>Last January I spent 20 days at a tiny and remote village at the doors of the Picos de Europa national park. This beautiful park forms part of the Cantabrian Mountains range in northern Spain, a wild and mostly unspoiled region. During their conquest of the Iberian Peninsula, already the romans had considerable difficulties to control the "Cantabros" tribes and the Arab occupation of Spain went smoothly till they were defeated at Covadonga, the last resistance point of the christian army from where the "Reconquista" slowly began.

My illusion was to get a decent picture of a wolf which together with the brown bear is the most emblematic species of the area. Unfortunately some people in our country have not yet understood what a touristic potential this animals represent! I had already been warned that...

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I was happy to see that my first iphone photo had been accepted and now online, I didn't think it would go through!
I made this photography in northern Spain, at the Picos de Europa national park standing behind a waterfall which was pouring down to the Cares river. I was there for wildlife photography and had not brought my wide angle lens so I used my iphone but without even thinking of later uploading it to Dreamstime!