And here are my Flickr “Hits” Five to One of 2010! (Find Ten to six here)
5: A very lucky Barn Owl in flight shot:

4: Great Blue Heron on Fire
(Also published as a double Spread in View Magazine, April 2010)
3: Wetneck
2: A Yellow Crowned Night Heron with crab
1: Heron in the Mist
(Also went on to be the winner of an international Photo Contest)
Thank you all for visiting, commenting, viewing! Have a very happy new Year!





….Paradise shot…
Your images, all so amazing! Congratulations~
A stunning set of images. Very beautiful. Wonderful photowork.
Stunning shots! Happy sky watching.
Liz @ A Simple Life
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Beautiful SkyWatch posting!
thank you for sharing this beautiful photo work
Thanks for your visits and comments in the past Year.
I wish you a very happy and healthy New Year.
Happy SWF! Have a good weekend,
Regards, Bram
Loved all 10. Excellent choices and great work. You truly had a wonderful year in photography. Here’s hoping 2011 brings you that and much more.
Those were Flickr people choices, Michael. Made it way easier for me, to put up this post!
Your photography is always so mind blowing Klaus. These are all exceptional shots. Happy New Year!
Love the barn owl!! Wishing you a very Happy New Year, Klaus! Thanks for letting me be part of the fun each week! i love it!
Sylvia
Fabulous photos of nature in motion, thanks for making the Sky Watch party so much fun and happy new year to you.
Spectacular shots but that third one looks like it should be hanging in a chinese market.
Not sure how I missed this the first time. Freaking fantastic
Beautiful!
Hi, I’m an admin for a group called The Best: BRAVO (INVITED images only), and we’d love to have this added to the group!
World class photo work….truly world class.
BRAVO….!
Fabulous! Reflection in the water and second bird on the right are beautiful details.
This is also great! Please have a look at this one:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vanhilliard/4321779003/in/faves-781...
It seems that sometimes we win, sometimes we loose and this is also true for the crabs…
This is one of the best photos I have ever viewed. Thank you for sharing your art!
Again, this is BEAUTIFUL! I love the fogginess and the tones. This is so great!
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in the group pool.!!
Wow very beautiful
Hi, I’m an admin for a group called ONE PHOTO, and we’d love to have this added to the group!
A magic capture!
Absolutely fantastic work!
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Superb capture and timing.
Mmmmmm, lunch
R.I.P. petit crabe!
great catch!
That is a superb shot! Perfectly captured!
Klaus that is fantastic great shot !!!
amazing capture!
What a great shot! I love the detail and colors here. Talk about being in the right place at the right time! Congrats on getting Explored!
Would love your input/opinion on one of mine!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kenclass/4602145417/
This shot is beyond fantastic, Klaus. I yearn for a shot like that
Such a brilliant shot.
Like you’re style of photography ….its stunning !
Klaus, this is soooo good!
great capture!
Great photographed
Great shot
Via Today’s Explore at #71 on Fluidr
Hi, I’m an admin for a group called Aggressive Photographers, and we’d love to have this added to the group!
Wow, awesome. Super clear. Zero noise. And you got the eye’s nictating membrane half closed.
Hi, I’m an admin for a group called Florida Feeding Frenzy, and we’d love to have this added to the group!
Hi, I’m an admin for a group called *Fat Bee & Dancing Gull* (Invite Only), and we’d love to have this added to the group!
Brilliant capture!
Uno scattò…Grandioso….Bravissimo!!!!!!!!!
Awesome Image Buddy, Great Job..
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excellent capture
Fantastica cattura
Excellent timing! Mmm, tasty crab!
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Incredible capture
awesome timing!! this is incredible!
That is a great catch – well done Klaus!
Very nice.
Here is mine
hahah nice capture!
ma come hai fatto!!
Fantastic shot!
Congratulation on Explore!
I like it!
Please consider adding it to PhotoVotr and see what others are saying!
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Thanks!
Awesome! Another one for the Front Page
Congrats!
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Your all FP are listed here.
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Beautiful image!
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Wow.
Congratulations!!! your photo reach Explore Front Page
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beautiful capture. A rare shot.
This is awesome! Congrats on this great capture!
That is amazing.
Congrats on making Explore with this image Klaus.
nice catch
300mm. Wow, you must have been close! Superb photograph.
