Trichoglossus Haematodus

Trichoglossus Haematodus

The rainbow Lorikeet ( Trichoglossus Haematodus ) or as we say in germany Allfarblori is a very colorfull and friendly little bird I met this birds on my last trip to the Canary island Tenerife at the Katandra Treetop. A big birds free fly compound in one of europas best zoos, the Loro Parque. And I only do this kind of pictures when I am on vacation 🙂 The birds there are very handsome For most of the pictures I used my old Sigma 105 macro lens. In the manual mode, because the autofocus is not very quick. Or should I say it is very slow 🙂

 

Seagulls

Seagulls at the water prey

A bunch of seagulls hunting over the blue atlantic sea. I met thous gulls on a boat trip over the atlantic ocean from the island of Lanzarote to la Graciosa. They followes out Boat for a while in hope of getting feeded by the tourists. And that happend after a view minutes. They got feeded by tourists with the rests of their Paella.

Eine Gruppe von Möwen, welche ich bei einer Überfahrt von Lanzarote nach La Graciosa fotografieren konnte. Während der Überfahrt folgten sie uns eine Weile in der Hoffnung das jemand ein wenig Essen für sie über Bord wirft um sie zu füttern. Am Ende haben sie dann die Reste der Paella bekommen und sind wieder ab gezogen.

 

A Seagull at La Graziosa

A Seagull in the air

A bunch of seagulls looking for prey. I met thous gulls on a boat trip over the atlantic ocean from the island of Lanzarote to la Graciosa. The seagull followes our Boat for a while in hope of getting feeded by the tourists. They trow some food for them in the air. That seems to happen frequently, because the gulls were very trustingly.

Eine gruppe von Möwen, welche ich bei einer Überfahrt von Lanzarote nach La Gaciosa fotografieren konnte. Während der Überfahrt folgten sie uns eine Weile in der Hoffnung das jemand ein wenig Essen für sie über Bord wirft um sie zu füttern.

squaller

A beautyfull little squaller

I met this little squaller on my last trip to the canaies istland Tenerife. He made a lot of noise while defending his food against everyone. But he was not afraid of my 105mm macro lens. Yes you heared right, I did all thouse pictures with a macro lens. I am not a bird photographer and I never wanted to be one. But I took the chance and did some portraits of this little squaller.

Der kleine Schreihals hier hat ein ziemliches Theater veranstalltet als ich mich Ihm mit meinem 105er Makro genähert habe. Also entweder wollte er sein Futter verteidigen, oder er mochte mein Objektiv nicht. Vielleicht hat er sich ja auch gedacht, so ein altes Sigma auf einer Nikon, das geht gar nicht 🙂

Egyptian Locust

Egyptian Locust

I found this little creatures at the zoo in Frankfurt am Main. They are in boring glasbox, standing in front of a window. So thats why one of the pictures has a blue background. I stumbeld upon by their name, Egyptian Locust (anacridium aegyptium). Egyptian huh. I thought if they are thous fellows mentiond in the old testament as one of the tenplaques. Imagine, if millions of them coming to your farm…..

The green iguana - Iguana iguana

The green iguana – Iguana iguana

The green iguna ( Iguana iguana) also known as the common iguna or as american iguna. This little friend here is far away from home.  He lives at the Loro Parque. Together with a turtle and some Callitrichidae monkeys. The Loro Parque a very nice zoo in Puert de la Cruz in the north of Tenerife. Its very unusual for me doing thouse kind of pictures, but he was very friedly and interested on my camera. He is behind a glas wall. I had to use a polariser to get most of the reflections out. There are many vititors around who tries th flash with a smartphone against the glas. So you have many reflections there.