234" /></a></td><td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-style:italic;">Book markers were given for free to the Fair's participants<br>Photos: © Daniel De Granville, 2003-2010<br> Artwork: © Liliane Lacerda, 2010</span></div><br /><br />5) Late July, as the field trips for Petrobras reach their end, I am back to my office working on the publication of the documentary “Ecos de Aruanda” – produced together with a team of colleagues in 2007 – about Umbanda, an Afro-Brazilian religion that worships nature’s elements. The Portuguese version is already <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d7tzerIa-M" target="blank">available</a> on Youtube and the English subtitles are coming soon.<br /><br /><DIV ALIGN=CENTER><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ3e-Q1t_E4snFboP_lcr0u1VvkE-jB9zAK7B0miMLH1mQPFnS6kJHb0pTL5PbJL06NZJA_s86H7WMUXIE48EgwO43Mj2M4vLtx8HOkNsrKgo6iioKpfbPLzd_0Lh02N886EI-jg/s1600/capa_dvd_eda_2007.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 229px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ3e-Q1t_E4snFboP_lcr0u1VvkE-jB9zAK7B0miMLH1mQPFnS6kJHb0pTL5PbJL06NZJA_s86H7WMUXIE48EgwO43Mj2M4vLtx8HOkNsrKgo6iioKpfbPLzd_0Lh02N886EI-jg/s320/capa_dvd_eda_2007.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5501318150456123682" /></a><span style="font-style:italic;">The front cover of our documentary's DVD <br> (English subtitles coming soon!) <br> Artwork and Photo: © Daniel De Granville, 2007</span></div><br /><br /><br />6) At the moment I am finalizing the production of my next adventure: a week from now I will be leading a team of four European underwater photographers and filmmakers specialized in aquatic images. Our task? To get the best underwater shots of Green Anacondas, Freshwater Stingrays and Pink River Dolphins. For that, we will cross parts of Brazil in three weeks searching for our subjects. Sounds fun!<br /><br /><DIV ALIGN=CENTER><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhunmS0RvV-kvNuBc1y1Av5NoJ5-7x-MRlmkPIcgLzrcKT_4aw5Kwl7BgsdI3ejh36GY1-PiTuthwcJiM2m38RaED_7x960ducpU2z1xVMg6j0vpqW6vDzLFFLcSZ4-S6lO3fI14w/s1600/eunectes_rform_byo_arac_20080811_027.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhunmS0RvV-kvNuBc1y1Av5NoJ5-7x-MRlmkPIcgLzrcKT_4aw5Kwl7BgsdI3ejh36GY1-PiTuthwcJiM2m38RaED_7x960ducpU2z1xVMg6j0vpqW6vDzLFFLcSZ4-S6lO3fI14w/s320/eunectes_rform_byo_arac_20080811_027.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5501319263837456914" /></a><span style="font-style:italic;">The Green Anaconda is one of the trip's major objectives - as long as the pictures are taken underwater! <br> Photo: © Daniel De Granville, 2008</span><br />.<br />.<br />.</div>Daniel De Granvillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10642010412453327607noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35519261.post-17360038380968097322010-04-07T15:40:00.002-04:002010-04-20T22:39:56.487-04:00Cats: New Video by Photo in NaturaOur new video clip is online! Two minutes with the cats that share Photo in Natura’s home and office with us. Enjoy : -)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">(With YouTube making things way too difficult, I opted for sharing the videos on two other servers for you to choose from: <a href="http://www.vimeo.com/10753297" target="blank">Vimeo</a> or <a href="http://br.video.yahoo.com/watch/7290678/19025032" target="blank">Yahoo! Video</a>). Personally, I found Vimeo’s quality much better.