Gone Fishing ~ Seville
It’d been a long day of wandering about Seville. I’d just finished trying to get some stock video footage of a couple strolling along the river… when right in the middle of my shot, a clever cyclist thought it’d be a laugh to ride directly toward my camera with both middle fingers launched and sporting a grand smirk on his face. It was the last bit of light and I’d decided to throw in the towel and see if I could catch some flamenco dancing on one of the plazas.
I was almost to the plaza when I realized I’d left my cigarette case and lighter on the boardwalk. So, I hoofed it back to see if I could rescue my smokes before someone else beat me to them. ~ There they were, I lit one up and turned to enjoy the the last bit of sunset. I wasn’t even thinking about photos, but how lucky I was that my smokes were still there. I watched a man helping his son bait his line, when it dawned on me I was missing probably the best shot of the day! I fired off 2 or 3 shots, before the light was gone. Funny that just minutes prior I was all irritated with how I’d left my cigarettes behind and had to hike all the way back to the river to get’em. But, had I not been absent-minded that day, I wouldn’t have captured this image.
“Gone Fishing” ~ Seville, Spain © 2009 Skip Hunt
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.
I’d taken a motorbike ride through the mountain curves at lake Atitlan, Guatemala. The lake is absolutely gorgeous and surrounded by volcanos. Just really amazing sunsets, and rich indigenous culture. Except, you have to get away from the main ex-pat town of Panajachel. Not that Panajachel is bad or anything, but it’s really overrun with foreigners, restaurants, etc. But, it makes a great base to explore the 12 villages surrounding the lake.
I stopped by a small Guatemalan cemetary to get a few snaps because they paint them in rich hues… almost looks like a circus for the dead, and in the setting it’s quite stunning.
I wondered around the cemetary for a bit, and just enjoyed the silence. I noticed a very child’s tomb and this doll propped up against it. It looked so scared and tradgically beautiful in the fading sunset’s glow…
“My Boo” ~ Cemetery in Atitlan, Guatemala © 2009 Skip Hunt
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People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it’s safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.
And so make life, death and that vast forever One grand, sweet song.
This was created while I waited for Mescalito to finish having his way with my digestive system… as I chilled out in a Mexican desert cemetery. Timelapse created manually with a Panasonic LX1.
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The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditations on the past.
I shot this at dawn from a small boat afloat in the Ganges river in Varansi, India. I find this image quite haunting, but even the slightest tinge of misty Ganga memory holds a very haunting power. Ahhh India! I MUST return.
“Ganga Dream” © 2009 Skip Hunt
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Awww… yeah boyee!!! Papa Claus chillin’ like a villain in sunny Texas :-)
Happy Holidaze Yo! :: ”Chillin’” © 2009 Skip Hunt ~ Giddings, Texas
My new FAVORITE website! This is such an awesome project. Check it out.
Just got my blurb book copies & they look AWESOME! (happy dance) ;-)
The soft cover looks great, but I wish I would have ordered a hard cover for myself. I think I could have gone done a point size or two on the copy text, but the printing is really vivid and of really nice quality.
