Three different birds eating fish

An osprey, a juvenile bald eagle and an anhinga having a snack>

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Alligators everywhere

We took a wildlife drive along the shores of Lake Apopka in central Florida. Loads of birds, but also alligators. These are American Alligators not Crocodiles....
 

Adorable puppies



I think my stream of Ancient Egypt imagery needs a pause

What better than a couple of adorable puppies (at the entrance...
 

Paper Wasp and macro kit

A Paper Wasp. Focus bracket stacked in Helicon.



This is the setup I use (a recent update) -



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Spider

A Jumping Spider (Genus Helpis, unknown species)

The match stick in the background is 3mm high.



The eyes have...
 

White Ibis

Since the resident osprey aren't cooperating, and the otters weren't out today, I went looking for something else and found this White Ibis in the deep...
 

A few (real estate) pics from my Laowa 6mm f2 Zero-D

I didn't really need an ultra wide angle lens. My widest was my 12-40 Pro and I rarely shoot at the wide end of that. Still, the little 6mm Laowa intrigued...
 

A Topazed Dunnock...



A Rainy day exercise

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Otters

While out for my walk this morning I found some otters! All taken with the OM1mkii and 100-400.

There was a lot of small yellow leaves in...
 

Flatpack boat over 4500 years old



In a separate building of the Grand Egyptian Museum is Khufu's boat. It was discovered, ready to be assembled, in 1,224 pieces, as recently...
 

Camel



OM-1 Mark 1, 12-100 Pro @100mm f/4 @f/4 1/8000th ISO 400 (again, I should have checked as this should have been on ISO 200).

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A bigger splash

With apologies to David Hockney; not a Californian swimming pool but the lake at Wollaton Park:







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Common Buzzard....



A bit of a long shot, but detail comes out quite well...
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The Hatshepsut Mortuary temple

Hatshepsut was an interesting character, who ruled Ancient Egypt between 1473 and 1458 BCE. This was rare QUEEN, who ruled as Pharaoh. An oddity was that...
 

Different day, different place, different birds

This is a spot I have had trouble with heat haze before and it was no different this time. Fortunately, some of the birds were close enough to avoid...

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3,000 feet up, over the Valley of the Queen (Hatshepsut), with the Nile in the distance. This was just after sunrise.

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bullfinch re-visited

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