Skip to content

Category Archives: Spanish

Changes in Latitude, Attitude, and all the Rest

Monday, August 7, 2023

GUATEMALA CITY — In the days before a long adventure everything becomes a little more brightly colored, sharper edged, clearer.  There is heightened sense to everything, attention to the details of preparing yourself and your gear and completing the things that need to be done in your absence. I pulled every piece of gear out […]

Also filed in Central America, Guatemala, Honduras, monsoon, SCUBA | Tagged | Comments (0)

Diver Down

Sunday, August 15, 2021

  Guatemala City — I remember my first time.  That first time sinking under the water and thinking, I can’t do this, I can’t breathe underwater, and on faith in the equipment taking that first breath. The dry air flowed through the regulator and filled my lungs.  I heard the hiss of the inhalation and […]

Also filed in Central America, Guatemala, Lake Atitlan, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Day of the Dead, Land of the Living

Sunday, April 19, 2020

OAXACA — There is less distinction in Mexico between the great passions of love and death.  The two are acknowledged in life and depicted in art as intertwined, inseparable, a reminder of the other and the fleeting nature of human pursuit, the sweetness of the sun, the chill of the grave, the ever-present skull beneath […]

Also filed in Central America, Leica, Mexico, Portraits, The Border | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Centro Santa Catalina

Thursday, February 12, 2015

JUAREZ — South of the city the trash fires burn, sending a rolling plume of black smoke towards the sky. The Centro Santa Catalina is a compound in a very poor neighborhood that encloses several buildings including a church, a school and the workshop. In the organization’s words, “We are a faith based community founded […]

Also filed in El Paso, Iglesia Cristo Rey, Immigration, Juarez, Leica, Lutheran, Mexico, Portraits, The Border | | Comments (0)

The Riches of Central America: The People, Customs and Culture

Thursday, May 29, 2014

An exhibit nearly 15 years in the making will open June 5th at the McConnell Arts Center of Worthington (MAC). The photos in this show will include images from my very first trip to Honduras in 2000 to some never-before-seen images from my last assignment in Guatemala and El Salvador not quite two months ago. The […]

Also filed in Central America, Columbus, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, La Moskitia, Lake Atitlan, Leica, McConnell Arts Center of Worthington, Missionary Air Group, Ohio, Panasonic GF1, Portraits, Rus Rus | | Comments (0)

Holy Week in Santiago: In Which I Explore the Largest Town on Lake Atitlan, Photograph Processions Both Catholic and Pagan and End up in the House of Maximon at Night.

Thursday, June 9, 2011

PANAJACHEL—I stepped off the boat onto the floating dock at Santiago and clapped my wide-brimmed Panama hat tightly onto my head. I slung the light NorthFace Recon pack over one shoulder and the Domke F3X camera bag over the other and began the uphill hike up the main street to Hotel Ratzan. To my right was […]

Also filed in Central America, Guatemala, Lake Atitlan, Panasonic GF1 | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Una broma de Piratas

Friday, April 8, 2011

PANAJACHEL– El bartender estaba limpiando su bar, cuando escucho unos pasos. El levantando la vista veía entrando un pirata. Entonces, el pirata le hablaba diciendo dame un ron. El tienen aspecto muy bravo y muy falo pero despues de dos copas de ron, el pirata ya se encontraba tranquilo. Entonces el bartender le pregunta, “Si […]

Also filed in Central America, Chachapoyas, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Lake Atitlan, Peru, South America | | Comments (0)