My first picture of the rather shy Galathea squamifera.

A meerkat from the Kölner Zoo shot with my Canon EF 100-400mm at f/5.6, 1/640sec, ISO-200 and 360mm focal length. I miss a little bit of sharpness on his/her nose. They are excellent mammals to test your lenses on.

Last saturday, I had to photograph eleven aquariums for BBAT-Limburg. I took over 800 pictures and selected 3 photographs for you of seatanks. Enjoy them, the others will follow …

The visibility in Zeeland this year is excellent underwater and I managed to configure my gear back to the good old settings. My buddy used a diffuser on his light which resulted in some very good underwater pictures. The first one is from a Sepia (yes I do love them and you will frequently see pictures of them), the second from a hermietkreeft (still don’t know the english name for it).

The guide told us that we should see an animal in most craters on La Gomera. In the picture below you should see a monkey face in the crater just above the large house. Maybe you see it, but my imagination is probably not big enough for it.

I started the processing of my vacation pictures of Tenerife. First one is the Teleferico that brings you to 180m of the top of the Teide. From there you need a written permission to climb to the top. Unfortunately, we didn’t had one. Something to keep in mind if we go back once. In the middle of the picture, you can see Gran Canaria in the background above the clouds.

Made some great dives last weekend in Zeeland again, with an absolutely amazing visibility. Took lots of pictures, but had some trouble with my camera. Still two shots that are good enough for me to post.

On sunday we visited the Teide in Tenerife. The landscapes are magnificient and I took plenty of panorama’s. I will post some as soon as I finished them.

 

As an extra, a lizard.

Yesterday we took a jeepsafari to La Gomera. It’s the second smallest of the seven main islands of Spain’s Canary Islands. It has a magnificient landscape, with deep ravines. The Island is full of cratermounths, one you can see in the picture below. There is no vulcanic activity recently.

Enjoy the view on the harbor of Los Cristianos.