Category: Landscape
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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.
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Taxizeiros flight
On the horizon of the photo, the Negro river dominates and the channel empties into it or, interestingly, it can also reverse
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Awarded forest
Image awarded first place in the 11th Itaú-BBA National Contest of Photography in the Flowered Forest category.
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Natural calendar
Maybe the riverside people’s feelings are not enchanted by that spectacle, as I am.
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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…
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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
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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!
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Meeting of giants
A regional boat crosses the Meeting of the Waters, near Manaus. Negro river (dark water) meets the Solimoes river (yellowish water)
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Way of light
Essential and reduced to a minimum, the canoe hull requires a skill acquired since childhood, playing and naturally learning
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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…
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Woman in charge
In the white waters of the Solimões River, the riverside woman rolls up, steering the boat by the bow.
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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…
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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…
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Fairy dust
The humid tropical forest is hot and dense, considered the oldest ecosystem on Earth. The Equator line runs through the Amazon…
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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.
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The riverine landscape
On the edge of Lake Piranha, the river dweller collects his fishing net in a breathtaking landscape. Breathtaking for whom?
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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
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Classroom
How about this classroom? Mounted on the Filhote, a young samaumeira, near a jungle hotel, the table was
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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’
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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).
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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,
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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
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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.
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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
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Jute planter
Jute (Corchorus capsularis) is a vegetable textile fiber that comes from the Tilioideae family. It was brought from India in 1930 by
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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
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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.
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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
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Flying a forest 1
Coming from Fordlândia, we flew a short stretch over the Trans-Amazonian roadway and entered the Tapajós National Forest.
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Fruit and fish
On the right bank of the Amazon River, from afar, the riverside canoes showed their great photographic potential.