FUERTAVENTURA SPRING 2007

[ranunculus]

A little late I know but I have only recently begun to sort the wheat from the chaff from a weeks holiday taken in Fuertaventura during spring 2007.  The images represent a cross-section of photographs taken on the beaches, in the beautiful cactus gardens, in the zoo and on an offshore island and feature landscapes, plants, creatures and an occasional abstract. I would greatly appreciate reaction in the form of your favourite three images if possible (votes by personal e-mail to free up this wonderful forum please)?  As there are at least sixty images then it will take a while to upload them...please be patient....especially those of you who cannot access by Broadband....my humble apologies...perhaps you will have to be selective or give this subject a very wide berth?

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Batch two....

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Batch three.....

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Batch four....

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Batch five....

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Batch six..... One more batch after this featuring all the images that were oversized files....Oops!http://

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Batch seven.....featuring all the out of sequence numbers......Sorry!

ENJOY PLEASE.

END OF TOPIC.  AMEN

All this posting uses enormous amounts of nervous energy.....and fingertip skin....but YOU ARE WORTH IT!    AAaaaah!

[Maggi Young]

Award yourself a cup of tea and a bun, Cliff, while we cogitate.....with such diverse subjects, a choice of three will be tricky...we'll let you know!

[ranunculus]

Be very careful Maggi....cogitating without a safety net is not strictly PC!!

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Not exactly alpines Cliff - but another great series all the same !
What a diversity in cacti and what stupendous quality of the photographs !!! 

And I who thought you spent Spring in the States ....  did you have two springs this year  

I'll be back with my favourites later on - in the mean time, my deepest sympathy with what remains of your fingertip skin.

[mark smyth]

birds in the wild
Turnstones

Cage birds or escapees
Californian Quail
Serin/wild canary
Java Sparrow
Glossy Starling
Scarlet Ibis
Red-wing Laughing Thrush

[Andrew]

I cannot choose three, they are all lovely images.

[ranunculus]

Many thanks folks.....
...And special thanks to Mark for the very welcome identifications.....Red-wing Laughing Thrush, you couldn't make it up...what a wonderfully evocative name....
From the Purple-Nosed Piccie Poster......

[Brian Ellis]

Another most interesting thread Cliff, thank you very much.  I don't know about a cup of tea, i would have awarded you something much stronger

[ranunculus]

Thanks Brian....I like Bovril!!