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From a trip to Costa Rica two years ago: hummingbird in flight in

Monteverde cloudforest in central Costa Rica. Photo made handheld

with a 100mm prime lens 1/2500sec at f/4.5 and ISO2500.

Panoramic view over Laki craters, a volcanic fissure in the south of

Iceland, which spread tons of basalt lava in the surroundings when

they opened up in the 18th century.

After a delicious meal this lion cub is resting on the branch of a tree in Lower

Zambezi National Park, Zambia.

Thank you so much, Ernest, Alf and Larry for your kind comments on my photo !

@Larry, no I am not from Iceland, but live in Belgium. Iceland is just a couple of hours of flying away from home, so I tend to visit once a year if possible, because the landscape is just magnificent and full of inspiration. Best regards, Karin.

South coast of Iceland is a continuous source of inspiration to me. Twilight gives the

most soft and subtle color nuance and grand atmosphere, which keep me going back

time and time again.

Superbe and tranquil winter landscape ! Great work ! Congrats !

Amazing scenery captured very well. I think the grandeur of this scene is underlined by this vertical composition. The lines of the tide in the sand circle around the subject so that the eyes of the viewer are kept within the frame. Also tonewise. I think this is a very well balanced image. Superbe work ! 

Dramatic sky over Breidamerkursandur, a basalt beach with

turquoise chunks of ice from nearby glacial river lagoon Jokulsarlon.

How much movement do you like to see in the tidal waves of an

ocean ? Do you rather freeze the splashing water or do you prefer

everything blurred out using long shutter speeds ?

This is a portrait of an African elephant (Loxodonta africana) covered

with mud in the late afternoon sunlight in the Lower Zambezi

National Park, Zambia. What makes a close up portrait of an

elephant special, what works and what does not in your opinion ?

Thank you so much for your time !

Icebergs in the tidal waves of the Atlantic Ocean land on the

coastline of Breidamerkursandur basalt beach in Iceland. View at

dusk.

Profile portrait of a scarlet macaw (Ara macao) in Zoo Ave, Alajuela,

central Costa Rica. Enjoy its colors !

Panoramic view over Amadrangur with black basalt beach and

dramatic sky at dusk, southcoast of Iceland. A place to return and

return and return to ....

Ha, just great, how did you get them to pose so perfectly well ;) ? Regards, Karin.

Very interesting composition here:  there is a lot in here for the eye to see, and yet it all fits together very well, best regards, Karin.

Great nature abstract !

Otherworldly beautiful landscape !

This is an exquisite landscape !

Ice chunks break away from the Breidamerkurjokull glacier and are

transported by tidal motion along the glacial river lagoon Jokulsarlon

into open sea along the Icelandic southcoast. Afterwards they land

on the black basalt beach of Breidamerkursandur where they melt

away tossed around in the tidal waves of the northern Atlantic Ocean.

They sure make for moody landscapes....

Excellent work, I am always a fan of reflections !

This just is going to be an all time classic, fabulous, I am out of words !

Wonderful warm colors and good composition for a hard to photograph subject ! Excellent !

Keel-billed Toucan (Ramphastos sulfuratus), also called Rainbow-

billed or Sulfur-breasted Toucan, in close-up profile portrait in La Paz

Waterfall Gardens in Costa Rica. Great opportunity to make their

portrait from close by, because most of the times these very social

and colorful birds are high up in the canopy of the rainforest.

In the end, the ceiling comes down, and the desert takes over...

Kolmanskop ghost town in the Namib desert, southern Namibia,

2012.

Could not resist capturing this portrait of a mother and baby langur

with the light falling sideways upon them...

Perfect dynamic capture ! Best regards, Karin.