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Selva Verde Lodge – flowers, birds and critters
Costa Rica is a photographer’s wonderland! On this first full day at Selva Verde we headed out at 6 am to catch the morning light on flowers and a hoped-for early appearance of howler monkeys. I am using mostly collages again as there are so many photos I want to share with you.
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Selva Verde Lodge – an eco-tourism retreat
We left Hotel Buena Vista this morning following an excellent photography tutorial, and headed north toward the Caribbean lowlands – hot, humid and very lush. Our eventual destination was Selva Verde Lodge, an eco-tourism resort shown as location 2 on the map of two days ago.
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San Jose – starting out
A long day of flying from Vancouver to Seattle to Houston to San Jose, Costa Rica has brought me to the Hotel Buena Vista, a dear boutique hotel set amongst lush growth, stunning flowers, colourful butterflies and singing yet strangely invisible birds.
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Costa Rica: a photographic tour
Costa Rica, or more accurately the Republic of Costa Rica, was declared the greenest country in the world in 2009 by the New Economics Foundation’s Happy Planet Index. The country also scores highest among Latin American countries on the Human Development Index and was the first country in all the Americas to ban recreational hunting.…
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Barcelona – a church and a museum
From modernismo to cubism, our last day in Barcelona provided us with visual wonders. La Basílica de la Sagrada Familia filled our morning while the Museu Picasso took care of our afternoon. The morning dawned clear after the previous cool and rainy day, with the sun painting our neighbourhood in golden light. I thank Alistair…
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Barcelona – a park and an abbey
Among the many amazing sights in and around Barcelona are Park Güell and Montserrat. Park Güell is a Gaudi creation situated on top of Carmel hill facing the city and the ocean beyond. The abbey at Montserrat, located about thirty miles west of Barcelona, was built into a mountain formed by strange and Gaudi-esque shapes.