</span><br /><br /><div align=center><object width="400" height="300"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=10753297&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=10753297&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object><a href="http://vimeo.com/10753297"><br>The cats of Photo in Natura</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</div><br /><br /><div align=center><object width="400" height="252"><param name="movie" value="http://d.yimg.com/static.video.yahoo.com/yep/YV_YEP.swf?ver=2.2.46" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="AllowScriptAccess" VALUE="always" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#000000" /><param name="flashVars" value="id=19025032&vid=7290678&lang=pt-br&intl=br&thumbUrl=http%3A//l.yimg.com/a/p/i/bcst/videosearch/14165/105377609.jpeg&embed=1" /><embed src="http://d.yimg.com/static.video.yahoo.com/yep/YV_YEP.swf?ver=2.2.46" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="252" allowFullScreen="true" AllowScriptAccess="always" bgcolor="#000000" flashVars="id=19025032&vid=7290678&lang=pt-br&intl=br&thumbUrl=http%3A//l.yimg.com/a/p/i/bcst/videosearch/14165/105377609.jpeg&embed=1" ></embed></object><br /><a href="http://br.video.yahoo.com/watch/7290678/19025032">The Cats of Photo in Natura</a> on <a href="http://br.video.yahoo.com" >Yahoo! Video</a>.<br />.<br />.</div>Daniel De Granvillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10642010412453327607noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35519261.post-63296801301277132812010-04-02T16:58:00.005-04:002010-04-03T13:25:57.869-04:00The day I taught Indiana Jones how to ride a horse<DIV ALIGN=CENTER>.<br />.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr8MHADBu7LNB5GtxBDeJu5oF9IyfB-8PYofeP7xXeGWcE0dZPPuwIwQ88zBftzgddrv9OxWfb6ICLPLD94HYH6fibI8EbJ5AAHJxpE_8yPisrAIRLvzVJ45ZdC1L9y0pr3r5JTg/s1600/indiana_jones_last_crusade_poster.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 271px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr8MHADBu7LNB5GtxBDeJu5oF9IyfB-8PYofeP7xXeGWcE0dZPPuwIwQ88zBftzgddrv9OxWfb6ICLPLD94HYH6fibI8EbJ5AAHJxpE_8yPisrAIRLvzVJ45ZdC1L9y0pr3r5JTg/s320/indiana_jones_last_crusade_poster.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455631792979915906" alt="Indiana Jones film poster" title="Indiana Jones film poster"/></a><span style="font-style:italic;">... and I had to teach HIM how to ride a horse...</span></div><br /><br />This week the blog broke a boring record: the longest period without any posts... usually this happens when I’m in the middle of nowhere with no internet access, but this time is because I have been dedicated to office work. Nothing very exciting going on in front of my computer screen... So, to compensate the delay, here we go with a funny post about a story that took place 14 years ago. <br /><br />We were somewhere back in 1996. I worked at the <a href="http://www.caiman.com.br/" target="blank"> Caiman Ecological Refuge</a> (Pantanal) when we got the news that actor Harrison Ford was coming over to spend some days with his family. It was an enormous thrill, we had to build a strategic plan to ensure comfort and peace for our honorable Indiana Jones. We knew that they had come to Bonito and were not very happy with all the harassment from the press and other curious folks, so that our responsibility became even higher.<br /><br /><DIV ALIGN=CENTER><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5Qq0OV66V2Yo2Wi200R82iD0dJx0rFVdDqzlq4Njne9JM63iYI6m97Iq3lNx9ASsI9T6jYP9RtWxueJ7xMopeGXBQ4AT7pTVbONA2t8f-REwHApYhLitL8EwDYMBtiIrUlgsKYA/s1600/harrison_ford_rec_1996.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5Qq0OV66V2Yo2Wi200R82iD0dJx0rFVdDqzlq4Njne9JM63iYI6m97Iq3lNx9ASsI9T6jYP9RtWxueJ7xMopeGXBQ4AT7pTVbONA2t8f-REwHApYhLitL8EwDYMBtiIrUlgsKYA/s320/harrison_ford_rec_1996.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455631801172381378" alt="Harrison Ford and local staff" title="Harrison Ford and local staff"/></a><span style="font-style:italic;">Our honorable Indiana Jones among Caiman’s staff.