American Flamingos, Floreana Island, the Galapagos, Ecuador

There is a salt lake a half mile inland on Floreana Island in the Galapagos. It is home to a colony of American Flamingos. Flamingos have a uniquely strange beauty…a pink so intense it takes a special effort to capture it with a digital camera…that huge shrimp-strainer bill…odd long legs and neck…and yet the whole is more beautiful than the sum of the parts. 

In the panel you see an HDR shot of the lake from the overlook with its signature Galapagos sky. The flamingos are lower right. Then three classic flamingo poses. 

Sony Rx10iii in-camera HDR and three shots at 600mm equivalent in Program Mode. The flight shot is my special Birds in Flight and Action saved mode. Processed in Polarr on my ipad pro.