Tu álbum botánico. Semana del Árbol. Colombia

Queremos que no solo te unas y hagas parte de este proyecto en cualquiera de las siguientes opciones, sino que participes en el concurso en el que se unen www.semanadelarbol.org y www.saviabotanica.com

¡Así participas en el concurso! 

¿Cómo?
Enviando máximo dos fotografías en donde los protagonistas sean árboles. Cualquier tipo de árbol, lo importante es que sea el ¡rey de la foto!

¿Qué debes hacer? Enviar tus fotos al correo electrónico: correo@saviabotanica.com con los créditos del fotógrafo, el lugar donde se tomó y un nombre para la foto.

¿Qué haremos con las fotos? Las publicaremos en nuestra página Web y redes sociales de la Semana del árbol y de Savia (Facebook y Twitter), haciendo mención de su autor.

Para la publicación de la foto tendremos en cuenta: Debe tener autor, lugar y nombre
Seguirnos en las redes sociales

En Facebook: 

https://www.facebook.com/SAVIACOLOMBIA
https://www.facebook.com/SemanadelArbol

En Twitter
@Saviabotanica
@SemanadelArbol

¡Ojo con el plagio!
Enviar máximo dos fotos por persona
Enviarla al correo que se menciona

¿Qué ganarás?
Publicaremos 15 fotos, pero solo ganarán premio las 3 escogidas por Savia y la Semana del Árbol. Así que demuestra todas tus dotes: destreza en la fotografía y amor por el cuidado de los árboles.

Premios:
Primer puesto:

• Libro "Vienen los pájaros", guía de aves publicado por la la Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira
• Segundo tomo de la colección Savia: Savia Amazonas – Orinoco
• Camiseta de la Semana del Árbol

Segundo y tercer puesto:

• Segundo tomo de la colección Savia: Savia Amazonas – Orinoco
• Camiseta de la Semana del Árbol

Las tres personas que ganen serán contactadas por correo electrónico y recibirán vía correo físico sus respectivos premios.

No te quedes por fuera y ahora sí, ¡envíanos tus fotos!

ORIGINAL: Savia Botánica

More Than Human: Tim Flach’s Striking Portraits of Animals

Sentient beings like you’ve never seen them before.

Tim Fach. More Than Human

“Erasing the awe-inspiring variety of sentient life impoverishes all our lives,” historian Joanna Bourke wrote in her poignant meditation on what it means to be human. And yet our relationship with animals and our understanding of their inner lives remain inadequate at best.

In 2010, photographer Tim Flach gave us his extraordinary dog portraits. This year, he’s back with More Than Human (UK;public library) — a collection of striking, expressive portraits of our non-human fellow beings, captured with equal parts tenderness and aesthetic elegance.

Despite the sciency sterility of his words, perhaps Darwin was ultimately right in a broader philosophical sense when he reflected in The Descent of Man:

The difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, is certainly one of degree and not of kind. We have seen that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention, curiosity, imitation, reason, etc., of which man boasts, may be found in an incipient, or even sometimes in a well-developed condition, in the lower animals.

See more of Flach’s breathtaking work on his site and treat yourself to the full glory of More Than Human, for the screen hardly does it justice.

ORIGINAL: Brain Pickings
by Maria Popova

Fabian Oefner: Psychedelic science

By Fabian Oefner "Dancing Colors 08"

Fabian Oefner creates stunning visual representations of natural forces. 

Why you should listen to him: 

Fabian Oefner: Photographer. Creates stunning
visual representations of natural forces.

Fabian Oefner is a photographer and artist who wants to blend the disciplines of art and science. 

His psychedelic images capture natural phenomena and present them in unique and eye-catching ways. To date, subjects have included sound waves, iridescence, even magnetic ferroliquids and fire. His aim: to create images that appeal to both a viewer's heart and brain.

Oefner's photographs have been exhibited in various countries and are part of private collections around the globe. Besides pursuing his own projects, he also works on ad campaigns. He works and lives in Switzerland.

