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Ferdy Christant

·Oct 7, 2022

Colombia 2022 Travel Report

This in-depth travel report covers the 14th episode of wildlife travel by Henriette and Ferdy. Our latest journey marks our 4th visit to Colombia, making it our most visited destination. For the interested, here are the travel reports of our earlier tours in Colombia from 2016, 2017 and 2018: Colombia 2016 Travel Report Henriette and I just returned from a 2 week wildlife trip to Colombia, so whilst things are still fresh in memory…ferdychristant.com

Birding

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Colombia 2022 Travel Report
Colombia 2022 Travel Report
Birding

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Ferdy Christant

·Dec 5, 2021

Ecuador 2021 Travel Report

Update (May 2022): all photos of the trip are now published: Ecuador 2021 trip summary - by Ferdy Christant - JungleDragon Ecuador 2021 trip summary. With this collage I'm wrapping up overage of our 2021 Ecuador trip. Some stats and…www.jungledragon.com This is the 13th episode of wildlife travel by Henriette and Ferdy. A trip designed to satisfy our hunger to keep exploring the biodiversity of the Andes region, which we last visited in 2018 (South Colombia / photos):

Wildlife

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Ecuador 2021 Travel Report
Ecuador 2021 Travel Report
Wildlife

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Ferdy Christant

·Updated Jan 22

My Journey into Extreme Macro

The Big Hobby of the Tiny — 1. Introduction Roughly one year ago, I involuntarily triggered a personal butterfly effect by dipping my toes into the field of extreme macro photography. An impulse action that has ballooned and escalated in ways I could not foresee. This article documents my extreme macro journey as well as my setup in such…

Photography

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My Journey into Extreme Macro
My Journey into Extreme Macro
Photography

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Ferdy Christant

·Jan 31, 2021

A raw confidence in color

A journey towards better color in photography — Introduction Hi, fellow photographers. I’m an amateur wildlife photographer from the Netherlands. And I have confidence issues about the color and color temperature in my photos. I’m a Nikon shooter photographing in RAW whilst using Adobe Lightroom as my preferred editor. This particular workflow has brought about a pain that has…

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A raw confidence in color
A raw confidence in color

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Ferdy Christant

·Jan 24, 2021

JungleDragon reaches 100K

A giant little milestone 🐉 — We did it! The JungleDragon community has now passed the 100,000 photos milestone. A perfect excuse to write this rare meta post to discuss the State of the Dragon, in three chapters: Celebrating 100K JungleDragon’s history JungleDragon’s future Celebrating 100K Let’s give some meaning to the 100K photos milestone. As a superficial…

Jungledragon

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JungleDragon reaches 100K
JungleDragon reaches 100K
Jungledragon

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Ferdy Christant

·Mar 2, 2020

Keyboard stuck in iOS Add to Homescreen app?

A possible solution — This is one of those posts regarding a super obscure bug/issue that costs me a huge headache and lots of time. I’m writing it solely to avoid you from going through the same pain. The issue I’m developing a PWA. It has a form. When I open the page with the form…

Web Development

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Web Development

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Ferdy Christant

·Dec 26, 2019

The rise, fall and resurrection of Flickr

Introduction Earlier this week, a new chapter was added to the rocky history of Flickr, one that quickly escalated out of control, as per usual on ragenet. To sum up some recent events: on April 2018, SmugMug acquired Flickr for an undisclosed amount. My understanding is that it was a do-or-die…

Photography

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The rise, fall and resurrection of Flickr
The rise, fall and resurrection of Flickr
Photography

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Ferdy Christant

·Sep 6, 2019

Classic SSR + New JS

On demand ES6 Components without bundling — Quite likely you’re confused by both the cover image and title of this article, so let’s get both out of the way: The image features a Velvet worm, a high confusing animal. It’s not really a worm. Not a slug either. Not an insect, and not even an arthropod. It…

JavaScript

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Classic SSR + New JS
Classic SSR + New JS
JavaScript

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Ferdy Christant

·Aug 3, 2019

Madagascar 2019 Travel Report

This is the 12th episode of wildlife travel by Henriette and Ferdy, and the very first for our niece Ymke. Henriette and I had previously visited Madagascar twice, first covering the classic West/South/East route, followed by a second visit that exclusively focused on the less-traveled North of Madagascar: Northern Madagascar Trip Roundupferdychristant.com A third…

Travel

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Madagascar 2019 Travel Report
Madagascar 2019 Travel Report
Travel

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Ferdy Christant

·Apr 20, 2019

Color for the Color-challenged

Read this if you suck at picking colors — Introduction Rather than placing web folks into the bucket Developer or Designer, I think many people would find themselves somewhere in the gray zone in between, not at the extreme ends. I most certainly feel that way about myself. I’m primarily a developer, yet with some creative tendencies (I used to…

Design

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Color for the Color-challenged
Color for the Color-challenged
Design

27 min read

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Web developer, wildlife photographer, founder of www.jungledragon.com

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