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The Tailed Jay – Graphium Agamemnon

This is not a typical christmas posting. I have no girl with a sexy christmas dress for this year, or a spanking santa. This year its a butterfly called the Tailed Jay (Graphium Agamemnon). I have to admit that I have no idear about butterflys. I am just into pictures and I have never done butterfly pictures before. I googled the name, before I wrote the posting 🙂 This tailed jay lives in a huge butterfly house in Gran Canaria. I was there with my Sigma 150mm macro and a monopod. I actually came for the birds, not for the butterflys and it was my first time in an butterfly house. First I watched the russian tourists there who tries to catch some butterflys with there iPads and iPhones, but only got unsharp pictures 🙂 Well, thats the benefit of an camera with a fast lens and a high ISO range .-)

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Puerto de Mogan

Puerto de Mogan – The small village in the south of Gran Canaria. Easy to reach with the local bus system. You dont need a car to go there. There are less parking possibilities in Puerto de Mogan and its a small village so you can do everything there by foot. I went there wit the local bus direct from Maspalomas. Its about halt an hour. Just for a day trip. Its a nice little village for relaxing, drinking some coffe or walking around. They have a lot of flowers there, white painted houses with blue doors. The bay beach is wind and waves protected, so take your swimming things with you.

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La Graciosa

Sadly we have got windy weather and a cloudy sky on our day trip to the smal canary island La Graciosa. I just can imagine how beautyfull La Graciosa would be with bright sunlight and a blue sky. But for all that I enjoeyed my trip to La Graciosa very much. It is the smallest inhabiteted island of the canaries. It has only 29,05 square kilometers and its in the north of Lanzarote. We took the ferry from Orzola to Caleta del Sebo, the small main village. After a lunch break we went out for a short hiking trip over the island and took the last ferry back to Lanzarote. And the bus back to our horror hotel in Costa Brava.

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Exotic Birds

Some for european eyes exotic birds in flight. Taken at the exotic birds free flight show in Gran Canaria. Precisely at Palmitos Park. A medium large Zoo in the south of Gran Canaria. They offers amongst others a exotic birds free flight show, birds of prey show and a butterfly house. The two mentioned shows and the Butterfly house are for me the key reasons to visit this Zoo. I am not a fan of Orca or Delphine shows.

Die Exotische Vögel show war neben der Raubvogel Show und dem Schmetterlingshaus einer der Gründe für mich den Palmitos Park auf Gran Canaria zu besuchen. Delfin oder Orca Shows sind nicht so mein fall, da geh ich lieber zwei mal durchs Schmetterlingshaus und versuche schöne Bilder zu bekommen.

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Some coastline impressoins of La Gomera

When you come down the road from the La Gomera rainforest mountains, the first things you see are some houses and the atlantic see. It goes staight ahead down to the coast. In this case the north east coast of La Gomera. With Tenerife in the background. Its a complete change of colors. The dark green and spooky forest on the top, with all the fog and clouds passing throu and the sunny coast with beaches and the blue sea. White painted houses with red roofs, banana plantations and very curvy roads. It was a stop back on my way to the ferry in San Sebastian. I have been on La Gomera for a hiking trip. And thouse pictures are beside impressions from this trip. It was not a phototrip 🙂

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The two dancing Butterflies

Two beautyfull red Butterflies having fun with each other on a closed hibiscus blossom. I have never seen butterfly making love before and I don`t expected that they are doing it tail to tail 🙂 They where so busy whis themselves thaty they don`t noticed me and my 150mm Sigma macro lens. Going close was not difficult. Getting enough light for a closed apperture and for a fast shutter speed was the chellenge here 🙂 You can`t see it but they are indoor pictures. Taken at Palmitos Parks House of Butterflies. The Butterfly House and the exotic birds flight show are a good reasen to visit this medium size Zoo in the south of Gran Canaria. The Bird House at Palmitos Park is not as big as Loro Parques Bird flight area but they have a raptor and exotic birds flight show there. And a huge House of Butterflys. Using my Monopod for all thouse photos was no problem. No one of the officials cares about my monopod and 150mm macro lens. This is also a plus. You are not everywhere welcome with professional photo stuff.

Ich habe mir eigentlich die Gedanken darüber gemacht, wie sich Schmetterlinge überhaupt fortpflanzen. Jetzt weiß ich es 🙂 Aber ein wenig überrascht war ich schon im ersten Moment, vor allem darüber das sie sich überhaupt nicht gestört gefühlt haben. Sie waren einfach zu sehr mit dem Flattern und rum hüpfen beschäftigt. Nah ran zu kommen war also schon mal kein Problem. Eher das Licht, um eine möglichst kurze Belichtungszeit zu erreichen und die Blende einigermaßen zu machen zu können. Was man nicht sieht, das ganze spielte sich im Schmetterlingshaus ( House of Butterflys) des Palmits Parks auf Gran Canaria ab. Wegen des Schmetterlingshauses und der Vogelflugshow hatte sich der Besuch dort für mich gelohnt. Delfinshows interessieren mich nicht, und gegen das Vogelhaus im Loro Park kommen sie dort auf keinen Fall an. Wenn man das kennt und als Maßstab nimmt ist man eher enttäuscht.

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The beach side of Puerto de Mogan

Puerto de Mogan, the small beautyfull fishing village in the south west of Gran Canaria. With the white painted small houses, alle Palms and flowers around, Puerto de Mogan realy looks like it was just build for travel catalogue pictures. OK not all of Puerto de Mogan looks realy nice. There are also some „Cement Castles“ as we call in germany the quick buils tourism hotels of the 80th. But they are a little bit away from the coast side of the village. Fot the most people its important how the beach and the water area looks like. And I can say. beautyfull. The beach and the harbor are man made, not natural as in Maspalomas. Because of that the beach of Puerto de Mogan is sheltered from the wind and the water is a little bit warmer. Its perfect for a nice day trip. To have a little swim, a good meal, and to walk around. We have been there with the public bus system. It works very good on Gran Cararia and it is cheap. But please, take a look at the pictures and you wiill see what I mean.

