B&H Photo Video
Interesting NEWS...not my usual Photography and Aperture topic but it made me laugh...GarageBand 400 Million years ago?
Not quiet... but very interesting reading and I thought I share this with you... oh boy what they discover these days...
Grunting fish
have helped scientists to date the origins
of vocal sounds to about 400 million years
ago.
Photo:
Screenshot Courtesy of the BBC, click on the image
or use the link below for the video and complete
article.
Toadfish and midshipman
fish use a variety of different sounds to attract
mates and scare off rivals. Now US researchers have
found that the area of a fish's brain that drives
vocalization is extremely primitive. Writing in the
journal Science, they say it suggests that the
ability to communicate through sound emerged very
early in the evolution of vertebrates...read the complete article and watch
the Video...
@ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7510443.stm
Mac Technology and fossils…they do have something in common... a very cool science article…if you interested in Fossils and Dinosaur you need to check this out.
left:
Ammonite from 160 million years ago - right: Nautilus
a close
relative from Palau
Micronesia
Some
of you know my background with fossils or
Paleontology…but what has a Mac in common with all of
this?
Read
this amazing and very cool article
below…
Running
with the Dinosaurs
Mac
Technology Helps Put the Spring in a Hadrosaur’s
Step
Read
more about this amazing story with cool images @
http://www.apple.com/science/profiles
Website update and upcoming Photography Magazine spreads
I like to inform you that I have just updated my website: www.deichmann-photo.com
New look at the home page, change of image, I have also added a new category on Environment within the site. (top bar in between Tibet and Wildlife)
Within the next two weeks you be able to download also some pdf files;
Portfolio spread and the cover in Click Magazine, the Digital Photography Magazine from Malaysia.
Also Portfolio spread in the Asian Photography Magazine, talking about Aperture and Photography, I inform you all on my blog once both Magazines can be downloaded as a pdf file from my site under publication.
Enjoy the new images and thanks for all your support,
thanks,
GD
www.deichmann-photo.com
Global warming, Photo ©
Gunther Deichmann
Sharks and Discovery Channel, voices of concern
and offered their support, please read the unedited letters I have so far received, thank you all for your feedback, from Germany, Australia and Singapore so far.
For those who have not read the letter please go to: http://www.divephotoguide.com/discovery_shark_week.php
Gunther
www.deichmann-photo.com
Snail055@web.de
Subject: open letter (sharks)
Date: July 21, 2007 4:50:21 AM GMT+08:00
To:gdeichmann@mac.com
Hi Gunther
Den offenen Brief zur Rettung der Haie ist sehr bewegend. Diese phantastischen Tiere muessen einfach in ihrer Artenvielfalt ueberleben. Leider ist der Mensch das groesste "Raubtier" und jagt diese Tiere manchmal nur aus Vergnuegen. Ich habe gesehen, wie ein Haendler (irgendwo in China) tausende von Haifischflossen gelagert hatte, nur um sie fuer die "Haifischflossensuppe" zu verwenden. Diese Flossen sind den Tieren bei lebendigem Leib abgeschnitten worden, was den sicheren Tod zur Folge hat. Leider koennen diese Tiere keine entsetzliche Schmerzensschreie ausstossen. Es ist ein Jammer, das diese Menschen es nicht verstanden haben, das diese Lebewesen zum Oekosystem der Meere gehoeren. Sterben die Haie aus, kippt das Meer um und bringt das Gleichgewicht der Natur durcheinander, was auch auf die Landtiere Einfluss hat. Diese Denke trifft natuerlich auch auf andere vom aussterben bedrohte Tiere (Berggorillas, Wale, Meeresschildkroeten, etc.) zu. Bedauerlicherweise haben die Menschen, die diese Tiere ausrotten, es nicht begriffern, das mit diesen Tieren der Tourismus eine sehr gute Einnahmequelle sein kann. Die Meere werden ueberfischt, unsere Luft wird verschmutzt, die Umwelt durch Gifte und Pestizide verseucht. In Deutschland wird zur Zeit mit einem Zeppelin, der in großen Hoehen fliegt, geprueft, ob die belasteten Luftschichten sich regenerieren. Passiert das nicht, erstickt die Menschheit an ihren eigenen in die Luft geblasenen Schadstoffen. Die Automobilindustrie ist an dieser Miesere nicht ganz unbeteiligt. Hinzu kommen noch die natuerlichen Belastungen aus den Vulkanen mit den pyroklastischen Wolken. Die Reihe laesst sich weiter fortsetzten. Es muss eine umweltgerechte Denkweise der Menschen einsetzen, die nicht nur auf den (schnellen) Profit ausgerichtet ist, aber in den "armen Laendern" ist dieser Denken reiner Luxus. Hier geht es ums taegliche Ueberleben.
Cheers Mojan
From: dcallard@bigpond.net.au
Subject: Sharks.
Date: July 21, 2007 9:56:36 AM GMT+08:00
To: gdeichmann@mac.com
Hello Gunther,
I have read your blog re shark conservation with great interest. I watch Discovery, History, Nat Geo to be educated. I too have been appalled by the negative portrayal of sharks as man-eaters while largely ignoring the larger vital role they play in the functioning of the ecosystem. I expect truly objective science from programs such as Discovery, and Nat Geo, which also seems to have sold out to the public fascination with disaster; I am thinking of NG programs like "Raging Planet", even docos about American prisons!
