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This Sunday is World Wildlife Day. The theme for 2024 is “Connecting People and Planet: Exploring Digital Innovation in Wildlife Conservation.” I often wonder what role photographers like you and me can play in connecting people and the planet. I also wonder if we photographers are doing more harm than good to nature. Is there a compromise that benefits everyone? I am interested in your thoughts. In the meantime, here is a look at this week’s photography news from a bird’s-eye perspective – or perhaps I should say, from the eye-like perspective of Cotopaxi’s volcanic summit (5,897 m / 19,347 ft). Photography Life
Backing up your photos. It’s one of the most tedious parts of photography, but the annoyance of setting up a good backup routine is nothing compared to the tragedy of losing your photos to a hard drive failure. I’ve explored a variety of backup options myself, and in this article, I’m going to outline the various possibilities for backing up your photos so you don’t lose years of work. Photography Life
We’ve spent the last two weeks updating our older Nikon Z lens reviews to bring them up to current standards. Now that we’ve finally tested the vast majority of Nikon Z lenses, it made sense to revisit some reviews that had fallen substantially out of date. Although not all the edits have gone live yet, I’m rolling them out over the next week, so I wanted to explain the influx of old lens reviews you may see on the homepage of Photography Life. Photography Life
Just back from another astounding adventure into one of the most dense, alive places on earth. Paul, one of our intrepid and knowledgeable La Selva Eco Lodge guides, pointed out at one point that the common notion of a forest is often understood to be a large gathering of, say, pine trees, or aspens. In other words, lots and lots of the same kind of tree. But, standing in the verdant jungle, teeming with life, he pointed out seventeen different species of trees, just within a quick head turn.
Thank you to our wonderful crew of staff, and workshop participants, hardy travelers all, who placed faith in us to create this wonderful adventure. It has made us all want to return.
We were staying at La Selva Eco-Lodge & Retreat, nestled by a lagoon off the Napo River, deep in the rainforest. The jungle, the birds, the wildlife-it’s all on your doorstep at this remarkable lodge. The lagoon is home to an amazing array of birds, darting about in the dense vegetation fringing the lagoon, which in and of itself is home to many wild things, most notably caimans.
Among the many beauties of the lodge (great bar, friendly staff, guides who know the enviroment like the back of their hand) is that it’s just been renovated, and you can spend hours trekking through the humid jungle, making photos of everything from magnificent birds to the tiniest of macro subjects, and return to a safe, secure, and comfortable night’s meal and night’s rest. (The food is great, I mean, you can’t go wrong with a chef named Elvis.) No air conditioning, no phones in the rooms. What accompanies you to sleep is the chorus of the jungle just outside your screened windows. Stay for a few days, and the surrounding forest becomes a wild and magnificent lullaby.
We were also located in same jungle neighborhood as the indigenous Kichwa people, who partner the lodge and offer teaching and acquaintance with their culture. We had Ari Espay with us, who is originally from Chile, and he was amazing at making beautiful bridges with the Kichwa. A prodigious photographer and open-hearted human, he was definitely in his element during this whole trip. He and his partner, Liza Politi, run Fancy Girl Street Boy Productions and have staged photo excursions and workshops all over the world. I taught alongside Ari and the wonderful Tamara Lackey, a fellow Nikon Ambassador. The three of us kept the critiques lively with our comments and the occasional, uh, how would you describe it? Well, okay, call it a difference of pictorial opinion, which the class generally embraced:)
And Ecuador itself is lovely. Warm hearted, wonderful people.
Nature at its most diverse and beautiful, and people to guide you through it.
And endless, serene beauty.
Ecuador is a dream, and La Selva is the doorway to that dream.
In last week’s Photography News, I mischievously let you guess which lens I used for my opening photo. The mysterious and somewhat unusual lens was successfully identified as a spotting scope for bird sighting. Today, I have a similar challenge for you, only the answer this time is a little easier. If your detective work is successful, you will find out the identity of a lens that we’ll be reviewing soon. But now, onto the latest announcements from this week, which brought a lot of exciting news to the photography world. Photography Life
