Archive for the 'Morocco' Category

Animal Rights

This entry is part 22 of 32 in the series Favourite shots

Animal rights

“Being asked what animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you're already an animal.”
Douglas Coupland

Suburb of Marrakech

Bougainvillea flowers

Surfer

Foothills of the Atlas

Camel and horse

This entry is part 23 of 32 in the series Favourite shots

“A camel is a horse designed by committee.”
Alec Issigonis

Sunset in Morocco

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“Opportunities are like sunrises
- if you wait too long, you miss them.”   William Arthur Ward

I suppose that’s true of sunsets too. It is certainly true of nature photography – you need to be there at the right moment. Not only when the light is right (which often happens to be just after sunrise or just before sunset) but also when your subject ready!

Wikipedia entry

Seagulls at Essaouira

Essaouira, Morocco

 

Wikepedia entry

Ernst Haeckel’s Chameleon

 

Chameleon

Ernst Haeckel was a reknown 19th century biologist, naturalist, philosopher, and last but not least, artist. His extraordinary work “Kunstformen der Natur” (Art Forms in Nature) includes a hundred beautiful illustrations of animals and plants. This exceptional work had a important influence on the Art Nouveau movement of his time.

 

Ernst Haeckel print from 1900 - the chameleon is top left

 

Chameleon

“Politics is applied biology.”
Ernst Haeckel

Tortoise

Tortoise