That is one extremely beautiful species of Heron.
Brilliant timing … what a catch, both for heron and photographer !
damn neat! like it!
EXPLORED …. congrats
aBSOLUTELY oUTSTANDING. tHANKS fOR sHARING tHIS iMAGE.. cONGRATULATION sEEN iN eXPLORE..
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Super great!!
Excellent timing!
Excellent, Klaus! Perfect timing and exposure.
what a shot Klaus
Perfect timing, great capture.
Spectacular! Great detail and action.
Super shot Klaus !!!
Great clarity…like the soft background too! Guess Alan wasn’t around
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wow, fantastic capture!!!!!
Fantastic timing!
Wow! Awesome catch.
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Nice snag, perfect way to freeze the crab mid-air!
outstanding!
Nice capture!
Superb catch! I’d love to see this in person, let along get a great photo of it.
Grandiosa!!! =)
Fabulous timing and great close up Klaus.
The red eye pops out
tfs
wow, really great capture. amazing.
heck of a shot,
Ghost Crabs are sure in season out there.
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Superb Klaus!!
Looks even better than it did on the viewer! Good eats!
Great catch Klaus!
Excellent timing
Fantastic capture, Klaus !!
Hi, I’m an admin for a group called Florida Coastal Wildlife, and we’d love to have this added to the group!
outstanding capture, such amazing clarity!!
Awesome shot! Love it!
Love the contrast between the bird and the background.
Love it!
Nice capture & processing, sir !
The whites & reds stand out quite nicely
Back because I can! this is so great!
A Big Fave
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A fav for me too
looks like he is levitatating.
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Awesome!
He he
Absolutely love this character!
Stunning! Great eye for the shot Klaus!
That is so neat, what an interesting and awesome capture!
Fantastic scene and I like the contrast too
Awesome
Stunning doesn’t even begin to describe this. wow.
Yes…you must have been pumped in the few seconds following these shots! Absolutely stunning Klaus
Superb!!
That is a very cool shot. sort of floating in space and the color is perfect.
Outstanding photography and an exceptional image!
You are invited to display your image.
I wish I’d taken it!!!
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congratulations for the explore
I commented on this masterpiece in facebook and/or someplace else. I was shocked when I just came across it here and I hadn’t made a comment. This image is phenomenal and I’m so delighted for you that it will be published in a magazine. Congratulations, Klaus!
Just incredible photography and a fabulous image!! You ROCK!!
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I know that a fav + comment + invite is not so much ‘cos your work is so awesome.
nice light.
Please, please, please, post it to
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The best photos of Flickr are here!
Hi, I’m an admin for a group called NON SOLO FIORI**LA NATURA**P1/A2 *SWEEPER ACTIVE*, and we’d love to have this added to the group!
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Great colour and atmosphere with the mist!
Great capture. Well done.
Well my God!! If ever a photo begged to be published in National Geographic this one does. This is a dazzling beauty! I’m blown away!
Hi, I’m an admin for a group called Real Magic – Contest : CHAIR, and we’d love to have this added to the group!
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stunning
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Very nice!
nice!
great great stuff. well done!
Wow – just stunning!
Hi, I’m an admin for a group called Professional Photographers (1Post – Comment 1), and we’d love to have this added to the group!
Hi, I’m an admin for a group called Excellent Sharp Captures, and we’d love to have this added to the group!
Absolutely beautiful capture! The gold tones are splendid!
nice capture
This is awesome !!! ………. well done
Have a nice day….Cheers
great one!
This is the one you were telling me about…….Phenomenal !!!!
Magnifique!
yes! Magical indeed! Fav!
10 points!!! Fantastic composition!!!
Looks like on another planet. It brings out that sense of wonder. Awesome shot.
Excellent capture, golden colors give a great warm mood to the moment in time imprisoned.
Hi, I’m an admin for a group called A Celebration of Light – Let your Light Shine, and we’d love to have this added to the group!
Splendide image !
Excellente photo … magnifique atmosphère !
Spectacular shot! Love the mood of this shot.
Beautiful photo !
Foto veramente bella, complimenti!
You are my winner!
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This is what wildlife photography is all about. Beautiful.
Hi, I’m an admin for a group called The New Academy Group: Invited Shots p1/c3, and we’d love to have this added to the group!
