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Beyond The Lens: Interview with Untamed Photographer's Chris Fallows. Top Story - September 2021.
Chris Fallows is a strikingly passionate and accomplished wildlife photographer and naturalist. Best known for his discovery and ensuing depiction of breaching great white sharks in Seal Island, South Africa, the world-renowned photographer has seen his life's work featured on some of the biggest stages the industry has to offer. He's worked as a wildlife photographer, host, or expert facilitator on more than 60 international wildlife documentaries for The BBC, Discovery Channel, and National Geographic, amongst many others. Most notable of these shows are Planet Earth, Life, Africa, and Shark for The BBC. Chris has also co-hosted and photographed for Discovery Channel's most successful Shark Week series, the Air Jaws franchise.
By Untamed Photographer4 years ago in Earth
The Little Pear Tree in the Woods
The Little Pear Tree in the Woods In the deep woods behind the little cabin, the grew a little pear tree whose blossoms were soft pink flakes that made the little tree look like a cloud that was resting amidst the taller trees who did not have these blossoms. The other trees bent in the wind to protect the little pear tree. It was the jewel in their midst. None knew where this little tree had come from but they did know that she was different. Her fragrant blossoms filled the woods with a sweet fragrance in the spring. When summer came, her lighter green leaves gave a different shade and a place for smaller birds to nest. Where her blossoms grew, now there were buds of fruits. These grew larger as the summer progressed and as autumn began, they were almost full size. The fruit began to change from a soft green to a warm yellow and they grew larger. Animals began to take them for food for they were sweet and juicy. All creatures shared in the bounty of the little pear tree. One autumn, a strange creature came to live in the little cabin. She wore clothing made of plant fibers and she dyed the cloth with berries and nuts and flowers from the woods. She gathered plants and nuts and mushrooms to eat and she had a little goat for milk and some chickens for eggs. She also had a little child whom she taught all the ways of the wild. When the weather got colder, she gathered the native melons and goards and made a fire with fallen branches that she gathered from the forest. There was a stream nearby and from this she caught fish and had water to survive. This life made her very happy.
By Judith Parrish Broadbent4 years ago in Earth
Roses With Famous Names
Composers Composer George Frederic Handel has a lovely rose named after him It is a climber rose that grows to almost 8 feet. The blooms are lovely and fragrant in pink and it produces larger blooms that are semi-double. Mildly fragrant the flowers bloom repeatedly from late spring to early summer.
By Rasma Raisters4 years ago in Earth
Oh, the Humanity! On Climate Change & Ancient Egypt
Oh, the frogs! The gnats! Signs and marvels, visited on the Pharaoh — that loser — in answer to his taunt that He did not know Yahweh. Oh, the flies! The pestilence visited upon the beasts of the field — the horses and donkeys and camels, "and on their cattle and sheep and goats." The thunderstorms of hail and fire! The dead fish in the Nile! Beware, lest we face the full force of Nature’s plagues. Be it known that Yahweh was a storm-and-weather deity who led the heavenly army against Israel’s enemies.
By Hamish Alexander4 years ago in Earth
Simplicity
Can you imagine being some other than what you are? Delivery mail for the mind. The mere thought of blossoming while the world burns around you seems impossible at times, something as simple as planting a tree, flower or herb you often have high expectations but things don’t always go to plan do they?
By Nicole Danby4 years ago in Earth
Traveling Souls
It has been over three hundred years since I was a human—once a beetle, then a bird, a cat, and now a pear tree—I grow on a farm and observe humanity. I reflect on the magical story that never ends about the journey of souls on Planet Earth. Souls are born into bodies, they live, they die, and life begins again. A soul is a grasshopper, a duck, then a fly; a soul occupies a different body in each life. They experience the world as a tiger and then become a wife. Their child in their wife-life becomes their sibling in the next, then the pear tree in their orchard, then their best friend. The beauty and magic of the never-ending souls: the humans do not even know! They are not aware they will live again!
By Sone Kramer4 years ago in Earth
