Esther's photos

Neotropic cormorant AxMG_2307

Green heron at Cano Negro, Costa Rica. AxMG_2274

Female Anhinga at Cano Negro, Costa Rica. AxMG_2254

Bouganvilleas were named after the famous French explorer, Admiral Louis de Bougainville, who "discovered" them in 1768 when he and his crew became the first Frenchmen to circumnavigate the globe. The purple "blooms" are not true flowers, but instead are papery bracts that encircle the small, white, tubular flower. This Bougainvillea was found at the Cano Negro Natural Lodge in Costa Rica. AxMG_2180

Hibiscus at the Cano Negro Natural Lodge in Costa Rica. AxMG_2184

A vine with tiny leaves encircles a larger vine in the rainforest near Mt. Arenal in Costa Rica AxMG_2165

The lower canopy of a rainforest near Mt. Arenal in Costa Rica as seen from the ground. AxMG_2168

Brown-throated three toed sloth near Mt. Arenal in Costa Rica. You'd think that an animal that barely moves would be easy to photograph, but no. Sloths live up high in treetops. Usually they appear as a ball around a tree branch to the naked eye. This photograph was shot with a 300 mm lens and blown up. The leaves ensure that they are in mottled light and unless you catch them feeding, they don't look up. I have a few moving sloth shots that I will post later, but I just got lucky for those. AxMG_2089

A member of the Maleku Indigent tribe in Costa Rica. AxMG_2163