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I have just published Episode #27 of my Wild Nature Photography Podcast. This podcast episode includes an update from Finland (Wolverine!) and information on the postponement of my planned Pallas Cat and Snow Leopard expeditions that were scheduled for December this year. Both these expeditions will now be held late in 2022. Also included are some thoughts on the soon to be released Canon EOS R3 camera. I am very excited to take delivery in late November when I return to Australia and test this camera in the cold early next year.

Chromaluxe, Gold Sponsor for the World Photographic Cup, has put together a gallery of the winning photographs in their head office in Belgium. Very pleased to have my Emperor Penguin family photograph amongst them.

I have just published Episode #26 of my Wild Nature Photography Podcast. This episode wraps up my official workshop here in the far north of Finland on the border with Russia. We had seven days of fabulous photography that kicked off with the entire wolf pack of ten wolves showing up on day one!

A few interesting tidbits of information in this newly released video on the Canon EOS R3. Delivery is looking like late November 2021 at this point in time. Hopefully, I will have one in my hands before I depart for Mongolia in early December.

In the corner of now for something completely different, an example of the Canon 1200mm f5.6 EF lens just sold at auction for a record 500,000 Euro (approximately $800,000 AUD). The initial estimate of 80,000 – 100,000 Euro was a tad shy of pessimistic. Approximately 20 of these lenses were produced and many years ago I had the good fortune to try one at what was then Baltronics in Melbourne. I was not allowed to hold the lens, that was mounted to a large video tripod, but I was able to look through the camera and take a few shots. Even now I can recall the distance this glass covered was pretty crazy.

A Canon telephoto lens EF 1200 mm f/5.6 from the 1990s achieved a particularly spectacular result. Only around 20 specimens of this lens were originally produced on special order only at the time. The then original list price was already U.S. $ 90,000. Two customers who were connected by telephone engaged in an exciting bidding war, so that the lens was finally hammered for fabulous EUR 500,000. It is the highest price ever achieved at auction for a camera lens in the world.