A few weeks after we arrived in Ecuador we were on a hike and Amalia wasn't happy. We decided that something fun for her to do would be photography. So we loaned her our smaller camera and let her take pics of anything and everything she wanted. We have helped her along the way and she is having a great time with it. Given the low cost of buying and operating (no film and developing costs with digital!) a small camera, I would say it is something all kids should do. And don't go buy some cheap plastic camera at Walmart, a regular point-and-shoot that is a few years old with be tougher, take better pics, and make the whole experience better. Here are a few of Amalia's best ones.
Purple Velvet Coronet.
Giant Snail!
Tyra at a feeder at Mashpi.
Aracari at the same feeder.
Scorpion.
The coronet again.
Violet-tailed sylph. Amalia really loves taking pics of humming birds. They can be extremely frustrating subjects and thus a real challenge. She has spent hours working with them.
Some kind of beautiful bug.
Another of her favorite subjects, toads!
Damselfly.
Grandpa and Grandma Belden on the cable car ride across the canyon.
Another beautiful bug, in Oregon State Univ. colors!
Another snail.
Agouti!
Did I mention she loves hummingbirds?
Purple-throated woodstar.
Butterflies on a banana flower.
More butterflies.
Anolis proboscis.
Bothrops punctutus. And yes, it was posed and she was using the zoom!
Freshwater crab.
Sickle-winged Guan at a feeder.
1 comment:
Enjoyed them all. She's done a great job, except for that one of Grandma Belden. You should delete that!!!
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