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| White Face Monkey |
We have just returned from our trip to Costa Rica. It was a wonderful twelve days exploring the natural wonders of this rich oasis of tropical plants, flowers, animals and especially birds.
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| Black-Crowned Motmot |
The trip was run by Road Scholar which organizes trips, mostly for more mature, adventurous, travelers, throughout the world. It was a small group of only 14 people, led by a remarkably knowledgeable guide with long experience of the amazingly diverse natural beauty of his country.
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| San Gerardo Valley, Cloud Forest |
Costa Rica is a small Central American country, only about the size of West Virginia, but it possesses a disproportionately wide range of habitats from tropical rain forest to Volcanic highlands. Each day brought new exciting sights and of course I came away with a massive number of images, nearly 3000. I arrived home with just a couple of days to prepare this week's blog article and, although I intend to publish the usual travelogues, I have found myself wanting to get away from writing and back to the images.
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| Bare-Throated Tiger Heron |
There are so many neat pictures begging to be processed that I couldn't pull myself away to write a detailed description of the trip. So here you have a rather random collection of just some of images from our lovely journey. Just looking at them warms the cold, dark and barren view from my window.
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| Jacana |
Browse my Costa Rica Gallery for more images as I work my way through the collection. It will be a long time before I get through them all, but it is fun to keep coming back to relive the trip. I am beginning to settle back into the cold demands of my home schedule. I have a Lightroom Class coming up in March and a Basic Digital Photograph course in May. And then of course it will be time for a lovely hip replacement in June. Retirement is so relaxing. Incidentally there are still a couple of slots open for my Lightroom Class.
It will be a small, relaxed group and should be a lot of fun. Get in touch with me for more information.
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| Red-Eyed Tree Frog |
Now, in no special order, here are some of the pictures I have processed so far from warm Costa Rica.
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| Bananas at Doka Coffee Plantation |
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| Red-Leged Honey Creeeper |
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| Pooping Three-Toed Sloth |
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| Collared Aracari |
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| Pineapple Plantation |
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| Spider Monkey |
Jeffrey Newcomer
Partridgebrookreflections.com
This is a great post . Like it very much and thanks .
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