Chestnut-Mandibled Toucan in it's environment

The photography here didn't stop when the sun went down. There are many amazing nocturnal rainforest species and, again, the lowland rainforests are one of the best places to see them.

I first visited Costa Rica in 2013 and was very unlucky in not seeing the Red Eyed Tree Frog. An icon of the rainforest and probably one of the most well-known animals in the world. You can imagine my excitement on the realisation that we were in prime habitat for them and their cacophony at night meant there were loads around.

So at the beginning of this trip I had managed to fulfill a life-goal of seeing a Red Eyed Tree Frog in the wild, and managed to get some creative images of them in the process. I was giddy from this experience but the photography didn't stop there...

After having dinner and a few beers, we ventured out into the rainforest again to a known spot where Pallas's Long-Tonged Bats come to feeders. Originally the feeders were put up for hummingbirds, but when the Lodge staff noticed the feeders being emptied overnight, they set up trail cameras to watch what was going on. The culprit was these bats and so another opportunity emerged. Using numerous off-camera flashes to light the scene in a natural way and a motion sensor to trigger the camera when the bats appeared some amazing photos were to be had...