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Penguins are always great to photograph, even when the weather is “bad”. In this picture the wind was very strong, so it was difficult to see the birds even when they came quite close. But, when I got at least one of the penguins in focus it was well worth the effort. PHOTO INFO 500/4.0, [...]

2011 was an amazing year for me as a wildlife photographers. I had some great safaries and expeditions to places like: Svalbard, the sub-Antarctic islands of New Zealand, Galapagos, India and Kenya. I also had 2 awarded images in the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2011 and 3 images in the german contest GDT. [...]

It’s always fun to photograph wild owls. Sometimes they also can be pretty tame, like this Great Grey Owl in northern Finland. In this shot I used my 16-35/2.8 wide angle and could include some of the landscape. The fresh bright snow almost worked as a big flash with softbox. PHOTO INFO  16-35/2.8 (at 16mm), 1/500 [...]

Mountain gorillas are amazing creatures! I’m now preparing for my next photo safari to the gorillas in Rwanda and hope to get similar opportunities as on my previous trip in 2010. In the photograph above I decided to get low and shoot through the leafs to get the blurry green foreground. It was also an [...]

On my first photo expedition to Antarctica in 2006, I had some really nice meetings with the "locals". On of my best memories is from Plenau Bay where we found this Gentoo penguin among big icebergs. I was lucky to have a zodiak driver who listened to me and diredted the zodiak so I could [...]

The Golden eagle is one of the most fascinating of the European birds. They are quite shy, but especially during the cold winter they might show up in front of a hide if there’s some food available. I’ve been fortunate to live just a few hundred meters away from a nesting pair of Golden eagles. [...]

  Jon Langeland   Oslo, Norway   akilles4you@hotmail.com  This travel to Masai Mara in the lead of Ole Jørgen was really good for my purpose and to me the most cost-effective wildlife-photo-trip ever. I have been in other resorts in MM earlier, but never in so many different animal scenes in that short time. Even after [...]

  Helmut Pum   Steyr, Austria   www.Naturfotografie-Pum.at   hepum@utanet.at  Die Antarktis – eines der letzten unberührten Naturparadiese unserer Welt. Die Reise war für mich ein Wunschtraum, der in Erfüllung ging.  Antarctica – is one of the last unspoiled natural paradises of our world. A dream which has become real……  

  Eva Pum   Steyr, Austria   www.Naturfotografie-Pum.at   hepum@utanet.at  Die Antarktis, dieses beeindruckende und majestätische Gebiet am südlichsten Ende der Welt ist ein Ort der Superlative. Es war eine grandiose Reise mit Ole Jorgen!  The Antarctic, this impressive and majestetic area at the southern end of the world is a place of superlatives. It was a [...]

I’ve always been fascinated with penguins. On my fifth expedition to Antarctica / sub-Antarctica I had the opportunity to photograph one of the most vulnerable species – the Fiordland crested penguin. Already the first evening I had some close encounters with these beautiful birds when they came on shore in the evening. I used slow [...]