COSTA RICA PHOTOS
 

here:

http://costa.rica.typepad.com/photos...ica/index.html

They're beautiful. Thanks.

Stunning photos. We will be doing much photography also in CR leaving this month. Thank you for the inspiration!

Absolutely beautiful!!! Thanks for sharing!

thx for all the kind comments, glad they provided some ´inspiration´

we are still hoping to go in July but flights are now up to$800 thats a lot for a family of five, our friends paid half that last year:( what do you think, are flights just high or an I looking in the wrong places? any help in getting good price on flights appreciated, we will be flying from texas to liberia..maybe austin or dallas:)

Have you checked with America West Airlines? We're flying out of Seattle with a stop in Phoenix for $428 pp. We're flying out on July 6 and return July 20th.
Carrie

What beautiful photographs!! What camera and lenses did you use? Can you recommend a point and shoot? Haven't decided yet on digital or film.

thx:)
i just used a fuji 3 megapixel that i bought in liberia for USD200.
DEFINITELY go with digital, all my travel photos before digital were garbage

sukiduper,
I like my compact Panasonic Lumix DMC-LZ2 5 megpixel with 6x optical zoom and stabilization. The macro mode is sweet and when I use macro for longer shots and with the small point focus I can get some decent animal pics at a distance. I was just learning how to use it this year but got some good pics and know I can do better than some I've posted. I paid about $218. at Circut City. If you can spend more, a higher optical zoom may be a better choice. Depends what you want to shoot. I've posted some photo albums of my last two CR trips on this site http://rvincent3.photosite.com if you care to look. I have also used software Photoshop Elements 4 to crop and enhance color for the albums. Some of the birds were shot at long distance with the addition of a scope the guide was lugging around for us.