Tim Laman

Photography & Exploration | Wildlife Photojournalist

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Yasuni National Park, Ecuador

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Cobalt-winged Parakeets (Brotogeris cyanoptera) feeding on clay at the clay lick east of Anangu and south of the Napo River, Yasuni National Park, Orellana Province, Ecuador

For the January 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine, I was part of a team of five Nat Geo photographers including Ivan Kashinsky, Karla Gachet, David Liittschwager and Steve Winter.  We went to Ecuador for one month to document the biologically richest place on the planet, Yasuni National Park, and the important conservation issues and human cultural issues surrounding it.  Here is the feature story at Nat Geo.

You can see how all our efforts came together to tell the story in this interactive.

Also, Spencer Milsap of Nat Geo produced this video piece, which my assistant Anand Varma and I also helped to shoot.  It captures what it was like to work on this story in the Amazon rain forest of Ecuador.

Cockatoo Pair

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I am still in the Cape York Peninsula of Australia.  The spectacular Sulfur-crested Cockatoos are so common here, that we rarely give them a second look after several weeks in the field.  But this pair at a nest cavity was worth a shot.