French Guiana

“Green inferno” or paradise? For sure a paradise in terms of biodiversity. So much that you forget mosquitoes, humidity, heat…

To walk through the Guiana forest is to discover with every step a new living being, a new colour, a new scent, a new shape. To progress slowly, to stop, to direct a macro lense towards a flower, an insect, a frog skin, is to discover fascinating, unknown worlds.

Identification

All these wonders of beauty are for scientists also study and analysis objects. Giving a name to living organisms is to be able to classify, to group them, to facilitate exchanges between scientists and also to communicate to the general public what they discovered and described. Numerous are besides, among the non-scientists, the nature lovers, the strollers and … the poets, those who like to put a name onto what they see.

In this photo album about French Guiana, I chose to designate the plants and animals I photographed by their scientific name. Many scientists among my friends helped me with the identification. Nevertheless certain photographed plants and animals have still no name. Please help me to identify them by giving them names in the « Comments ». Thanks a lot in advance.

Comments

Your comments are welcome! They will help me to better position myself in relation to my photographs, to know whether my web site is somewhat useful, not necessarily from a scientific point of view, but, and above all, emotionally speaking.

Large format

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The "hardware"

• A Canon EOS 30D camera
• A Canon Macro EF 100 mm lense
• A Canon Ultrasonic Macro EF 70-300 mm USM lense
• A Sony Cyber-shot 7.2 mega-pixels camera