Borneo wildlife with Olympus E-M1 Mark II

Recently I shared my pictures from spring Borneo and Malaysia trip and upcoming Pantanal wildlife trip. I am back from my autumn visit of Malaysia nad Borneo, so let me share some new shots. Hope you will like some.


This is me and about 50m high rainforest giant tree.


The tinest endemic Bornean Pygmy Squirrel. Just imagine the body is only 7cm in lenght and additional 5cm belongs to the tail. 12cm animal in total


Almost night shot, when Green Crested Lizard found its resting branch where pend whole night. Usually you find the tail first, than follow it to reach lizard itself. I tried to make similar working image.


Black-crowned Pitta is endemic and elusive bird from rainforest grounds. It was almost dark when I took the shot so I used a bit extremly long time to get most of the lights. Fortunatelly Pitta stay almost motionless.


Proboscis monkey belongs to iconic animal of the island.


Night walks brings everytime something special. In this case gecko waiting for honeydew secretion form beautiful Lanternbug/Lanternfly - so called Trophobiosis.




Yellow ringed Cat Snake from one of many night walks.




One of the most beautiful snakes I ever seen in wild - female of Wagler's Pit Viper from Malaysia part of the trip.




Little Boiga from Fraser's Hill in Malaysia.



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What a great selection of images, but that first shot is about as good a use of the 8mm f1.8 as I have seen. Excellent.

I love the lens. Very useful for closeups and even star photography and tiny as Bornean squirrel :-D

Amazing set of pictures from an amazing set of lenses :-D

Those are beautiful photos! I don't think I'd be able to make such a nice composition with a snake staring me in the face! Awesome!

Yes, I had 8mm/1.8 and 75mm/1.8 for testing. Both are interesting lenses indeed

I love snakes, all were very tame

Don't see a lot of wow sets and this definitely qualifies--wow! The creatures are quite exotic and your exposure and processing are impeccable. Well done.

Cheers,

Rick

Many thanks!

Looks like you had a great trip and you got some really great photos. Many thanks for sharing.

Dave
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Really nice work Petr .. i checked out your 500px site as well. Very nice

Robert

very much for sharing. always nice to see the other side of the world.

-pit viper captured at 24mm?!?

Wonderful images, thanks for sharing them!

Breathtakingly beautiful!

Isabel

I think your photos are probably the best ad for Olympus since Eric Hosking and his OM-2.

Thank you for sharing those, they are just wonderful. Someone noted: An image of a pit viper made with a very wide lens? EEK! Ha! I would have used the 300mm lens.

Beautiful pictures, thanks for sharing

I am absolutely stunned.

What flash arrangement did you use for the night shots?

Wonderful images, thanks for sharing. They "pop".

Petr Bambousek said:

Yellow ringed Cat Snake from one of many night walks.

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"Yellow ringed Cat Snake cleaning the front element of my 8mm lens"

;-)

Fantastic series of captures. Striking subjects wonderfully captured and presented.

Why you are not featured in the Pro Gallery on the Olympus site has got me beat? The images you have been sharing here are easily the best I have seen using OMD gear.