And still more fish…
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under india
A ribbon of them...
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So many fish…
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under india
...so little time
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Out with the tide…
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under india
Lazy afternoon
…or you’re done for the day.
Above, Havelock fishermen empty their boats for the afternoon; they’ll return to the sea at night or the next morning when the fish are more active and the tide is high enough for them to clear the coral-strewn flats.
Perhaps I’m romanticizing just a little, but these are the opposite of industrial fishing. They’re traditional fisherfolk who have been sustaining their families on small catches for generations.
Tags: beach, boat, fishing, havelock, india, photography, poor people, poverty, tide
Bamboo!
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under madagascar
As I continue to build my statistical model of India’s forests and potential drivers of deforestation, I can’t help but be enamored by bamboo. I need land and I need to plant.
(This bamboo comes from an old growth stand in Madagascar when I was there in 2009. The photo doesn’t do justice to the monstrous size of this thicket. The creaking in the breeze was unnerving.)
Tags: bamboo, deforestation, india, madagascar, old growth, sky through trees
Lost photo: Longing for emerald islands
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Andamans on my mind
Not sure I ever posted this shot.
Tags: aerial, andaman and nicobar, india, island, photography, plane, rainbow
Oh to see the beach
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Havelock No. 3
Dreaming of Havelock… But in a few weeks, I’ll at least be on sandy shores in Panama.
Tags: andaman and nicobar, beach, havelock, india, photography, tide flats
I want to hang out with fishermen
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My people
I spend a lot of time thinking about small-scale fishermen. I do not spend enough time actually hanging out with small-scale fishermen.
Like these guys, whose boat is beached for the afternoon in the tide flats of Havelock.
Tags: andaman and nicobar, beach, fishermen, havelock, india, photography, tide flats
Jangal hei
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under india
Jangal = jungle
After net gains for several years, India’s forest cover is in decline. The full data is available now from the Forest Survey of India in its newly released State of the Forest Report 2011.
The government writes off any major backsliding, saying the reduction is due to shifting cultivation patterns in the rural northeast, plantation harvesting and Naxal rebels cutting trees. That last one is a dubious.
More likely, there are many factors at play in a complex dynamic that varies state by state. I’m in the process of designing a statistical research project looking for explanation among a number of variables, biological, economic, political and social.
The photo above comes from tropical forest in the Andaman Islands.
Tags: andaman and nicobar, conservation, deforestation, forest, india, jangal, jungle, photography, research, sky through trees, trees
What’s the name of this fish again?
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under india
North Indian anemonefish
Also, I believe, properly known as a Clark’s Anemonefish. Like all species, identification is difficult because people everywhere call them by different common names.
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Old joke: How do lionfish mate?
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under india
Lionfish interrupted
Very carefully.
The logistics seem difficult with all those spines… but I might have disturbed a tender moment between two poisonous, beautiful fish.
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