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  • In the kapok shade

    In the kapok shade

    It’s the month of April and the water is already on the pillars of the blockhouse. The kapok tree (Ceiba pentandra) also feels the tickle

  • Butterfly mating

    Butterfly mating

    The couple of lovers posed on a branch near me, I dropped my gear bag, mounted a long focal lens

  • The thinker

    The thinker

    The white-fronted capuchin monkeys are commonly known as cairara (Cebus albifrons). They are highly intelligent…

  • Classroom

    Classroom

    How about this classroom? Mounted on the Filhote, a young samaumeira, near a jungle hotel, the table was

  • The jaguar, my neighbor 4

    The jaguar, my neighbor 4

    In the following months I created a certain expectation, I looked for Charlie in all the new records, thinking that he would record again,

  • The cougar, my neighbor 3

    The cougar, my neighbor 3

    I can assume that a young cougar (Puma concolor) recorded its passage through Ponto dos Gatos three times. I named the cat ‘Garoto’

  • Princess

    Princess

    From my balcony overlooking the forest, I am greeted by the sight of the majestic tree, a 180-feet-tall iron tree (Dinizia excelsa).

  • Outstanding tree

    Outstanding tree

    It is an achievement that involves a great challenge to the force of gravity. There’s emotion in it, balanced by the cold calculation of safety.

  • Shool day

    Shool day

    In Paraná do Ariaú, it’s just another day. The father is already at work, the boys go to school, and this is the house where the family lives.

  • Water Paths

    Water Paths

    In the floating village of Cacau Pereira, water is present in everyday life, at the doorstep, below and all around. This same water,

  • The jaguar, my neighbor 2

    The jaguar, my neighbor 2

    Walking calmly, the jaguar enters the frame from East going to West, in direction of my house. The magnificent cat appears to be

  • The jaguar, my neighbor 1

    The jaguar, my neighbor 1

    On July 7, 2007 at 5:13 PM, when I took this photo, I had no idea about the synchronicity of those two points where the arcs of light pointed.

  • Gigantic arapaima

    Gigantic arapaima

    The arapaima lives in Amazonian lakes, in poor oxygen water. That is why the arapaima has a rudimentary respiratory apparatus

  • Way of light

    Way of light

    Essential and reduced to a minimum, the canoe hull requires a skill acquired since childhood, playing and naturally learning

  • Enchanted

    Enchanted

    She was a cunhã (pretty girl) who lived in one of those great lakes in the counãryside of the Amazon.

  • Total trust

    Total trust

    It is recognized that Amazon River Dolphins change their behavior in the presence of children and pregnant women

  • Ephemeral flower

    Ephemeral flower

    That is, until one day, suddenly, she opened the doors of her cathedral to me, ten years after our first meeting.

  • Calibrated adrenaline

    Calibrated adrenaline

    A really effective attitude in approaching wild animals is the ability to control the internal level of adrenaline.

  • Snakes have beauty

    Snakes have beauty

    The green boa is a spectacular snake because of its emerald green color, it blends perfectly into the forest foliage and has heat-sensitive organs

  • Bug reputation

    Bug reputation

    The Jequitiranaboia or peanut head bug (Fulgura laternaria) suffers from a terrible reputation: they say it has poison, brings bad luck, and many

  • Talking butterfly

    Talking butterfly

    The monarch butterfly has a very singular characteristic: long migratory journeys take them thousands of kilometers from their birthplace

  • Eyes of guaraná

    Eyes of guaraná

    The fruit of guaraná (Paullinia cupana) grows from a vine in the Amazon rainforest. Cultivated by the Sateré-Mawé, the plant is native

  • Channel of taxizeiros

    Channel of taxizeiros

    On the horizon of the photo, the Negro river dominates and the channel empties into it or, interestingly, it can also reverse

  • Natural calendar

    Natural calendar

    Maybe the riverside people’s feelings are not enchanted by that spectacle, as I am.

