PORTFOLIO - Images

Two male Magnificent Hummingbirds, Eugenes fulgens, face off in a display of competitive territorial behavior in Costa Rica.

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Portrait of Bariti, an Arbore girl from Lake Chew Bahir area of southern Ethiopia

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Common Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis) diving, Salamanca, Spain

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Belgium, carnaval of Binche. UNESCO World Heritage Parade Festival. Belgium, Walloon Municipality, province of Hainaut, village of Binche. The carnival of Binche is an event that takes place each year in the Belgian town of Binche during the Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday preceding Ash Wednesday. The carnival is the best known of several that take place in Belgium at the same time and has been proclaimed as a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity listed by UNESCO. Its history dates back to approximately the 14th century.<br />
Events related to the carnival begin up to seven weeks prior to the primary celebrations. Street performances and public displays traditionally occur on the Sundays approaching Ash Wednesday, consisting of prescribed musical acts, dancing, and marching. Large numbers of Binche's inhabitants spend the Sunday directly prior to Ash Wednesday in costume.<br />
The centrepiece of the carnival's proceedings are clown-like performers known as Gilles. Appearing, for the most part, on Shrove Tuesday, the Gilles are characterised by their vibrant dress, wax masks and wooden footwear. They number up to 1,000 at any given time, range in age from 3 to 60 years old, and are customarily male. The honour of being a Gille at the carnival is something that is aspired to by local men

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A red fox (Vulpus vulpus) runs proudly with a leather glove in his mouth. Yukon Territory, Canada

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Split shot of a Basking Shark (Cetorinus Maximus) in Gunna Sound, Isle of Colll, Scotland. It's mouth is gaping as it feeds. Clouds are lit with the setting sun in the background.

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A sea turtle (Caretta caretta) striving to get free from a plastic fishing net in Spain

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Baobabs near Andavadoaka, western Madagascar

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Curled Octopus (Eledone cirrhosa) on a cold water reef with a common sunstar (Crossaster papposus) and the soft coral dead man's fingers (Alcyonium digitatum) and a background of kelp. Sutherland, Scotland.

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The Red--eyed Tree Frog or Red-eyed Leaf Frog, Agalychnis callidryas, in mist in Costa Rica.

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Two beadlet anemones, one a brilliant red colour, in a rockpool with the water line visible and sunset in the background.

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Adelie Penguin, pygoscelis adeliae, Group Leaping into Ocean, Paulet Island in Antarctica

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An elephant (loxodonta africana) throws dust on to protect itself from the sun during noon, Etosha National Park, Namibia

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Tropical coral reef, Fiji, Pacific Ocean

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KIA's members walk through the jungle from Naw HPyu Post to Tsinyu Post in the front line war against the Burmese Government, Myanmar on August 2, 2012. The KIA formed in 1961 in response to a military coup in Burma led by General Ne Win, who attempted to consolidate Burmese control over regions on the periphery of the state which were home to various ethnic groups. From 1961 until 1994, the KIA fought a grueling and inconclusive war against the Burmese junta. In 2011, general Sumlut Gun Maw confirmed renewed fighting in the state of Kachin for independence. One of the new reasons for the ending of the ceasefire is the creation of the Myitsone Dam which requires the submergence of dozens of villages in Kachin state.

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Giant Chevron Manta Ray (Mobula birostris) and fish in San Benedicto Island, Revillagigedo

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This is Comet NEOWISE (C/2020 F3) over the badlands and formations of Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta, on the night of July 14-15, 2020, at about 12:30 am local time with it nearly due north and as low as it got for the night at this latitude of 51° N. A green and magenta aurora colours the northern sky also blue with perpetual summer twilight. Capella is at far right. <br />
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The comet’s dim blue ion tail is visible here extending some 18° to the top of the frame; the whitish curving dust tail extends about 12° though it becomes lost in the sky still bright with twilight and the aurora this night. This is a classic comet! Very much the dimmer twin of Comet Hale-Bopp from April 1997.<br />
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This is a blend of 6 exposures for the ground stacked to smooth noise, with a single exposure for the sky, with the 35mm Canon lens and Canon 6D MkII. The ground exposures are 1- and 2-minutes at ISO 1600 and f/2.8, while the single untracked sky exposure was 20 seconds at ISO 3200 and f/2.5. There was no Moon, thus the need to take very long exposures for the ground to reveal details in the landscape here illuminated by just starlight and the faint aurora that was to the north and that was barely visible to the eye. Otherwise the ground would have been a featureless silhouette. <br />
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So, yes, this image shows much more than the eye could see unaided due to the long exposures, but that’s the point and attraction of astrophotography — to record celestial objects and scenes with more detail than the eye can see. Indeed, any exposure longer than a second is bound to show more than the eye can detect. <br />
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However, in binoculars the ion tail was barely visible, helped by knowing it was there. But the dust tail could be see to this extent, but in binoculars! However, the comet was still a fine sight naked eye, with an obvious tail about 5° to 6° long to the eye, despite the bright midnight sky.<br />
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LENR employed in camera on all shots this warm night to remove thermal speckling and colour ca

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Elephant Fish Chimaera (Callorhinchus milii) Male. View showing claspers and plough-shaped snout.

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Herd of African Elephants cross the plains as the sun rises in the background<br />
(Loxodonta africana)<br />
Tarangire National Park, Tanzania

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Conehead mantis (Empusa pennata) with moon in background, Spain

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Some kind of cucko wasp, there arer over 3000 species. Parasitoid or cleptoparasitic wasps, this one is highly sculptured, with brilliantly colored metallic-like body

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$A composite of the August 21, 2017 total eclipse of the Sun, showing the second and third contact diamond rings and Baily’s Beads at the start (left) and end (right) of totality, flanking a composite image of totality itself. The diamond ring and Baily’s Beads images are single images. The totality images is a blend of 12 exposures from 1/1600 sec to 1 second, stacked as a smart object and combined using the Mean stack mode to blend the images. Several High Pass filter layers were added to sharpen and increase the contrast in the coronal structures. Regulus is the star at lower left. Placement of the images only roughly matches the actual position and path of the Sun across the sky. However, the time sequence runs from left to right. All taken through the 106mm Astro-Physics Traveler refractor with a 0.85x reducer/flattener, yielding f/5 at 500mm focal length, wide enough to capture Regulus at left. All with the Canon 6D MkII camera at ISO 100. Shot from a site in the Teton Valley, Idaho, north of Driggs.$