Amazing shot!
Yes! Very good timing there!
I was going to comment, but, I don’t think I can say anything that hasn’t already been said. This shot rocks!
Wow…great shot! Congrats on Explore!
WOWW!!
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seen on explore
Very cool scene & capture, Klaus !
Love it !!
beautiful light and composition.
Enchanted moment! SOOC is amazing!
amazing! absolutely breathtaking
perfectly timed and composed silhouette
Excellent color, composition, and scene.
Via Today’s Explore at #75 on Fluidr
Wonderful! Congrats on explore
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Stunning!
Poetry!
Amazing shot, the more I learn about Florida wildlife photography, the more I here about this location. Again well done.
Unique, beautiful, excellent. Colors looks great.
That’s great! Perfect amount of motion, and great background colors.
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Stunning
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Outstanding!!! Simply a beautiful capture. Everything is perfect.
Stunning, awesome work.
Wow, amazing capture. Thanks for sharing mate!
Bravo! your artwork from camera is so beautiful; I like your idea; be happy to join my group…..
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This looks gorgeous!
Wonderful shot!
Via Today’s Explore at #164 on Fluidr
stunning, just fantastic, great shot
What a great shot! Very good treatment.
Congratz on explore!
I invite you to visit my photostream
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Fantastic shot, Klaus!
wow, just wow!!
Spectacular image – congratulations.
amazing capture and beautiful light!!!
Via Today’s Explore at #278 on Fluidr
Klaus, you are king of the bird sunrise shots, beautiful!
Hi, I’m an admin for a group called MOST THINGS to MOST FOLK (5 a day), and we’d love to have this added to the group!
Brilliant capture
Beautiful!
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Hi, I’m an admin for a group called Remember and sens, and we’d love to have this added to the group!
Superb capture!
love CBBR with a low hanging fog
wish I would have been able to make it out there with you guys.
One heck of a shot
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Very nice looking image. Excellent!
Stunning !!!
Well "magical" was the first word that came to mind…and it must fit since it was used in the caption and in the first comment.
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Awesome !!
Absolutely beautiful Klaus!
Fantastic! Love the golden-ness!
Klaus, they just don’t get any better…beautiful shot. (Donnie)
magica..
Beautiful silhouette sunrise.
Sweet perfection. Almost dreamlike. I think you knew this one was going to be special as soon as you took it.
wow cool shot sorry I could not make the day next time
Spectacular
Amazing image, especially since it is unedited as well!!
Wow! Great image.
magical
Beautiful work Klaus! I just love foggy sunrises.
Magical….
Great shot!!
wow! great action shot.
nice shot!
Hi, I’m an admin for a group called Bokeh City, and we’d love to have this added to the group!
great capture
Outstanding!
Awesome youve really caught the moment
This is absolutely stunning, doesn’t get much better
Hi, I’m an admin for a group called soulful group, and we’d love to have this added to the group!
Hi, I’m an admin for a group called god creatures, and we’d love to have this added to the group!
Hi, I’m an admin for a group called just cool pictures, and we’d love to have this added to the group!
Hi, I’m an admin for a group called Saparevo & Tintinians Fauna post 1 – award 1, and we’d love to have this added to the group!
Hi, I’m an admin for a group called Ramses’ animals *** please award or invite for each posted pic., and we’d love to have this added to the group!
Hi, I’m an admin for a group called Tintinian’s Favorites/Post one = award one !, and we’d love to have this added to the group!
Dit geweldige shot is
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I really love the composition. The treatment is awesome!!!!!!!
Greetings!!!!
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Very good capture! Nice choice of focus.
Amazing shot…
Awesome shot my friend, wonderful hues and the light is just perfect!
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lovely shot this. The blur works really well
Hi, I’m an admin for a group called Natural Vision Photography **Invite Other Photogs**, and we’d love to have this added to the group!
The wing blur really adds to this.
Hi, I’m an admin for a group called imagist – sublime poetic direct, and we’d love to have this added to the group!
Great timing! It must have been difficult to get that shot
Wow! Great catch. Another beauty!
very good capture!
I want to see these two.
Good Job Buddy, Lets Go…
Sweet my friend great get
Nice flight shot!
Great shot, love it!
