the giant wood spiders

Posted by rocksea on 15 Sep 2009 | Category: photography, prakriti

Giant Wood Spider, nephila pilipes [formerly known as nephila maculata]. If you consider the female of this species and the webs they build, yes they are giants but if you look at the males, you will say they are tiny! Anyways, many of you know that female spiders are usually much larger than their male counter parts.
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perils of living in a city

Posted by rocksea on 09 Sep 2009 | Category: photography, prakriti

In a previous article, we talked about observing nature at the smaller end of the spectrum. Living temporarily in a city, we rarely have a chance to amuse ourselves on those miniscule wonders. Neither do we have a chance to see those animals at the larger end of the spectrum. There are some doves which we can watch from our window. That is all. That is the reason why the lion’s share of the nature photographs on this website are those which we had taken previously from our native place in Kerala, India. You must have also noticed that most of those photographs were taken at the backyards of our home! That is a stark difference of the quality of living, in these two different homes – the temporary one in a city (Bologna, Italy) – and the permanent one out of the city sprawls (in Kerala, India).
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street artists of italy

Posted by rocksea on 06 Sep 2009 | Category: italy, photography

We love theme photography, and one of our themes are the street artists of Italy.
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nature at the smaller end of the specturm; and tortoise beetles

Posted by rocksea on 04 Sep 2009 | Category: photography, prakriti

We all have a natural tendency to associate nature, wilderness and the animal kingdom with those at the larger end of the spectrum, like lions, tigers, antelopes, and those of the kind we often see at the zoos. Of course, these all are a part of nature. Nevertheless, at the sametime, many of us rarely stop by and watch the spectacles and stories of nature at the smaller end of the spectrum. We will open our mouth :-o  and watch an elephant passing by, but rarely would we stop to watch an insect or even a bird flying by.
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skink mimicking a snake

Posted by rocksea on 02 Sep 2009 | Category: photography, prakriti

In the recent articles we talked about tactics from the snakes, spiders, birds and others for survival, and for saving their offspring.  In the picture below, you can see a skink (kind of lizards) mimicking the pose and the features of a snake, when it saw that I found him. It not only gave that pose, but put forth its forked tongue, like a snake! Continue Reading »