A trip to Brazil

Here a a few photos I snapped while at the Animal Behavior meeting in Pirenopolis, Brazil at the end of last month. I was only there for a week, and most of that week was spent indoors, listening to talks, but on occasion we did manage to escape and get a small taste of the culture of Brazil. Not speaking Portuguese, I can't tell you how accurate that taste was, however!

Taken right on the grounds of the hotel, this one is great because of the spider laying in wait inside the flower! Very appropriate for the animal behavior meeting. Unfortunately I don't study spiders, so I can't tell you what it's doing in there...

This is a motorcycle taxi, which were crawling all over Pirenopolis. I wish I'd had the chance to take one!

These last two were taken at a nature preserve about 30 minutes away from the city we were staying in. We took a van there our first day and walked around in the Brazilian forest, looking at the flora and occasionally some fauna. The light was incredibly striking when the sun began to set - the bottom photo is basically as shot. I love the depth of field on the other, it makes it look like a dreamland.