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I am behind on my posts from Costa Rica. Actually, I still have a day and a half of pics from Costa Rica I haven't looked at.
But, a few pics of a Two-Toed Sloth Mother and baby. I wish I could say much effort was extended in getting these shots, but truth be told, they were in a tree above the beach bar at the hotel.
I'll take easy. :)
Baby was a bit restless...Mom just wanted to sleep....
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...74b5a4ee_h.jpg537A3468 by kayaker72, on Flickr
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...d801335d_h.jpg537A3557 by kayaker72, on Flickr
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...c99f2faf_h.jpg537A3573 by kayaker72, on Flickr
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...66a9510e_h.jpg537A3666 by kayaker72, on Flickr
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...3f281c1b_h.jpg537A3629 by kayaker72, on Flickr
Thanks for viewing....Brant
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Another year and another trip to Costa Rica and photographing sloths.
These are Two Toed Sloths. Different location, these were taken at Le Perica Sloth Garden on the Osa Peninsula. Which is a great place, and I do love what they are doing. But it a stretch of property set between a cattle farm and a Palm oil farm (Palm trees). Same farmer developed both and, as the story goes, his wife wanted to leave the forest along the creek near their house undeveloped. Then, she wanted a path system so she could take walks. They are both older now (they are the grandparents of the guide), but sloths seem to really like that smaller stretch of land. We saw 9 sloths, 8 Three toed and 1 Two toed. I just posted one picture, here are a few others:
This sloth was moving between trees and paused for a second to check me out.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...968794ef_h.jpg537A2225 by kayaker72, on Flickr
While I do like this image, I had my 500 mm f/4 on my R5. So I couldn't get the whole body in.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...62efa13e_h.jpg537A2280 by kayaker72, on Flickr
But, and I might start trying this, on these next two images, even though I was too close (and couldn't back up) I took multiple images and did a pano-merge in LR. Insert jokes about Sloths being slow enough to be part of the landscape, but there was movement, and LR did a nice job of merging the images so you don't see it.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...101f508e_h.jpg537A2138-Pano-2 by kayaker72, on Flickr
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...36bf434e_h.jpg537A2363-Pano by kayaker72, on Flickr
Thanks for viewing!
Brant
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Excellent Sloth set. Very cool creatures!
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Thanks Jayson....I enjoy them a lot....maybe some sort of kindred spirit thing ;-).
But, watching them move, I would describe more as methodical rather than slow.
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Great afternoon of shooting. I am actually just about to finish going through them all but I am behind in posting here.
We had a troop of 50-60 squirrel monkeys go over us at two different locations. Here are a few favorites:
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...3f91f791_h.jpg537A2526 by kayaker72, on Flickr
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...f88de015_h.jpg537A2534 by kayaker72, on Flickr
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...0cbeea81_h.jpg537A2738 by kayaker72, on Flickr
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...367fea17_h.jpg537A2766 by kayaker72, on Flickr
Thanks for viewing....Brant
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