Costa Rica 2022 (p4) | The Amazing Wildlife of Drake Bay

Join me for part 4 of my wildlife photography adventure in Costa Rica. In this video I go snorkelling off Cano Island, photograph leaf-cutter ants and visit Corcovado to photograph the three-toed sloth, one of the most biodiverse places on the planet!
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[@jwinder2]

Beautiful shots, you brought back a lot of memories. In 1996, I visited Costa Rica with a small tour group (7 people), which was my one visit to the tropics (I hope to make a few more in the upcoming years). We started out by driving from San Jose to San Gerardo de Dota, where we managed to see 2 quetzals and marvel at the high altitude rain forest. We then continued south, and visited the home of Alexander Skutch and his wife, and observed birds in his yard with them, continued on to Playa Dominical, where we did several river walks, marveling at the toucans, iguanas and many other birds. Next we got in a small boat, and cut across the Pacific ocean to Drake Bay, where we stayed for the last three days at the Drake Bay Wilderness Resort, seeing almost exactly the same things that you saw. Costa Rica is a place that everyone should visit.

[@EspenHelland]

Sounds like a great trip :) thanks for watching

[@andysargent5821]

I've just watched all four episodes of your Costa Rica trip and loved them. I spent two weeks in Costa Rica some years ago when I was using Canon. I also stopped there last year while on a World cruise. For the second visit I was using Fuji cameras. I now have an OM-1 and the 150-400mm f4.5 TC and now really wish that I'd had them for both of my visits. Thanks a lot for producing your videos which I always find interesting and very enjoyable. Keep the good work up.

[@EspenHelland]

Thank you very much Andy 🙂 a good reason to go back!

[@pedrochinchilla915]

Just WOW

[@paulpugh6178]

Great 4 part series Espen.. but where is the 5th you mention 😉 just love the Sloth images in part 4. Superb 👌

[@EspenHelland]

Cheers! I’m fell behind on editing 😅 maybe I’ll manage to go back and edit one more 🙂

[@paulpugh6178]

@@EspenHelland please do because it was great watching 👌

[@juanitakelly3082]

Great adventure and super variety of wildlife and nature images! Thanks for taking us along!

[@EspenHelland]

Thank you Juanita 🙂

[@davidoshaughnessy493]

Thanks Espen, simple but so inspirational.

[@EspenHelland]

Thanks a lot 🙂

[@Rudy60426]

awesome video and pictures

[@EspenHelland]

Thank you 🙂

[@bellmeisterbell582]

Love you’re videos! Especially the ones in Costa Rica as I’m going there in November 2023. Great quality and well produced sir🙌🏾

[@EspenHelland]

Thank you, hope you have a great time 🙂

[@karinlessard6060]

Thank you for another wonderful video of Costa Rica, the wildlife diversity is amazing. Can’t wait to see video 5 of your trip, so jealous! I also have a TG-6 (along with my EM-5 III), it’s such a fun and rugged little camera.

[@EspenHelland]

Thank you Karin 🙂

[@raytaylor3090]

Great shots Espen, it does look like paradise.

[@EspenHelland]

Thanks a lot Ray 🙂

[@cdof5981]

Brilliant. Been looking forward to this for a long time. So envious.

[@EspenHelland]

Thank you 🙂

[@stefangoldensteinwildlife9929]

wonderfull video Espen. thank you for taking us with you on your journey. greets Stefan

[@EspenHelland]

Thank you! Appreciate it Stefan 🙂

[@MarsArseniy]

👍 спасибо

[@hoyreanphotography]

Forward to see more vidoe from you

[@jessebraughler8594]

These have been fantastic and the photos are stellar, thanks for sharing.

[@EspenHelland]

Thank you 🙂

[@ammadoux]

beautiful video. thanks.

[@EspenHelland]

Thank you 🙂

[@Rob.1340]

Thank you. 👍📷😎

[@CheikoSairin]

What beautiful adventure and nice footage of wildlife. Thanks for sharing. Big LIKE. Greetings from Singapore. Have a nice day.

[@EspenHelland]

Thanks a lot Cheiko 🙂

[@wowfood7329]

Beautifully shot and edited. Much appreciated, Espen!

[@EspenHelland]

Thank you very much 🙂

[@naturephotographychallenge]

Wow! What a trip you're having!! So much amazing wildlife ❤ Loved the Sloth! The snorkelling trip would have been fabulous. I love sea turtles so that would have been a real highlight. The birds in Costa Rica are just sensational too. So different to ours in Australia but equally unusual and colourful

[@EspenHelland]

Thank you very much! They really are amazing, you get some incredible diversity of birds in Australia as well, would love to go one day 🙂

[@naturephotographychallenge]

@@EspenHelland You're welcome anytime! You'd love it 🙂

[@esjovold6572]

Great video, some day I would like to go on a trip somewhere like that for photography.

[@dylannewton76]

Heron was beautiful. Can you describe your low light process for under canopy photography like this.

[@EspenHelland]

Thank you Dylan 🙂 I tended to go for very slow shutter speeds to get a low iso. Sometimes id get a safe shot with faster shutter and then bring it down and take more images at lower iso.

[@peterrudolf6780]

Hi Espen another great video👍🏻, the shot of leaves just before you cut to the sloth, is that what the leaf cutter ants have done? And to see a sleeping Tapir … wow! 🙂

[@EspenHelland]

Thank you Peter, I’m not sure what did that, but I think it might be something else as the ants seem to cut differently.

[@peterfraser5704]

That was great. Thanks. What lens did you use for the photo of the leaf cutter ants? Did you resolve your earlier OM-1 problems?

[@EspenHelland]

Thanks a lot Peter 🙂 I used the 300m f/4. Yes it’s been in for repair and they had to change the IS motor.

[@joerghummerjohann4854]

So beautiful, dear friend! Will there be more about Corcovado next video? It must be a magical place.

[@EspenHelland]

Thank you Joerg 🙂 no last video will be from Tarcoles. Corcovado was an amazing place, but difficult for photography in the middle of the jungle.

[@db6625]

I enjoyed that, some lovely detail and colours. Costa Rica looks like a photographers dream location. Two questions if you don’t mind: 1. Was this trip arranged by a third party company or were you doing it independently. 2. Are the mozzies a problem!

[@EspenHelland]

Thank you very much. I was thinking I’d do one more video on my gear and recce etc. I did it myself, though hired a guide occasionally and joined some organised day trips. The mosquitos were bad in some places especially the really humid places I went. I got a few bites, but except from itching didn’t bother me that much.

[@RickeyScroggins]

Great video. It would be nice if you named the birds and mammals.

[@miketaylor2117]

Great videos! What video settings did you use for the amazing wildlife footage on your E-M1 Mk ii + f4 300mm PRO lens?

[@EspenHelland]

Thank you very much Mike! Very straightforward, 4K, shutter twice the size of fps and I think I used the flat profile and did colour editing in FCP

[@miketaylor2117]

@@EspenHelland Thanks! What fps did you use? And video mode: P, A, S or M?

[@paobriones2177]

Can you hike Corcovado NP from drake bay without a guide?

[@przybylskipawel]

This was OLYMPUS TG-6. You cannot rebrand legacy.

[@naderhelme]

👍💪💚🌹