<br>Photo of unknown authorship, 1996</span></div><br /><br />With us it wasn’t any different: the phone kept on ringing all the time, including fake journalists talking in a very poor English, claiming to be a “member of the actor’s staff” and requesting permission to enter the ranch. Others gathered at the front gate hoping to make a scoop. No way...<br /><br />As the field supervisor at that time, I was assigned to join Mr. Ford on his field trips. And so came the day when we were going for a horse ride!<br /><br />Picture this: Indiana Jones sitting still on a pantaneiro horse, me standing on the ground adjusting his stirrups and giving the standard speech of safety and procedures. As I talked, kind of strained with such a surreal situation, the images of our #1 adventurer galloping across bridges on fire over mile-high abysses under an attack of arrows kept coming to my mind.<br /><br />The scene was abruptly interrupted by one of those famous grins that he does in the movies, followed by a humorous phrase: <span style="font-style:italic;">“young man, you’re talking to a Wyoming cowboy!”</span>. It was hilarious, everyone in the group (including me) laughed, but I had to accomplish the protocol before we left. Not galloping over burning bridges, but riding slowly across the Pantanal fields while searching for wildlife. It was a memorable moment, not only because I was leading the raider of lost arks, but due to the fact that Harrison Ford is a renowned conservationist, who had come to the Pantanal to see its beauties and help on its protection.<br /><br />Leaving behind the past of intrepid adventures, it is nice to see such an influential character devoted to environmental conservation – at least one thing we share in common :-)<br /><br /><br /><DIV ALIGN=CENTER><span style="font-style:italic;">Watch below the video clip where the actor waxes his chest for the benefit of our forests.</span><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/y55wA0iZAUg&hl=pt_BR&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/y55wA0iZAUg&hl=pt_BR&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>.<br />.<br /><span style="font-style:italic;">(Post dedicated to <a href="http://www.peixesdebonito.com.br/" target="blank">José Sabino</a>!)</span><br />.</div>Daniel De Granvillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10642010412453327607noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35519261.post-20764494278069356292010-02-25T18:12:00.001-04:002010-02-25T18:15:10.274-04:00Helping Cardoso Island<DIV ALIGN=CENTER><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidZI_n1tw-_9HRk5Nco6QRQlBJzaRVnu1oHOdi31q9G1_mTrMszmnsX3EVmgbDdhRCVjur5_qGnTaMukQQ_UOB_4w0N0Ja8-BcKeXP6eXL3UBSM06GStIM1032TuHCyLSdIzXQHQ/s1600-h/nin_andor_telh_icasp_20070121_022.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidZI_n1tw-_9HRk5Nco6QRQlBJzaRVnu1oHOdi31q9G1_mTrMszmnsX3EVmgbDdhRCVjur5_qGnTaMukQQ_UOB_4w0N0Ja8-BcKeXP6eXL3UBSM06GStIM1032TuHCyLSdIzXQHQ/s320/nin_andor_telh_icasp_20070121_022.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442289249029070130" alt="swallow chicks in their nest under a tile" title="swallow chicks in their nest under a tile"/></a><span style="font-style:italic;">Sample of the picture sold at the auction <br>Photo: © Daniel De Granville, 2007</span></div><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">“ Granting image usage rights, free of charge, for non-profit socio-environmental organizations, scientists, researches done in public schools and universities, philanthropic publications aimed at environmental awareness, artistic projects with socio-environmental purposes and others”.