costa rican sunset outside my ocean view door.....

[Gato Moteado]

....taken with my phone. i haven't ever really tried serious landscape or oceanscape photography with a real camera. this was from a couple nights ago taken with a samsung galaxy.

[elleng]

1. Nice!

My Galaxy expired, so just left to Nikon coolpix.

[Gato Moteado]

8. coolpixes are great.....

....are you shooting a lot with it?

[elleng]

10. Yes, it's all I use.

Here's moon setting over river early morning:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Wow, my dear Gato! This is a gorgeous view. Lucky you!

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]

7. that is the rio coto....heading into the golfo dulce.....

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

[BamaRefugee]

3. A couple of years ago, my cousin was looking into buying a butterfly farm in Costa Rica.

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

[Gato Moteado]

6. wow....very cool....

what do they plan to do in ecuador?

[BamaRefugee]

12. apparently live the lifestyle they enjoy at something like 50% of the cost of living in USA.

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]

4. Cell pones do this kind of photography very well

as this pic proves.

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

[Gato Moteado]

5. it's a quick and dirty way to get a wide sweeping view

image quality is so-so

[AndyS]

9. Well, if you're a pixel peeper like us photographers are

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]

11. My wife is in Costa Rica right now

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