Category: Postcards
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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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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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Forever faithful
Eternally faithful, macaws choose a single mate for their entire lives.
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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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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,
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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
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Butterfly mating
The couple of lovers posed on a branch near me, I dropped my gear bag, mounted a long focal lens
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Calibrated adrenaline
A really effective attitude in approaching wild animals is the ability to control the internal level of adrenaline.
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Ephemeral flower
That is, until one day, suddenly, she opened the doors of her cathedral to me, ten years after our first meeting.
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Felid complicity
At first, the cat was calm, looked for a corner and lay down, watching the movement of the humans
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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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Not bored, maybe sad
The monkey in the photo, like all the monkeys in the collection, doesn’t have a bored face, never, it just seems to have a sad face.
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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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What? Hybrid?
When two species such as C. eldorado and C. violacea, despite having different flowering times, due to special circumstances…
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Tender sloth
Tenderly looking at the camera, naturally smiling, they are the mother and child of a sloth. It lives off the impeccable balance…
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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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Your Majesty
The white, slightly pinkish flower appears this way on the first day, but it gradually turns more red as time passes…
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Total trust
It is recognized that Amazon River Dolphins change their behavior in the presence of children and pregnant women
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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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Superpredator
The jaguar (Panthera onca) is a superpredator and can theoretically prey on any terrestrial or semi-aquatic vertebrate in Central…
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Terrifying sound
The red howler monkey (Alouatta seniculus) is the loudest land animal in the world, with its calls reaching up to 140 decibels…
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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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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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The thinker
The white-fronted capuchin monkeys are commonly known as cairara (Cebus albifrons). They are highly intelligent…
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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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Gigantic arapaima
The arapaima lives in Amazonian lakes, in poor oxygen water. That is why the arapaima has a rudimentary respiratory apparatus
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Enchanted
She was a cunhã (pretty girl) who lived in one of those great lakes in the counãryside of the Amazon.
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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
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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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Princess Residents
During the mating season, two toucans (Ramphastos tucanus), also known as the white-throated toucan, begin to regularly visit the Princesa
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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
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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.
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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:
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Little fairy
The inevitable question always comes to my mind: who designed you? so perfect! so harmoniously proportioned!
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Photographic objectivity
The reason for creating versions with horizontal and vertical orientation is basically to have greater elasticity in the graphic layout.
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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
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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
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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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Shaman of fire
The ancestral ritual echoes from distant times, with ghostly plots, supernatural lights and incantations
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Enchanting dolphin
The dolphin in the photograph with which I swam for a week left unforgettable moments in my memory.
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Ballerina orquid
Notice the arms crossed above the head and the legs, as if standing on tiptoe. Who drew you, dancer?
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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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Shameless monkey
The capuchin monkey seems to smell the flower, but make no mistake, he is about to make another prank, as is his nature.
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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.
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Kissing Woolly monkey
Kissing Woolly monkey (Lagotrix lagotricha) There was a park at km 40 of BR174 Federal road