Category: Landscape

  • Manaus highlights

    Manaus highlights

    The dome of the Amazon Opera House, in perspective with the Negro River, stands out in a long-sought framing of balconies and roofs.

  • Taxizeiros flight

    Taxizeiros flight

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

  • Awarded forest

    Awarded forest

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

  • Natural calendar

    Natural calendar

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

  • Lucid dreams

    Lucid dreams

    The proud Brazil Nut tree is the noble tree of ancient times, the era of the great Brazil Nut trees groves. What we see today are just the remnants…

  • 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

  • I am from river…

    I am from river…

    When referring to his homeland, he does not say that he was born in such a city, but in such a river: ‘I am from Juruá!

  • Meeting of giants

    Meeting of giants

    A regional boat crosses the Meeting of the Waters, near Manaus. Negro river (dark water) meets the Solimoes river (yellowish water)

  • 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

  • Eternal playful

    Eternal playful

    It’s only because of the two cameras I had around my neck that I was able to resist the strong urge to jump into the water. However…

  • Woman in charge

    Woman in charge

    In the white waters of the Solimões River, the riverside woman rolls up, steering the boat by the bow.

  • Amazon legend

    Amazon legend

    At the end of June, regional boats are sailing along the Amazon River towards Parintins. Coming from all directions, a fleet of boats converge…

  • The last ray

    The last ray

    At sunset, one of the tallest trees in the area, the angelim-ferro (Dinizia excelsa), bathes in the gold of the last ray of sun over the forest…

  • Fairy dust

    Fairy dust

    The humid tropical forest is hot and dense, considered the oldest ecosystem on Earth. The Equator line runs through the Amazon…

  • Thousand eyes

    Thousand eyes

    It’s 6:33 in the morning, the sun’s rays have already invaded the Abra144 valley with all the heat of the month of August.

  • The riverine landscape

    The riverine landscape

    On the edge of Lake Piranha, the river dweller collects his fishing net in a breathtaking landscape. Breathtaking for whom?

  • 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

  • Classroom

    Classroom

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

  • 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).

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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

  • Riverside children

    Riverside children

    Riverside children have everything to be happy. I saw this happiness in the most isolated communities, I also saw how, as the community

  • River paths

    River paths

    The regional boat goes down the left bank of the Solimões river with white waters, it will soon find the paraná that will take it to the Negro river.

  • Flying a forest 2

    Flying a forest 2

    Now, we are right in the middle of the Tapajós National Forest. Huge green waves are lost on the horizon, great masses of steam

  • Flying a forest 1

    Flying a forest 1

    Coming from Fordlândia, we flew a short stretch over the Trans-Amazonian roadway and entered the Tapajós National Forest.

  • Fruit and fish

    Fruit and fish

    On the right bank of the Amazon River, from afar, the riverside canoes showed their great photographic potential.

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