  • Awarded forest

    Awarded forest

    Image awarded first place in the 11th Itaú-BBA National Contest of Photography in the Flowered Forest category.

  • Spirits of the forest

    Spirits of the forest

    In the first light of morning, when the air hangs suspended and not even the slightest breeze can penetrate the landscape, it is in this magical

  • Forever faithful

    Forever faithful

    Eternally faithful, macaws choose a single mate for their entire lives.

  • Jute planter

    Jute planter

    Jute (Corchorus capsularis) is a vegetable textile fiber that comes from the Tilioideae family. It was brought from India in 1930 by

  • Dona Maria

    Dona Maria

    Dona Maria is the matriarch who keeps the family united. Originally from the Juruá River, they migrated towards Manaus with only their will

  • Mother of Waters

    Mother of Waters

    In the Amazon jungle, in the heart of the Anavilhanas archipelago, the ancient legend manifests and tells the story of a giant snake

  • Princess Residents

    Princess Residents

    During the mating season, two toucans (Ramphastos tucanus), also known as the white-throated toucan, begin to regularly visit the Princesa

  • Domesticating a tree

    Domesticating a tree

    Domesticating a tree does not in any way tame or change the nature of that living being. Domestication refers only to the conditions that

  • Great Potoo

    Great Potoo

    From the Nyctibiidae family, the ‘mother-of-the-moon’ is known for a unique type of moan that it emits at night, especially on moonlit nights.

  • An angel

    An angel

    An orchid with open arms, wings and even aureola, a protective angel of nature. I ask myself, again I ask myself, I always ask myself:

  • Little fairy

    Little fairy

    The inevitable question always comes to my mind: who designed you? so perfect! so harmoniously proportioned!

  • A minute violet dot

    A minute violet dot

    A minute violet dot about 40 meters high from an adult and healthy kapok tree, there it was, enjoying the shade of a very sunny afternoon.

  • Immaculate beauty

    Immaculate beauty

    In Central America, it is popularly known as “orquídea de la Virgen Maria” and, certainly, its immaculate beauty justifies

  • Eye to eye

    Eye to eye

    Sorry, I’m just watching your reflected light, and recording it here in my little black box, I’m cool with you!

  • Let me piss

    Let me piss

    Civilized humans don’t urinate like that anymore, humans have a politely closed little room and deposit their waste and draw water,

  • Bifrenaria rudolfii

    Bifrenaria rudolfii

    In this photographic version, the foreground was then isolated to reduce background brightness and thus allow the main

  • Aphrodisiac perfume

    Aphrodisiac perfume

    This orchid (Catasetum barbatum) it is unique in having male, female, and hermaphroditic flowers, pollinated by male Euglossine bees.

  • Felid complicity

    Felid complicity

    At first, the cat was calm, looked for a corner and lay down, watching the movement of the humans

  • Black panther

    Black panther

    The black jaguar is a melanic variety of the jaguar, being the main variation in the coat found in wild animals.

  • Photographic objectivity

    Photographic objectivity

    The reason for creating versions with horizontal and vertical orientation is basically to have greater elasticity in the graphic layout.

  • Jumping woolly monkey

    Jumping woolly monkey

    The muscular monkey showed his value as in a weightlifting contest, jumping all the time to show his strength and also to show that

  • Priestess flower

    Priestess flower

    I had obtained authorization to photograph in an area reserved for research, INPA’s Campina Reserve. I had all day to flutter between

  • Perfect symmetry

    Perfect symmetry

    The perfect symmetry of the flower suggests a very complex geometry, which can even be carried on an architect’s drawing board. But

  • Cattleya eldorado

    Cattleya eldorado

    It is mainly present in campinas, in areas of high luminosity, preferentially vegetating on macucu (Aldina heterophylla).

  • Cattleya brymeriana

    Cattleya brymeriana

    When two species such as C. eldorado and C. violacea, despite having different flowering times, due to special circumstances,

  • Special night

    Special night

    The kapok tree (Ceiba pentandra) was in bloom, and I had had my fill of photographs during the day.

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