Amidst a rain forest we expect to find a lot of things, but it is rare to find a dilipidated sugar mill. I would think that was interesting enough, however, how the rain forest is taking back its land is a sight in… Continue Reading “Ruins of a sugar mill in Lamanai, Belize”
Category: Phlog, Photography, Travelogue, World CultureTags: 1850, 1860, Abandoned site, Belize, British Honduras, Gears, Historic building, History, Lamanai, Machinery, Old machines, Photography, Rainforest, Ruins, Rum, Sugar mill, Travel
Posted on March 21, 2016
by neuroticphilosopher
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This weeks photo challenge is about motion and dance and I have to tell ya, when tulips dance to the Oklahoma winds, it is one of the nicest dances to see. ( but not so nice to photograph with a macro lens). However, the… Continue Reading “The waltz of tulips”
Category: PhotographyTags: bulbs, Canon 6D, gardening, home-owning, macro, Macro 100mm, Nature photography, spring, spring blooms, tulips, Weekly photo challenge, yard
Posted on March 16, 2016
by neuroticphilosopher
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Here are some of the birds we saw in CR, these look like they were in the middle of a thought..
Category: Environment, Photography, Travelogue, tropical birds, World CultureTags: birding, Birding tour, birds, Boat-billed heron, Bright-rumped attila, Costa Rica, Crested Guan, Emerald toucanette, Endangered birds, Great Curassow, Green Honeycreeper, Green kingfisher, Green violetear hummingbird, Herons, Honeycreepers, Hummingbirds, Kingfishers, Laughing Falcon, Nature tour, Northern Jacana, Olive throated parrot, Purple honeycreeper, Rare birds, Rarely seen, Trogons, tropical birds, Vulnerable birds, Wildlife photography, Woodpeckers
In the Amazon, we saw many sloths. They were miles away and above (on kapok trees). It took the strength of my powerful binoculars to make out their hanging forms, and if we were lucky, there faces. Since then, I thought that sloths can… Continue Reading “Shall we sloth? in Costa Rica”
Category: Photography, TravelogueTags: Animals, Central America, Costa Rica, Mammals, nature, Nature photography, Photography, Rarely seen animals, Sloths, Three-toed sloth, Two toed sloth, WIld, wildlife, Wildlife photos
There are thousands of species of butterflies in Costa Rica. Apparently 90% of the butterflies of Central and South America can be found there! Photographed beautifully by many photographers. The number of blue morphos that accompanied us down and up every trail we… Continue Reading “Where butterflies come from: CR and caterpillars”
Category: Environment, PhotographyTags: Blue Morpho, Butterflies, Butterfly center, cocoon, Costa Rica, flowers, Malachite, Monteverde, nature, Owl butterfly, Pupae, Spines, swallowtail butterfly, wildlife