A post shared by Gavan Watson (@gavanwatson) on Apr 30, 2017 at 5:56am PDT Here’s a bit of a natural history mystery that I found yesterday: this green flower in a bed of White Trilliums (Trillium grandiflorum); something that I had never seen before. The few initial web references I found suggested this is caused […]
I do love to geotag the photographs that I take. But what to do with all that data once entered? iMapFlickr is a neat-o site that takes my geotagged photos (say, like the ones I took on Heather and I’s honeymoon) and places them in a google map. Brilliant part? You can embed the ensuing […]
Snowflakes, originally uploaded by Gavatron. I enjoy macro photography because it often allows me to see things that I often don’t see regularly — so, to use a cliché, it can take me places I’ve never been before. Normally, I use this power to photograph insects, but they’re lacking this time of year. I have […]
A recent article (hyperlink below) suggests that the male freshwater dolphins (Inia geoffrensis) that Heather and I got a chance to see in Peru this year (photographic evidence above) hold and thrash objects at the surface to “impress” females. What’s particularly interesting is this quote from the researcher: “It’s particularly interesting that the complexity of […]