Photo of the Month (December 2025 edition): Beautiful from afar

Photo of the Month (December 2025 edition): Beautiful from afar   Last month, the official results on vegetation loss in the Cerrado and the Amazon were released by the National Institute for Space Research (INPE). Following a year-by-year slowdown, the results look beautiful from afar, but are far from beautiful when examined closely.   Reductions […]

Photo of the Month (October 2025 Edition): Backyard Shapes

Photo of the Month (October 2025 Edition): Backyard Shapes   After a few months of field campaign, working travel, and a very brief rest, September turned out to be exhausting and full. My gear stayed packed away until the very last moment, waiting for some random opportunity that never came. In the final rays of […]

Photo of the Month (September 2025 edition): Reconnecting

Photo of the Month (September 2025 edition): Reconnecting   It’s been almost half a year since I uninstalled the Instagram app, and only very rarely do I log onto the site from my computer to check messages. In fact, some things can only be seen clearly when you step away. And by stepping away from […]

Photo of the Month (August 2025 edition): Iguana iguana

Photo of the Month (August 2025 Edition): Iguana iguana   Between the end of June and the beginning of July, I had the great opportunity to participate in another international congress. Last year I was able to travel to New Zealand, and this time I headed to Mexico. More precisely, I spent a few days […]

Photo of the Month (July 2025 Edition): Blue Tapajós

Photo of the Month (July 2025 Edition): Blue Tapajós   The grandeur and vibrant colors of the Tapajós River, which amazed me 14 years ago, continue to amaze me still. As I wrote before, last month I had a few afternoons to contemplate the beauty and calm of the Tapajós’s blue waters during a fieldwork […]

Photo of the Month (June 2025 Edition): Amazonia in details

Photo of the Month (June 2025 Edition): Amazonia in details With each expedition, the small details of the forest draw me in more and more. The light that filters through the dense vegetation highlights the colors and textures of what lives hidden beneath the canopy of the largest and most vibrant tropical rainforest in the […]

Photo of the Month (May 2025 Edition): The Nightmare

Photo of the Month (May 2025 Edition): The Nightmare   A ghost haunts all forms of digital art – the ghost of lost hard drives. One of the first texts on this blog was inspired by a nightmare that, fortunately, didn’t become reality. I dreamed that a volcano swallowed my backpack of photographic equipment, and […]

Photo of the Month (April 2025 Edition): Cradle of Waters

Photo of the Month (April 2025 Edition): Cradle of Waters   The Brazilian Cerrado is now widely known as the “Cradle of Waters” of South America. The most common reason for this nickname is the fact that eight of the continent’s twelve major river basins have their sources within the geographical boundaries of the Cerrado. […]

Photo of the Month (March 2025 Edition): Secret about a secret

Photo of the Month (March 2025 Edition): Secret about a secret   “A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.” Diane Arbus Althoug this quote is somewhat dubious, it tells a lot about my photography advances (or not) in February. I struggled hard to have a […]