</span><br /><br />The sentence above is part of the section about <span style="font-weight:bold;">Photo in Natura</span>’s <a href="http://www.photoinnatura.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=22&Itemid=110" target="blank">socio-environmental commitment</a>. More than just publishing phrases randomly on our website, we must constantly evaluate whether we are effectively accomplishing these precepts – if we say that we do it, we’ve got to do it. <br /><br />Thus, I recently received a request from <a href="http://www.graded.br/" target="blank">Graded School</a> – whose study trips I have joined a couple of times – to collaborate for a good cause. The school organized a charity auction to fundraise in order to build a community center at the marvelous <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilha_do_Cardoso” target="blank">Cardoso Island</a>, south coast of São Paulo, and asked if I could donate one of my photographs.<br /><br />I agreed without thinking twice, contributing with a 30 cm x 45 cm (12 in x 18 in) print of the picture that illustrates this post – taken at the Island in 2007 – accompanied by an Authenticity Certificate, proving its origin and the limited edition of 12 copies. <br /><br />It is good to know that somehow, besides the environmental awareness that I try to foment through images, my photography is helping those who need.<br /><br /><DIV ALIGN=CENTER><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglnb10KuvOeFMtEpnLkuxlrZ6zqwiDYAEZcktGgyH1FvUSZcPs3KxTHxktXdeUX8whR53Qnf5u33vK_QpmgtHw9QwLPzezuKgtYB1Uc5-xIIBY52eKPESmA5goKXoGDFVw6sSuBg/s1600-h/restinga_ens_baleia_icard_sp_20090124_004.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 213px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglnb10KuvOeFMtEpnLkuxlrZ6zqwiDYAEZcktGgyH1FvUSZcPs3KxTHxktXdeUX8whR53Qnf5u33vK_QpmgtHw9QwLPzezuKgtYB1Uc5-xIIBY52eKPESmA5goKXoGDFVw6sSuBg/s320/restinga_ens_baleia_icard_sp_20090124_004.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442289250129334306" alt=" landscape of the restinga vegetation at Cardoso Island" title="landscape of the restinga vegetation at Cardoso Island"/></a><span style="font-style:italic;">Restinga vegetation at Ilha do Cardoso<br>Photo: © Daniel De Granville, 2009</span><br />.<br />.<br />.</div>Daniel De Granvillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10642010412453327607noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35519261.post-36948536833116679872010-02-18T11:27:00.001-03:002010-02-18T11:29:12.659-03:00Photo in Natura on YouTube<DIV ALIGN=CENTER>.<br />We have just produced a 3-minute videoclip with 40 of my favorite nature pictures. Please click below to watch it!<br />.<br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/pzY5ICiPKz0&hl=pt_BR&fs=1&rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/pzY5ICiPKz0&hl=pt_BR&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></div>Daniel De Granvillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10642010412453327607noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35519261.post-7291370990296597882010-02-03T16:46:00.001-03:002010-02-03T16:54:12.849-03:00Goodbye, Fotograma:Photo in Natura is Online!<DIV ALIGN=CENTER><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmN6HSk1SjbXaRbxJf8cqoWvuCpD1nFOczlmMvkAi_H9L7Gj8uVBe_fzHqDwdLg-_AkfWi_swjg04XqES51JPhUvMUYQkQuXq_FBuFv7ICC1-BFDJClhL36sMdxx7ELEYmNUAMyA/s1600-h/LogoPiN-vert-port-COR-BAIXA.jpg"></a><a href="http://www.photoinnatura.com/" target="blank"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmN6HSk1SjbXaRbxJf8cqoWvuCpD1nFOczlmMvkAi_H9L7Gj8uVBe_fzHqDwdLg-_AkfWi_swjg04XqES51JPhUvMUYQkQuXq_FBuFv7ICC1-BFDJClhL36sMdxx7ELEYmNUAMyA/s320/LogoPiN-vert-port-COR-BAIXA.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434105528194020562" /></a><span style="font-style:italic;">Our new logo!