Ian MacLellan

documentary photojournalist and geologist

Month: January, 2009

The Sloth

Sloths always poop in the same spot. They come down from the trees once a week, “in a hurry”, and find the same spot on the ground and poop there. Nobody knows why they would risk such a thing. I find it noble, they are probably keeping alive a very complicated relationship that each sloth [...]

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Happy Birthday Ian from Ian

Yesterday(the fifth) I turned nineteen. I am slowly getting too old to be a youth phenom photographer! I better hurry and come up with a masterpiece. Till then here is a quick recap of my birthday: midnight-5:00 in the morning: chatting on the internets and reading stuff in my Google Reader, while updating my blog. [...]

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I Love Antarctica, the world’s largest desert

“It’s so cold in Alaska”- The Velvet Underground and it’s even colder in Antarctica. I have always been entranced by the idea of Antarctica, it’s as Herzog says, “the end of the world.” It also doesn’t get the recognition it deserves. It worked hard as a kid to become the largest desert in the world, [...]

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Scotland

It wasn’t until Ian told me where the picture was taken that I knew what I was going to write about. The mention of Scotland brought me back to a memory of my trip there two summers ago. My family (well, most of it) and I set out to walk the length of Hadrian’s Wall, east [...]

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Forget the Savanah Hypothesis

So this morning my mother gave me a very good article in the Ideas section of today’s globe: How the City Hurts Your Brain it mentioned Walden Pond of course guilting me because I live a stones throw away from a hill where I could throw a stone at Walden Pond and Thoreau’s cabin. “Why [...]

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