Ugo Mellone, nature photography - Picture of the month

UGO MELLONE PHOTOGRAPHY

Picture of the month

7/1/2012, La Graciosa, Canary islands

25/12/2011, Laurisilva forest in the Garajonay National Park, La Gomera, Canary islands

30/11/2011, Cattle egrets (Bubulcus ibis) - Coto Doñana, Spain

31/10/2011, otoño andalù, Antequera, Spain

12/9/2011, chasing shadows moonlight mistery (cit.), Otranto Channel, Mediterraean sea

14/8/2011, Otranto Channel, Mediterranean sea

6/7/2011, Vindelfjällen Nature Reserve, Sweden. I spent a couple of weeks in this magnificient wilderness area. I do not think that this is my best

picture, but for sure it is the most emblematic one. Lemmings (Lemmus lemmus) are in a peak year and therefore the tundra wildlife is at its best!

27/6/2011, Njupeskär, Fulufjället National Park, Sweden

7/5/2011, Sierra de Cazorla, Andalucía.

5/4/2011, Rio Tinto, Andalucía. I do not think this is really nature photography, but this location really worths a visit

17/3/2011, Short-toed eagle (Circaetus gallicus) reaching Europe from Africa - Tarifa, Spain [crop 20%]

25/2/2011, Short-eared owl (Asio flammeus) - Coto Doñana, Spain

24/1/2011, Skåne, Sweden

2/12/2010, a Blackbird by my window - Malmö, Sweden

5/11/2010, in this period no spare time to photograph seriously, but sometimes you don't need to go far: a Waxwing by my window - Malmö, Sweden

31/10/2010, majestic beeches in the Stenshuvud National Park, Sweden

2/9/2010, Cervus elaphus corsicanus, Sardinia

30/8/2010, Salento, Italy. Here in my native land during August crowds of people come to dance the "Pizzica", a ritual dance for

people who believed they had been bitten by this spider (Latrodectus tredecimguttatus, Mediterranean black widow, Malmignatta)

24/7/2010, Lucania, Italy

8/6/2010, Lucania, Italy

12/5/2010. on the shore of Riu Serpis, Alicante, Spain

24/4/2010. Sierras de Alicante, Spain. Euphorbia isatidifolia seen through an Orchis olbiensis

9/3/2010. Audouin's gulls at Cabo Huertas, Spain. A rather extreme case of picture portraying animals in their

environment. Please have a look also at the picture taken the past year almost the same day...

26/2/2010. Rio Duraton, Spain. Griffon vulture

2/1/2010. Erg Ouzina, Morocco. The Fennec is one of the emblems of the Saharan wildlife. Special

thanks are due to my friend Rocco Tiberti, whithout whose help I could have never met this wonderful species.

12/12/2009. Sierras de Alicante, Spain. A wallcreeper, between the fog and the abyss

24/11/2009. Sierras de Alicante, Spain. The Eagle owl is looking forward the beginning of the night

23/9/2009, Columbretes islands, Spain. I spent the afternoon taking pictures of flying Eleonora's

falcons. When the light was almost over, I tried to take some different pictures

7/8/2009, Kornati archipelago, Croatia. Mediterranean night: cliffs cutting the sea under the full moon

12/7/2009, Gran Paradiso National Park, Italy. At last, spring is arriving also here, at 2700 m a.s.l.

5/6/2009, Villahermosa, Spain. Gyps fulvus

25/5/2009, Monnegre, Spain. Lanius meridionalis

14/4/09. The forest at the border between Montenegro and Albania is one of
the wildest Mediterranean flooded forests I had the chance to visit.

8/3/09, Cabo Huertas, Spain. Larus audouinii

4/2/09, Monnegre, Spain. Zabriskie point

6/1/09, Kalamas delta, Greece. A grey heron is taking advantage of the last light

in the wetlands just in front of the island of Corfù