Christmas in Colombia
It's a little hard to describe where I am now and where I spent Christmas. I am relaxing in the little town of Jenesano, Colombia with friends. The town is located about 140 kilometers from Bogotá and has little to nothing to do with the rest of the world; not even the civil war that occupies too much of the rest of this country. To give some context, this is only the second time I've been here when the entire route was paved and this year the place has cell phone service and dial-up internet access. Jenesano isn't well travelled by gringos but change is coming. Not from tourism per se but it's coming. The weather is a perfect 80 degrees by day and about 65 at night.
Christmas is celebrated on the evening of the 24th with an homegrown Christmas Pageant that involves most of the town drinking, setting off massively powerful homemade fireworks, putting on really twisted Halloween costumes, decorating diesel spewing trucks as religious-themed floats and parading around the 2 blocks that make up downtown. Kids and adults wander around taking in the spectacle. Needless to say I took pictures.
I set up my Streetstudio™ for a few hours as well. I'll share those pictures with my next entry.
Take pictures of Colombian anti-choice Christmas demons.
Christmas is celebrated on the evening of the 24th with an homegrown Christmas Pageant that involves most of the town drinking, setting off massively powerful homemade fireworks, putting on really twisted Halloween costumes, decorating diesel spewing trucks as religious-themed floats and parading around the 2 blocks that make up downtown. Kids and adults wander around taking in the spectacle. Needless to say I took pictures.
I set up my Streetstudio™ for a few hours as well. I'll share those pictures with my next entry.
Take pictures of Colombian anti-choice Christmas demons.
4 comments:
Happy New Year, my friend!
By the way, did you know that if you search on Jenesano in Google and request english results, your Streetstudio page is the first result?
Those are some of the best Streetstudio pics I have seen!
Cheers
Brud
Happy New Year to you too.
I know about those Google results. I get a kick out of it but I´m not exactly surprised. This place is pretty much off the internet savvy map.
As for those Streetstudio portraits, one of the reasons they seem so stong is becasue I edited them down to my ten favorites. All the other cities with the exception of New York are unedited. It´s one of the things I need to get to in 2006.
Sometimes less is more.
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