The missed moment #5 – The Rocket’s Trail under the Northern Lights
The missed moment #5 – The Rocket’s Trail in the Northern Lights Last month, I had the chance to travel to New Zealand to attend a conference on space technologies for forest research. I’ve been using satellite images in ecological research since 2012 and had already attended the same event in Chile eight years […]
The missed moment #4 – Yellow Ipe
The missed moment #4 – Yellow Ipe Photographing trees is both simple and challenging. As static objects in the landscape, they are relatively easy to frame and compose with the sky, the background, or other surrounding elements. However, this simplicity brings the challenge of creating a standout composition among the thousands of landscape photos […]
The missed moment #3 – Iberian Lynx
The missed moment #3 – Iberian Lynx The Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus) once bordered on extinction in the wild due to hunting and habitat destruction. Restricted to the central-southern territory of the Iberian Peninsula, between Portugal and Spain, most of the remaining population is still concentrated in a few very small regions. After […]
The missed moment #2 – Brazil Nut Tree in the Moonlight
The missed moment #2 – Brazil Nut Tree in the Moonlight Among the approximately 16 thousand species of trees in the Amazon rainforest, the Brazil nut tree (Bertholletia excelsa) is one of the most iconic and long-lived, often surpassing 500 years of age. Its towering stature, reaching up to 50 meters in height, and […]
The missed moment #1 – Ubatuba
The missed moment #1 – Ubatuba (This post was originally published on May 3rd 2023 in Portuguese in an earlier version of the blog) In 1957, Henri Cartier-Bresson told the Washington Post: “There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or […]