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@quickphotography.bsky.social

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Love photography! All photos my own. No AI. Scrapper, more than technophile. US based global generalist & street photographer. People, animals, culture, travel and other stuff. Happy to learn from others and to share. Queen of all typos.

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Quick Photography @quickphotography.bsky.social · Nov 22

Hi I'm Laura, a US-based traveler and photographer. This is me at home, gathering greens for my animals (pigs, chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys and peafowl. A graphic designer by trade, I've been traveling since the early 80s and post images from all over the world and throughout the decades.

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Wild Plumed Basilisk
(Basiliscus plumifrons)
Tirimbina Rainforest, Costa Rica

We saw. bunch of these guys sleeping in trees on our night walk. I returned in the morning and found this spectacular male on a tree #Reptiles #photography #wildlifephotography #basilisk #plumedbasilask #green #costarica

Quick Photography @quickphotography.bsky.social · 1d

DOUBLE TROUBLE!
A pair of White-faced Capuchins
Cebus imitator

They like to get the dog going every morning. Also appears on the reverse side of the Costa Rican 5,000 colón note.
#photography #wildlifephotography #doubletrouble #capuchinmonkeys #wild #costarica

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Sleeping Hummingbird (Hermit)
Tirimbina, Costa Rica

While on a night walk our guide tapped me and said, Back up slowly. I did and this beauty was sleeping on a branch adjacent to my shoulder. Apparently common behavior for hummingbirds, who knew?! #birds #photography #sleeping #nightwalk #costarica

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Quick Photography @quickphotography.bsky.social · 2d

You have a point there. 😂

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Broad-billed Mot Mot - showing ratchet tail
Tirimbina, Costa Rica

I posted yesterday about the mot mot but wanted to show how long it's ratcheted tail is...doesn't seem like it would be practical going in and out of a tunnel nest, right? #birds #motmot #tirimbina #costa #ratchettail #photography

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Broad-billed Mot Mot
Tirimbina, Costa Rica

I saw a pair of Mot Mots hanging out yesterday afternoon, so decided to see if they I might get lucky today. On a night walk, the guide explained these are Mot Mot nests, they dig them about 4 feet into the cliff. #birds #nest #motmot #photography

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Teen 3-toed Sloth again, but upside down
TRR Release Site
Heredia, Costa Rica

Sloths are equally comfortable at any incline, this one is hanging on solely by his back feet, which is common. #sloth #smile #photography #adorable #portrait #wildlifephotography #threetoedsloth #costarica

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Teen 3-toed Sloth
TRR Release Site
Heredia, Costa Rica

Their musculature is such that they are always smiling, making them far more adorable and approachable than they really are. #sloth #smile #photography #adorable #portrait #wildlifephotography #threetoedsloth

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Wild Great Green Macaw
(Ara ambiguus)
TRR Release Site
A large, critically endangered Central and South America parrot. '23 census counted only 328 across five countries, due to habitat loss from deforestation + poaching for the illegal pet trade. #birds #greatgreenmacaw #photography #endangered

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Laughing Falcon
(Herpetotheres cachinnans)
TRR Headquarters, Cost Rica

I wasn't familiar with this gorgeous bird prior to this visit. Spectacular and distinctive raptor of tropical lowlands, often seen perched on prominent bare snags, from which it hunts for snakes. #birds #photography #portrait

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Blue Jean Poison Dart Frog
(Dendrobates pumilio)
Lives in rainforest, cacao/banana groves near the forest floor in leaf litter. Frequently climb trees and vines. Females oviposit on land, but transport each tadpole to its own water-filled bromeliad to develop #amphibian #dartfrog #photography #tiny

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SOMBRA
Wild 3-legged, 3-toed sloth
She just weaned her upteenth baby this past week. She gets around great and was released after being rehabbed 3 or 4 years ago. My friend Denise took care of her whilw she recovered after losing her arm. #wildlife #sloths #sombra #threelegged #photography

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Quick Photography @quickphotography.bsky.social · 4d

I'm Back! I'm in Costa Rica a month already, back on this site, after fighting the log-in demons.

The internship is going OK, the experience, awesome. If you'd told me Jan, I'd be sharing a room with a 20-year old kid, I wouldn't have believed it, lol. Yet, here we are! Lewis, being "American"

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Quick Photography @quickphotography.bsky.social · Sep 19

Pig on Hermit Island
Suchitoto, El Salvador

#pig #chickens #island #suchitoto #elsalvador #photography #travel

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Quick Photography @quickphotography.bsky.social · Sep 19

Male Green Iguana (breeding coloring)
So pretty!
Muelle, Costa Rica

I love these guys with their beaded armor + fancy colors. This one was mellow. There's a restaurant in Muelle which started feeding them, now there are hundreds. #herps #iguana #photography #wildlifephotography #reptiles #lizards

Quick Photography @quickphotography.bsky.social · Sep 19

White-throated Magpie Jay
(Cyanocorax formosus)
Ometepe, Nicaragua

I stalked this bird for a good length of time, failed, gave up and went for a cup of coffee. When I got up to leave this bird was sitting on the table behind me! Sheesh!

#bird #ThursJay #MagpieJay #CentralAmerica #photography

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Quick Photography @quickphotography.bsky.social · Sep 12

I'll bet, they are no strangers to visitors with treats!

Quick Photography @quickphotography.bsky.social · Sep 12

He's hard to miss, lol. Do you hang out in Morro Bay?

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Quick Photography @quickphotography.bsky.social · Sep 12

Zinnia elegans
Sunland Community Garden
Tujunga, California
#bloomscrolling #bloom #pink #hotpink #zinnia #photography

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Quick Photography @quickphotography.bsky.social · Sep 12

I hear we’re cute posting
Fat Ground Squirrel
Morro Bay, California

#chonky #sqrlpix #mammals 🌿 #photography #wildlife

📸 Otospermophilus beecheyi 🐿️

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Quick Photography @quickphotography.bsky.social · Sep 10

This one looks like it went to the bear version of Black Bear Glamour Shots, too! :)

Quick Photography @quickphotography.bsky.social · Sep 10

The male looks more reigned in, with dark eyes, shorter head feathers and that magnificent yellow bulbous addition.
#currasow #birds #photography #travel #laselva #costarica

Quick Photography @quickphotography.bsky.social · Sep 10

Black Currasow (F)
Rescate, La Garita, Costa Rica

These are big, turkey sized birds. I love their red eyes and crazy hair! #currasow #birds #photography #costarica

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Quick Photography @quickphotography.bsky.social · Sep 10

Striking Masai Warrior
Malindi, Kenya

#portrait #photography #masai #kenya #travel

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Quick Photography @quickphotography.bsky.social · Sep 10

One Dancers Adjusts the Mask of Another
Festival of the Masks
Los Angeles, California
#dancers #masks #photography