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Proud, happy and honoured!! National Geographic Germany published a beautiful book (176 pages, hard cover) about iPhoneography.
I am featured with 30 pages, next to Damon Winter, Richard Koci Hernandez, Michael Christopher Brown and the instigator of the book: Many times awarded nature photographer for Nat Geo: Carsten Peter
The book is for sale (yes, the text is in german) for € 29,95
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My prize winning shot that was placed third and published in National Geographic Traveller earlier this month. Chuffed to bits!
The whiskered tern (Chlidonias hybrida) is a tern in the family Laridae. The genus name is from Ancient Greek khelidonios, "swallow-like", from khelidon, "swallow". The specific hybridus is Latin for hybrid; Pallas thought it might be a hybrid of white-winged black tern and common tern, writing "Sterna fissipes [Chlidonias leucopterus] et Hirundine [Sterna hirundo] natam”.
This bird has a number of geographical races, differing mainly in size and minor plumage details.
C. h. hybrida breeds in warmer parts of Europe and the Palearctic (northwestern Africa and central and southern Europe to southeastern Siberia, eastern China and south to Pakistan and northern India). The smaller-billed and darker C. h. delalandii is found in east and south Africa, and the paler C. h. javanicus from Java to Australia.
The tropical forms are resident, but European and Asian birds winter south to Africa and the Indian Subcontinent. A tagged whiskered tern was spotted at Manakudi Bird Sanctuary, Kanniyakumari District of Tamil Nadu, India in the month of April 2021.
This species breeds in colonies on inland marshes, sometimes amongst black-headed gulls, which provide some protection. The scientific name arises from the fact that this, the largest marsh tern, show similarities in appearance to both the white Sterna terns and to black tern.
The size, black cap, strong bill (29–34 mm in males, 25–27 mm and stubbier in females, with a pronounced gonys) and more positive flight recall common or Arctic tern, but the short, forked-looking tail and dark grey breeding plumage above and below are typically marsh tern characteristics. The summer adult has white cheeks and red legs and bill. The crown is flecked with white in the juvenile, and the hindcrown is more uniformly blackish, though in the winter adult this too is flecked with white. The black ear-coverts are joined to the black of the hindcrown, and the space above is mottled with white, causing the black to appear as a C-shaped band. The sides of the neck are white; this sometimes continues across the nape. The collar is less sharply defined. All through the year the rump is pale grey. In the juvenile, the mantle (279 mm) has a variegated pattern. The feathers of the back and scapulars are dark brown, with prominent broad buff edgings and often subterminal buff bars or centers. There is usually an admixture of new gray feathers, especially on the mantle, quite early in the fall. The mantle is silvery-gray in the adult. The call is a characteristic krekk.
In winter, the forehead becomes white and the body plumage a much paler grey. Juvenile whiskered terns have a ginger scaly back, and otherwise look much like winter adults. The first winter plumage is intermediate between juvenile and adult winter, with patchy ginger on the back.
The whiskered tern eats small fish, amphibians, insects and crustaceans.
For more information, please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiskered_tern
This is one of the main streets of the city. This area is so cold in winter that food has to be cooked in the autumn and then frozen (stored underground) to feed people until spring.
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Das Allgäu ist der südöstlichste Teil Schwabens am Nordrand der Alpen in Süddeutschland. Der größte Teil des Allgäus liegt in Bayern, ein kleinerer in Baden-Württemberg. Die Alpenkette ist die geographische Abgrenzung im Südteil des Allgäus.
The Allgäu is the southeasternmost part of Schwaben on the northern edge of the Alps in southern Germany. The largest part of the Allgäu is in Bavaria, a smaller one in Baden-Württemberg. The Alpine chain is the geographical demarcation in the southern part of the Allgäu.
L'Allgäu est la partie la plus au sud-est de Schwaben, au nord des Alpes, dans le sud de l'Allemagne. La plus grande partie de l'Allgäu est en Bavière, une plus petite dans le Bade-Wurtemberg. La chaîne alpine est la démarcation géographique dans la partie sud de l'Allgäu.
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Vintage desk I bought a couple years back. I use it in photo shoots and now have a place to use it in the house.
These two photos are in the Canadian Geographic Magazine Ultimate Quiz Edition this month
The two photos are from a road trip to the Canadian Rockies Last Fall. They are both from the stunning Lake O'Hara, Yoho National Park, British Columbia.
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The church of Our Lady of the Rocks, Kotor, contains 68 paintings by Tripo Kokolja, a famous 17th-century baroque artist from Perast. His most important painting, ten meters long, is The Death of the Virgin. There are also paintings by Italian artists, and an icon (circa 1452) of Our Lady of the Rocks, by Lovro Dobričević of Kotor. The church also houses a collection of silver votive tablets and a famous votive tapestry embroidered by Jacinta Kunić-Mijović from Perast. It took her 25 years to finish it while waiting for her darling to come from a long journey, and eventually, she became blind. She used golden and silver fibres but what makes this tapestry so famous is the fact that she also embroidered her own hair in it.
Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has infuriated people from Alberta, after failing to give the province a shout-out on Canada Day. The gaffe came as the country celebrated its 150th birthday at the weekend. Kicking off celebrations, the PM name-checked 12 of Canada's 13 provinces and territories - but not Alberta.
A few years ago I posted a nicely framed picture of Rings Island which is across the river from Newburyport, MA and is part of Salisbury. The only problem was that I took a perfectly good picture and over-processed it. I've been meaning to correct what I did ever since and finally have. It's still over-processed, but in my opinion a better way.
The Pied Kingfisher has a broad geographic distribution. I've seen in Africa and Asia, and also in the Middle East. Often it hovers in the air, keeping its head perfectly still while it locates prey in the water. That's what I tried to capture in this series, which unfortunately I took when neither my skills nor my equipment were satisfactory.