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Canon EOS 70D

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Aperture f/5.6 ISO 12800 Shutter 1/250 Focal Length 52/1

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Jan, 2016

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Adonis puts on a wonderful display every day at Hellabrunn Zoo, Munich, Germany. Fast-flying and tricky to photograph and so great for practice!

Garmisch Ski-jumping - one of the major World Cup competitions

Rome - the dome of St Peter's Basilica in the background.

Looking like a special moment for Pope John Paul II in the early morning in Jasna Gora, Czestochowa, Poland, at Christmas time 2015. Also a lovely win

Mandarin duck contemplating life
(Taken through the window)

An intriguing geometric effect. Vatican City

Vertical cliffs disappearing into the haze, seen from the top of the escarpment above the Grotto of St Mary Magdalene, Ste Baume, France. (It is quite

Dutch entry, ABN Amro 1, racing out of the Solent. This was the overall winner of this edition of the Volvo Ocean Race around the world, held every 3

A slight surprise when coming in from behind!
Kids being given a first-hand introduction to birds of prey, under close supervision. They absolutely lo

Something definitely seems to have caught his attention!

Blossom seen before the end of February in Provence, south of France

Members of the Munich cricket team having a hard training session. The captain directing operations on the left!
Enjoying a day out on Lake Chiemsee,

The office supervisor making sure things are done correctly on the computer screen.
Eugenie, our white fantailed dove, in one of her favourite posi

The spiral staircase between the church and the library, Melk Abbey, Austria.

A rather special Maserati for a regular road car - not seen too often on the streets!
At the Millionaire Fair when it was held in Munich a few years

Taken a little while after the previous Open Up image. Mother flamingo successfully holding out.

Our Pekinese Adam insisted on our having tea and cake with him beside the lake in the Englischer Garten in Munich to celebrate that a Pekinese is goin

Harris Hawk "Chili" in the Birds of Prey show at Poing Wildpark, near Munich

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