Photo of the Month (September 2026 Edition): The beginning of everything
Photo of the Month #35 (September 2026 Edition): The beginning of everything I have been intensely dedicated to the Magnetosphere series, a collection of black and white photographs of the northern and Southern lights. The idea behind this series is to reveal the patterns, shapes, textures, and flow of the invisible magnetic field that […]
Photo of the Month (August 2026 Edition): Ephemeral
Photo of the Month (August 2026 Edition): Ephemeral Choosing a photo that represented my brief stay in a small corner of southern China was an immense challenge, much like everything else there. I was in Jinghong, the capital of the Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, for a conference that took place at a hotel right next […]
Photo of the month (July 2026 Edition): Misty China
Photo of the month (July 2026 Edition): Misty China As mentioned in the previous post here on the blog, at the end of June and beginning of July I traveled from Scotland, where I’ll be staying until September, to China to attend a conference on tropical biology and conservation. It was the same conference […]
Photo of the Month (June 2026 Edition): Your flight has been cancelled
Photo of the Month (June 2026 Edition): Your flight has been cancelled In two previous texts (here and here) I recounted my experience at the Photo London photography art fair, which took place in mid-May, and with this text I will conclude the trilogy. Naturally, the fair is held in the English capital, and […]
Photo of the month (May 2026 Edition): Praia Dura
Photo of the Month (April 2026 Edition): Praia Dura I’ll take the liberty of repeating the title and location of this edition of Photo of the Month. In the March edition, I talked about the changes in the landscape caused by the heavy rains that passed through Ubatuba at the end of summer. Now, […]
Photo of the month (April 2026 Edition): Amazonia
Photo of the Month (April 2026 Edition): Amazonia
Photo of the month (March 2026 Edition): Praia Dura
Photo of the month (March 2026 edition): Praia Dura I already mentioned earlier, in the July 2024 edition, that Ubatuba is one of my favorite places in the world. There I wrote that “despite the similarity of the overall landscape [surrounded by green mountains with dense rainforest vegetation meeting the sea], each beach is […]
Photo of the Month (February 2026 edition): Pontões Capixabas
Photo of the Month (February 2026 edition): Pontões Capixabas My map app has thousands of spots that I’ve collected over the years, hoping that one day I’ll set foot there. I don’t really have a method for it. Sometimes I see a photo of a place and pin it; sometimes I look at satellite […]
Photo of the month (January 2025 Edition): Caretta caretta
Photo of the Month (January 2026 Edition): The Beginning of a Long Journey The conservation story of sea turtles is one of the most exemplary cases of how research and action can bring hope for the future of endangered species. Forty years ago, the Brazilian State decided to join forces with civil society on […]
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 […]