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Category Archives: Americas
“I’ve Got Ninja Style Kung-Fu Grip”.
“Keep Austin weird” is, according to a brochure I happened to read some time ago, this city’s strapline. It sounds somehow artificial, not only because it was coined, as it turned out, by a group of lobbyists named the Independent … Continue reading
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Tagged Ai Weiwei, America, Americas, Austin, Begging, Bible, Capitol, Cormorant, Dogs, Emancipation, Ersatz, Homeless, Homelessness, Hotels, Keep Austin Weird, Lake, Latino, Lone Star, Lone Star State, Park, Planned Parenthood, Rodriguez, Street photography, Texas, Texas capitol, United States, Urban photography, USA
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A tale of two missions. Part 2.
It was just appropriate that, in line with the general low-key-feeling of the entire place, the next stop in our tour looked a lot like grandpa’s barn meets serial accumulator’s shack, if one was willing to ignore the fact that … Continue reading
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Tagged 747, Anders, Apollo, Apollo 1, Apollo 11, Apollo 8, Austin, Boeing, Borman, Chief Astronaut, Cosmos, Faith 7, Gemini, Gemini 5, Gene Cernan, Gene Kranz, Houston, Johnson Space Center, Lovell, Mars, Mercury, Micheal Collins, Moon, Moon Buggy, NASA, NASA Parkway, Orion, Pete Conrad, Pin, Shuttle, Space race, Space Shuttle, Texas, TSUM Dushanbe, USA, USSR, Venera 10
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A tale of two missions. Part 1.
The TsUM Magazin on Rudaki was rumoured, according to the chit-chat in the hostel, to be unbeatable in Dušanbe for Soviet tat, but once we’d gotten there it was pretty hard to figure out why. Ground floor was packed to … Continue reading
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Tagged 747, Apollo, Apollo 11, Austin, Boeing, Chief Astronaut, Cosmos, Faith 7, Gemini, Gemini 5, Gene Cernan, Gene Kranz, Houston, Johnson Space Center, Mars, Mercury, Micheal Collins, Moon, Moon Buggy, NASA, NASA Parkway, Orion, Pete Conrad, Pin, Shuttle, Space race, Space Shuttle, Texas, TSUM Dushanbe, USA, USSR, Venera 10
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Tagged Beach Boys, Cono Sur, LATAM, Latin America, Lima, Miraflores, Ocean, Pacific, Paragliding, Peru, Surfin, Surfing
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