The great Pakaya volcano, on the pacific slope of tropical Guatemala.
To express without a word and in an instant the might and power of the earth, a raging volcano floods the highland oak forest with fire.
The legendary jicara tree is a canon for Mayan culture as it represents Jun Junajpu, the father of the god twins who defeated the lords of the xib'ab'a.
A three-hour task turned into a few seconds Reel showcases the night-blooming flower open for the night polinizers to fertilize.
The Blue-green
melipona bee
Native of the Mesoamerican Dry Forest
The tropical dry forest of Guatemala.
A place I call “the center earth” not just because of it’s temperature but because of the fascinating weird flora and fauna we can find here.
Polinizing the Pereskia lychnidiflora cactus tree, variouos Halictidae family bees bathe in diligent spirit.
Guatemala's birds of paradise.
Birds from various adventures I captured in Guatemala, This is A REEL I produced to celebrate birds on October's Birding BigDay.
ZOTZ
The home of a million bats
My very first documentary production for FLAAR Mesoamerica and for my career, this adventure took us to the depths of the Mayan jungle to the legendary home of the zotz. The bat deity's home.
This is a piece I usually like to hide since it was my first
The largest flower of Central America and its secret strategy to achieve reporductive success.
The endangered orange-breasted falcon, but a personal and private sight of daily life when hunting time is over.
the uncanny encounter of the puma on the trail towards the strange lowland pinewood forest ecosistem. A sight that made us all shudder.
Just by the legendary Yaxha' lake in the Mayan biosphere, Don Goyo, a local man, sustains his family thanks to the honey of the precious Melipona native bees.
A long trail looking for the Guacamayas was almost a failure; if not for the slight sighting of a small flock in the distance, that's the flock we've been tracking. The live experience of watching them fly a distance was satisfying; it paid off.
An IG REEL for one of our expedition field trips