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Want to improve your flowers photography skills? You came to the right place! A short illustrated tutorial will give you some powerful tips!

Coronavirus lockdown limits our possibility to get away from home. It is an outstanding opportunity to rediscover our immediate environment. Here’s what I found in a radius of 100 meters from home. What did YOU find?

While traveling in Madagascar, I volunteered in Reniala Reserve and Lemur Rescue Center. Helping taking care of the Lemurs, being surrounded by magnificent flora and fauna, mainly the peculiar Baobabs, was an experience of a lifetime. Here’s a day in the reserve, by video and photos.

Isalo National Park offers beautiful contrasting landscape formations, as well as rich flora and fauna, some endemic to Madagascar. Here are four suggested day itineraries for enjoying the park.

What makes Almaty, Kazakhstan’s former capital and its main commercial and cultural hub, so welcoming and attractive? Here’s an introduction to a city which is a journey, a must visit for anyone related to urban design and planning.

Take a look at 10 photos of the Negev Iris, and learn about people’s preferences regarding flowers photography

The Meishar is a vast valley in the center of the Negev Desert. This year, a significant amount of rain brought an abundance of seasonal plants, turning the area green and colorful.

Grove of the Forty is a beautiful area in the Carmel Ridge near Haifa. During the winter, beautiful blossom decorates the ridge, which faces Zevulun valley and the Lower Galilee, and provides great vistas to Haifa Bay as well.

Exceptional amount of rain kept Eilat Mountains green and full of blossom even into the month of June. Let’s take a look at some plants and get superb views of Eilat Beaches, Egypt and Aqaba.

The symbolic “Tree of the State” of Israel collapsed during a storm. Will the newly planted tree symbolize a fresh restart for Israel?

Moscow’s Zaryadye Park is a man-made wild area, an outdoors-indoors organic, flowing and inspirational fabric. But mostly, it blurs the unreasonable existing dichotomy between architecture and landscape architecture.

Is it a statue? An irrigation device? A refreshing corner for birds and dogs? An intriguing element in the street? Take a look at this interesting urban element…

Villagers in North-East India developed an innovative technique to construct bridges and other useful structures out of living aerial roots of rubber (Ficus Elastica) trees. Watch a short documentary and an inspiring photo gallery showcasing root bridges and ladders, with commentary analyzing their structural principles. A must for any civil engineer, architect and designer!

A visit to rural areas of West Garo Hills in Meghalaya, India, where unique traditional life is still kept by Garo People.

Root bridges are bridges made of living tree roots. It was believed that such bridges are unique to southern areas of Meghalaya, but here are some beautiful examples for root bridges in Nagaland state in India, around the village of Nyahnyu – Mon district.

A trip to Oregon’s finest colorful delights – Crater Lake, Davis Lake area, Newberry Volcanic Monument, Lava Butte, John Day Fossil Beds National Monument – Painted Hills, Clarno and Sheep Rock Units, White River Mount Hood, Columbia River, Oneonta Gorge

Tobacco leaves decorate the streets of Prilep in Macedonia as part of the curing process. Watch a clip of a family preparing the leaves for curing and enjoy stills of the colorful streets

A unique snow video and photo gallery from places that seldom see snow in Israel: Yotvat (Yodfat) ridge, the settlement of Hararit and Laura (Lavra) Netofa.

Significant snowy weather systems brought snow and exceptionally low temperatures to Bashanit reserve in the Golan Heights. Here’s a glimpse of the magnificent sights of ice and frost on the rich reserve flora

Warm colors wash Warsaw landscape during “Golden Polish Autumn”. A pictorial tour provides an opportunity for a brief insight into Warsaw’s best gardens, streets and tranquil suburbs.

Visiting the enchanting landscapes of Mariovo, southern Macedonia, and the villages of Štavica and Manastir

Spring is at its peak, and wonderful wild flowers dot Mount Carmel inside the city of Haifa.
Let’s look at some colorful examples…

From the wet lush green areas of the lower Budhi Gandaki at ~500 meters above sea level, through amazing views of Mount Manaslu and the snow covered mountains around Larke La 5106 meters high to magical Bhimtang and beyond…

A visit to the burned down areas of the Carmel Park, just before summer starts, examining the green vegetation and the magnificent sky above following a hot weather system

Three months after the tragic fire in Mount Carmel, and the forest shows interesting signs of rehabilitation. Presentation and photo gallery.

Clouds of smoke turned into clouds of rain and water coming from the sky made the Carmel blush and for a moment it seemed like an Alpine forest in foliage…

Two weeks after the Carmel blaze back to the usual rambling at home – From Haifa to Beit Oren – and the inevitable but optimistic encounters with the fire aftermath

This is how we wish to remember our beautiful Mount Carmel. Watch photos taken in the affected areas in better, greener, days.

Photos taken in Haifa and Mount Carmel during the first day of the mighty forest fire

Photo gallery of various flowers of Israel – Mediterranean areas

Ethiopia – Unknown Paradise – Simien Mountains Introduction – Landscape, best time to travel, flora and fauna