Issue #2 - May 2007
Catalogue Highlight -
Each month we will be featuring one of our nature CD titles at a special price: Aust$16.50 (Overseas (non-Australian) orders, ex-tax, converts to approx. US$11.65, 9.00 Euro or £6.20).
May 2007:
A Walk in the Rainforest
June 2007:
Spirit of the Outback
Next Issue:
From another perspective:
Our dear friends and neighbours, Richard and Prue, joined us for the
first six weeks of our field trip to India last year. Richard will
share with you his reflections of experiencing India for the first
time, and 'enforced listening' in Bandipur National Park!
Your suggestions:
We'd love to hear from you. Click here, tell us what you'd like from this newsletter and offer your suggestions.
Published by Listening Earth,
© 2007
Listening Earth
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Welcome to our second newsletter.
"Three
months of nature sound recording in India - that sounds like a nice holiday!" Um,
no, not really. A mixture of cultural overload, chronic uncertainty,
jaw-dropping beauty, incomprehensable problems, heart-warming human interactions
and the occasional life-threatening situation.
In this issue of our newsletter, you can read the first part of our India Diary. Come with Sarah and I as we journey deep into the jungles of Maharastra, and find out what a week of field work with us in India is really like! When you listen to the albums we will be publishing later this year, you may have some idea of what went into obtaining the recordings and images.
After our return from India in January, we were feeling in need of a REAL holiday. So we've recently spent a fortnight on the island of Bali in Indonesia, floating over coral reefs and testing out an underwater housing for our camera. Our favourite spot was Menjangan Island, which has the reputation of being the best dive location in Bali. For us it was spectacular. While it doesn't have much to do with nature sounds, we've picked some of our favourite images for you to put on your computer desktop.
This month we have several complimentary nature soundscapes, including the haunting calls of Grey-headed Fish Eagles. You'll find the others linked among our feature article.
Our plans for an online download shop are progressing, but the technical coding is a bit of a learning curve! We hope to have it up by our next newsletter.
Lastly, many thanks to those of you who wrote encouragingly of our first newsletter. We're glad you are enjoying our offerings. Once again, all feedback is welcome and if you have any suggestions, we'd welcome hearing them.
Best wishes, Sarah and Andrew
In this issue:
- Feature: India Diary pt.1 - Maharastra
- Undersea Images from Bali
- Rockhopper Penguin pictures
- Grey-headed Fish Eagles
Feature:
India Diary pt.1 - Maharastra
A week nature recording in the jungles of Kipling...
http://www.listeningearth.com.au/newsletters/2007_05_feature.htm
Undersea Images from Bali
Download these as a zip file, for either regular screen (1024x768) or widescreen
(1680x1050) format. (Use a decompression program like Stuffit Expander
to decompress the file into a folder with 8 jpeg images.)
BaliReefs1024x768.zip
BaliReefs1680x1050.zip
Rockhopper Penguin near Cape Otway
Remember 'Lovelace' from the recent film 'Happy Feet'? He's a Rockhopper
Penguin, but in the wild, the population
of Rockhoppers is crashing. Which
makes our recent encounter with a juvenile Penguin on the Victorian coast
both remarkable and poignant. Some photos here...
http://www.listeningearth.com.au/newsletters/2007_05_rockhopper.htm
Grey-headed Fish Eagles at Nagzira
The haunting calls of Grey-headed
Fish Eagles echo over a lake at dawn in Nagzira Nature Reserve. (Other
sounds to download linked from within our feature article.)
http://www.listeningearth.com.au/newsletters/2007_05_Images/Grey-headed
Fish Eagles.mp3