Puerto Ayora, Galapagos Islands
Posts Tagged ‘photography’
bleak coast
Posted in photos, travel, tagged ecuador, galapagos islands, photography, south america, travel on July 28, 2010| Leave a Comment »
recoleta cemetery
Posted in photos, travel, tagged argentina, beauty, buenos aires, cemetaries, death, photography, recoleta cemetery, travel on July 21, 2010| 1 Comment »
Shrine in Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires
I love cemeteries. This shrine in Recoleta Cemetery is perfect in it’s haunting simplicity.
our woman in havana
Posted in books, travel, tagged books, caribbean, cuba, graham greene, havana, memory, our man in havana, photography, travel on July 17, 2010| 7 Comments »
Just finished reading Graham Greene’s Our Man in Havana, a satirical tale of a socially awkward vacuum cleaner salesman in pre-revolution Havana who is enlisted by the British Secret Service. A neat and very funny story, I recommend it for a rainy day. (If you want to know more about the book itself try reading tobedwithatrollope’s quite thorough review)
What I loved most about the book was simply it’s setting – in the warm, beating heart of Cuba’s capital. I love Havana, I really do. I loved revisting her famous streets and sipping daquaris in her famed night-spots along with the books protagonist, Mr. Wormold. My oh my, I really miss the place (and the amazing friends I made there)… might be a vacation on the horizon, methinks.
How could you not love a town with this much crumbling and simplistic charm:
Habana Vieja (Old Havana), Cuba
Have you been to Havana? Did she charm you too?
havana class
Posted in photos, travel, tagged beauty, caribbean, cuba, havana, photography, photos, travel, vintage cars on July 15, 2010| 2 Comments »
Mid-century style rolling through the streets of Havana
Havana is a magical place filled with timeless beauty and crumbling history. Very surreal.
survivors
Posted in photos, travel, tagged babies, children, disaster, earthquake, haiti, haiti earthquake, orphans, photography, photos on July 10, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Small survivors of the January 12 earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
These pint-sized survivors were rescued from the general hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti where they were found abandoned after the January 12, 2010 earthquake which reduced an entire wing of the public hospital to rubble.
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By the way, If you want to read about my experience doing relief work in Haiti you can read my posts City of Displaced Souls about my first two weeks in Haiti after the earthquake and The Broken Heart of the Caribbean written as I was leaving Haiti, after 6 weeks.
fatima
Posted in photos, travel, tagged africa, morocco, people, photography, travel, women on July 7, 2010| 2 Comments »
Fatima in the doorstep of her house in Chefchaouen
I met Fatima in the street near her house in Chefchaouen, Morocco. She invited me in for tea and suggested I marry her son.
vendors
Posted in photos, travel, tagged childhood, children, family, life, photography, poverty, south america, travel, uruguay on June 18, 2010| 3 Comments »
A brother and sister sell flowers in the streets of Montevideo to earn their daily bread
daddy long-legs
Posted in photos, travel, tagged art, beauty, dreams, europe, fear, photography, photos, spiders, travel, urban on June 12, 2010| Leave a Comment »
The Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain
perfect moment #6
Posted in perfect moments, tagged animals, ecuador, friendship, galapagos, galapagos islands, life, perfection, photography, photos, south america, travel on June 9, 2010| 2 Comments »
Friendship
bottles
Posted in photos, travel, tagged argentina, beauty, buenos aires, colour, photography, south america, travel on June 6, 2010| 2 Comments »
Bottles for sale in a market stall in San Telmo, Buenos Aires
THE FIRST DRAFT 