<br>Artwork: © 2007 Daniel De Granville</span></div><br /><br />After several months of research, tests, exchange of experiences and a lot of work sitting in front of the computer, I am pleased to announce the release of our new website <a href="http://www.photoinnatura.com/" target="blank">Photo in Natura</a>! <br /><br />It will replace the good old <a href="http://www.fotograma.com.br/" target="blank">Fotograma</a>, my first site, which was online since 2005. With a brand new layout and an <a href="http://www.photoinnatura.com/index.php?option=com_easygallery&Itemid=65" target="blank">image bank</a> with hundreds of samples available, <a href="http://www.photoinnatura.com/" target="blank">Photo in Natura</a> shows our work in a much more practical and complete manner. However, since we are still adjusting some tools, you may experience temporary difficulties for browsing.<br /><br />Be welcome, make yourself comfortable and please feel free to <a href="http://www.photoinnatura.com/index.php?option=com_contact&task=view&contact_id=2&Itemid=146" target="blank">contact us</a> in case of comments or suggestions. Thank you!<br /><p><br /><DIV ALIGN=CENTER><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF0EhNOZX1DBBQKLPgVg3SHkJFXIB0G_kbGkKO5Xb5nR17CrGwaJK__epJMtkLOiiT39IAirXE458Hg5KcQUj5g_t5soXJ051c_of6GfLtQZxlqXNkNvwmlOpjM4pHAJr-oHyncg/s1600-h/logo_fotograma_3c.gif"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 51px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF0EhNOZX1DBBQKLPgVg3SHkJFXIB0G_kbGkKO5Xb5nR17CrGwaJK__epJMtkLOiiT39IAirXE458Hg5KcQUj5g_t5soXJ051c_of6GfLtQZxlqXNkNvwmlOpjM4pHAJr-oHyncg/s320/logo_fotograma_3c.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434105369629586018" /></a><span style="font-style:italic;">Farewell to Fotograma...<br>Artwork: © 2005 Nando Pereira | Daniel De Granville<br /></span>.<br />.</div>Daniel De Granvillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10642010412453327607noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35519261.post-54164193016635860712010-01-22T09:24:00.001-03:002010-01-22T09:27:39.445-03:00"Treefrog at Noon!"<DIV ALIGN=CENTER>.<br />.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidOem0gfGCcDmPl0hmC2Os0oYmLMfcxQT17tFXGeIlPb2fazG0Nh0Sp5NGqqeOqjvsYNgiIg06TNntvZxF-G8qBIj1wGHHFqTr8mIByNzs7zWRS3_TIEFjfo3PZD8y_Zrnr_qhRA/s1600-h/perereca_relogio_cozinha_csbyo_20100119_007.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidOem0gfGCcDmPl0hmC2Os0oYmLMfcxQT17tFXGeIlPb2fazG0Nh0Sp5NGqqeOqjvsYNgiIg06TNntvZxF-G8qBIj1wGHHFqTr8mIByNzs7zWRS3_TIEFjfo3PZD8y_Zrnr_qhRA/s320/perereca_relogio_cozinha_csbyo_20100119_007.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428869292755876978" alt="a tree frog watches the world go by from behind the kitchen clock" title="a tree frog watches the world go by from behind the kitchen clock"/></a><span style="font-style:italic;">"I can hardly wait..."<br>Photo: © Daniel De Granville, 2010</span></div><br /><br />A popular field tip among tour guides who lead wildlife enthusiasts is the so-called “clock technique”. Probably inspired by military orientation strategies, it aims at facilitating the location of a bird or any other animal on the surroundings by creating an imaginary clock, using its hands to point out the critter. The “clock” can be used both vertically or horizontally, on a tree or in the horizon, for example. <br /><br />That way, we end up getting used to expressions that sound senseless at first, like <span style="font-style:italic;">“toucan at three o’clock”</span>, <span style="font-style:italic;">“monkey at noon”</span>, <span style="font-style:italic;">“macaws at five thirty”</span>. But what does this have to do with today’s story?