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Writings on the Web…

Laura — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:48:52 +0000

…and in print (magazine) too! Sorry I haven’t been posting much on my own site. All my web publishing focus is going towards projects with clients: Here’s the latest batch published both in the printed Revue Magazine and on the mag’s website: El Pilar The Antigua Photography Club Agua y Fuego Fires Up Eco-Tourism on Ometepe I’ve also started contributing to [...]

International Day of Climate Action

Laura — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:11:47 +0000

Spotting the Swiss in Guate

Laura — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 05:57:26 +0000

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 of [...]

Wishing for a Frankencamera

Laura — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:31:34 +0000

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 [...]

Humbling Photography

Laura — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:05:34 +0000

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: Start Slide Show with PicLens Lite

Old Friends, New Surprises, Little Secret Escapes

Laura — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 03:25:44 +0000

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 [...]

Life in Guatemala

Laura — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:09:46 +0000

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 put [...]

Energy Buzz…

Laura — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 02:00:49 +0000

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 scene. [...]

Guatemala: Living in a Landfill

Laura — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:17:41 +0000

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 in [...]

Floods Devastate SE Asia

Laura — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:54:51 +0000

It’s a bit crazy to imagine that countries I was discovering two years ago in SE Asia are now swamped from a typhoon. The following excerpt is from the Radio Australia: The Philippines is bracing for two more typhoons which are expected to hit the flood-ravaged country over the next two days. Emergency teams have been [...]