BGuthrie Photos: Costa Rica -- San Jose de la Montana -- Canopy Adventure (zip-line tour) -- Other's pictures

Costa Rica -- San Jose de la Montana -- Canopy Adventure (zip-line tour) -- Other's pictures:

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Description of Pictures: The canopy tour operators sold you a CD of pictures from your trip as well as some of their stock photos. A selection from that CD is here. In addition, one of our group loaned me her camera chip with several MOV files (which aren't posted because video takes up so much space).

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. CANOPO_070530_004.JPG: Gap: When a branch or a tree falls, it opens a gap, letting sun light reach [the] forest floor. This is a perfect condition for some seeds to start their life. Seeds of some trees stay on the ground more than 150 years waiting for this moment. Anything that ends its lifecycle or dies starts decomposing, providing food, home or nutrients to others. Every tree, plant, insect or animal had a [good] reason to be here. There is no waste in such a place of opportunities and competition where everyone is a winner.
2. CANOPO_070530_007.JPG: Forests: Plants use solar energy to get their food, all the rest of living things [need] them for living in a direct or indirect way. Forest provide food, medicine, clean the air removing carbon dioxide, and keep our water fresh!
3. CANOPO_070530_012.JPG: Ficus Strangler Fig: These trees start their lifecycles growing on top of a host tree, where a bird put its seed. As they grow, some of their roots will hang from the trees as aerial roots, some of them will surround the host tree. When the Ficus reaches the ground, it starts to thicken, strangling and eventually killing the host tree, which rots away leaving a bizarrely shaped adult Ficus in its place. This process can take hundreds of years. The hole that is left by the host tree is a perfect habitat for animals such as bats.
4. CANOPO_070530_014.JPG: The Ficus Strangler Fig
5. CANOPO_070530_111.JPG: Zip-line canopy tour in Costa Rica
6. CANOPO_070530_121.JPG: I have a picture taken about the same instant of her doing this. You'll see it in the other section.
7. CANOPO_070530_123.JPG: Bruce Guthrie on the canopy tour in Costa Rica
8. CANOPO_070530_133.JPG: We never saw water falls or anything on this trip. Any wildlife was scared away by the half-dozen dogs the tour operators brought with them. This was one of the stock photos from their own exploration in the forest.
Description of Subject Matter: The Canopy Adventure is a zip line tour of one of the cloud forests. Zip lines are high wires which are strung up between trees in the forests. Your strapped in a harness and locked onto the wire, then let go down the wire. The trips were fun, the harnesses secure, and the adventure very safe.
In addition to our group, there were two other groups in attendance. Each of us got different-colored helmets so they could organize the photos for us more efficiently. The largest group (in yellow helmets) was a Baptist church retreat. The smallest group (in orange helmets) were three women, one of whom got very upset that I was taking pictures of everyone. She said she didn't like strangers taking random pictures of her. I have no idea what was wrong with her. Since groups were coming down the line in somewhat random order, I thought I was taking pictures of my group (in blue helmets) and accidentally photographed her which bothered her to no end. I told her I'd delete the pictures -- which I didn't want to do at the time because I'd already taken others -- but I ended up taking fewer pictures in general because I didn't want to accidentally take hers again. It was difficult taking the pictures because it was relatively dark in the forest, you had people coming out the trees straight toward you -- you never knew where to focus or how much to emphasize the person relative to the breath-taking backgrounds -- and harnesses often got in the way. I would have appreciated taking a lot more pictures but the photophobe caused me to slow down considerably. Afterward, one of her group came by, told me again that the woman was upset, and forced me to find and delete the last set of pictures in front of her.
I'd never deleted pictures from this camera. (The only other time I'd had to delete digital pictures was years ago with another camera at a Jethro Tull concert.) Before I went digital, I had been on a whale-watching trip off Cape Cod. I had my trusty 35mm film camera. Another guy had a digital camera. I took about six rolls of pictures, some of which came out very well. The other guy, however, commented that he didn't know why he even bothered taking the pictures because the slow focusing with a digital camera meant that he never got the whale as it leapt from the water -- only the tail as it went back in. At the end of the trip as we were getting ready to get off the boat, he tried to delete some bad pictures. Unfortunately, he accidentally said "delete all" instead of "delete last" and he lost everything from the trip. That experience caused me to delay buying my first digital camera and to vow that I would only delete pictures from the computer, not from the camera.
Fortunately, the tour operators also took lots of pictures (the orange group didn't consider them strangers) and they sold our group CDs containing about 135 images. We had four subsets in our group so we bought four copies of the CD -- they charged you $20 to $40 per CD depending on how many people were in your subset. I bought the CD to get pictures of myself and also because I wasn't sure how my own pictures were coming out.
Bigger photos? To save server space, the full-sized versions of these images have either not been loaded to the server or have been removed from the server. (Only some pages are loaded with full-sized images and those usually get removed after three months.) I still have them though. If you want me to email them to you, please send an email to guthrie.bruce@gmail.com and I can email them to you, or, depending on the number of images, just repost the page again will the full-sized images.
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