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Dur­ing our trip to Ice­land in June 2025, we were lucky enough to observe and pho­to­graph the cute puffins up close. I have now select­ed the best pic­tures and put them togeth­er in a new pic­ture calendar.

The cal­en­dar shows the cute puffins of Ice­land in var­i­ous sit­u­a­tions. It fea­tures high-res­o­lu­tion pho­tos of the birds in flight, on the cliffs, and even with their typ­i­cal prey (sand eels) in their col­or­full bills.

Ice­land is home to one of the world’s largest puf­fin colonies, which breed on the cliffs and enliv­en the coast­line between May and August. The cal­en­dar com­bines nature pho­tog­ra­phy with insights into the lives of these seabirds and is aimed at any­one inter­est­ed in wildlife and Iceland.

We were able to observe the large colonies on the Dyrhólaey penin­su­la near the town of Vik and in Bor­gar­f­jarðarhöfn in the West­fjords for a long time dur­ing sun­ny weather.

All but one of the pho­tos were tak­en exclu­sive­ly with my 400mm f/2.8 lens on my Canon EOS R5 Mark II. I was very glad that I had brought this fast lens with me. In my opin­ion, the com­bi­na­tion proved to be ide­al, as the results show—apart from the sub­se­quent mus­cle sore­ness from hold­ing the approx­i­mate­ly 5kg com­bi­na­tion for so long 😉

Here is an overview of the images:

Like all my cal­en­dars, the 2026 cal­en­dar is now avail­able from Cal­ven­do, ama­zon*, or in bookshops.

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