Collared aracari toucans caught in a face-off in Costa Rica.
Photographing toucans in Costa Rica is much like photographing birds that may come to a bird feeder at your home. One difference in Costa Rica is the bird feeders can be tall as a telephone pole. The bird feeder at our lodge required two large stalks of bananas daily to entice the toucans, parrots and other colorful birds common to Costa Rica to pose for photographers.
My very first hummingbird photo in Costa Rica. This is five separate humming bird photos blended together in Photoshop.
I was familiar with many great nature photos taken in Costa Rica, so I jumped at the chance to go for a couple weeks with a good friend of mine on an organized nature photography workshop. We photographed endless hummingbirds, frogs, toucans, bats and vultures. Most of it in a torrent of daily rainstorms. Thank goodness we went in the dry season.