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A proud hawk – The beauty of a flying hawk

A beautyfull hawk flying high into the sky. It was a very sunny day at Palmitos Parks hawk free flight show. Mostly blue sky just some clouds. Perfect for taking hawk pictures. I have no realy tele lens just my Nikon 70-700, my universal weapon 🙂 So with this lens its hard do take some hawk pictures in real wildlife. I hope to get a 150-600 or 200-500 some day, till then I have to go to bird shows like this for taking hawk or birds in flight pictures. The Palmitos Park is a nice little zoo in the south of Cran Canaria. They have a lot of free flight raptors in ther free flight show, such as Eagles, Marabous, Hawks, and a show with exotic birds. I can also recomend the big butterfly house. The rest is zoo standard. Some meerkats, turles, apes, a botanic garden, the usual zoo stuff 🙂 But the birdshow impressed me very much. Its not only the birds, its the the whole surrounding thats impressive. Not build in the middle of a city, like most of the zoos, the Palmitos Park is build deep into a canyon, it gives a nice atmosphere tho the whole setting.

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La Gomera Fairytale Forest in Black & White

Impressions taken on a hiking trip deep into the La Gomera rain forest, the so called fairytale forest. It looks very much there like into a Sleepy Hollow or Brother Grimms Fairitale movie. The nature there is dark green and very foggy, beause the atlantic couds move direct throu the forrest. Roots and lianas hanging around from the trees and everything is full with moss and lichen. To get more auf the hauting spirit I decided to take thous pictures in black and white.

Man kann echt meinen man wäre in einem Märchen der Brüder Grimm wenn man durch den Regenwald von La Gomera wandert. Über all hängen Flechten oder Lianen von den Bäumen herunter, es ist dunkel und sehr nebelig weil die Wolken direkt durch den Wald ziehen. Die Steine und Stämme sind komplett mit Moos bedeckt. Hat an manchen Stellen schon fast was von Sleepy Hollow. Ich finde ein Schwarz Weiß transportiert sich die Atmosphäre von dort nochmal wesentlich besser. Vom Wetter und dem Rest bekommt man im Wald nicht viel mit. Es ist immer leicht dunkel und nebelig. Also eine gute Aussicht oder so hat man dort nicht wirklich, obwohl man auf über 1000 Meter ist. Aber die braucht es ja auch nicht immer. Dafür gibt es andere Orte auf La Gomera

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The Marabou

What a suprise. On my last holiday I went to a free flight show of exotic birds at the Palmitos Park. After some parakeets they anounced a very smal bird and than it was a marabou. It was not the first time I saw one, I have already seen Marabous in Kenia, but I have not payed much attention to them because they where allways sitting on dark trees, now moving, not flying. So it was a big suprise for me and seeing such a big bird in flight, a good chance for taking pictures. It was very easy taking the marabou, because its a very huge bird, a stork family member. I used a Nikon d800 and a 70-200 for shooting the marabou in flight.

Ich hab zwar im Palmitos Park auf Gran Canaria nicht meinen ersten Marabou (Marabu) gesehen, allerdingt war dieser deutlich aktiver als seine brüder in kenia. Von dort kannte ich sie nur auf Bäumen rum sitzend und nichts tun. Nur mal laut kreichen wenn man ihnen zu nahe kommt. Auch wenn er zu einer Vogelshow gehörte war ich doch sehr froh mal einen marabou im Flug fotografieren zu können. Diese art von Storch sieht man ja sonst außerhalb Afrikas eher selten. Denke ich jedenfalls. Und in einen Vogelkäfig gehört er bei der Größe nun nicht wirklich. Da schaut man ihn sich doch lieber in der Luft bei einer Vogelflugshow an 🙂

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The Anaga Mountains

Pictures from a hiking trip to Tenerifes beautyfull Anaga mountains. The Anaga mountains, a part of north Tenerife. You have a good view for the snowy peak of Pico Del Teide shere und over the north part of the island. The Clouds from the atlantic ocean moves over this part of the island and get down by the trees. So the view can change from bright sunlite to very much fog in under two minutes.

Das Wetter wechselt ziemlich schnell im Anaga Gebierge. Innerhalb von 2 Minuten hat man den Wechel von tollem Sonnenlicht zu sehr dichtem Nebel. Also ideal für Fotografen die gerne bewegte Wolken oder umher ziehenden Nebel in ihren Bildern haben. Sowas geht da gut, und es ist eine imemr grüne Gegend 🙂

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Just some Boats at the Marina Rubicon

Just some Boats I saw on my vavation trip to Lanzarotes Marina Rubicon. The Marina Rubicon is a very nice marina at Playa Blanca in the south of Lanzarote. A good place for vacation or a daytrip. The beautyfull Playas del Papagayo are neaby. A couple of natural wild beaches.

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Marina Rubicon

Marina Rubicon. A nice and clean marina at Playa Blanca, the south side of the canary island Lanzarote. I was not there with a boat so I cant tell you any experience how good they are with boats there, I was just there for sightseeing and for some traveler pictures. Turquoise water, white houses, blue sky an mountains in the background.

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Teide – looks like the lonely mountain

The snow coverd Pico del Teide viewed from the Anaga mountains. On my last trip to Tenerife Island, I also take a hiking tour to the every green Anaga Mountains. Viewed from there, Pico del Teide, the third highest active vulcano of the world, looks for me much like the lonely mountain in the Hobbit movies.

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