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costa rican sunset outside my ocean view door..... (Original Post) Gato Moteado Aug 2023 OP
Nice! elleng Aug 2023 #1
coolpixes are great..... Gato Moteado Aug 2023 #8
Yes, it's all I use. elleng Aug 2023 #10
Wow, my dear Gato! This is a gorgeous view. Lucky you! CaliforniaPeggy Aug 2023 #2
that is the rio coto....heading into the golfo dulce..... Gato Moteado Aug 2023 #7
A couple of years ago, my cousin was looking into buying a butterfly farm in Costa Rica. BamaRefugee Aug 2023 #3
wow....very cool.... Gato Moteado Aug 2023 #6
apparently live the lifestyle they enjoy at something like 50% of the cost of living in USA. BamaRefugee Aug 2023 #12
Cell pones do this kind of photography very well AndyS Aug 2023 #4
it's a quick and dirty way to get a wide sweeping view Gato Moteado Aug 2023 #5
Well, if you're a pixel peeper like us photographers are AndyS Aug 2023 #9
My wife is in Costa Rica right now Major Nikon Aug 2023 #11

CaliforniaPeggy

(152,227 posts)
2. Wow, my dear Gato! This is a gorgeous view. Lucky you!
Fri Aug 4, 2023, 11:57 PM
Aug 2023

Is that bit of water a river headed for the ocean, or maybe a lake?

Thank you for sharing this bit of your life.

Gato Moteado

(9,950 posts)
7. that is the rio coto....heading into the golfo dulce.....
Sat Aug 5, 2023, 09:44 AM
Aug 2023

....which is a gulf in the pacific ocean formed between "mainland" costa rica and the osa peninsula

BamaRefugee

(3,709 posts)
3. A couple of years ago, my cousin was looking into buying a butterfly farm in Costa Rica.
Sat Aug 5, 2023, 01:51 AM
Aug 2023

But now he and his wife are packing and moving to Ecuador.

BamaRefugee

(3,709 posts)
12. apparently live the lifestyle they enjoy at something like 50% of the cost of living in USA.
Sat Aug 5, 2023, 08:15 PM
Aug 2023

We're in our early 70s.
They already went and lived there for 3 months, loved it, they claim they can get great medical care, etc.
They're moving from a very nice place in San Diego.
There are several YouTube channels with people from USA living there now.
They say they can live as well as here with absolutely no money worries, and my cousin is a very thoughtful and always well researched engineer type.
They want me to come but I have had 2 stents in my heart plus ruptured L4-L5 with titanium implant in the last 12 months, I'm staying close to my doctors for a while

AndyS

(14,559 posts)
4. Cell pones do this kind of photography very well
Sat Aug 5, 2023, 08:35 AM
Aug 2023

as this pic proves.

I've known a few wildlife types that do most of the sweeping scenic stuff with their phone.

AndyS

(14,559 posts)
9. Well, if you're a pixel peeper like us photographers are
Sat Aug 5, 2023, 10:50 AM
Aug 2023

yeah, they fall short. But if you take into account viewing distance it's a whole different game. A few years back Apple decorated the sides of 3 story buildings with iPhone images. Looked great from the freeway. I decorated a bedroom with 13x19 prints from a Galaxy S5 And with a viewing distance of 5-6 feet even I couldn't tell the difference between my 4x5 stuff and the S5.

I'm not crazy about all the computer aided auto post processing on a lot of subjects but for sweeping scenics from Val Calderas in NM it was very satisfactory.

Photography is the only art form that has to pass the smell test . . . if you can't smell the printer ink you're not close enough to judge the image quality

Major Nikon

(36,911 posts)
11. My wife is in Costa Rica right now
Sat Aug 5, 2023, 04:23 PM
Aug 2023

She’s doing volunteer work for an organization that’s working to protect the sea turtles

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