I finished traveling, returned to Toronto, packed up my life, moved to Ottawa, and started grad school. I think that I’m now starting to settle in, which will hopefully mean a return to consistent blogging. What is grad school for, but to come up with projects to distract from reading, writing, and marking first-year papers?
Panama was lovely, though as predicted it could never capture my heart in the same way as Burkina Faso. However, I was pleasantly surprised at how mellow and easy it can be to travel in Central America. I was not exactly in the “photography mood” that usually characterizes my travels, so I don’t have oodles of pictures that excite and inspire me.
Upon a few occasions, though, I was so caught up in my aesthetic surroundings that I took some lovely shots. The biggest of these occasions was my short stay on the Nalunega in the San Blas islands, part of the semi-autonomous territory of the Kuna people. The beauty of the islands was so overwhelming, so sharp and so surreal that I actually found myself giggling hysterically or wanting to cry at different moments.
To start off, here are a few photographs that show the landscape. I need to actually write about the people which I’ll leave for a later time, but I think that these images speak for themselves.
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These aren’t with a digital are they?
I love your writing and I love the new playout. ;oP
Posted 17 Sep 2007 at 5:43 pm ¶Don’t worry, these are film. As if they would be as “special” if they were digital
Posted 17 Sep 2007 at 8:31 pm ¶No, I assumed they weren’t because they had soul.
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