{"id":238,"date":"2009-01-18T14:01:58","date_gmt":"2009-01-18T12:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/general\/rivers-of-life\/"},"modified":"2009-01-18T14:01:58","modified_gmt":"2009-01-18T12:01:58","slug":"rivers-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/general\/rivers-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Rivers of life"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Portuguese nature photographer<\/strong> and remote\u00a0friend Joao Cosme<\/strong> has just published a book of his photos of the wildlife and landscapes<\/strong> of his native Portugal. “Rios de vida<\/strong>” (Rivers of Life) is the title, as it is a visual account of the rivers that run through his native land, from the hills and mountains down to the Atlantic Ocean<\/strong>. Those rivers are so often the life blood to the surrounding land and to biodiversity<\/strong> itself. Joao’s camera has skillfully captured a great variety of these rivers’ natural elements, from butterflies, dragonflies, reptiles and amphibians to birds, mammals, trees and landscapes.<\/p>\n

\"Rios<\/p>\n

The photos that most caught my attention were the Grey Heron<\/strong> in the corner\u00a0of a seemingly blank, whitened-out landscape, a flock of Black-tailed Godwits<\/strong> in\u00a0flight, bathed in\u00a0sunset red, and the\u00a0more abstract treescapes.<\/p>\n

The accompanying text in both Portuguese and English is brief and concise and plays a secondary role to the images. \u00a0<\/p>\n

You can see more details about “Rios de Vida” on Joao’s blog:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.cinclusnatura.blogspot.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

I was particularly pleased, although not surprised, that one of Joao’s stunning images of the spectacular Bonelli’s Eagle<\/strong> was chosen for\u00a0double-spread treatment. Those who possess a copy of the Montsec Birding Routes Map <\/a>can also see an equally stunning image of the Bonelli’s Eagle<\/strong>, also\u00a0taken by Joao. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Portuguese nature photographer and remote\u00a0friend Joao Cosme has just published a book of his photos of the wildlife and landscapes of his native Portugal. “Rios de vida” (Rivers of Life) is the title, as it is a visual account of the rivers that run through his native land, from the hills and mountains down […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7I752-3Q","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}