... At least for me ! / This picture was taken in Pisaq near Cusco, Peru’ in 2006 ! / The ruins of Pisaq is about 20 miles from Cusco and like the more famous Machu Picchu was an important city during the Inca empire. / It sprawled across three mountains at the altitude of about 3600 mts, offering visitors spectacular views.
Cusco 2006 !
This shot was taken in Copacabana in 2006, a little town in the north of Bolivia, situated on the bank of Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable lake in the world at 3800 mts. / There was a big celebration in town that day and so much to see and discover. But I was so tired that I decided to sit down and rest for a while when those two men sat just in front of me. I took so many pictures of them but this one is my favorite. Click /
Copacabana , Bolivia ! This picture was taken minutes after I took several shots of two old men sitting on the same step while I was resting a bit. Sometime interesting things comes around… /
Cusco, Peru ! During one of my daily walk in Cusco, I just sat and rest a little.. no other option at 3200 mt than take it easy..! the two women on the left made feel it was just the right moment to take this picture..!!!! /
Cusco, Peru’ ! / While walking in Cusco a few days ago I met this little girl, Flor, and her sister Yolanda ! I had already taken a picture of them last year ” Flor y Yolanda ” and when I showed them a copy of the photo.. they were so impressed that they asked me to take more pictures. This is just one of the many I took ! She is so confident and loves to be photographed !!! I love this picture for the way she poses here, the way she smiles, her spontaneity.. and the beautiful contrast of colors !!!
Cusco, Perú !!! / This is one of the first shot I took in Cusco this year !!! / I had just arrived and I was feeling a bit strange and not really in the mood to take pictures of people.. I was maybe thinking about life a bit too much ! / But when she passed by I said something funny to her and pressed the bottom !! / I´m glad i did !
Chinchero, Perú ! After chatting a bit with a few women in Chinchero and having a good laugh,.. I asked if I could take some pictures of them.. they were all very keen and looked relaxed and confident..!!! This is the one I probably like more !!!
Pisaq, Perú ! / I had already walked up to the Temple of the Sun in Pisaq a few times.. but this time I noticed how beautiful the color of the green mountains was in a late afternoon..
Cartagena de India , Colombia / One of the many colorful building in the beautiful, colonial city of Cartagena, on the Caribbean coast of Colombia !
Santa Marta, Colombia ! Walking along the beach I had to improvise a bit without my tripod ! / Anyway this inconvenient gives me the chance sometimes to take pictures I wouldn’t probably take ! - Please alsp view… / / . / / .
Taganga ( Sta Marta ), Colombia! I visited this little village near Santa Marta on the North Coast of Colombia a few weeks ago. People seemed to be really friendly and enjoying a simple life ! / In this quite and tranquil place I just found peace, enjoying sun and eating lot of coconut rice and fresh fish. / While eating in one of the many restaurant by the sea after a day on the beach, I noticed those two little boys trying to catch somehow a fish and everything they could !!!
Pisaq, Cusco – Perú - / I met those two little girls from a little village near the ruins of Pisaq, close to Cusco. / At the beginning they were a bit shy and they didn’t seem very keen to be photographed. / But I gained their trust after chatting a little bit.. and I managed to take a few pictures of them.
Flags in a salt cairn on the Salar de Uyuni, one of the largest salt lakes in the world, in Southern Bolivia near the border with Chile. / / Country: Bolivia / Altitude: approx 4000 metres above sea-level / Roads: non-existent
Cusco, Peru´! El Cafe Extra is the place I like more in Cusco ! / Nice and quite, welcomes tourists and local people ! / There are stories about Pablo Neruda and Che Guevara enjoying the nice coffee here when they visited the city…!!! / Not sure it´s true, but what I´m sure is that coffee here, locally produced, really taste great..! / Mr Castro is one of the many regulars, he is nice and friendly although he gets deep in thoughts sometimes ! / I love his face and expression! this is one of the many shot I took during one of the many breakfasts at El Cafe´ Extra !
Cartagena de India, Colombia ! Published in the book The City / / Click to view
Arequipa, Peru´ 2006 ! Monastery of Santa Catalina ! Please also view
Ayacucho, Peru ! Quechua and Aymara were the main languages spoken by the native people of the central highland of South America before the arrival of the spanish ! / In the rural areas of Ayacucho, in central Peru, like in the areas around Cusco the majority of native people still speaks Quechua and some of them barely spanish ! / I didn´t meet many tourists during the time spent in this part of Peru and i really felt immerse in a different reality ! / .
I did not know.. that if you take a picture, and you infrared it and then you change it to black and white.. and then you do sepia.. this is what you get.. lol!.. aint it cool ? .. I love the effect..
2008 Acrylic on Canvas 48×48” Some of the most beautiful ladies in the world are Latinas, and part Latinas. All my work is hand painted…...... portraits or abstracts, or whatever…....as I don’t believe in manipulating my work with the computer or with photo or art programs…....what you see is what the originals looks like. I leave the manipulating for computer artists as they are very good at it. I am not a computer artist. My skills and talents are from the old school. Latina Angel was Featured in Lifeline Group / 09 Nov 2009…....page 3
2008 Acrylic Abstract on Canvas 60×48” followup to Woman in Rocking Chair a watercolour part of Latina Series
2009 Abstract Acrylic on Watercolour paper 30×22” / from Latina Series / Latina women are some of the most beautiful ladies in the world…...They are Goddess in their own right. I have been fortunate in my career to have known, be friend painted and photographed a few Latina Goddess.
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