Posted in Honduras, Photography on May 10th, 2008
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Shreesh and
the blue morpho
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The Enchanted Wings – Patience – the nature of the macro lens. (Map this!)
“It takes a lot of patience to do macro photography”. Shreesh remarked, walking back from “The Enchanted Wings”, a butterfly garden in Copán Ruinas, Honduras. We had just spent three hours fiddling with our camera, the tripod with its Acratech ball head, the level, the angled viewfinder and the 180mm macro lens in an effort to photograph the butterflies.
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Posted in Quote of the Day on May 9th, 2008
“I always knew that I could do things that others cannot” – Proprietor, Pizza Copán, Copán Ruinas, Honduras
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Posted in Guatemala on May 7th, 2008
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On Volcan Pacaya
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Abandon all hope – A misty hike – Moods of a Volcano – Toasted Marshmallows. (Map this!)
“Lasciate ogni esperanza, voi ch’intrate” (Dante, L’Inferno, Canto 3), I said to Neena, as we left the safety of the ridge and stepped onto the crunchy lava. The newly formed earth was brittle and ceramic in nature and covered an underlying layer of molten rock. In sections we could see the river of lava flowing, like a thick red molasses that formed rock upon contact with air. Working our way towards that river, we stepped over white-hot stones that melted the baskets on my ski poles and partially de-laminated our hiking boots.
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Posted in Guatemala, Photography on May 2nd, 2008
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San Marcos
Shores of Atitlan
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Upside down – Gas Stations with guns – Power Vacuum – Stochastic processes
Just as the book is always better than the movie, pictures can’t do justice to a place. But sometimes the commonly expressed sentiment in the first sentence is turned upside down. In this upside down world the movie is better than the book, and the pictures not only do justice to the place but actually improve it.
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