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MOAR ICELAND!

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We like Iceland here on 6000 miles… – you only have to look at our extensive Iceland section to see that. Now, you’d do well to remember that Iceland is the best place in the world to be if you want to take amazing landscape photographs, but even so, our love of all thing Icelandic has only been augmented by seeing Sarah Martinet’s amazing aerial photography of that country. Stuff like this:

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and this:

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What a nation of contrasts. And puffins (not visible in these photos).

There are more of Sarah’s photos of Iceland here (which I reached via here and here) and, this being the internet, I also tracked down her 500px page, where I was blown away by much stuff, but most especially this image:

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Wowzers.

All images: Sarah Martinet

Camouflage

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If you’re going to hang around amongst rocks partially covered in purple algae (and who I am to say that you can’t?) and you don’t want to get eaten by something else hanging around amongst rocks partially covered in purple algae, you’d best make yourself look like a rock partially covered in purple algae, right?

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This little guy was so confident in his camouflage that he sat perfectly still under our scrutiny until we actually poked him (gently, obviously). Only then did he break cover and dart amongst some other rocks partially covered in purple algae, where he lived to hide another day.

Spotted in Cape Agulhas during the weekend’s low tide.