  
ORIGINAL: TED
Oct 2013 

Magical Long-Exposure Firefly Photos Go Viral

ORIGINAL: Wired

BY JAKOB SCHILLER

02.21.12

July 8, 2008. Photo: Tsuneaki Hiramatsu

June 6, 2008. Photo: Tsuneaki Hiramatsu

June 16, 2008. Photo: Tsuneaki Hiramatsu

July 7, 2008. Photo: Tsuneaki Hiramatsu

June 27, 2010. Photo: Tsuneaki Hiramatsu

July 9, 2010. Photo: Tsuneaki Hiramatsu

June 15, 2011. Photo: Tsuneaki Hiramatsu

June 19, 2011. Photo: Tsuneaki Hiramatsu

Tsuneaki Hiramatsu knew something was up. It was the end of December and his amateur photo blog had suddenly jumped from a handful of visitors a day to thousands. The telephone customer service agent and hobby photographer was surprised.

“I was like, what happened?!” says the 35-year-old Hiramatsu, who lives in Okayama City, Japan.

What happened was that Hiramatsu’s long exposure and time-lapse photos of Japanese fireflies had started to go viral. Someone, somewhere, had re-posted his photos and they were spreading across the blogosphere like wildfire.

On Dec. 18, the photos appeared on a Tumblr blog called Polaroid Dreams. More than 24,000 people have subsequently liked and reblogged that post.

Christopher Jobson, whose art and design blog Colossal got four million hits last month, was one of those who reposted the photos from Polaroid Dreams, furthering the viral spread.

“I’d never seen anything like it before,” Jobson says. “The photos look digital, or like the image was manufactured. But then you realize that it’s just time-lapse photography that has been wonderfully executed.” (This is not entirely true, as some of the photos are composites of multiple images.)

From there the photos continued to jump around the internet, popping up on countless other blogs as well as sites like My Modern Met and the website of the French newspaper Le Figaro.

Hiramatsu is not sure how far the photos have traveled, but the spread continues. He was thrilled when the American Museum of Natural History recently contacted him about using his photos to help promote an upcoming exhibition called “Creatures of Light: Nature’s Bioluminescence.”

“I’ve just been really surprised,” says Hiramatsu, who remains very humble about his recent success and is not planning on leaving his day job at the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, or NTT.

Clearly, though, the photos have resonated with a wide audience.

Hiramatsu took them at various points over a three-year period between 2008 and 2011 and they are from two different sites in the Okayama prefecture.

The long-exposure photos near the river were taken near Okayama City in the Hokubo area, and capture a certain type of firefly called the Genji Botaru. The photos in the woods were taken near Niimi City and the famous Tennoohachiman shrine and capture the Hime Botaru.

To make the photo where you see hundreds, if not thousands, of small firefly lights, Hiratmatsu used time-lapse photography to take several continuous exposures and then combined those exposures in post-production. Each photo where the firefly lights become trails is just one long exposure.

Hiratmatsu says he’s not the first to use these techniques to shoot Japanese fireflies. He openly admits borrowing them from other photographers who have posted tutorials on their own websites.

Nonetheless, it was Hiramatsu’s photos that took off. And while we might never know patient zero in his viral success, the spread is testament to their effect on viewers. He’s currently looking forward to upgrading to the Nikon D800 and continuing to learn more about photography — in part by shooting more fireflies.

Aliens or Animals? The Amazing Photography of Igor Siwanowicz

ORIGINAL: Amazing Animal Stories
by Igor Siwanowicz

“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”

Albert Einstein 

A Bizarrely beautiful Spiny Flower Mantis

Wings

Tinsel. A caterpillar of Chinese Moon moth Actias dubernadi.

Que?

You can’t resisssst…

Polyspilota aeruginosa, African Mantis

Kringle

Idolomantis, a young sub-adult male. you can tell it is a boy by how his antennae swell in a typical adolescent way.

Hitchhiker

Hickory Horned Devil caterpillar

Epiphany

Brahmaea hearseyi caterpillar

Beautiful morphs

Baby Chameleon

An amazing Megaloptera

A Yemen chameleon threat-yawning

A Crested Gecko (but I’d call this animal a ‘Dragonbear’)

ARKYD: A Space Telescope for Everyone

ORIGINAL: Kickstarter

The first publicly accessible space telescope! Take amazing photos of space or have your photo displayed above the Earth.



