Lush
If I haven’t said it before, Costa Rica is a beautiful place. The climate produces some amazing foliage and some seemingly happy people.
These were all shot on one of my last nights in Costa Rica. I got off early enough to have a quick walk around the hotel during a light on/off type rain shower. It was beautiful, Alhamdulillah.
Kodak Porta is a beautiful film stock. MashaAllah.
This is the first roll I’ve shot with it, and I’m thankful to have 2 more rolls of 160 and 3 rolls of 400 sitting in the cooler right now. Alhamdulillah.
This first, small group of pictures doesn’t quite do it justice. But just wait: there’s more to come.
Like a picture postcard from 1977 or something, maybe.
Cariari (part 4): more manmade interventions into the landscape
and more reactions from the natural world…
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.
At first glance, the drive to work here in DFW seems quite different from the drive to work in CR. But looking again (and mostly looking back in my memory), I’m reminded (a tiny bit) of the river bottoms part of Northwest Highway, the part between Harry Hines and 114. It’s partly the trees and water; partly the sorts of businesses on the route.
Strange.
Different, though, is the view from the office, and the flowers in the trees.
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 for the trees and plants, and even less for the mountains and rivers and oceans.
But when we go, guess what keeps on going?
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…
