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 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...
 

3,000 year old colour

Not the oldest temple of ancient Egypt by any means, but it's still over 3,000 years old - the temple of Medinet Habu, Luxor, built by Ramesses III, 20th...
 

Other birds by the river

A final set of birds from my walk

Some councils around Perth set up nesting poles for Osprey. There was one here with a pair of Osprey and...

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