06-02-2013 – Let’s spread the word!
Big Thank YOU to everyone who has pledged their support to make a publicly-accessible ARKYD space telescope a reality! Many of you have asked how you can help support ARKYD. We've put together a supporter's resource to help reach more people. You'll find translations of the various materials prepared by our community and learn how you can connect with other supporters.


Since the formation of Planetary Resources, our primary goal has been to build technology enabling us to prospect and mine asteroids. We've spent the last year making great leaps in the development of these technologies. These advancements have presented us with the opportunity to engage in another passion of our team:

to make space exploration accessible to everyone.

Space has always been something that most people only dream about. Very few ever get the chance to experience space — to feel that overwhelming sense of awe described by astronauts. Our challenge and vision is this: how can we make
that a reality?

Introducing: The ARKYD — [ahrk-kid]

The ARKYD is a technologically advanced, orbiting space telescope that will be controlled by YOU, the crowd, through your pledges and community involvement! You can even direct your telescope time to non-profit science centers and universities for use in your communities!

Just think about the true impact of this endeavor for a moment. Together we can provide access to technology that costs tens of millions of dollars into the hands of students, scientists and a new generation of explorers, who will use it in ways we can’t even fathom yet!

At Planetary Resources, our primary focus is mining asteroids, and we’re pushing the boundaries of what is possible by vertically integrating and applying innovations from consumer-based industries. It’s our goal to reduce the cost of space observatories many times over, allowing anyone to access them for their own use. We want to empower the crowd to solve the big problems of our time — and this is the first step to making that a reality.



The first publicly accessible space telescope! Take amazing photos of space or have your photo displayed above the Earth.

Our primary mission is to develop low-cost robotic spacecraft to explore and mine resource-rich asteroids within our reach. The first step to making this possible is the launching a fleet of ARKYD spacecraft to identify asteroids that are ripe for further exploration. This same capability has numerous other potential applications in education and research. The goals that we want to achieve with this Kickstarter mission are four-fold:

To give students access to space capabilities — Whether studying planets in a 5th grade class or writing a graduate thesis, students of all ages will have the ability to direct the telescope and explore what interests them! We’re planning some exciting new educational opportunities just for K-12 educational programs.

To support important research and discovery — There are thousands of institutions and researchers in need for greater access to in-orbit space observatories. The ARKYD will provide a new, low-cost resource to help observe distant galaxies, search for alien planets, and monitor the skies for potentially dangerous asteroids. Researchers at MIT, the University of Washington, and across the globe have shown interest in using the ARKYD to further their important research.

To build excitement about space and all of its potential — The ARKYD is designed to be a fun and interactive experience that is accessible to anyone. This kind of direct access to a satellite is unprecedented. Our backers will be the first people in history to control a public space telescope!

To give YOU a say — What makes this mission unique is that we’re putting control of the telescope in YOUR hands. You’ll get the opportunity to help decide which science centers and museums are the beneficiaries of ARKYD telescope time, what photos to take, and more. We’re putting YOU in control! By pledging toward this mission, you’ll receive access to our website and mobile apps allowing you to follow along with the progress of the satellite, sneak peaks at photos and videos, and get voting access to make your voice heard in the future direction of the satellite!

The engineering and development of the telescope itself is being covered by Planetary Resources, and we're investing millions of dollars in research and development to develop the ARKYD with advanced capabilities like photographing deep space and searching for asteroids. However, a publicly accessible satellite is very different from those that we intend to launch for the purposes of locating asteroids. The engineering and technological needs for doing each of those jobs are quite different.

Here's where we need YOUR help: The proceeds from this campaign will go to several different areas:

1. To actually launch the satellite into space. 
2. To support the spacecraft over its lifetime — including manpower to facilitate the photos, "selfies", monitoring the spacecraft and training the staff at the chosen science center that will take over control. 
3. To create an easy-to-use Control Interface that will allow ANYONE to access and control the satellite. 
4. To fund the creation of an incredible, interactive educational experience that can be used by schools anywhere, to enable students to experience space in a way that's never been possible.