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If you’re trying to be cool you’ve already missed the boat; the fire inside to have courage is the thing itself.

So is that if and only if or exclusive or?

What other picture could go here but Teddy and Muir

Serious studs

 

 

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It would be so much cooler with an engine and wings and cockpit and one of those awesome bush-pilot headsets, but this one time a while ago sneakers-and-shorts-shod on a dock at sunset was good enough.

Brag: this is a self portrait.

There are a lot of cool songs about flying

 

 

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Two of the families that have children in the sponsorship program, the Lorenzo León family and the Rodríguez Méndez family. One of the families doesn’t have a father, and one of them has basically nothing and not really enough money for food. The other family has a little bit more than nothing, and still not really enough for food.

Also, I’d forgotten how white I am. Dang.

The Lorenzo León family (and gringo)
the Rodríguez Méndez family (minus the little dude, Sergio)

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Here’s the wrap up May Festival (La Féria de Barillas) pictures. So many great photo opportunities, and way more importantly I’m starting to learn how to not bring along my camera sometimes. In the Féria the town showed all it’s colors, the ones I like and the ones I don’t like. So many parts of Mayan heritage and equally so much trying-to-be-western, so many fat men who’ve never ridden a horse wearing cowboy clothes and so many malnourished children in expensive parades. So many smiles, too.

I’m somewhere between right and judgmental gringo and wrong.

 

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When we were kids, on May Day (today) we would pick flowers and make baskets of them and run around the neighborhood leaving them on doorsteps and ringing the doorbell and running. It’s one of those oddly surreal childhood memories that makes me wonder if just the same my life now will someday be an oddly surreal memory. And whether that would be good or bad.

Happy May Day!

 

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It’s the May Festival of Barillas, here are some pictures. Today the rural schools, tomorrow the urban schools (literally, not figuratively), so more pictures to come soon. As neat as it all is, the sharp difference between the bands and students of the rich kid schools and the poor kid schools is a hard hitting thing; I wish I was better at saying things with my camera.

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Well, at least they pretended to.

The Jews (red capes and hats) shouted and jeered. The crowd began to get into it; that was the weird part.

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So yesterday I’m like “alright. I’m making scones.” Also yesterday I got pegged by a hum dinger of a cold, headache and stuffy nose and all the joy. After four trips to the grocery store, I had the ingredients ready to make scones. I made the scones and forgot one of the three cups of flour. A mistake like that has consequences: there was an aesthetic casualty.

 

 

ideas, photography

A digital SLR like this: indexed ISO adjustment wheel for the right thumb, shutter speed dial, manual/aperture-priority modes and only-auto white balance, two-position light-meter switch: matrix and weighted spot. Push-button 12 second timer, manual mirror-up mode. No external display, only an in-viewfinder needle light meter and small lcd counter on top for pictures-remaining. Super long battery life and well padded circuit boards, gasketed metal body.

Pretty please!

Oh yeah, and if it could look like a Nikon F3 or a Leica III series, without looking like it’s trying to look like a Nikon F3 or Leica III series, that would be a great plus.

Edit:
And if light meter needle could have little tick marks +/- EV in thirds, up to one EV, that would be some seriously wonderful frosting on the cake.