#amazondolphin

[jamespowellart]

A is for Amazon River Dolphin. . Following along with a new @animalalphab prompt. Check out their page for more info. . . #animalalphabet #amazondolphin #amazonriverdolphin #amazondelivery #amazonriver #amazon #dolphin #illustration #characterdesign #procreate #procreateart https://www.instagram.com/p/CMv4Hd5juXD/?igshid=1e1hbyd5zep4o

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Drawing sketch style illustration of the Amazon River dolphin or boto a widely distributed group of fully aquatic mammals that reside exclusively in freshwater or brackish water looking up set on isolated white background.

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Amazon Dolphin “eclipse” with fish, Rio Negro Brazil // Photo by Kevin Schafer – @schaferpho @natgeo – Photo assignments for the National Geographic often require large amounts of time and effort. They can result in capturing thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, of pictures, only a handful of which ever appear in the magazine. It may sound extravagant or wasteful, but the fact is, this kind of ratio is essential for telling a story with the best possible images. Inevitably, however, there are many frames that never see the light of day. This one, from my story on Amazon River Dolphins, has never been seen - until now. To get it, I pulled myself down a rope to the bottom of the river and hung upside down, shooting straight up at dolphins feeding just above me. The intense blood-red color is entirely natural, the result of the high tropical sun streaming through the reddish, tannin-rich water of the Rio Negro. #projetoboto #dolphineclipse #amazondolphin http://ift.tt/2HOEvgG

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Amazon River Dolphins in the flooded forest, Brazil. Photo by Kevin Schafer – @schaferpho @natgeo – It was the last day of a month-long assignment tracking wild Amazon River Dolphins in Brazil. I already had thousands of pictures for the story, but I was haunted by one idea. Before I left home, the editors has told me: “Don’t just send us portraits - show us how these animals live.” This was going to be critical in telling the story of these astonishing animals, land-locked in fresh water for as much as fifty million years. Evolving as did the Amazon basin itself, they have adapted to a very different world than their ocean-going dolphin cousins. For one thing, they must hunt their prey, not in the open ocean, but literally between the roots of trees and in the branches of the flooded forest canopy. (No wonder they developed a flexible spine, quite distinct from marine dolphins which have fused, rigid spines for speed and power.) Yet the question remained: how to capture these dolphins in the trees. On the last day of the assignment, I still wasn’t sure I had the shot I wanted. I had planned to spend that last day underwater, checking other pictures off my list before I headed home. Then, an accident changed everything - a boisterous dolphin smashed my underwater housing - not an act of hostility, just a case of my being in the wrong place at the wrong moment. Either way, my underwater work was suddenly finished. Wondering how to spend the rest of this final day, I paddled out to a spot my assistant had found for me earlier in the month - a watery “path” through the forest that the dolphins often used to reach a different part of the river. It had never panned out before, but this afternoon I got lucky; a trio of dolphins swam through the flooded treetops right in front of me. It was just the sort of picture I had been hoping for, but had just about given up on. In the end, it was an important image for the story and ran full-page in National Geographic. I lost a camera that day, but I got the picture I wanted. So it goes. #boto #amazondolphin #onassignment http://ift.tt/2yqsnAD