Nikkor 200-500 VR/TC 14 III @700mm, f8, ISO 1400; Nikon D750 morning, cloud forest, 1350 m
Sigma 50/1.4 A @f1.4, break in rain, 3500 m; Nikon D600 Above the highest cloud forests extend humid páramo forests. Or more like pockets of it as this unique biome is threatened by overgrazing. Despite the relatively cold conditions it’s full of life and buzzing hummingbirds. A curious hummingbird will check out the lens front element in lowland Amazon rainforest, and it will sit next to you with first light at 4100 m, a metre from crystallised mud formations and pools frozen solid to the bottom, in high winds. You think of the warm layers on your large body and food you’ve got to fight the cold. A sip of nectar from somewhere instead? Makes you shake your head.
Nikkor 200-500 VR/TC 14 III @700mm, f8, ISO 200, slight crop (< APS-H); Nikon D750 Choco Toucan (Ramphastos brevis) during territorial display in the morning; series of rapidly changing postures, including pointing his bill perfectly upright, in synchrony with rhythmic calls, Choco
