More Butterflies from Costa Rica (photos)

[Gato Moteado]

here are some butterflies i photographed in the rainforest at guayabo national monument this last weekend:

this one wasn't much bigger than a nickel:
http://i55.photobucket.com.nyud.net:8090/albums/g138/GatoMoteado/butterfly_1506.jpg

this was a female that had just emerged from her chrysalis (you can see her clinging to it) and the male didn't give her any time to get comfortable in her new stage as a butterfly before swooping in and getting busy:
http://i55.photobucket.com.nyud.net:8090/albums/g138/GatoMoteado/mating_1530.jpg

this is one of the many species of clearwing butterflies we have in the country. i posted some photos of this one in a separate thread but it's such a remarkable creature i thought it deserved being included here:
http://i55.photobucket.com.nyud.net:8090/albums/g138/GatoMoteado/clearwing_1522b.jpg

in case you missed them the first time, to see some more shots of the clearwing butterfly, click here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x5560099

i'm heading to braulio carrillo national park this weekend and i always see exciting wildlife there, so i hope to have some decent photos for you all when i get back!

[Ellen Forradalom]

1. Gato! Dude!

Those are some great butterflies!

How's life in Costa Rica?

I love California. Things are going well.

[Gato Moteado]

4. hola chica!

i'm glad to hear you're doing well in CA! the change of venue was what you needed.

things are going well here. too slow for me.....i'm impatient and i want to be living in the rainforest yesterday....but i'll get there.

[Haole Girl]

2. Wow, I've never really seen yellow ones ...

...not like that! Even their bodies are yellow. They look like they've been dipped in yellow paint! Thanks for showing us these!! I love butterflies! :)

[Gato Moteado]

5. we've got the big yellow sulfers (or is it sulphurs) too.....

....been seeing a lot of them lately all over my neighborhood.

[myrna minx]

3. Your photos are just breath taking.

Thank you so much for posting these. :hi:

[Gato Moteado]

6. thanks.....

...glad you dig them as much as i do. if i could afford it, i'd spend all my time shlepping thru the jungle looking for stuff to photograph.

[Omaha Steve]

7. Great photos

Film or digital?

[Gato Moteado]

11. i'm totally digital now

i've been using a canon digital rebel for a little while. if i ever come into a little dinero, i'll pop back into the states and buy a nikon digital slr.

[YankeyMCC]

8. I really enjoy your photos thanks n/t

[Gato Moteado]

12. thank you!

nt

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. My dear Gato Moteado!

My god, man, these are astonishing!

Tell me you take pics for a living!

If you don't, maybe you should........

Fabulous, just fabulous!

Thank you so much......... :woohoo:

[Gato Moteado]

14. peggy, mi amor!

i wish i took photos for a living. it was always a dream of mine. i was a much better photographer with a mostly manual nikon FE SLR. though the new digital cameras have more bells and whistles i seem to have lost the ability to control exposures. part of it is the fact that i just don't want to read the user's guide from front to back.....but it seems like there's no way to learn the camera without doing that.

i'm hopefully headed to golfito later this year to a place where i can get very close to wild monkeys in an environment where i can comfortably photograph them. that should be fun.

i also want to build a bird blind on one or both of my rainforest properties so i can get closeup shots of birds without them even knowing i'm there.

and my dream is to be able to photograph wild jaguars in the costa rican rainforest. the trick is finding them.

[bridgit]

10. a stunning array of diversity is my thought, cool pics thanks...

for posting them :-)

[Gato Moteado]

15. con mucho gusto!

nt

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

13. Those are wonderful pictures

I haven't been to Costa Rice since the early 90's but your pictures reminded me of all the beautiful butterflies we saw in La Fortuna when we were there...there are so many different ones it's amazing

[Gato Moteado]

16. thanks!

they have a hummingbird garden there too i think. the mountains are loaded with hummers here.

[joneschick]

17. your photos are so beautiful!

so, kick! and :hi:

[Burma Jones]

18. hola Gato

I was in your remarkable country last August and spent the entire trip up in the mountains. I suppose the beaches are magnificent too, maybe next time. we went here:




and here:





and here:





Pura Vida indeed

[JitterbugPerfume]

19. Gato

these photos are soooooo cool!



That does it ~!!! I wanna go to Costa Rica

[Kajsa]

20. Hola, Gato! These are incredible!!

My goodness, I'm with Peggy, you should be
a professional photographer.
Maybe work for 'National Geographic'?
You are that good!

I'm ready to move to Costa Rica. The job situation
for prospective teachers( especially one who is 55)
in California is not good. There are too many budget
cuts and too many teachers who are out of work, right now.

I've been substituting ( English,ESL) for six years, now.

Do they need English teachers in Costa Rica?
I've heard they do.

Anyway, thanks for sharing these outstanding photo,Gato.

:hi: