Description:
Images printed on Fujiflex Crystal Archive silver halide photographic paper using a Lambda machine are shipped from NY.
Images printed on 100% cotton Baryta paper using a Canon 12 inks printer machine are shipped from Chile.
Story:
The hornero birds are members of the genus Furnarius in the family Furnariidae, native to South America. The English common name appears in many books as "ovenbird".
Horneros invest heavily in the construction of a large mud, oven-shaped, nest. The temperature inside the nest is higher and less variable than outside nests, so they become an incubation chamber, allowing greater time to foraging and less time to incubate.
The first time I saw an hornero nest, was on my summer holidays at Santa Cruz -Bolivia, I was bout 8 or 9 years old. Possibly, I saw them a few additional times, but it wasn’t until last month, when visiting a vineyard at Tarija that I encountered various nests, images which I share.