Archive for the ‘Photography’ Category
Basilica San Marco, Venice
Friday, 13 July, 2012Rome in the Rain
Friday, 22 June, 2012Another night fountain
Friday, 25 May, 2012Home from Italy and France
Wednesday, 23 May, 2012Autumn leaves
Thursday, 19 April, 2012Morning photos
Wednesday, 21 March, 2012Mahon Pool at Dawn
Sunday, 23 October, 2011More Getty Images
Wednesday, 3 August, 2011Woo! Getty Images selected another 7 of my Flickr photos to be added to their collection for licensing to commercial buyers.
And I realised this is where the money mysteriously appearing in my PayPal account is coming from. I went through my Getty statements for the past few months and realised I’ve made several sales. One for a book published by the UK National Trust!
Leon Dormido
Wednesday, 15 June, 2011Back in the day, I used to get roughly one of my photos per month into Flickr’s Explore – the top 500 most “interesting” photos posted on the site on any given day. But the rate petered off and now I’ve had a drought that’s lasted almost two years – my last Explored photo was back in September, 2009.
I figure it’s because Flickr has grown rapidly. There are more people uploading more photos, and that just makes it harder to attract enough attention to get a photo into the top 500 of an ever-expanding sample size.
But I was pleasantly surprised to see a raft of comments and likes on this photo, which I posted a couple of days ago. This is a shot of Leon Dormido (“Sleeping Lion”), a volcanic rock spire sticking out of the ocean a few kilometres off the coast of San Cristóbal Island in the Galapagos. It’s a nesting site for blue-footed boobies and magnificent frigatebirds. We circled the rock in our boat a couple of times at dawn to see the frigatebirds in their courtship displays – there’s no landing place on the rock. This shot is as we were leaving it behind, our last encounter with wildlife in the Galapagos. To me there’s that element of sadness in this image – something I guess nobody else picks up just from looking at it. Still, I’m very pleased with how this photo turned out.
Owl Butterfly
Tuesday, 7 June, 2011One of my favourite photos from my recent trip to South America. This is a species of giant owl butterfly, taken in the Peruvian jungle near Puerto Maldonado, a stone’s throw from the Rio Madre de Dios, which is the largest tributary of the Amazon. This is probably the biggest butterfly I’ve ever seen.
Unfortunately I can’t quite identify the exact species of owl butterfly. It somewhat resembles either the Forest giant owl butterfly (Caligo eurilochus), Idomeneus giant owl butterfly (Caligo idomeneus), or Illioneus giant owl butterfly (Caligo illioneus), but not enough that I’m positive about an identification. It may be another species I haven’t managed to find good pictures of to make a comparison. If anyone can make a positive ID, I’d be grateful.
Yes, that’s my wife in the background. :-)