Archive of month: August 2018

Photo taken at Parque Nacional dos Lençóis Maranhenses

Lençóis Maranhenses are known for their desert landscape of tall, bright sand dunes and the seasonal rainwater lagoons that form between them. I wonder if one day climate change will be so strong that even the weather patterns that are responsible for such beauty will be disrupted
6 years ago

Photo taken at Baixa Grande, Maranhao, Brazil

Spending the night under the moonlight in Baixa Grande. In the last 15 years the handful of families that live in this oasis in the middle of the desert adapted their homes -and their lives- to host an increasing number of tourists
6 years ago

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Crossing the desert from Barreirinhas to Baixa Grande, one of the two inhabited oasis of the Lençóis Maranhenses
6 years ago

Photo taken at Everglades National Park

Goodbye the Everglades. Hasta luego Florida. I had a nice time here, exploring the landscape, meeting locals and even meeting some followers in real life! Unfortunately I didn’t have much luck with the weather. I had to cancel an airboat ride twice because of two different storms. This means I have an excuse to come back florida
6 years ago

Photo taken at Mack’s Fish Camp – Gladesmen Airboat Tours

Looking for a place to shoot some sunset timelapse I ran into Keith and his beautiful daughter Bryanna. They are part of the current generation of “Gladesmen”, a part of local population that built temporary and permanent housing in the Everglades developing an intimate relationship with the land. They understood how to adjust to the seasonal shifts, changing water levels and wildlife. In the past, as other Gladesmen before him, Keith served as knowledgeable guide to incoming researchers coming to discover, map and monitor the Everglades. “To me the Everglades is simply home, my friend” he proudly told me
6 years ago

Photo taken at Buffalo Tigers Fl Everglades Airboat Tours

Betty is a Miccosukee, entrepreneur and environmentalist. Without losing her beautiful smile, she explained to me how the Indian reservation is situated in a portion of the Everglades that is expected to act like a natural filter to clean the (often polluted) water that comes from the North before it gets into the territory of the National park. This creates a lot of troubles for both local flora and fauna
6 years ago

Photo taken at Miccosukee Indian Village

In Shark Valley I was able to learn more about the Miccosukee, a Native American tribe that migrated from Lower Chiaha to Northern Florida in the early 18th century under the pressure of European encroachment in their territory. What is interesting of this people is that they never tried to modify the ecosystem of the Everglades but rather adapted their way of life to its evolutions
6 years ago