Cariari (part 4): more manmade interventions into the landscape and more reactions from the natural world…
Author Archives: James Cockroft
12 Days in Costa Rica: Day 8
the trip to work So 8 days in, and I’ve yet to show anything about the trip to work… Really, this was mostly by design: I’m sharing pictures more or less in the order they were taken, and I didn’t have the guts to pull out the camera in the taxi until the second week. …
12 Days in Costa Rica: Day 7 (pt. 2)
Cariari (part 3) Indeed, mankind was created impatient. But we only live for 80 or 100 years, at most. All living things die: that’s the way Allah azza wa jall created us. While we’re here, we build all manner of things. And to build those things, we tear down other things. We show little disregard …
12 Days in Costa Rica: Day 7 (pt. 1)
Cariari (part 2) Other than that Saturday at Irazu and around Cartago, most of the photographs I took were on photowalks around Cariari. Today, we’ll wrap up the first roll I shot through. First up: manmade Cariari…
12 Days in Costa Rica: Day 6 (pt. 2)
Sunset over las escuelas After work on Friday, Miller (one of my new coworkers) invited me out to dinner with his wife and daughter. May Allah reward them for their hospitality. Just before Maghrib time, I walked up to the top of his street and took a couple of pictures. This one with the couple walking …
12 Days in Costa Rica: Day 6 (pt. 1)
Cariari (part 1) The Doubletree Cariari, the hotel/resort I lived in while I was in Costa Rica, is located in a San Jose neighbohood called—wait for it—”Cariari.” Imaginative naming scheme, huh. Cariari was the fancy, popular neighborhood about 20 years ago, and you can tell: the houses look like something you might find in the Southern …
12 Days in Costa Rica: Day 5
Analog to the rescue! After all the digital woes (that I didn’t know about till I returned), I’m so glad I took the LC-A and a couple of rolls of film along. Without them, I’d have only a few shots from the phone to share.* Alhamdulillah. I didn’t shoot much before the first weekend, even …