Wonderful shot!!
Love it!
Fantastic!
Excellent in flight capture and fantastic background. Perfect!
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Love it Klaus! This is gorgeous and the processing is just a pleasure to look at.
Nice shot Klaus!
@ musicarver. I got to their nest and they flew out. I saw both male and female – just don’t ask me which is what!
Great focus!
Great catch. How did you manage to see one of these birds in the middle of the day?
sweet wing action and face clarity! Incredible
Kind of cool with the soft focus and slight blur on the wings
aweesome picture! NAt Geo!
amazing picture !!!
OMG Gorgeous
Hi, I’m an admin for a group called Natural Vision Photography **Invite Other Photogs**, and we’d love to have this added to the group!
Very Very Very good!!
I have seen a lot of Blue Heron photos. I must say this is now my favorite.
Beautiful.
Wonderful capture, creative and inspiring. Now that’s what I like to see!
Congratulations on the Explore.
Have a great Weekend ahead!
Hope to see you around My Photostream.
wow!
congrats on Explore!
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very nice shot! ==> fav
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Nice capture!!
the one time I actually look at explore I see this gem!!! Congrats…is this your first FP?
Unbelievably ‘Beautiful’ Capture! Brilliant Work!
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wow this is amazing! i love the grass!!!
Incredible light!
im imressed
Brilliant shot nicely done.
Great photo, very interesting work!
Enjoy your weekend….!
Really great capture.
Hi, I’m an admin for a group called ☆The Power Of Now ☆, and we’d love to have this added to the group!
Hi, I’m an admin for a group called True Quality Matters! ~ P.1 & A.1 ~ Invited Images Only, and we’d love to have this added to the group!
Amazing shot!
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Beautiful work excellent job here!!
Hi, I’m an admin for a group called Cream Of The Crop Animal Pics **INVITED PICS ONLY**, and we’d love to have this added to the group!
An Incredibly Beautiful "FP Explore" Capture! Brilliant Work!
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Unbeleivably cool! how did you manage to get it so sharp and so brigh, with so little noise? I am in awe
What a beautiful shot! You have a very good eye!
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Hi, I’m an admin for a group called Stuff With Two Legs, and we’d love to have this added to the group!
Fantastic!!!
OMG – you’ve got to enter this in to something like Wildlife Photographer Of The year… this is stunning!!!
A gem of a picture
wow. I think you out did your self!
Great! Really a beautiful capture with a genial composition.
Please, please post it in
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Magnificent!
Wow!
Superb–great detail on the heron and the b/g is killer.
great!!!
Hi, I’m an admin for a group called °GoLDeN aRT°+25 faves(p1/c2and FAVE)SWEEPER runs, and we’d love to have this added to the group!
amazing flight
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WOOW
Congrats
Hi, I’m an admin for a group called Absolute Photography, and we’d love to have this added to the group!
stunning capture
very nice shot!!
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真漂亮!
Beautiful capture
one word AMAZING
What a great shot! Very good treatment.
Congratz on explore!
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Hi, I’m an admin for a group called `Birds Birds Birds (Post 1 Comment 3) , and we’d love to have this added to the group!
Hi, I’m an admin for a group called Real Magic (Post 1~Fave 1~Comment 2) Contest : FLOWER ~, and we’d love to have this added to the group!
This is fantastic!
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Hi, I’m an admin for a group called Photo Garden, and we’d love to have this added to the group!
Wonderful action shot .. nice colors!
Stunning!!!
well done!!
Amazing light! Congrats on Explore!
Wow! Is not so much to tell here, Congrats Man!
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Truly a gorgeous image
I’m in awe, truly wonderful work
Gorgeous!
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Wow! Fantastic capture!
Superb catch!
Outstanding work Klaus !!!
Really beautiful, good timing
This is really nice!
amazing work Klaus!
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Stunning shot!
wow, amazing!
Killer shot, Klaus!
Excellent Klaus!
Beautiful!
Gorgeous capture. The light is superb.
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what an amazing cpature, the lights are just too wonderful.
Crisp details and nicely frozen action.
tfs
You are "ON FIRE" right now with the light conditions man, KEEP EM COMING
awesome Klaus!
Stunning! You’re pulling out some amazing work in the last month…Awesome
Nicely done.. Looking very nice !