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Cyclist, foodie, band member, vintage furniture lover and product designer. Doing at the nexus of simplicity and sustainability to craft meaningful ideas that endure. I sometimes make random things with friends.

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  • Photo by @jasperdoest | Flamingo Bob enjoys a swim in the #Caribbean Sea. Arthritis in his feet is causing him difficulties to walk but he feels very comfortable in the water. Yes, Flamingo's can swim! When the water is beyond their wading depth, flamingos swim at the surface while feeding. Webbed feet allow the flamingo to swim quite readily. Bob is a Caribbean flamingo, from the Dutch island of #Curaçao. But as you might have already understood, he's not like any other flamingo. His life took a dramatic turn when he flew into a hotel window, leaving him severely concussed. He was cared for by my cousin, Odette Doest @vetdoest , a local vet who also runs a wildlife rehabilitation centre and conservation charity – the Fundashon Dier en Onderwijs Cariben (FDOC) @fdoccuracao. Existing disabilities meant Bob couldn’t be released, but instead he became ambassador for FDOC, which educates locals about the importance of protecting the island’s wildlife. The story about Bob was recently published online @natgeo who are currently celebrating ‘the year of the bird’. #followme @jasperdoest for more images of Flamingo Bob who is slowly becoming #instafamous as the animal ambassador of Fundashon Dier en Onderwijs Cariben (FDOC). #wildliferescue #wildliferehab #wildliferehabilitation #wildlifeeducation #flamingo #flamingolove #prettyinpink #animalrescue #birdrescue #animalambassador #meetbob
  • Photo by @FransLanting | This black rhino may be helped by a glossy starling to get rid of pesky insects, but she is on her own against poachers who stalk her equipped with military hardware. On Sept. 22 we celebrate World Rhino Day and I’d like to draw attention to their plight and salute the organizations which are determined to stop the slaughter. That includes the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in Kenya where this image was made, which has set up its own paramilitary response team. Please, check out the links and consider supporting them in any way you can because only when we band together can we turn the tide. Please follow us @FransLanting and @ChristineEckstrom for more close encounters with rhinos. @LeonardodiCaprio @LeonardodiCapriofdn @Wildaid @World_Wildlife @Lewa_Wildlife #Wildaid #WorldRhinoDay #Rhino #SaveTheRhino #AspinallFoundationn #endangered #protection #naturelovers
  • Photo by @paolowoods and @gabrielegalimbertiphoto | Florence, Italy - Prodigious productivity is a defining characteristic of genius. Charcoal sketches cover the walls of a once concealed room beneath the Medici Chapel in Florence, where Michelangelo hid for three months in 1530 after defying his patrons. The drawings include a sketch of a seated figure (right) who appears on a tomb in the chapel above. #michelangelo #art #florence #italy #drawing #medicichapel #medici
  • Photos by @brentstirton | On this World Rhino Day I would like to pay tribute to a South African organization called #Saving the Survivors. Saving the Survivors was founded in 2012 by veterinarian Dr Johan Marais to “attend to injured endangered wildlife that have fallen victim to poaching or traumatic incidents.” Dr Marais and his team have cared for the most traumatically injured rhino, animals whose very faces have been removed by the unspeakable cruelty of the poachers axe. These rhino were never meant to survive, but despite waking up bullet ridden and without a face, these animals have demonstrated an indescribable will to live. Dr Marais and his team help them to do exactly that, allowing these survivors to come back to life despite their suffering. There are a number of worthwhile organizations in South Africa working on the rhino crisis but today I would direct your attention towards Saving the Survivors. They open themselves up to tragedy with a breath-taking optimism, caring for animals most of us would not believe in. There is a lot of talk about the front line of conservation; these people genuinely embody that in a unique way. If you would like to help, they can be reached at www.savingthesurvivors.org and #savingthesurvivors
  • Photo by @jimmy_chin | @alexhonnold free soloing one of the upper pitches of Free Rider on El Capitan, Yosemite, CA. Happy to share Free Solo Film took home the People’s Choice Award at Toronto International Film Festival last weekend. Thank you to @thompowers1 and the entire #tiff18 team for giving #freesolo the opportunity to play at Toronto, and of course, our incredible partners at @natgeo that believed in Alex and the film throughout. And finally, a big shout out to co-director @mochinyc and the entire crew that worked tirelessly to make this film what it is. #freesolo releases in theaters in NYC, LA and Denver / Boulder starting Sept 28. More cities to follow. For information on theaters and links to advanced ticketing, go to www.freesolofilm.com. Shot on assignment for @natgeo. To see more images from Free Solo, follow @jimmy_chin.
