Caption

A Pallas' Long-tongued Bat visits a banana flower in a lowland rainforest in Costa Rica. I use a sophisticated multiple-flash technique coupled with an infrared movement trigger to do my bat photography. I combined this technique here with continuous light from a flashlight during a long exposure

Date

Jul 22, 2017

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Gregory Basco

Reference

BRK26D18_162

Model release

NA

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

55.6Mb (1.8Mb) / 18.0in x 12.0in / 5400 x 3600 (300dpi)

Keywords

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