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Category Archives: Americas
Chicago people watching.
I have one camera – an old Olympus PEN – and two lenses. One long, and the other one a pancake. Yes, that’s as far as my technical knowledge will go and yes, two lenses is one set too many … Continue reading
Posted in Americas, USA
Tagged Anish Kapoor, B&W, Black & White, Chicago, Cloud Gate, CTA, Great Lakes, Ice, Illinois, John Hancock, Lake, Loop, Michigan, Millenium Park, North Side, People, People watching, Photography, Skyscrapers, Street photography, The Bean, The L, United States, USA
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People of the Sacred Valley.
There are ladies in traditional garb sitting with their llamas and alpacas on pretty much every corner of Cusco. “Foto, señor?” they call every time they intercept a camera-toting tourist. She, however, doesn’t seem to be one of those. It’s early in … Continue reading
Posted in Americas, Peru
Tagged Cusco, Inca, Llama, People, Peru, Photography, Portraits, Quechua, Sacred Valley, Urban photography
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To the lost city that never was: walking to Machu Picchu.
On paper, the story was engrossing, the stuff of an Indiana Jones blockbuster or of a Wilbur Smith book. Picture this: a misty morning in the Urubamba valley, deep in the Peruvian Andes. Jagged peaks covered in thick rain forest. … Continue reading
Posted in Americas, Peru
Tagged Aguascalientes, Americas, Andes, El Pueblo, Hiram Bingham, Inca, Latin America, Machu Picchu, Pachacuti, Peru, Quechua, Rain forest, Sapa Inca, South America, Vilcabamba
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Ultimately, the soulless won.
Music echoes from Plaza de Armas, the martial tones of a brass band blended with the cacophony of a cumbia dance. Irreverent, the noise penetrates into the cathedral, bouncing along the whitewashed arcs of the vault. Whitewashed, as was the … Continue reading
Posted in Americas, Peru
Tagged Alpaca, Andes, Bishop, Cusco, Cuy, Cuzco, Inca, Inca Roca, Jesus, Mary, Pachacuti, Pachamama, Peru, Plaza de Armas, Quirichanka, Saksaywaman, Vicente de Valverde, Wayna Capac
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Surfin’ LI.M.A.
If everybody had an ocean Across LI.M.A. Then everybody’d be surfin’ Like Miraf… Nah, it doesn’t rhyme. Beach boys analogies aside, Miraflores was a surprise. It was the tail end of our permanence in Peru and Miraflores provided a welcome … Continue reading
Posted in Americas, Peru
Tagged Beach Boys, Cono Sur, LATAM, Latin America, Lima, Miraflores, Ocean, Pacific, Paragliding, Peru, Surfin, Surfing
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A change of scenery.
Sometimes it’s good to venture outside one’s comfort zone, trying out something new and unusual, something that one would by default be drawn to dismiss as not in line with his expectations, or taste. I’m conscious that this can sound odd, but … Continue reading
Posted in Americas, Bermuda
Tagged Americas, Atlantic, Beach, Bermuda, Caribbean, Fairmont, Horseshoe bay, Island, Southampton, Tropics, Warwick bay
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On the walls: Graffiti of Rio
Graffiti, in Rio, are ubiquitous. Sometimes they are nothing more than annoying clutter on our cities’ walls, petty vandalism and damages to other people’s property, but sometimes they have a purpose, a function. In Beyoglu, at the core of Istanbul’s … Continue reading
On the Praia: life on Rio’s beaches.
The kilometres-long arc of sand glitters under the rays of the late afternoon sun. The green-blue sea breaks in white sprays of surf, ridden times and times again by kids using themselves as surfboards. Men and women flock in … Continue reading
Posted in Americas, Brazil
Tagged Atlantic, Beach, Brazil, Copacabana, Ipanema, Latin America, Praia, Praia do Urca, Praia Vermelha, Rio de Janeiro, Sea
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