Category: Photo
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Pale-billed woodpecker
Pale-billed Woodpecker (Campephilus guatemalensis, Pic à bec clair). Costa Rica, 2015.
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Cocoa woodcreeper
Cocoa Woodcreeper (Xiphorhynchus susurrans, Grimpar cacao). Costa Rica, 2015.
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Boat-billed heron
Despite its vernacular English name, this is not exactly a heron but a bird of a similar family. A great impressive look, not handsome, but impressive! Boat-billed Heron (Cochlearius cochlearius, Savacou huppé). Costa Rica, 2015.
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Costa Rica: Sleeping boa (snake)
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Flowers of Costa Rica
Tropical flowers are often very colourful and unusual in form (for us, European people). Why not try and interpret them with pictures which abandon all hope of identification and taxonomy.
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Explore Mount Everest (in photo)
An impressive photograph shot at (very) high resolution from the first slopes of the Pumori looking at the Mount Everest, where you will be able to immerse yourself into for hours (just click onto the picture below): You can simply spend hours exploring the rocks, the ice of the glaciers or look for the expeditions…
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Baroque garden pavillon (Melk Abbey)
Finally, still in the Melk Abbet (Austria), you can find a nice little garden pavillon (transformed into a quiet little pub) whose baroque painted decor is worth a few minutes. The exotic animals reminded me of wildlife safari photo trips…
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Melk Abbey Church (Stift Melk)
The abbey church in Melk can be visited and photographs are allowed (provided that you are polite enough not to use your flash, of course). Here are some of those I collected during my recent visit to Melk Abbey. Stift Melk wbe site.
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Stift Melk / Melk Abbey
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melk_Abbey (German: Stift Melk) is a Benedictine abbey in Austria, and among the world’s most famous monastic sites, where I stopped by during a trip to Vienna and Austria a few weeks ago. I grabbed a few photos while I was there.