The sensational Discovery programs about sharks seems to have more to do with the ratio of ratings to the $ bottom line. It is certainly not objective science. Anyway, if it takes sensationalism to sell a program Discovery could objectively promote their cause and that of conservation by highlighting the real issue which of course is the truth about sharks. This approach would provide all the sensationalism they want while coincidentally telling the real story. In other words, the truth is likely to be more 'sensational' and marketable than mythological conceptions of sharks (and many other examples of Nature).
I find it interesting to contrast the issue of shark conservation with that of whales. The campaign to "Save the whales" has been high profile and effective in promoting that cause. I see no difference between the basic priorities: sharks, whales, frogs, butterflies and so on. We must protect them all from us!
Never has the world needed objective, informed and balanced media more than it does now. Yet what do we get? CNN devotes headlines to Paris Hilton! For goodness sakes, enough, enough I say! The important truths will always sell, if only we can get them.
Well, those are my thoughts Gunther. Keep up the good work! I am just about to get back behind the camera myself.
Cheers,
David.
On Jul 20, 2007, at 3:04 PM, aaron@lennoxnooi.com wrote:
Dear Gunther,
I've just read through the letter. I agree 100%.
Aaron
Please help our Sharks and Turtles, an Environmental message
Unborn Shark, it's Mother and Baby got
Murdered!
Stop
the killing and say no to Shark fin soup, it
is
Disgusting.
Sharks
are
NOT
man-eaters, it is us who eat and destroy them,
and why do we kill Turtles and burn our forests?
Why???????
Gunther
Deichmann and his friends are fully in agreement with
this letter!
Photos
© Gunther Deichmann,
www.deichmann-photo.com
Please take a good look at the images above,
there is a community in Bataan, who used to collect
turtle eggs and sell them.
No
more,
they now take care of these precious creatures,
collect the eggs and once they have hatched release
them back into our Ocean, I wish we had more
communities like this, and who thought this is happen
in the Philippines, but this is the fact, including
road signs in this area have been put up for our oil
guzzling cars.
More in details about this amazing Turtle loving
community in one of my future blogs, but please read
on regarding the letter which I have
received
from my friend and supporter Jason Heller at
DivePhotoGuide and get all the info
@
http://www.divephotoguide.com/discovery_shark_week.php
For
those of you have not seen this yet, please feel free
to post it. It is a formal
response from the world’s foremost shark scientists,
researchers and conservationists
regarding this year’s Shark Week content. If you
support shark conservation, please
consider posting or publishing it.
http://www.divephotoguide.com/discovery_shark_week.php
Our Environment-some of us do care!
Interesting
note from David Callard in Australia, his comments on
the Environment issue and images, please read below,
some of us do care.
Thanks David for your views and nice words.
G.D.
From: dcallard@bigpond.net.au
Subject: The planet in the
oven.
Date: June 9, 2007
10:19:28 AM GMT+08:00
To: gdeichmann@mac.com
Hello Gunther,
Love the new
environment images. I think my favorite is the plain
water drop on the leaf; that really says it for me.
Addressing climate change has to be the biggest
challenge mankind has faced, yet I am not totally
pessimistic about our ability to solve it. Unlike the
Mesopotamians or the Aztecs modern man has the
scientific knowledge to identify the problem and
propose solutions. Yes, we will have to accept some
major changes to our lifestyles and means of
production but capitalism has clearly won the
ideological wars and of course its greatest strength
is its capacity to rapidly adapt to change. So, I put
my faith in science to find alternative energy
sources. I am in favor of nuclear power as a stopgap
solution until we can get solar and other sources
fully developed. More later - have to do some more
study.
Cheers, David.
To
view my new collection on Environment images,
please go to my Aperture Gallery:
http://homepage.mac.com/gdeichmann/ENVIRONMENT%20PART%202/
or
go to my PhotoShelter archive for high res. images:
http://www.photoshelter.com/c/gdeichmann
Some of us do care!
Just received
this nice note from Mark Cox, please read below:
Hi Gunther,
You are so right mate! all we humans ever do is
take take & more take, then we start crying when
its too late, we will definitely destroy our
selves its just human instinct I think. If all the
tree's & rain-forest disappear human
life will cease to exist. I'm the same as you Gunther
the world has to come together before its too late
really.
Great Work Gunther.
Mark Cox
mark@tech-dive-academy.com
Photographer & Adventurer
Global warming and water crisis
I have created some images trying to portrait the on
going world water crisis and Global warming issue.
enjoy these images and...
THINK!
It is indeed a serious problem world wide,
lets do something about it.
THANKS!
You can help.
Too!
Click this link to view more images on
my Aperture web Gallery
Blue Planet Run: The Water Crisis
We do have a problem, no arguments about that. Not only in Africa......
.......but on a Global scale.
I have provided a link to the Aperture Users Professional Network.
AUPN BLOG.
There you can read the whole article/story how we can be part of this and help,
I certainly will!
Gunther
Photo: © Gunther Deichmann
The world is just a drop away from disaster
Photo: © Gunther Deichmann
It is in our hands to make a difference!