Posted August 09, 2018
We do photography of spider monkeys, however monkeys, in the Neotropical rain forests of Tikal National Park and now Parque Nacional Yaxha Nakum Naranjo. It definitely helps to have good equipment. A great place to see all the options for digital photography is to attend Photokina 2018, in picturesque Cologne, Germany.
The FLAAR review editors attend Photokina every time for almost two decades. We hope to see you at Photokina 2018 this autumn.
Two members of the FLAAR staff will be attending Photokina this September 2018.
Although we photograph jaguars, pumas and especially oropendola birds (and orioles and cacique birds of the Mayan forests), we specialize in macro photography of insects in general and pollinators in particular.
Here is a great photo by Erick Flores of a grasshopper trying to get nectar from an Ipomoea flower (in the FLAAR Mayan Ethnobotanical Research Garden, 1500 meters elevation, Guatemala City).
Entomologists do not consider a grasshopper as “a pollinator” but Nicholas Hellmuth the same evening photographed drops of what we believe are nectar on the petals (that the grasshopper had knocked out of the flower structure). And the Hellmuth photos show pollen grains stuck to parts of the grasshopper.
After they suck on the nectar, the grasshoppers go to the end of the flowers and eat the soft ends of the petals. All this is in the evening since this is a Moonflower species of Ipomoea; its relatives are Morning Glories (the one we have is a Glory of the Night (my own lyrical name suggestion)).
If you are planning to attend Photokina 2018 this September 26 to 29, you can have as a free download our Photokina 2016 report with recomendations, comments and brands who were present. Also with photo studio equipment exhibited and digital camara reviews.
