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…
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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 …
12 Days in Costa Rica: Day 3
As you may recall from my 365 project (and later posts), I sometimes struggle a bit with social anxiety bordering on agoraphobia. It has lessened a good deal in recent years: I think it has something to do with being married and thus being around people more or less most of the time. But I …
Houseplants and weeds
Petzval Week Season 3, episode 5 You’ll be happy to know that I did more with the testing than just shoot from the car window. I also shot in the yard on the way from the garage to the house, and in the house, near where I keep the briefcase. There are no limits to …
Fun with Curled film!
Don’t do what I did… or maybe do, now that you know what can happen. Petzval Week Behind the scenes: Fun with Curled Film Film curls. Some film curls more than others. Some film rolls up along its length as if it misses being stuffed into the canister. This one can be a bit of …
Steet Photography-ish with the Petzval
Petzval Week Season 3, episode 4 The city is working on making the street corners wheelchair-friendly all up and down Highway 161. Allah knows why. Sure, there’s a train station nearby, and there are a bunch of office parks and light industrial and shopping around, but there are no sidewalks to connect the corners… Cities …
