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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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Recently I was watch an insanely good mini-series, Lost Land of the Jaguar, set in the rain forests of Guyana. There was a bunch of action-scientists, climbing mountains and hanging from trees with camera equipment and stuff. The scenery was totally amazing and I'm ashamed to say I'd never paid much attention to rainforest-related stuff before.
Now, on to the bit that actually relates to your picture. In that show, there was one photographer who climbed up to a tiny platform high up in the canopy of trees to take pictures of birds. I was watching it thinking how much I would LOVE to climb up somewhere like that, but now vertigo-ish it would feel look around when I was up there. Which is what your picture made me think of - how vertigo would look up a huge tree in the rainforest through a camera lens.
So: I like tangents
I note the phrase "action-scientists" - I see this more frequently now, and without a doubt it makes for good TV. You see the picture here just as I do, although I imagined a helicopter, indeed planned an animation that has hitherto evaded me for technical reasons. I might beat the bugger yet...
One of my friends is an awesome wildlife photographer, seriously one of the most talented people I've ever met and completely passionate about his work. He's such a sweet guy and a real gentleman too. He spends his weekends scaling mountains in the snow with about my bodyweight in camera equipment strapped to his back, and has completely converted an old work van into a camper van complete with a built-in stove and a hidden safe. People never seem to equate the action-man side of him with the sweet guy who takes pictures of seal pups and baby foxes