(Lima, Peru. 12/25/14…) Linus Van Pelt: Sure, Charlie Brown, I can tell you what Christmas is all about. Lights, please. “And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord … Continue reading Merry Christmas, Feliz Navidad!…
In spite of the 68F degrees we reached today, we had grey skies and some rain in the morning, and even a tornado warning in the afternoon down here in Durham, NC. By 5:30 pm, however, there was some sunlight and the dawn was indescribable; the oranges and reds, for instance, in the horizon made … Continue reading The Sky Is On Fire…
You appear Life is certain The smell of the rain is certain You are born of the rain It brings you knocking at my door Oh tree The city and the seas you sailed And the night they open at your step The heart comes back from a distant place and leans out Until it … Continue reading You Come in the Night with Fabulous Smoke in Your Hair – César Moro…
(São Paulo, 7/10. 7:08 pm…) Continue reading Me & My Shadow…
Last winter, a Canadian friend of mine from Duke spent two and a half months in Lima doing an internship at a mining company and we overlapped during the last four weeks of it. One day, she asked me to accompany her to visit art galleries in Barranco and take some photos of the ocean. I used to have a Nikon Coolpix S2600 then (which belongs to my mom now) so I thought accompanying her would be great fun. And it was great fun indeed! We wandered around for a while, visited a couple of galleries, got a coffee at one of my favorite cafés, and, of course, we took a bunch of photos. An epic win!
This excursion was also positive because I discovered an overlook that became one of my favorite places in Lima. This overlook allows you to have a great view of almost the entire Lima’s bay: you can distinguish Magdalena, San Isidro, Miraflores on one side, and Barranco and Chorrillos on the other side! If you’re lucky and it’s bright enough during the summer, you can see San Miguel and part of Callao. How could this place not be a recurrent place to take photos of the bay?
Just next to the overlook there was a building that was still under construction then. Although it seemed mostly finished, nobody lived there apparently. The connection between that specific human construction, the other buildings on the edge of the bay, the sky, and the sea was simply amazing! It definitely needed to be documented! This is the picture taken with Nikon Coolpix S2600 that day, August 3rd, 2012:
Continue reading “One Building, Two Seasons, Three Cameras…”