<br /><br /><DIV ALIGN=CENTER><table border="0" width="150"><tbody><tr><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKlRomrhKoMv7ejJ4OvihhFfc0ise_P8-q4PmBHmC53XziGlglQuSlnO2tqhAmQySH7I59uvm6EX_eRdIohT1CcxP7OL7KAnkK_uHCtupEZFie6_Jcbv-zCUw9uZhR3BzZ5gCIgg/s1600-h/RelogioFigueiraEstrPrata_20080909_001.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKlRomrhKoMv7ejJ4OvihhFfc0ise_P8-q4PmBHmC53XziGlglQuSlnO2tqhAmQySH7I59uvm6EX_eRdIohT1CcxP7OL7KAnkK_uHCtupEZFie6_Jcbv-zCUw9uZhR3BzZ5gCIgg/s200/RelogioFigueiraEstrPrata_20080909_001.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428877733257644466" alt="the clock technique using a tree" title="the clock technique using a tree"/></a><br /></td><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8wcIxl9uPT8s52RAtywuaFpmsAdcfNgC2RiNRAKEMILUlTK_OvqGG7mo_uduvShlikWeQw5juU23JxeLrTQ2VZxFwWwbV_H6as-66u28L4a8KwZT9aifGqrroE02qaozL4EMdXw/s1600-h/RelogioIntervMiranteMataAtlantica_20071216_018.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8wcIxl9uPT8s52RAtywuaFpmsAdcfNgC2RiNRAKEMILUlTK_OvqGG7mo_uduvShlikWeQw5juU23JxeLrTQ2VZxFwWwbV_H6as-66u28L4a8KwZT9aifGqrroE02qaozL4EMdXw/s200/RelogioIntervMiranteMataAtlantica_20071216_018.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428877741850664226" alt="clock technique using the natural landscape" title=" clock technique using the natural landscape"/></a><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-style:italic;">Clock technique using a tree (L) or the natural landscape (R)<br>Photos and artwork: © Daniel De Granville, 2008</span></div><br /><br />It happens that we have a Milky Treefrog (<span style="font-style:italic;">Trachycephalus venulosus</span>) who is a frequent visitor at our house, but now decided to lodge behind the wall clock. Almost every morning, at around 10:30 AM, it shows up and just sits on top of the kitchen clock, watching our routines and inspiring photos like this... Now, take a look at the first picture and tell me: shall I say <span style="font-style:italic;">“treefrog at noon”</span> or <span style="font-style:italic;">“treefrog at ten to eleven”</span>? :-)<br /><br /><DIV ALIGN=CENTER><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUT2RAAXKpA5eSYnaZCDTwyCpYLyHvPwVWjZYmEFXUmejW9_MVgKWo7yRr083OfsQOq3W5jEwPLSh4o-Dkdu4mw03uuAqwfDNeWHJPQkGTxpJJqKzGsARE7kLcQwA64tgSVNywXw/s1600-h/phryn_venul_estmimbyo_3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUT2RAAXKpA5eSYnaZCDTwyCpYLyHvPwVWjZYmEFXUmejW9_MVgKWo7yRr083OfsQOq3W5jEwPLSh4o-Dkdu4mw03uuAqwfDNeWHJPQkGTxpJJqKzGsARE7kLcQwA64tgSVNywXw/s320/phryn_venul_estmimbyo_3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428874290422663442" alt="Milky Treefrog perching on a branch" title="Milky Treefrog perching on a branch"/></a><span style="font-style:italic;">The same species, but this time in the gallery forest <br>Photo: © Daniel De Granville, 2003</span><br />.<br />.<br />.</div>Daniel De Granvillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10642010412453327607noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35519261.post-56717063204487864602010-01-06T10:06:00.002-03:002010-01-06T10:15:29.062-03:00Termite Pizza?!<DIV ALIGN=CENTER>.<br />.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLlt5EAq_5r2IiI1-FsXksdqN0Cqy5vAuOOBRBby5xbrlsS4pc3fiK_0ig2KSitJ6GFd5Rs3EnnygSGU5LQGHkm4yWsUEieEdNxzD6xplZ42XXmHTkgN8cEiHL4SM2vI13jFKy4w/s1600-h/inauguracao_pizza_cupim_csbyo_20091229_019.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLlt5EAq_5r2IiI1-FsXksdqN0Cqy5vAuOOBRBby5xbrlsS4pc3fiK_0ig2KSitJ6GFd5Rs3EnnygSGU5LQGHkm4yWsUEieEdNxzD6xplZ42XXmHTkgN8cEiHL4SM2vI13jFKy4w/s320/inauguracao_pizza_cupim_csbyo_20091229_019.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421099696990466002" /></a><span style="font-style:italic;">Yummy!