Oregon coast

Cape Arago a few days after Thanksgiving.

I don't know if there's a more beautiful place in the world...

November 27, 2010

oh Oregon

Sometimes, I just don't understand this town.

Outhouse anyone?

November 15, 2010

raindrops

Raindrops on a spiderweb.

November 14, 2010

beach

Sunset at Bastendorff Beach.

November 7, 2010

succulents

Playing with my dad's macro lens and ring strobe.
We're still learning how to use it, so the light isn't perfect yet.

Succulents in the garden.

North Bend, Oregon

November 7, 2010

Pushkin

The only two times the crazy dog would stop wiggling and dancing. 

Annoying creature. 

Also, I think he's part rabbit. And OK, not the most amazingly creative pictures,

but I'm still jet-lagged. And he's cute.

North Bend, Oregon.

November 5, 2010

Galapagos

Blue-footed booby feet on Española Island in the Galapagos.

Marine iguana at sunset on Fernandina Island in the Galapagos.

Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

May 2010

*Taken with a point and shoot. No nice camera on this trip, sadly.

buenos aires

Last Sunday in Buenos Aires.

Train tracks at Honduras & Juan B. Justo (thanks Lourika).

Murals in Palermo.

Palermo

Buenos Aires, Argentina 

October 31, 2010

helado

 

Most delicious ice cream ever.

  

Buenos Aires, Argentina

October 30, 2010

the death of peronismo?

 

 Monument to the May Revolution.

The day after former president Nestor Kirchner, and husband of current president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, died of a heart attack.

All pictures:

Plaza de Mayo

Buenos Aires, Argentina

October 28, 2010

 

From top: Flags fly from the gate separating the Casa Rosada from the Monument to the May Revolution. Mourners and the curious gather by the gate. 

A mourner affixes a single rose to the memorial wall.

Waiting in line for the velorio, or viewing, in the Casa Rosada.

There were people camped overnight in the plaza.

From top: "Fuerza Cristina," a popular sentiments on the cards, notes, banners and messages spray-painted on buildings around the plaza.

They called Kirchner, el pingüino because he came from the province of Santa Cruz, in the south.

From top: The liner of mourners wishing to enter the Casa Rosada stretches multiple blocks along Avenida de Mayo.

Headline from the local free newspaper.

**I'm going to be a bad J-school graduate and state that I do not support los kirchneristas, justicialistas or peronistas

the mighty elephant seal

Male elephant seal napping on the beach.

I think elephant seals are one of the most bizarre creatures ever. 

It's all open sea and deep diving for strange ocean creatures for most of the year, then fighting, mating (hopefully) and sleeping.

Look at all the scars on his face. 

Estancia Rincón Chico, Peninsula Valdés

Provincia de Chubut, Argentina.

September 2010

buttons

 

Strings of buttons at the San Telmo covered market.

I like how the red buttons on the left look like surprised faces,

and how all the buttons are reds and beiges, except those two strings of bright blue in the middle.

San Telmo antique market

Buenos Aires, Argentina

October 23, 2010

hello young lovers...

 

Public displays of porteño affection in Plaza Armenia. 

I was a creeper, but they didn't notice me...phew. 

I still get shy about photographing people.

Plaza Armenia, Palermo Soho

Buenos Aires, Argentina

October 24, 2010

*Sorry, don't know the settings...I'll figure that out for future posts.