I feel a post is needed when you have two llama-in-the-city sightings within two days of each other. It’s like when I was in Bangkok and every once and a while, there’s an elephant. Llamas, elephants, dressed to impress.
Barrio Yungay, where the buildings are fantastic and the streets are quaint, it is a peaceful neighborhood where the people seem less like city dwellers and more like small town, friendly faces. Continue reading Barrio Yungay→
I’ve chosen this Monday Memory simply because it is fun and colorful. Enjoy!
(It’s fun to see how I’ve evolved as a photographer and in shooting these festivals. Granted the recent San Pedro was during the day and had good natural light, but there is a clear improvement, which is kinda the point eh?)
I headed to the coast in Valparaíso this past weekend to join the fishermen and celebrate their Patron Saint, Peter. Colorful costumes, lots of music and dancing and avoiding the 90 percent chance of rain, it was a fun weekend and yet another peek into Chile’s complex culture, mixed with Catholicism and Chilean-isms. Continue reading San Pedro→
So after my photo shoot with PSO this morning, walking through a little plaza with busts of Chile’s famous, I came across a favorite, Pablo Neruda; with a drizzle falling upon us, it looked as if he were crying.
I would love to go back and hike around right this minute, however, after a weekend full of rain, I figure it would be more like cross country skiing. The Andes are striking today in all their snow-capped glory.
After having lived here for more than two years now, I’ve learned quite a bit on just how Chile works. And I’ve also learned to accept –on most days– that there are some things I will never understand.
A neighborhood favorite.
I got to thinking about this old phlog over the weekend, when I got to get out of the city and head to Olmue for a friend’s birthday. Sometimes, there’s nothing better than not being in a city of more than six million people. This phlog was the first time I really got to see the Andes’ glory. I fell in love.
I recently had a shoot with ZEN Club Boutique, and while I got lots of fantastic photos, I just want to show a few now, focusing on their swanky sources of light.
I think it would be very fantastic to own a small winery one day. For now, I’ll just keep taking photos of them. Here are some shots from the Cono Sur Vineyard, in Chimbarongo, the heart of the Colchagua Valley. Continue reading Cono Sur Vineyard→
Shot taken from my rooftop...blocked by other obnoxiously big building.
If we have to be optimistic, and why not, one great thing about smog is how its dirty particles’ hanging over a city react with the sun, scattering light, creating spectacularly red sunsets. Continue reading Smog at night, viewer’s delight.→
Well I’ve now been an expat in Chile for two years as of today. What better way to celebrate than by raising a glass of delicious Chilean wine and giving a big ol’ ¡SALUD! Continue reading Viña Cousiño Macul→
Alas, the Patagonia phlogs come to an end. As the sun rose on our last day and the sky became nothing short of amazing, I scurried for my camera, ran out of the hostel and took my last photos of Patagonia. It was an amazing four days full of unforgettable images and memories. Continue reading Patagonia…→
So often I feel I only show the mayhem from all the student protests. And while that most definitely is a part of it, another part — when they are government approved — is all of the fun, the creativity and the passion that goes into the fight…the peaceful part, the part with a purpose.
More than 2,000 meters above sea level, you can’t help but feel somewhat accomplished when you reach the top. Cerro Castillo, in Chile’s marvelous Aysén Region, is an amazing formation that we had the pleasure of conquering with an awesome tourism company: Senderos Patagonia.
It was raining quite hard while we were driving down the Carretera Austral and I spotted what looked to be a dog. All the way out here? And then Max yells, “ES UN PUDÚ!!!” Continue reading Patagonia, the world’s smallest deer→
As thick smog smothers Santiago to giant-imposing-mountains-barely-visible status, I can’t help but yearn for the deep breaths of crisp Patagonia air that I had filled my lungs with but just a short while ago. Continue reading Patagonia, ever so lovely→
Our Rivers Are Much More Than Electrical Energy. Puerto Tranquillo, Chile.
I have always been an advocate of Patagonia Sin Represas, Patagonia Without Dams, but now, having actually seen the area they intend to inundate, the beautiful rivers that will forever change, the picturesque vistas that will be ruined by transmission lines, I am whole heartedly against this endeavor by the Chilean government and foreign private interests to use pristine Patagonia as a source of energy. Continue reading Patagonia, ¡Sin Represas!→
Usually an indescribably blue lake as smooth as glass, Lago General Carrera transformed into an aqua monster the day we took it on to tour Marble Caves. I must admit, the caves were the principle purpose of the trip; I had seen photos a few months ago and became obsessed with them. This was the one and only part of the trip where I was a little disappointed. Weather was simply not on our side…
Rainbows are so very special, the perfect mixture of sunlight and rain. It’s as simple as the poet Williams Wordsworth said, “My heart leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky.”
Yerba Loca Continue reading Monday Memories – Yerba Loca 
