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great frigate bird from Ecuador

Abyssinian ground hornbill- taken in Uganda

A chimpanzee lounging 50 feet up in a tree in Uganda

great horned owl

Pied Kingfisher with "lunch" - taken in Uganda

male silverback mountain gorilla, Bwindi Impenetrable Forest Park, Uganda.  I was at most 10 feet from this one, a bit nerve wracking 

Another photo of the sword billed hummingbird in response to Mary Doo's comment about the "sword" from my January 1 post.   It is amazing to see it fly with such a long bill

Sword billed hummingbird In Ecuador. .  Of all animals it has the longest bill or beak in comparison to its body size. 

chestnut breasted coronets in Ecuador 

Barbet toucan in Ecuador Andes

You are right about the ID. I have seen peregrine's before in that area and just assumed it was that. I would go with Cooper's hawk as its shins were pretty covered. 

peregrine falcon

Royal Tern in Ecuador. D500, 200 - 400mm f4 at 400 mm. ISO 1400 1/1250, f8 EV 0.67

Hoatzin from Ecuador. 

Not a good shot of an Andean condor in the Andes of Ecuador.  It was the best I could do.  I was at 12,000 feet looking down into the valley in the pouring rain and took this with my Nikon D500 and 200-400 Nikon f4 zoom at 400mm at maximum distance. 

Another weird one from the forests of the Andes in Ecuador. 

One of the weirdest looking birds, an Andean Cock of the Rock,  from the mountains of Ecuador. 

I took these with my 200-400mm Nikon F4 at 400mm while sitting at a restaurant outside after a whale watching trip. The shots of the whales are lousy . Thee are the best shots from the day   It was the only lens I had. Both taken at 1/2.500 at fB  

barn swallows feeding time 

Went to the bird sanctuary last week , very few birds around but a dragonfly gave me my best shot. 

When I am travelling and taking photos I upload them (raw files)  each day them from my Nikon camera to my laptop , quickly go through them to eliminate the duds,  and then save them on my laptop and a portable hard drive.  I have an old Version of On One on my laptop but the last time I did this I had to have an internet connection  to use  it. I am going to remote areas in Ecuador where i won't have good internet.  So I would like a simple program that I can put on my laptop to use to just review the photos, delate the bad ones and save the good ones.  The editing will take place when I return home and put them all on my desktop.

I downloaded darktable but I couldn't figure out how to put multiple photos into it and then look at them one by one and delete them as needed.  I gave up and uninstalled it. I then downloaded GIMP. When I tried to put in my RAW files it said I needed a Raw driver from darktable. The darktable website only seems to have the full program, not a specific driver that you can download.

Can Photoshop Elements handle Raw files? If it can I think the best thing to do is to  download a free trial version just  before I  leave on my 2 week trip .  

Any suggestions? comments?

Young bald eagle feasting  on the head of a seagull

Male hooded merganser 

Whistling Heron  but what species of frog, lol

Anyone have any experience with travel and nature photography in Uganda? I came across some interesting tours through the various parks