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01/24/10
Current status of website, 24 January 2010
Filed under: General, Work on my website
Posted by: site admin @ 10:37 am

(post still being edited)

My website : JUNGLEVIEW, Stock photography by Jacques Jangoux - Tropical Nature and Cultures - is now completely functional. It consists of two galleries collections, Nature (13 galleries) and Cultures (13 galleries).
For each gallery I will mention a few selected images or subjects.

Gallery collection: cultures
                                 Children: babies, child work and play, teenagers (mother carrying baby in Africa, child labor, children going to school by canoe,  girls dancing to boy´s drums in Africa, more…)                                                                                                
                                 Brazil and in Venezuela:Tourist and travel destinations (Angel Falls, highest waterfall in world; isolated beaches in Brazil;  floating giant water lily in Amazon region, Chapada dos Veadeiros in savanna region in Brazilian Highlands, tulip fields in Holland, aerials of Kauai Island, more…)
                                 Brazil Economy (
ethanol plant and sugar cane fields, Carajas iron mine in Amazon region, logging industry, more…)
                                 Latin America: Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Guatemala, Mexico: Maya stela at Quirigua ruins in Guatemala; Bolivia: mother and baby at market in La Paz; Quechua Indians playing flute; Aymara Indian chewing coca leaves; Mexico: textiles, folk medicines on display
at market, Indian men sowing maize with digging sticks, more…
                                 Rural Brazil: Amazon region: canoe transportation, riverside dwellings; Brazilian Highlands: farm family, adobe house, father on horseback with children, mother with child on mule.                  
                                 Indian tribes in Brazil (1)
: curing ceremony by shamans, in Venezuela Highlands (18): Indians using natural products, slash-and-burn agriculture and biodiversity of traditional cultivars: (maize).
                                 Africa: Niger: Fulani nomad girl at well; Chad: men building thatch hut; Congo: girls dancing to sound of drums played by boys; Liberia: women harvesting rice; village chief; more…
                                 Europe (Belgium: beech forest, Holland: tulip fields), USA (
Hawaii: Kauai: aerials: Mount Waialeale; Na Pali Coast; Waimea Canyon); Arizona: Canyon de Chelly; California: Big Sur coast)
                                 Agriculture: tulip fields in Holland, sugar cane plantations, coconut plantation, tomato harvest, slash-and-burn agriculture by Indians of Venezuela.
                                 Environment
                                 Religion, Colonial churches, Shamanism, Social issues: hypnotic spirit possession transe during Afro-Brazilian religion ceremony; curing ritual by Brazilian Indian shamans;  river procession, colonial churches in Brazil                                                            
Floriculture, horticulture: petunia, cosmos, tulip fields in Holland                                
                                 Auto racing: historic (Le Mans 1967, Jim Clark, Enzo Ferrari); rally dos Sertoes 2009 in Brazil

Gallery collections: nature
                                Concepts and processes in tropical ecology:  treefall gap or natural clearing in tropical rainforest including re-colonization; water dispersal of palm fruit; leaves with drip tip; tropical rainstorm over rainforest; buttresses and stilt roots; more…
                                Aerials of Brazil: rainforest. Amazon floodplain, Carajas iron mine; Venezuela: Angel Falls, highest waterfall in world                                           
                                Rainforest (Tropical Rain Forest): aerials, canopy, trees, undergrowth, seedlings, lianas (vines), more…
                                Savanna grasslands: twisted trees; plants and trees growing among rocks; flowers; savanna fire with antelope in Africa, more…
                               
(in construction - more galleries to be added)

Additional pages are:
                              Scientific names of plants, animals
                              Recommended Books on biomes, rainforest, cerrado (Brazilian savannas), field guides, palms, begonias, books in Portuguese on the Cerrado and its flora (numerous photographs)…
                              Links
                              Business Networks
                                     LinkedIn
                                     Facebook
                                     Twitter
                                     Rubicon Trail Off Road Community Network (social network)
                                     COLOURIA CONNECT: Collective promotional blog for professional photographers

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