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Clouds over Bodiam Castle
5 days near Bodiam Castle, East Sussex gave me the opportunity to witness the English countryside including that charming castle.
To Cairoma along the Kimsa Cruz cordillera
Not long ago when visiting the country of my birth I decided to visit the lands where my grandparents' properties were located: Cairoma and Araca, south of the city of La Paz.
The stories I heard as a child of long journeys my mother as small children, her brothers and sisters undertook, travelling on baskets either side of mules through mountains, fertile valleys, high altitude planes and multi coloured lakes, on narrow paths, through wind swept canyons so windy that often the pack mules would be pushed to the precipice below.
These childhood images have stayed with me and I have travelled in my imaginations with the images in this collection.
The monochrome photograph shows my father to the left with riding boots next to his father, wearing a hat third from the left; my uncle Alberto, third from the right and his wife the left of my grandfather Molina. This seems to be a marriage of two young locals.
Four instances of a recollection: Lake Titicaca
Part 2 of my travels in La Paz, Bolivia. I was on a boat on my way to Moon and Sun Islands (sacred in the mythology of the Incas), there were about 30 people in all and no one seemed to notice this tree growing in a promontory of rock in the middle of the lake...
La Paz, Bolivia: views from the cable car
Views of the city of my birth, La Paz, Bolivia, contrast with the 1975 black and whites I took
Seven sunsets over the sacred Lake Titicaca
The first of 2 collection on lake Titicaca, sacred for both catholics and Aymara. A 2011 United Nations report found alarming concentrations of cadmium, arsenic, and lead in various parts of the lake. In 2012, the Global Nature Fund nominated the lake "Threatened Lake of the Year".
Pictorialism, a photographic essay: Landscapes
I have collected some of my previous works that can possibly fit within the parameters of Pictorialism.
Copacabana, lake Titicaca sunsets
A second collection portraying Lake Titicaca in Bolivia, looking towards the setting sun
La Paz, Bolivia: yesterday and today (1975-2023)
I have published a book, back in 1975: "Imágenes Paceñas, lugares y personas". Here you can see the contrast of yesterday and today, 1975 and 2023
Looking back: dawn over La Paz
On our way to Serranías de Murrillo, early morning and looking back over the city we left behind.
Somewhere in the Bolivian Andes
Delving into past photographs and viewing them now beyond the snap-shot moving towards Creative Photography