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slippery42

Firstly here is a little background on my own personal views on photography in the field.

I make no apology that the majority of images from Costa Rica were taken using flash as much of them were either nocturnal species or found at night!!!!

I know some wildlife photographers catch keep and release the following day allowing them to have the luxury of daylight.

I was in CR for 7 days and got very little sleep as we were either driving or hiking in the forests.

I also believe it to be wrong to keep any animal to photograph it and if its nocturnal why show it in daylight?

The whole trip was problematic as its the wet season and traveling is hampered by floods, landslides and fog.

Never the less its been my best trip out there yet and i cant wait to go back next year.

Undertaking this type of photography is very very hard work and there are never any guarantees about what species you will encounter. an example of this being my Trip last year when I never even saw a single boa or fer-de-lance two of the commoner species.

The rarer species such as Bushmaster are notoriously hard to find and although I was fortunate to find a large one (sex unknown as I wasn't prepared to probe it) it could have been much different.

Anyway those are a few thoughts.

A final one is that although I do not mind private individuals looking at my images please be aware that all images are protected under copyright laws and as the photographer I do and have every intention to pursue copyright theft.

I have successfully taken legal action against one web site and and a newspaper and will do again if my images are misused!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

To the rest of you enthusiasts I hope you enjoy the images as much as I did taking them.

Cloud Forest Stream

Tropical Rain Forest

Costa Rican Boa Constrictor

Close up of Boa

Getting it wrong with a colubrid

You find strange things on country roads!

Sloth on electric wires

Parrot Snake found asleep (not for long)

One of many species of snail/slug eaters found

DOR caecellian

Cat Eye Snake

Sunbeam Snake -loxocemus bicolour

head shot of sunbeam snake

Unidentified tricoloured colubrid

Close up of a large Coral Snake

Spiny Iguana

Unidentified ground dwelling snake

Same species eating road killed tree frog

Lyre Snake eating road kill

Tree Boa

Strawberry Dart Frog

Tree Frogs in amplexus

Red Eye Tree Frog

Unkown Tree Frog on a stick

Unidentified Green Tree Fog

I think this is a glass frog?

Weird little tree frog

A common as muck Marine/Cane toad

Another Bufo species

Large Tree Frogs in amplexus

Tree fog calling in a pool

DOR Sheep Frog

Sheep Frog Calling ...note ripples on water

Baby Yellow Eyelash Pit Viper

Head shot of same one

Grey form of Eyelash Pit Viper

Dart Frog

Jumping Viper...nasty little bleeders

Rainforest Hog Nosed Viper

Adult Yellow Eyelash Pit Viper

Strange looking little dude!!

Adult Fer-De-Lance

Close up of its head.....scarey doing this with a macro!!!!

Not mant people get to see Bushmaster in the wild so we were lucky.
about 7 foot long and a very calm snake.

NOTE.these are ALL WILD ANIMALS taken in the WILD!!!!!!

HOPE YOU ENJOYED THEM YOUR COMMENTS WELCOME
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Morbid · Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 3:49 pm Post subject:

Lovley pictures!! Absolutley stunning!!

Thank you so much for sharing!
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MJ · Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 3:50 pm Post subject:

Superb shots!

Do you have the town/area/location you found the Dendrobates pumilio? Pm me if you want.

Nice Auratus (green and balck poison frog) did you see many of these? as they're real common or used to be Smile

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kroakykaren · Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 3:51 pm Post subject:

WOW Bloomin fantastic photographs, thankyou so much for sharing them Very Happy

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Stuart · Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 3:51 pm Post subject:

Great series of photos Graeme..nice to see them all in their natural habitat. Looks like you had fun.
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Cleef · Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 3:56 pm Post subject:

Cracking images, a lot of incredible looking animals there Smile

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Scott W · Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 4:04 pm Post subject:

superb! thanks for making the effort to post them all.
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slippery42 · Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 4:35 pm Post subject: locations

slippery42 · Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 4:37 pm Post subject: Bushmaster

If anyones interest I could post images of a bushmaster getting a little too interested in my and the camera Shocked

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Using Nikon D300's and pro lenses

MJ · Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 4:47 pm Post subject:

cool go for it... aslong as it isnt your Shocked

As for visiting CR it's on the list hehe Cool

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