Iceland: Land of the Midnight Sun

This awesome time-lapse footage, courtesy of Scientifantastic is enough to get anyone get on a plane. The sun never sets during summer and is always visible at this time of the year. Surreal and stunning footage.

Heat, Dust and Dreams: Kaokoland Photography

The Himba are inventive with their decoration and ornamentation - here a man has fashioned a necklace from goats ears. More photos of this to come, largely drawn from the book I published on this area, Heat, Dust and Dreams.

African Rhythms

This is an awesome film from Thomas Roebers that cleverly makes use of everyday village life to introduce us to the unique rythym's that underpin much of life in Africa.

Madagascar Carnet de Voyage - Animated Video Journal

This is a short animated travel journal from French director Bastien Bubois, recently nominated for Best Animated Short film at the Academy Awards 2011. Using a number of different techniques and touching upon the music, culture and textures of Malagasy life.

Heat, Dust and Dreams: Kaokoland Photography

Himba shadow, Kaokoland, Namibia. Copyright: Heat Dust and Dreams

A Himba elder casts an elegant silhouette against the mud daub wall of his home.  The Himba are semi-nomadic pastoralists that inhabit the remote north-western corner of Nambia - a region of harsh, largely waterless semi-arid desert.  More photos of this to come, largely drawn from the book I published on this area, Heat, Dust and Dreams.

Flamingos in formation

Photographer Bobby Haas recorded this on-off formation of Caribbean flamingos in Mexico's Yucatán province - mimicking themselves, and an elegant example of life imitating art.  His profile and other work can be viewed on the National Geographic site.

Elephant vs crocodile Pt 2

This just proves that crocodiles have no limit to their ambition - not even an imposing elephant cow deterred this determined reptile. The original gallery is courtesy the BBC, with the images taken by Martin Nyfeler in Zambia's Luangwa Valley, and can be viewed here: BBC News - In pictures: Elephant and crocodile 'tug of war'