Marcus & Janne in Scotland - The Grand Prize Trip I
March 11th, 2010 Posted in Northern Europe, UncategorizedNo Translations
We met in Heathrow airport, and continued our trip together. First bird pictures we took in Heathrows Central bus station, by using a bait. But we have to stop it, because feeding of the pigeons were not allowed. Marcus did got a real keeper pigeon shot with manual focus and 14-24mm wide angle.
Some hours of traveling, and then Pete picked us up at Inverness airport. Day one turned to evening, but we did go to take some landscape shots of Scottish ice in sunset.
The main subject of the day two was the ptarmigan. In the morning, we packed our stuffs to Pete’s Range rover and headed to the mountains.
Lots of walking to mountains, and lots of sweating. But we managed to find ptarmigans to photograph! Altough they were little more timid than usual. Maybe because of the weather?
We also saw lots of red grouses, but they were even much more timid than the ptarmigans. But we managed to got some red grouse images also!
Birds, but also mammals… Pete founded a mountain hare, and so we got couple of mountain hare images. Maybe we have couple of mountain hare images more at tomorrow, because the mountain hare is the main subject of the day three!
Janne & Marcus / for Wild Wonders of Europe
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9 Responses to “Marcus & Janne in Scotland - The Grand Prize Trip I”
By Peter Cairns on Mar 11, 2010
Guys, no pain, no gain! Well done!
Peter Cairns
By Jan Valeur on Mar 11, 2010
Fantastic!
Looks like you really have started well. Looking forward to see more pictures and hear more of your stories in Scotland!
By Edwin Kats on Mar 11, 2010
Well done guys!!!!!!
I’m sure you will enjoy every minute of your trip.
Congrats,
Edwin Kats
By Kenneth Malcolm on Mar 12, 2010
Wow fantastic images!
By Mark Hamblin on Mar 12, 2010
Thanks for your company yesterday, guys. Hope your legs don’t hurt too much Janne!! I think it was worth the sweat. Great shots!
By Cyrille Audinet on Mar 12, 2010
Wonder…ful !!
What a dream! Hope you enjoy the trip and show us many pictures!
The prize has been very well awarded!
Congratulations.
Cyrille Audinet
By Marcos G. Meider on Mar 12, 2010
Brilliant pictures!. Those flying Ptarmigans and the pair of red grouses in the snow looks like paintings.
Well done!
By Janne Heimonen on Mar 12, 2010
No Mark, thank YOU!
Actually legs were much better in the morning than I expected =)
-Janne
By Angelika on Apr 21, 2010
Mmm.. How I like seeing good photos. And these are well nice. Thumbs up