The Dolphins of Costa Rica!

When I tell people about my photo tour to the rain forest of Costa Rica, they typically think about monkeys and sloths, but they don't usually think about dolphins and other marine life. After making countless trips to the Osa Peninsula of Costa Rica, I am confident that my guests will get to see some amazing wildlife in and above the water. During my last photo tour, we once again had the chance to be entertained out on the Gulfo Dolce.

We started our 4 hour boat trip with a couple of Bottle-nosed dolphin sightings, but they were not very active, so we moved on.  As we were out looking for a different pod of dolphins, we saw this Frigatebird that had just collected some lunch.

As the bird flew by our boat, it dropped the fish and many of us captured images of the bird as it lost it's prey.

We also saw one of the same birds doing low flights over the dolphin hoping for some easy snacks.

I asked our boat captain to circle around and give the dolphins some wake to play with. This always yields awesome photos!

For this excursion, I chose to take the Canon R5 Mark II camera and the Canon RF 100-500mm lens. I chose this camera over the Canon R1, because I knew that I might be cropping in on my images and wanted the increased resolution for this reason.

Even though the Bottle-nosed dolphins tend to be more docile in the water, I know that the Spotted dolphins will jump high out of the water. 

For many of my guests, this was a highlight of the trip. And since dolphins are my favorite animals, I am right there with them.

This photo is one of my favorites from the trip, and is now the background image on my Mac desktop.

I encouraged my guests to fire off at a high frame rate, since the action happens quickly. I was shooting at 12fps when these four dolphins jumped up at the same time! How lucky was that?

At one point I was photographing a dolphin which was right by our other boat. (Note: I use multiple boats since I don't want to cram too many people on one larger boat.) Right as I was firing off some shots, a whole bunch of dolphins surfaced at the same time. I love that this photo shows how close we get to the dolphins on our excursion.

There is nothing better than calm waters, a nice breeze, and these types of sightings!

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