just stumbled into a two day dance festival, festival de san bartholeme (?). thought i was just going to come here for two days just to do a mine tour and head back to la paz. but i guess i am here til tuesday.
no addresses, so if you think you are postcard worthy email me your home addresss.
it was just a nice saturday, people where super friendly i ended up shooting three or four rolls. think i got some reasonable images on it. just reminds me that there are good shoot days, even though i haven't had one on echito in a while.
so every once in a while when i go through my stacks of contact sheets editing pairs or triples of images work so well together. well, not strong enough to go by themselves, but interesting enough in a series.
i work on these last. so that means... i'm done with the first run of that trip!
china, china, china, everyone seems to be talking about china this week. three years ago, i dropped right into lhasa to get my first feel of tibet. promptly six hour later we were hit with altitude sickness. l-inthesign was hit harder than me. i wasn't floor for another two days when we went up another 300 vertical meters visiting the venerable ganden monastery.
in two week, i'll be gasping for air again in la paz. i can't wait.
another month another international sporting event. despite my passport from the states and my chinese heritage, i'm rooting for the spanish during these olympics. they won the french open, they won wimbelton, they took the tour de france, they came from nowhere to take eurocup. they seem unstoppable.
now i have to figure out what sports they are competing in. last i checked bullfighting wasn't a olympic sport.
trapani, italy
towards the end of the good friday procession in trapani most of the photographers were completely exhausted, myself included. we started playing games to keep going. inside the church, i found a spot where sunlight from a window was falling on. anytime someone walked into the circle i drew on the sand covered floor i would snap a picture when anyone stepped into it. the light was fabulous. but the other photographers found my circle and kept jumping into it throwing in poses -- i would still snap a photo.
luckily some of the locals stepped into the circle as well, ala shot above.
there's got to be something about that red umbrella when a chinese bride leaves her family's home. but even though i've seen it done dozens of times, but the details and meanings are lost on me.
Kid, the next time I say, "Let's go someplace like Bolivia," let's GO someplace like Bolivia.-- B. Cassidy, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
so i decided to go to bolivia. it has been eight years since i've been to south america and want to go back. i was almost tempted to go back to peru (spirit airlines has a 520usd r/t for those interested). over the weekend i looked through the lonely planet and decided it was time to hike through the andes again.
of that list i am on number 3.
for years, i've said if i ever get rich and have travel the requisite parts of the world i will start doing odd trips. little ceasars had a tv spot in the early 90s of a roman dressed in a toga saying "pizza pizza" and other double words. from goodfellas there is jimmy two times who said everything twice "i'm going to get the paper, get the paper."
i thought it would be novel to do go around the world going for double name cities -- walla walla, waga waga, baden baden, bora bora... it will probably never happen
i am prompted to think of this again hearing audio bite from the world's geo quiz about a person who traveled to all to all the four letter named countries -- there are 10 of them. he published a book and now is working on going to all the ten lettered countries.
i remember the day after palm sunday in sevilla taking a bus to carmona for processions there, i met a girl who was starting out a project doing an alphabet soup of europe. she would go from one city to the next by deciding what was an interesting city with the next letter. she was coming from Balzers (liechtenstein) to Cullera (spain) heading to Darque (portugal).
i am more random, i'm throwing darts trying to decide whether to go to chile, bolivia or delhi for labor day week.
now it's time for lunch. i'm thinking pizza.