<br>Photo: © Daniel De Granville, 2009</span></div><br /><br />Termites are almost unanimously considered as a pest, both in cities and in the countryside. They can cause <a href=http://www.termite.com/termites-usa.html target="blank">enormous damage</a> in urban areas by attacking wood and even concrete structures in buildings, whereas in crops and cattle ranch pastures they can proliferate to such an extent that they bring <a href="http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118922506/abstract" target="blank">problems</a> to landowners. For these reasons, termites are systematically eliminated in cities by specialized pest control companies, and in rural areas their mounds are sometimes poisoned and removed by tractors.<br /><br /><DIV ALIGN=CENTER><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibfX6aV9-rGrJx4UcpwHCSwAM4BZ-giKQceK8BpNZ2Y7pyeC-wNk3fd_AgjTQTeC-4K2KRe5D8rU06EFXBdKSFvq69c_4lC1Jg-AMUXqrJKViULVBuckWFtbARqoELB6JA7n2Msw/s1600-h/CupinzeirosPastoBR267NalvSulMS_20091121_005.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 180px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibfX6aV9-rGrJx4UcpwHCSwAM4BZ-giKQceK8BpNZ2Y7pyeC-wNk3fd_AgjTQTeC-4K2KRe5D8rU06EFXBdKSFvq69c_4lC1Jg-AMUXqrJKViULVBuckWFtbARqoELB6JA7n2Msw/s320/CupinzeirosPastoBR267NalvSulMS_20091121_005.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421103496151600338" /></a><span style="font-style:italic;">Pasture taken over by termite mounds<br>in the Brazilian Savannas <br>Photo: © Daniel De Granville, 2009</span></div><br /><br />Here at home it is not too different. Every now and then we find a part of our entry gate being eaten by them, so we decided to make a “pact”: they eat my wood, I benefit from their home. This is how we created a pizza-baking oven inside a termite mound in our backyard. We had heard similar stories of this use from old-time <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantanal" target="blank">Pantanal</a> folks, but without much detail. The internet also had very few information, so that we had to do it the way we thought it should be (it is worth remembering that, together with a group of friends, we built a similar oven four years ago, but unfortunately it was taken down). <br /><br /><DIV ALIGN=CENTER><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixVaV9m6piNc_2UGqjNThddUU-ocQMflydklUDRJU8wpv-WMoMgmiPcxPPNTKk72sughevR27criq92mYiVH2F_AmTXFNt73dkvseZew7Z9i1pfxQTOooZGhK9cVgrLvDCK1xzKQ/s1600-h/forno_cupim_rka_domingao_07_fev_2006_079.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixVaV9m6piNc_2UGqjNThddUU-ocQMflydklUDRJU8wpv-WMoMgmiPcxPPNTKk72sughevR27criq92mYiVH2F_AmTXFNt73dkvseZew7Z9i1pfxQTOooZGhK9cVgrLvDCK1xzKQ/s320/forno_cupim_rka_domingao_07_fev_2006_079.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421105255285376962" /></a><span style="font-style:italic;">"Sorry for the inconvenience, we are<br>working to serve you better "<br>(building the first oven)<br>Photo: © Rakka C., 2006</span></div><br /><br />Enjoy the results of this new invention, that I am prone to call “ecorecycling”. <br /><br /><DIV ALIGN=CENTER><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNXsfzIVkD2m4xCcDnD4rWX2swwILrWOc5uxA3Yi2NUtkigt-yVDDm-7A9ukyUurB77GNv1jlkRsovxno4dVVcTXZp9x9x7gK7eSAKElalpZafye4FsId543dNSHeAqAG-YAzSLQ/s1600-h/forno+cupinzeiro+casa+bonito_20091216_009.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNXsfzIVkD2m4xCcDnD4rWX2swwILrWOc5uxA3Yi2NUtkigt-yVDDm-7A9ukyUurB77GNv1jlkRsovxno4dVVcTXZp9x9x7gK7eSAKElalpZafye4FsId543dNSHeAqAG-YAzSLQ/s320/forno+cupinzeiro+casa+bonito_20091216_009.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421099709311831586" /></a><span style="font-style:italic;">Job done, just waiting to be officially inaugurated!