Big Florida Photo Shoot!

Thank you Caracal and Roger!

I agree, I always try to hide the bases when I can

Day 12 - Mangroves

CollectA black-faced spoonbill pair
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Papo & Safari flamingos
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Schleich Chilean flamingos
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I love all your pics but I must say the first one is the most amazing to me

Day 13

We went to another trail that I can't remember the exact name of, something like "Cypress Cedar Trails". I really liked this trail because some of the bogs had little "mini lily pads" not sure what they're called but they look pretty to scale so I was excited to take pictures here I also got more pictures with our cougars and we found little flowers that also seemed in scale  

Safari roseate spoonbill
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Safari American alligator
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Schleich white-tailed deer, Beauty of Beasts cougars, Schleich resculpted white-tailed deer
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CollectA Baird's tapir calf, CollectA & Safari Malayan tapir. I was able to find one of the most wanted figures on my search list, the Safari Malayan tapir   So I was able to get a picture of a little family together
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Safari keel-billed toucans
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I think the little roundy green things are duckweed, they look perfect as scaled down lily pads with your spoonbill and alligator!

Actually not duckweed (Lemnaceae) but ferns! They're aquatic ferns in the genus Salvinia

[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] Thank you! I thought they were really neat

[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] I've never heard of aquatic ferns before, very interesting! I know very little about plants, the duckweed and ferns look very similar to me

Wonderful pictures again, I like the atmosphere

Beautiful, especially the elegant deer!

Congratulations for finding the Safari Malayan tapir, it is a fantastic figure and your picture just make it look real.
I also love these toucans trying to steal a round thing from each other.

Day 14 - More swamp-like photos!

Papo grey heron, might just be my favorite release this year... Such a unique species and the detail makes him great for pictures
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CollectA pygmy hippos. I just got this pair right before vacation and I love love love them, the baby is so adorable. CollectA I have the least amount of so I definitely need to catch up on those.
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Safari jaguar
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Papo ocelot. I was very fortunate to find this figure on my search list too, such a gorgeous figure that I didn't even know about until it was retired.
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Safari Iguana
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Your pics are really really amazing, if you would make a poll I would be very embarrassed to choose a favorite.

Not easy to find the ocelot anymore. Congratulations for finding it and for taking so beautiful figures.
I need that Safari jaguar.

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Not easy to find the ocelot anymore. Congratulations for finding it and for taking so beautiful figures.
I need that Safari jaguar.

Thank you!! I was really disappointed when I found out it retired, retired Papo figures are nearly impossible to track down. Safari's Jaguar is my favorite, I highly recommend it!

Day 15 - Back to the beach/trees

Last day of the trip I took some last photos back on the beach and in the surrounding trees. 2 more days and all the photos will have been shown I took quite a bit more than I expected, but I was very happy with the ones I took, I had many favorites.

Papo sloth with baby
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Safari harpy eagle
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Safari armadillo. I took the opportunity to take photos with a larger-scale figure. I don't like the larger figures, but Safari has so many beautiful ones that I can't resist   Plus I've had this figure for many years so I figured he deserved some photos
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Papo & Safari red-and-green macaw
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Safari keel-billed toucans
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SO many awesome shots!!! The jaguar, spoonbill, heron, gator... what a splendid floridian paradise! Great work again. Could you remind me what series the gator is from?

Nice pics again I'm happy Safari Armadillo had a walk with you. I agree I dislike too having too big models or too small but I can't resist to a beautiful one, it's the drama of my life

The toucans are my favourite pictures from this batch, but they're all lovely. Nice that the big armadillo got to go out for a walk on the beach, too (but then, I collect six different scales so 'wrong size' has never been an issue with my lot - I can't really relate to attempting to resist something cos of the scale they made it )

Thank you!

[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] I believe the Safari alligator is from their Wildlife Wonders line. It's about twice the size of the Papo alligator. But I thought that this was the most realistic model of an American alligator with the paintwork so I got it despite the size. Also with smaller woodland animals its actually a more accurate size.

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I love the armadillo photos, I don't know how big it is, but it looks very detailed

Day 16 - Tomorrow is the last day  

Safari keel-billed toucans
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Safari clouded leopard
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Safari ring-tailed lemur
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Schleich boars (older models are my friend's)
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Day - 17 Final Photos

Last photos of the trip

Schleich armadillo
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Safari & CollectA cassowaries
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This photo was my favorite of the whole trip.
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I had quite a few favorite photos but after looking at them all I have 3 that I just really love. I really like to take close-ups so you can really see the figure, but sometimes this can make the photo kind of boring, so I really wanted to get some more backgrounds in my shots. These 3 have backgrounds that I really liked, along with figures I love.

I've seen some photos of cassowaries on the beach and I thought that looked very cool, so I got the pair up on a hill overlooking the ocean.

The bald eagles I really liked because it reminds me of the bald eagles I can see by my house, and the scenery looks almost the same.

The penguin colony is very cute and I think the beautiful rock arch in the background makes it so much better.

That's all for my Florida photos! Weather is getting cold here now and fall is well underway, so I'm not sure what photos I'll be taking next. Hopefully we will get some snow this winter  

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Woondeful colourfull pictures with dreamy backgrounds but so realistic too!!   I particulary love the ones with the swimming gator and jag, the pumas, the cassowaries, the penguinsand so and so!.. :)

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Woondeful colourfull pictures with dreamy backgrounds but so realistic too!!   I particulary love the ones with the swimming gator and jag, the pumas, the cassowaries, the penguinsand so and so!.. :)

Thank you so much!

Just gorgeous, and the colors here are superb! 

Back to the alligator, is it approximately the size of the papo crocodile? If you have both models... could I trouble you for a comparison photo?