When photographs at National Geographic Magazine are mentioned, very often we think about some far away and exotic location. Pictures taken in rivers filled with crocodiles or piranhas, deep inside an underwater cave, high on a mountain or in dense tropical forests. But the photo of the peregrine falcon that’s featured on National Geographic Magazine Brazil I took from the window of my apartment. Or something like that.
In 2010 one of the pictures I took at RPPN Reserva Ecológica do Sebuí got the first place on the Fundação SOS Mata Atlântica photo contest. Now on its sixth edition, the contest got 1.936 submissions, 1.075 on the amateur category and 861 on the pro category.
In 2009 I came back to the Anhumas Abyss with a team from ESPN Brasil that was filming one more episode for the “Viajantes Radicais” (Radical Travelers) TV series. This episode brings a remake of the journey Claude Lévi-Strauss, a Belgian French anthropologist, endured in Brazil between 1935 and 1939. I joined a few days of the shooting around Serra da Boboquena, including a dive on the Anhumas Abyss.
This year I managed to achieve better results at the Avistar photo contest. One of my photos ended in first place at the “best record” category and another one in third place at the “best photo” category. I took the picture below during a short trip to Fazenda Barra Mansa in south Pantanal. The lodge [...]
The Harpy Eagle is the largest and most powerful raptor found in the Americas. Too see and photograph one of these animals in a natural habitat is a fantastic experience. They are not easy to find since they need big patches of preserved tropical forest for its survival. To increase the chances of seeing one, [...]
Avistar is a birdwatching fair held once a year in São Paulo. Along with the fair, Banco Itaú sponsors a bird photo contest that quickly became the most important bird photo competition in Brazil, as it gives away good prizes and attracts a lot of photographers. In the first time I entered the contest I [...]
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