festival

photography

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.

 

photography

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.