  • Photo by @amivitale | Today is World Rhino Day. Eric, an 8 year old eastern black rhino is translocated 10,000 miles, across 5 countries over 68 hours, from the San Diego Safari Park @sdzsafaripark in California to the Serengeti ecosystem in Tanzania. He is part of a project to increase the population of critically endangered black rhino within the greater Serengeti ecosystem. There are less than 750 Eastern Black Rhinos left in the wild. Eric was moved because his genetics are overrepresented in captive rhinos in the US but will be an important boost to the existing rhinos in the Serengeti ecosystem and east Africa The project is run by the Singita Grumeti Fund @grumetifund, a non-profit in the western Serengeti, which is working with the Tanzanian government to conserve wildlife and to boost the local population of black rhino in their native habitat. Eric joins a female eastern black rhino already living at Singita Grumeti. Their introduction to each other and hopeful breeding success forms the first phase of this exciting new black rhino expansion project. @sandiegozoo @tusk_org @thephotosociety @natgeo @nature_org @nature_africa #singitagrumetifund #WorthMoreAlive #protectrhinos #DontLetThemDisappear #eric #rhinos #blackrhino #saverhinos #stoppoaching #africa #everydayafrica #photojournalism #amivitale #conservation #tanzania #worldrhinoday #antipoaching #endextinction
  • Photo by @chien_chi_chang | I had always been fascinated with Myanmar (Burma) ever since I read George Orwell's Shooting an Elephant. I have made over ten trips to Myanmar in the past decade. Back then, the military junta was insular and xenophobic, and I had to assume that every move I made and every word I said was being watched or listened to by Big Brother’s ubiquitous informers. It was unlike any land I had been to or knew about before. Every trip was challenging—sometimes menacing but always exciting, too. When I first photographed the Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, as she was released from house arrest, I switched taxis three times for a 10-minute ride, stopping by a movie theatre and a shopping mall to shake off potential tails so as to reach The Lady's party headquarters in one piece. It had become a matter of time before she would come to power. I could smell an urgent hunger for, and sense of, freedom in the air. For the first time, it seemed that democracy and human rights would prevail in Myanmar. I had high hopes for the country and its people. #MagnumPhotos #cccontheroad
  • Photo by George Steinmetz @geosteinmetz | Combines harvesting dry land wheat on the Vulgamore Family Farm just south of Scott City, Kansas. The Vulgamores have been farming this area for five generations, and have one of the largest farms in the county. With GPS equipped harvesters that correlate yield to location, seed, and fertilizer, their scientific approach to farming enables a constant improvement in efficiency, and explains why the US remains the world’s biggest exporter of food. To learn more about the global food supply, follow @FeedThePlanet
  • Photo by @cookjenshel | Twenty two years ago, on September 18th President Clinton designated the Escalante-Grand Staircase National Monument in Utah, to protect for generations to come – the irreplaceable antiquities that exist within its over 1.7 million acres. It was a dream assignment for us, and our first for National Geographic, to photograph that spectacular landscape containing 250 million years of geologic history. It would take a lifetime to see the vast number of rock art panels and historic dwellings found within the monument’s borders, so we were fortunate to have the help of archeologists and geologists to lead us to many of the more important sites. Much of this landscape has still not been fully surveyed, and with current proposals to shrink the monument, it’s heartbreaking that we may lose an unknown rich history before it’s been fully revealed. @natgeo @thephotosociety @natgeocreative #MonumentsForAll #SaveGrandStaircase #GrandStaircaseNationalMonument
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