Tag: Animals
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Curiosity
Curiosity Feeling small under their inquisitive looks. Photo of the week: Petit Veyriat, Foissiat, France 2025
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Buffalo buddies
Buffalo buddies Two sweet young buffaloes having a nap in their courtyard. Two specimens out of a total of more than half a billion livestock animals in India. Photo of the week: Buffaloes, Orchha, Madhya Pradesh, India 2017
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Sunset silhouette
Sunset silhouette Plants, stones, an Indian cow, drawn in sharp outlines against a clear evening sky.I don’t think I ever consciously noticed the forms of these plants – stems, flowers, leaves – in such amazing detail as on this silhouette picture. Photo of the week: Orchha, Madhya Pradesh, India 2017
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Looking at you!
Looking at you! I felt as if somebody was looking at me. I turned round and noticed this little owl with big eyes. We looked at each other for a while and I took a picture.Now, looking at the picture, I realize that most if not all other birds have one eye on the left…
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WC-Monitor
WC-Monitor Once, one fine morning in our house in Orchha, I went to the toilet. To my surprise I found it occupied by an unexpected visitor who clearly wasn’t used to our western toilet habits. Not knowing if he (or she) was kindhearted or dangerous I kept my distance and patiently waited for my turn.…
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Shutter pig
Shutter pig It’s only an outline, the sawn out pig itself is gone.We look at an empty space, the negative form of a pig.So true to life that we see its round, fat body in front of us. Photo of the week: Shutter pig, Solalex, Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland 2021
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Jaunty stride
Jaunty stride They love rummaging around our garden at the crack of dawn, at times even some five or six of them. They are doing well in the forests, the bushes, (and our garden), the Kalij pheasants, that is,as long as they manage to escape the jaws of the pine marten, the fox and the…
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A rare sight
A rare sight I saw him one day on the wall of our house.A butterfly? So big and strange?A search operation taught me: not a butterfly but a moth.A moth? So big and strange? And so beautiful?Yes, it is the Actias selene, the Indian Luna moth.A rare sight. Never saw one again. Photo of the…
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Welcome
Welcome The spider has spun an ingenious web.She waits patiently at the entrance to her hole,ready for a deadly attack. Photo of the week: Spider near Zen Namkhan Resort, Luang Prabang, Laos 2020
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Barbecue
Barbecue Dead eyes looking at you,in anticipation of being blinded by fireinto cloudy white spots.Then they don’t look anymore.Then they disappear between the jawsof us, dear carnivores. Photos of the week: Picnic along the Namkhan River, Luang Prabang, Laos 2020
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