Another CELTA course has come to a close, and as always it’s bittersweet to say goodbye to such wonderful people. I always gain such respect for the efforts trainees make. I also consider myself fortunate to have the opportunity to witness some of the most inspirational growing experiences imaginable. I love my job and am so grateful to be able to meet such incredible individuals who often teach me as much as I teach them. Farewell, Maturin!
JAN/FEB13. Maturin, Venezuela.
FEB13. Venezuela, Miami.
“To part is the lot of all mankind. The world is a scene of constant leave-taking, and the hands that grasp in cordial greeting today, are doomed ere long to unite for the the last time, when the quivering lips pronounce the word – ‘Farewell”
― R.M. Ballantyne
FEB13. Maturin, Venezuela.
“It’s the emptiest and yet the fullest of all human messages: ‘Good-bye.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Bluebeard
FEB13. Maturin, Venezuela.
“Remember me and smile, for it’s better to forget than to remember me and cry.”
― Dr. Seuss
FEB13. Maturin, Venezuela.
“When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.”
― Robert Frank
“The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness ”
― Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Earth from Above
“There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.”
― Ansel Adams
“Always seeing something, never seeing nothing, being photographer”
― Walter De Mulder
“Above all, life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference”
― Robert Frank
“There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit.”
― William S. Burroughs
“A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense and is thereby a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.”
― Ansel Adams
“It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.”
― Dorothea Lange
“The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things with words.”
― Elliott Erwitt
“Good photographs are taken not with the camera. Good photographs are taken with Mind, Soul, Eyes, and Imagination where Eyes like a shutter, Mind like a lens, Imagination like an object and Soul like a canvas.”
― Parveen Sharma
Practically everything, and I do mean EVERYTHING, is a “photo” to me. Even if it’s only a pen sitting on a desk. I see so much more than just a pen sitting on a desk. Or, is it that I ‘feel’ so much more…? I’m not sure. But I am slowly piecing together my feelings about photography. I always have a camera with me. Whether it’s my pro-Canon, my iPad, or my iPod Touch…I never leave home without one. If I ever did…unfortunately, I would feel a little less enthused about the moments I’d be experiencing…that may sound sad, but it’s the truth. I have to ‘know’ that I can photograph something at any moment. If I didn’t have a camera with me, I’d be so preoccupied with the thoughts of the possibility of missing something that I know I’d want to photograph…
JAN13. Maturin, Venezuela.
Don’t shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like. – David Alan Harvey
Every streetlight pole on an entire strip, had these Rodonski stickers plastered to them. Poor guy lost big time.
The largest house I’ve seen in Maturin. They say that the original owner who lived there, was the owner of all of the surrounding lands, a bit like a plantation. This land is now where my compound is on.
Beautiful palm trees line the streets.
Farmatodo’s line at their pharmacy. I can’t catch a break. Venezuelans love to line up.
Typical Venezuelan snacks. Cocoselle is a chocolate wafer with a coconut creme filling. It looks like the Japanese Atom Boy on the front of the Pepito’s bag. But, it’s not. Little white cheese puffs.
It was a pitch black sky. One night from the parking lot after work.
Barely visible is the Hello Kitty decal on the car in front.
A very sunny morning on the way to work.
The green trees and the blue skies. One BIG way I’ll remember Maturin.
One of many roadside workers we pass daily.
Motorcycle drive-by.
Fruit sellers on the roadside daily.
JAN13. Maturin,Venezuela.
Zulia, a national beer that I just tried for the first time on Friday night after work.
Golfiao! A delicious cinnamon bun-like pastry. It has cheese on top and panelon on the bottom. Panelon is a mixture of honey and sugar. So good. So sweet. Bread is so soft.
1 & 2 FEB13. Maturin, Venezuela.