<br>Photo: © Daniel De Granville, 2009</span></div><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />Today’s lesson</span>: like everything in nature, these insects also have their good and useful side. Probably the first thought that came to your mind were our beloved anteaters, who feed mainly on termites, but these bugs also perform another very important task on soil nutrient cycling. As the world famous naturalist David Attenborough mentions on this <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGaT0B__2DM" target="blank">documentary</a>, “<span style="font-style:italic;">probably a forest will not miss much if every human disappeared from the surface of Earth, but would sure suffer a lot if the millions of termites were eliminated from the area</span>”.<br /><br /><DIV ALIGN=CENTER><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi096UitmAIUID6cRhzgNXd0fA3JFdVA27evNQq2cC9dBZAWtkjE2IoauipfE7wdu-s2yxaQo0DUOABJrwaD60alYwdLJ48F9vt1jTUj5zsDc_lUaUOBqgXMh6HOxmZZkRCrpyvNg/s1600-h/inauguracao_pizza_cupim_csbyo_20091229_009.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi096UitmAIUID6cRhzgNXd0fA3JFdVA27evNQq2cC9dBZAWtkjE2IoauipfE7wdu-s2yxaQo0DUOABJrwaD60alYwdLJ48F9vt1jTUj5zsDc_lUaUOBqgXMh6HOxmZZkRCrpyvNg/s320/inauguracao_pizza_cupim_csbyo_20091229_009.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421099716891190690" /></a><span style="font-style:italic;">Ready for the pizzas!<br>Photo: © Daniel De Granville, 2009</span></div><br /><br />And the help from termites is not limited to nature: besides this rustic oven, in the past it was common for Pantanal people to make the flooring in their houses with mud taken from termite mounds, sometimes mixed with the hard seeds of the Acrocomia Palm to replace gravel. I heard that nowadays engineers are studying the amazingly efficient airflow system in termite nests to come up with cooler buildings that are more energy-efficient by diminishing the demands for air-conditioners.<br /><DIV ALIGN=CENTER>.<br />.<br />.</div>Daniel De Granvillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10642010412453327607noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35519261.post-20588674148707390782009-12-24T14:02:00.003-03:002009-12-24T14:29:09.272-03:002 thousand & 10!<DIV ALIGN=CENTER>.<br />.</div><br />The time has come once again to wish everyone an excellent New Year. So, I offer to all of you my virtual card with an optimistic message for our nature. And stay tuned, because very soon our new <span style="font-weight:bold;">Photo in Natura</span> website will be online, with a brand new layout and an image bank with hundreds of samples for you to choose from. All the best and thank you very much for supporting this blog!<br /><br /><DIV ALIGN=CENTER><span style="font-weight:bold;"><span style="font-style:italic;">CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO ENLARGE</span><span style="font-style:italic;"></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0Iu8rS6apZh4ZFzWF4nBIPQHQ0GzWZPRqwN8Gv2nTj5m-g3J0-LOqbvY22jqCOI7op0W4M-Bwyr2F7VXtllg5z23Vwon3rMki_rDcY3r_F6dGel6quhyphenhyphen-dOMNdhTayvb6PdqRgQ/s1600-h/Photo+in+Natura+2009-2010+Card.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 375px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0Iu8rS6apZh4ZFzWF4nBIPQHQ0GzWZPRqwN8Gv2nTj5m-g3J0-LOqbvY22jqCOI7op0W4M-Bwyr2F7VXtllg5z23Vwon3rMki_rDcY3r_F6dGel6quhyphenhyphen-dOMNdhTayvb6PdqRgQ/s400/Photo+in+Natura+2009-2010+Card.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5418854335514510962" /></a><span style="font-style:italic;">Art and photos: © Daniel De Granville, 2009</span><br />.<br />.<br />.</div>Daniel De Granvillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10642010412453327607noreply@blogger.com0