Photo of the day: 16th April 2014
This market worker looked like he was sitting proudly as king of all he surveyed. When I got closer I saw that he was actually fast asleep!
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Photo Post: Brazilian Jumping Spider
Hi everyone – nice weekend? I made a couple of rather delicious discoveries that will need to be written up when I can find a moment. In the meantime, take a look at this cool jumping spider that I spotted hopping about on the roof yesterday.
Apologies to the arachnophobes out there. Hopefully it will help you to know that this is an extreme close-up. This little fellow is just 1cm across.
Photo Post: Cristo across the water
I don’t care how long you’ve lived in Rio, I can’t believe you ever get used to the spectacular views. You can forget about them for a while, I’m sure, but when you turn a corner and see something like this, how can you fail to be impressed?
[I put this image in a lightbox, so if you click it you can see it nice and big – check it out!]
Cristo Redentor – a great work of art.
Photo Post: Lightning over Guanabara
Someone told me today that Brazil is hit by more lightning than any other country on earth. A little sceptical Googling suggests that Central Africa has more electrical storm activity, but let’s put weather fact pedantry to one side and agree that Rio has its fair share of spectacular lightning storms.
This is probably the most famous lightning shot taken in Rio – Cristo Redentor being struck full on the head (the photographer was Custódio Coimbra).
My offering from Saturday night isn’t quite so dramatic, but notice that I’ve got two lightning bolts in my shot, so you know… in a way my photo is twice as good! rs
Makes a change from photos of the sunrise doesn’t it?
Framing Rio
A few days ago I was about to lay the table for breakfast (it was a weekend – I’m never that organised on a weekday). I gazed past the table and out of the window and was struck by how beautiful the view was. As Mrs Eat Rio can testify, at times like this I forget about whatever it is that I’m supposed to be doing and go grab my camera (very annoying if you’re waiting hungrily for breakfast!).
Although the end result was that we had to wait a couple of extra minutes before eating our fried eggs on toast, I think it was worth it.
Enough to make you forget about breakfast (temporarily at least…).
At the time I took the photo I wasn’t trying to be clever – I just wanted to get a shot that would show what it was like to look out of the window from inside. Afterwards I looked at the shot again and thought it looked rather nice, framed by the open windows on either side (please feel free to notice and admire the roses that are growing in the window box too!).
Last night I was looking through the photos I’d taken recently and realised there was another one that I had taken that was inadvertently framed.