Galapagos pictures

[lapsedmodernist]

Two iguanas watching the sunset






Blue-footed booby!









giant turtle

E.T.?

Comments

[akozorez.livejournal.com]

FUCK! This is it!
I am quiting my job and coming over there.
(Expect me next week.)
Veronichka, why or why ar you teasing me like this?
You do know it's a dreadful winter in the city, do you not???
And there you are... in your little skirts and halter tops...
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
It is so breathtakingly beautiful!!!
I can't stand it.

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

dude, come over! It rains, like, all the time in the jungle, but when it does not it's hot and sunny.

I know no one believes me when I say I miss the winter and everyone thinks I am just being obnxious, but I do miss it! And I miss New York more than you can possibly imagine.

But that's okay because Ya vernus' v moy gorod znakomiy do slez...

[akozorez.livejournal.com]

yup... just checked it...
couple of hours and couple of hundred bucks to Miami,
and then $400 more (and 4 more hours) get me to Ecuador...
you really are just a flight away...

btw, which of the islands were you on?
how did you get to the island?

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

I was on several islands: Baltra, Santa Cruz, Bartholomew, North Seymour and Playas...maybe there was another one in there and I am blanking on it right now. To get there you have to fly to either San Cristobal or Baltra and from there you go around on a boat.

It's only, like, 3.5 hours from Miami to Ecuador. Totally doable! I bet it takes you longer to get to Vancouver!

[ghastlymess.livejournal.com]

It's funny, I never knew you were such a looker.

However, not as fine as that blue footed booby! Hell, you're something, but even Helen of Troy could not hold a candle to the animals of the Galapagos...I'm decding right now to go there.

Did you see tons of little guano rings scattered about the island? That's a little shit-ring that the mother creates, and when she has more than one baby, she has to push one out of the ring. Once it's out of the guano-ring, it is dead to the mom. It may wail, it may moan, it may bleed and weep, but to no avail.

While the first baby grows up fed and plump, the child that is pushed and beaten out of the ring like a guy wearing a baseball cap at the Rainbow Room. As a result, the neglected bird almost always dies.

However, and I have to find this out, I suspect that every now and then it lives. Making it the hardiest booby you ever done saw.

Awesome, wonderful photos. I used to think that The Galapagos was somehow snake infested, but I was wrong. I kept mixing it up with the isle of Kimono.

So spiffy, dang it!

[ghastlymess.livejournal.com]

Did I say Isle of Kimono?? What is wrong with me today? I hate typos, and this comment is a nest!

I meant Komodo, for Christ's sake.

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

Heh, thanks for the compliment, and I agree that the blue-footed booby is superior to me and all of us in every way. I love birds in general and I think that is my new favorite creature on God's green earth (or black volcanic rocks as the case may be). I like the shitring story. It's a classic Galapagos fairy tale. They are all about evolution and how it's a bitch.

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

yeah, the iguanas are chummy! I also liked that it had its arm around the other one, it was like they were at the drive-in or something.

[saintpeg.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD BRING ME BACK A SEALION

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

yeah, they are cute, but they...um...smell.

[saintpeg.livejournal.com]

Also, I really like the iguana in the pinkish foliage. It looks like a Gregory Crewdson photograph.

[autodidactic.livejournal.com]

Nothing I could possibly say would end up expressing half the envy and awe I feel when looking at these pictures. So I'll leave it to you to understand me when I am momentarily reduced to something as juvenile and nondescript as "Wow".

A.

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

:)

[fengi.livejournal.com]

Please explain again how you were able to structure your life to have the time an cash for such frequent travels. I'm trying to figure out how I can reconfigure my own life to do the same.

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

Haha, what frequent travels? It's all gradschool related. I am doing fieldwork in Ecuador ATM so I get to go around Ecuador a bunch, but it's a tiny country! Like, the size of Nebraska or Nevada. One of them.

Anyway, the past two years have been sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Come summer I am again reduced to the measly University stipend which means I need to see a man about a job as soon as I get back to Estados Unidosl.

[apropos.livejournal.com]

There should be a law against hyperphotogenic people being so good at photography. :)

[trochee.livejournal.com]

um, yeah.

dang it all

[(Anonymous)]

seriously man, the winter is nothin compared to all that. don't miss brooklyn - you're kickin it with giant turtles! greenpoint only boasts bad polish coffee!
-a

Re: dang it all

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

Ah, but my apartment in Greenpoint Brooklyn has my french press. And however bad Polish coffee is, it can´t be worse than Nescafe instant I have been subjected to here. With powdered milk.

[boymaenad.livejournal.com]

awesome. the sea lions are my favorite. I, for some inexplicable reason, feel like kin to the ones you've pictured. I feel their troubles; I know their eventual triumph.

that's a kickass camera. and you seem to have a great knack for using it :)

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

Are you identifying with any sea lion in particular, or all of them in general?

[enn.livejournal.com]

awesome photos!
the two iguanas.. well, adorable, you know.
&mr. blue foot looks like he is going to start crooning a lovely melody!
&! did you touch the Huge Turtle!??

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

The big turtle stretched out its neck and I stroked the underside. It seemed to like.

Thanks for sharing the pics

[sunshyncat.livejournal.com]

Wow! *turns green with envy*

Re: Thanks for sharing the pics

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

:D

[monkey-flower.livejournal.com]

These photos are so beautiful... I wasn't going to comment even though I was blown away... however, last night these images informed one of the most intense and epic dreams I've ever had in my life... I'll post something about that in my journal tonight... anyway thank you for sharing these.

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

wow, I can't wait to read about your dream!

Glad my photos could provide fodder...

truly inspiring

[yaghvali.livejournal.com]

have been enjoying your photography, adventures and political rants for a while (thank you!!)...

but these particular beauties bring me out of the lurker shell to ask a question.

I'm involved in developing a role-playing game for children with a concept of a sentient mother-tundra... these photographs are just so inspiring for various scenes and/or visual resources.
I don't know what the form of the final game will take, but could I ask your permission for inspirational use, and ask what would be involved in making "actual" use (board of education type) of your photography?

Re: truly inspiring

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

Hi, nice to "meet" you!

I´m glad you like the photos. This batch seems to be particularly popular. "Sentient mother Tundra"--that sounds really interesting, can you elaborate a bit more?

As to actually using my photos...Lordy, I don't know what the protocol for that is! I do video semi-professionally, but photography is just a hobby, so I have no idea how that works. You probably know better than me! How does such copyright dispensation usually transpire?

[mysteryjesse.livejournal.com]

today was particularly cold and fussy here in the great northeast, so I scrolled back to find these sunny, beautiful pictures.

yours,

jesse