About the Image(s)

As has been clear from my recent monthly postings, I have had a busy two months taking photographs on a cruise within the Caribbean, East coast of Central America and within the Amazon, where we spent a week. It was very interesting as well as rewarding photographically, particularly for wildlife (even if the experiences were better than obtaining images with significant action).

I'm always pleased to see sloths up-close. This was on a very narrow tributary off the Amazon, when we were pottering on a 2 storey craft that is used for both tourist trips and as a ferry (where they sling hammocks for the long journey between towns - there are no roads). So we were relatively close to this chap - they are very often at the top of very tall trees (it was taken at FF equivalent of 720mm). This is a 3-Toed Sloth which generally are bigger and always have a ’smile’ vs the 2 toed variety. Its a ‘portrait’ rather than an action shot - but sloths don’t do “action”!

Camera settings: Olympus equipment: 1/1,600 (I should have reduced this) f6.3 ISO 2,000. PP Lightroom mostly locally on the sloth only plus pull-back of light background areas. Final sharpening and Denoise in Topaz Photo Ai. I cropped to keeping all limbs included.