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They are fleeting, but that’s what makes them perfect isn’t it? A beautiful landscape with a beautiful soul for one beautiful moment.

I was camped out at La Esquina completely absorbed in working on my new project, www.arteantigua.com, when Yves Maurer‘s remarks could no longer be ignored. I’m glad I pulled myself out of the computer/internet swamp to engage the young Swiss traveler as he proved to be most interesting. Yves was delighting in the wonderful pleasures [...]

So I’m adding this to my wish list… For the prototype, he and his colleagues developed a program that instructs the camera to take two rapid shots if a frame has both dark and light parts. One shot exposes correctly for the dark; one shot exposes correctly for the light. The program then merges the [...]

Phil Borges has published “Enduring Spirit,” a photography book commissioned by Amnesty International. I highly suggest you check out his work… The creative photo montages of Tom Chambers are also quite stunning:

It’s been months since I went on a last-minute day-trip with a few friends. Our objective was nothing more than a small roadside restaurant along the highway. La Colina is little wooden shelter that holds maybe five picnic tables and sells the typical Guatemalan meal of sausages, frijoles, pungeant cheese, grilled onions and blue, hand-made [...]

Interesting insight from the blog of a Peace Corps volunteer in Guatemala: The neighbor’s daughter had been held hostage with two other men, two houses down. Wtf…It’s actually not a house, but a bodega where they store all kinds of mercaderia (food stuffs, I’m assuming) and some men came in and tied them up and [...]

Right now, I feel like the energizer bunny jacked up on Kaffee Fernando‘s infamous Black Fernando: strong black coffee with a shot of espresso. So much to share… so let’s roll! On the first of October, I was struck with a “most brilliant idea” to start a project that fully delves into the local art [...]

Find yourself wishing for a better life? Try imagining living a life in a dump. Thousands of Guatemalans are surviving off the massive, hazardous dump in Guatemala City every day. The following is an excerpt from the Council on Hemispheric Affairs: The Guatemala City garbage dump, situated in a ravine, occupies 40 acres of land [...]