Tuesday 1 July 2014
Thursday 26 June 2014
Mind-blowing Railway Photos show South American Trains Teetering on Cliff Edges and Tunneling through Mountains
56 Year old French photographer
Jean Marc Frybourg went to great lengths to capture these unbelievable pictures
of some of South America's most scenic rail routes in Peru and Chile. The Paris
based photographer whose job is in the pharmaceutical industry, has an
obsession with travel and photography, in particular immortalizing his
favorites railways.
The photos feature trains mainly
servicing mines as they weave through incredible landscapes which are made
accessible due to just as impressive engineering feats that make the viewer
wonder how on earth they got a track there in the first place. You can well see
in one shot, two trains are flawlessly aligned on a mountain side, which was
taken with the cooperation of the railway company while another is transporting
tanks of sulphuric.
Frybourg says; I was very keen in
travelling photos, when I was boy. I have always taken photographs. I have
started to learn photography and using serious cameras in 1972 when I was 11 or
12-years-old. His love of trains started with model roads and went from there.
I wanted to travel and see the trains. Since then, I’ve always preferred taking
pictures of trains.
Iceland has become a favorites filming destination for Hollywood and these spectacular images definitely show why.
Known as
the 'Land of Fire and Ice', with stunning scenery and otherworldly vistas, a
photographer's dream place, says Peter Rolf Hammer, who captured these
remarkable pictures on a five-week journey across the country. Peter Rolf
belongs to Melbourne Australia actually inspired by Iceland's varied landscape
from geysers and waterfalls to volcanoes and mountains. It is not surprise for
me at all that Hollywood movies are filming in Iceland. The scenery is truly
spectacular. The 69 years old photographer travelled around Iceland in a bid to
capture its beauty on film and the results are an awe-inspiring set of snaps,
filled with rugged landscapes and dramatic scenes. I’ve always liked to travel those places
which are not average tourist destination and where you can view the stunning
landscapes. The nature beauty in Iceland is so amazing and varied from thermal
areas to glaciers, mountains, waterfalls, glacial lagoons and seascapes. Peter
Rolf travelled over 4,000 miles across Iceland, photographing the majority of
the country.Source: Charismatic Planet
Sunday 22 June 2014
Lilac Breasted Roller is Considered The Most Attractive Birds
The colorful Lilac-breasted
Roller or Coracias caudatus is a member of the roller family of birds. It is
widely found in sub-Saharan Africa and the southern Arabian Peninsula,
preferring open woodland and savanna; it is mostly absent from treeless places.
Lilac Breasted Roller normally found alone or in pairs, it perches
conspicuously at the high vantage points, like tops of trees and poles where it can spot insects, scorpions, lizards,
snails, small birds and rodents moving about at ground level. The bird nesting
habit is taking place in a natural hole in a tree where a clutch of 2–4 eggs is
laid, and incubated by both parents, who are exceptionally aggressive in defense
of their nest, taking on raptors and other birds. However; during the breeding
season the male birds will rise to great heights, descending in swoops and
dives, while uttering harsh, discordant cries.
The bird’s sexes are same in
coloration. Juveniles do not have the long tail feathers that adults do. Lilac
Breasted Roller is the national bird of Botswana and Kenya, which is often
considered one of the most attractive birds in the world with its pastel
plumage, striking field marks and long tail streamers. You can found birds in
these colors Buff, white, purple, blue, turquoise, green, black, and tan. These
birds are having raspy call, the pitch does not vary and tone has a rattling
quality. Although they’re mostly in silent but more vocal during the breading
season or when they sensed about their territory is in danger.
These rollers are not considered
threatened or endangered, though habitat preservation can assist to keep them their
population numbers at a stable level. Poaching for the pet trade is a minor
threat. The birds have exclusively adapted to one natural disaster while brush
fires can be devastating to numerous animals and birds, these rollers will purposely
hunt near the edges of fires where prey is fleeing and less wary of predators.
These’re similar kind of birds, Racket-Tailed Roller (Coracias spatulatus), Abyssinian
Roller (Coracias abyssinicus), Indian Roller (Coracias benghalensis), Purple
Roller (Coracias naevius), and
European Roller (Coracias garrulus).Source: Charismatic Planet
Friday 20 June 2014
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