Ecuadorian magazine “Ecuador Infinito” published for the second time this year some of my photos. After the “Feathers in Española” in February, you can find in October edition a reportage called “Yasuni: The patience of Time.

Photos were taken in April 2011 around the Napo Wildlife Center, located on the shore of the Anangucocha lake, within the ancestral territory of the Anangu Quichua Community, part of the Yasuni National Park.

The last series of images taken during my short stay in Bahia Solano, on the Pacific coast of Colombia. A glimpse of the local fauna as well as the sea view.

For these interested, the spider is commonly named “banana spider”, “golden orb-weaver” or “giant wood spider”. Herons are Yellow-crowned night ones.

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Got the news that I am one of the five finalists in the Wildlife category of the Hasselblad’s Latin American photographer competition with this image.

Last but not least of this photo tour of Galapagos Islands: Española. This is one of my preferred one, specially because of its cliffs and its colony of waved albatrosses.

The English named it Hood Island after Viscount Samuel Hood. It is located in the extreme southeast of the archipelago and is considered, along with Santa Fe, one of the oldest, at approximately four million years. From March to January, almost the entire world population of waved albatrosses breeds on the island while the blue-footed boobies accomplish their mating dances.

Española Island is the oldest of the Galapagos Islands with an estimated age of over 3 million years. However this island is dying, slowly becoming a rocky, barren land with little or no vegetation. But this does give large bays, with sand and soft shingle which attracts a healthy number of Galapagos Sea Lions

Two spots are especially popular with visitors: Bahía Gardner, which has a lovely beach; and Punta Suárez, of interest because of its varied bird-life. This island has its own species of animals, such as the Española Mockingbird, which has a longer and more curved beak than the one on the central islands; the Española lava lizard; the Marine Iguana of the subspecies venustissimus, which has red markings on its back; among others.