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Your donation can make this web site the best photographic resource in the world for tropical plants, flowers and Maya agriculture of Guatemala.
The beauty of the photographs on these pages is possible because of…
- Over 40 years of photographic experience help.
- The fact that we are dedicated and enthusiastic about our ethnobotanical photography project and field trips helps.
- The fact that Guatemala has some of the most photogenic plants, flowers, and trees in the world also helps.
But unless we have good digital camera equipment, we can’t rescue views of the tropical paradise of Maya ethnobotany.
Adequate photographic equipment makes it possible for us to provide, to the entire world, the resources on tropical plants of Guatemala, Honduras, Belize, and Mexico for public education. For certain plants and flowers related to Maya iconography and mythology our photo archive is one of the best resources available today.
To our knowledge, FLAAR is one of the only research institutes in the world that makes PowerPoint presentations available to schools, colleges, universities, and botanical gardens.
YOUR DONATION can make the difference.
We thank the three corporations whose donations in the past years have made the photographs on this web site possible:
- Greg Lamb, CEO of Global Imaging, provided the 21 megapixel Phase One digital back.
- John Lorusso, President of Parrot Digigraphic , provided the 21 megapixel Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III and many essential Canon lenses.
- Lou Schmidt, VP Marketing, Hoodman Corporation, provided the 4GB, 8 GB, 16 GB, and 32 GB RAW compact flash CF memory cards. All photographs used in this web site on ethno-botany are taken with Hoodman memory cards.
It would help significantly if corporate, foundation, and individual donations to would allow us access to the six additional items of digital photographic equipment that we do not yet have.
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21 megapixel Phase One digital back, provided by Greg Lamb, CEO of Global Imaging
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21 megapixel P25 Phase One within the case, provided by Greg Lamb, CEO of Global Imaging
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21 megapixel Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III provided by John Lorusso, President of Parrot Digigraphic
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Professional METZ flashes
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Canon 14 mm Professional Lens
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Canon 180 mm Tele Macro Lens
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Canon 100-400 Professional Lens
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If we had
- a 500mm Canon telephoto lens (for flowers high above tree tops),
- an underwater system for our Nikon or Canon cameras,
- a full-frame Nikon digital camera (to replace our aging D300),
- a Phase One IQ160 digital back,
- remote triggered flash system, with laser movement trigger,
- Rodenstock HR Digaron-W 32 mm f/4 wide-angle lens (to record eco-systems)
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Canon EF 500mm f 4.0 L IS USM
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Full frame camera Nikon D3X front
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Phase One IQ 160 digital back
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Rodenstock HR Digaron W 32mm wide angle lens
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we could produce even more wonderous photographs and help provide public education for school children, college students, horticulture departments, botanical gardens, and for the world of lay people interested in tropical plants and flowers.
This equipment would also allows to assist all the Mayan epigraphers, iconographers, anthropologists, and archaeologists who wish to have access to the quality of photographs that FLAAR is acknowledged to produce.
Donations are tax deductible pertinent to IRS (USA) stipulations, as FLAAR is a non-profit research and educational institute since 1969. Contact us at
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Dr. Nicholas Hellmuth and Jennifer Lara photographing plants Sayaxche june 2011
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Dr. Nicholas Hellmuth and Sofía Monzon using Hoodman compact flash CF memory cards in the Auto Safari trip 2010
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Florifundia Brugmansia arborea in the process of opening (still closed).
Photographed in Alux Park, high in the mountains, overlooking Guatemala City. FLAAR Photo Archive. ©
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First posted August 4, 2011.
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