Very cute. I wonder if I can go to Iran and see one? I bet they are very hard to find unless in a zoo.
‘Shiraz,’ a female Persian leopard, blends into her surroundings while sitting in a tree. Persian leopards, endangered throughout its range in the Middle East, are a subspecies native to western Asia.
This image is from The Big Picture, The Earth From Above I hope Yann Arthus-Bertrand doesn’t mind me using his copyrighted image in a reduced size in this post. His photos are awesome, and it must have been hard to get permission to take some of them. In Kuwait private ownership of aircraft isn’t allowed as far as I know it so how would he do it?
I’m not sure I want to go there considering all the depleted uranium that was used in the first Gulf War. And it makes me think how much depleted uranium dust is in the air in Kuwait particularly in the dust storms that we had for so much of this year.
Here is where the photo was taken.
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Or should I call it Lines and Glass?
From the summer. Nothing much going on here in Kuwait as it is the work week now. I tried it in black and white but it wasn’t too interesting. Perhaps if I spent a lot of time on the black and white, but this version with colours over the top is fun. Reminds me vaguely of Escher
