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Photos from Toh Gouttenoire Illustrate the Tico Times article “Paradise Lost: No Condos for Oasis Investors” (by Adam Williams) about the Tamarindo development.
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Short Shrift : Hired to guard the construction site at Tamarindo Oasis, José Alberto Vargas, 59, from San José, claims he has not been paid for his past year on the stalled project, only given some food.
Shells with a View: Tamarindo Oasis Condominiums, sold on promises of paradise, await resolution of a financial conflict in a case that is winding its way through Costa Rican courts.-
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It is always a pleasure to shoot in Playa langosta especially at Horizonte del mar, right on the beach…
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I’m not a big fan of HDR (High Dynamic Range, when you mix different exposure of the same scene to avoid burned or under exposed part of the image), so I had to light full power my new SB 900 and my faithfull SB 800 to fight that strong Costa Rican sun… even if I admit there is two photos in image #3…
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RPM Services specializes in the management of luxury residences and condominiums exclusively in Playas Tamarindo and Langosta. Visit them here.
Real Estate photograpy in Costa Rica
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Bidrop.com is happy to say that we’re working on our new website: www.weddingbybidrop.com.
Weddingbybidrop.com will be the website dedicated to wedding photography and video in Costa Rica. We also shoot Honeymoon and vows renewal.
For 7 years Toh Gouttenoire has been shooting (in photography and video) for Bidrop.com and other company more than 100 weddings in Costa Rica, mainly sunset beach photography in Guanacaste, but also, weddings in Arenal, Jaco, Manuel Antonio, Playa del Coco, Montezuma, Malpais, Playa Langosta, Playa Flamingo, playa potrero, puerto viejo, Limon, playa Tamarindo…
WeddingbyBidrop.com is working with high end customers as Hacienda Pinilla, JW Marriott Guanacaste, Los Sueños Marriott, Paradisus playa conchal, Capitan Suizo, Hotel resort Diria, , Los Altos de Eros, Four Seasons Papagayo, Villa Caletas, Sugar Beach, Bahia del Sol, Flamingo beach resort…
Please visit our wedding photography website and contact us with any inquiries.
www.weddingbybidrop.com at work
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An original Canadian wedding at the Hotel Barcelo, playa Langosta, Guanacaste, Costa Rica.
When I say original, think big boot on the sand and black suit under the tropical sun…
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Wedding photography in Costa Rica: www.weddingbybidrop.com
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In front of the computer at the pulperia of Canafistula.
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I’m currently been interviewed by week of life in order to be included in their remote places part of the website.
Here is the first part, I’m waiting for them to send me the other questions.
1) First of all, could you tell us something about yourself and your relationship to Costa Rica? Do you come from Costa Rica or did you move there? Your name suggests that you are not Spanish.
As you correctly guess I’m not a native Costa Rican… Neither from Latin America, I’m born in France. I firstly heard of Costa Rica a little more than 10 years ago, the brother of a friend was leaving on a little beach town in this country, After my cinematographic studies I wanted to travel and I headed there in 2000, I then traveled through Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, And stopped a few months in Guatemala, from there I rushed to chiapas in order to shoot the Marcha Zapatista (leaded by “el Sub” comandante Marcos). I had to get back urgently in France where I stayed a fews months before getting bored of Europe again… I flight back to Guatemala with my current wife and install a restaurant on the south pacific cost, close to El Salvador, after 3 years we bought a van and headed south without any goals… just traveling… After something like 6 months on the road (through the same country) we entered in Costa Rica… Fall in love of the Tamarindo bay and the local and expat community, We’re living there since…
2) Costa Rica is said to be the place with the happiest people in the world. What do you think about this? Do you agree with it?
Well, that’s a difficult thing to measure… But I will say that’s people looks happier of what I know of Europe and the States and as for me just saying that’s this is the country I choose to leave in, build my house and mainly to have my daughter born in (she ha now both nationalities…) is saying everything…
3) You state that you‘re a photographer. Is it difficult to earn a living as a photographer in such country?
I’m not sure it is easy in any country of the world to earn a living as a photographer… and I have no point to compare the difficulties, but what I can say for is that the recent crisis made the things more difficult, I was shooting a lot of architecture and Real Estate photography, that part of my revenue went very low in 2009… I had to re market my services and the property management took a big part of that loss, contracting me for house shooting. The wedding photography also suffered from that crisis because most of customers are from the US and Canada coming down to Costa Rica for a tropical wedding. The press (magazine and newspaper) had tough times too with loss of advertisement, I saw a few publication that totally disappeared last year…
Anyway this year looks better… So I can earn a living from my photography adding it videography, but as everywhere I guess it’s stressful and you never know if you’ll have a contract in the next months… But I won’t complain, it’s one of the best job in the world, honestly…
An excellent family atmosphere in this Italiano Canadian wedding. The ceremony and reception was at the Pacifico Beach club in playa del coco, Guanacaste. Bidrop.com has also made the wedding video.
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Contact us for your wedding photography and video in Costa Rica.
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This was a shooting I made for Sol Realty, a Tamarindo based Real estate company.
The major challenge was to find the angle for the whole house shot, and the famous “twilight shot” also known as “The money shot”. This kind of cliff house is the perfect candidate for an helicopter shot, times being difficult ,even if we have available a pretty inexpensive gyrocopter in Tamarindo perfect for aerial photography (adrenaline rush included….). I found access to a tower, the only spot that could give me the whole house and also the ocean, I shot it from the staircase in a realy uncomfortable position holding the tripod as still as possible over the window… There is always an angle, find it…
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Real Estate photography Costa Rica
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A really relax wedding, with a nice family atmosphere in a beautiful place: “La Laguna del cocodrilo” in Playa Tamarindo.
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Here is a video slideshow made for Reem and Scott. They got married at the Sugar beach Hotel, in guanacaste, Costa Rica. Bidrop.com has been really happy to do the wedding photography and videography of this intense moment. We had a crazy stormlike weather, who add a lot the event… an intense ceremony with a mix of culture was really interesting, a great meal and a big party followed…
It’s a new way to present my slideshows, that I had to the more classic (full screen, fade out fade in only transitions) on request to my customer, it has a way more dynamic editing and is really appreciate by the young couples. It’s the one I’ll put online, so the newly wedded can share it easily through youtube or using the higher quality provided by smugmug.
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