Beach Crawl on Kodak Ektar 100

 

Here Passes the Tropic of Capricorn

 

What has living along the line of the Tropic of Capricorn done to me, or changed in me thus far? Hard to say as of now. Due to the ensuing pandemic it has been more difficult to get "out" and really see and feel the geography. One thing is for sure, I now know what it's like to live where thunderstorms converge and bring fury as fast as emotions can rise within the body and bring rage. The vibe here on the line that separates the tropics, from the near tropics, is fine, and the lines one need to walk here in the biggest city in South America can also be constantly shifting. Goals and ideas, are always in flux here, more so in the calm Mediterranean climes I'm more accustomed to. I suppose it will be some time later when I will understand how living along this line of latitude has changed me, if at all, and it may be a change that I will never fully understand. 

As of now I am very disappointed that the pandemic has made it so hard to travel to places such as the Pantanal and Cerrrado regions, where the biodiversity these places harbor would impress any naturalist around the world, and worse so, the fires that have ravaged the Pantanal leave me wondering if I will ever be able to see it as I had imagined. Fire seems to follow me, or at least to follow my dreams and my places of interest, and even my places of deep intimacy. First the Santa Monica Mountains, and now the Pantanal, places that I wanted to get to know, or have known deeply, are now just coming back from the ashes. While the government here and at home do their best to downplay the threats of climate change and disregard the environmental destruction taking place under the auspices of "Growth" I feel I have not done enough to sound the alarm or right the wrongs. I hope to one day soon enter the regions of Brazil's natural wonders and at least, see them for myself. I'm not sure what I can do to try and save them, or even how us Sapiens will be able to do it, but for now I have the Mata Atlantica here at my doorstep and it has breathed life into me, has shown us the neon colors of the tropics, the allure of the leafy green lands under the sun and cloud, the perfect beaches, the struggling communities, all of it juxtaposed together here so beautifully, one has to see it to believe it.

Quarantine Projects - Shooting from the Window

 

Exploring the neighborhood from up above. All images shot from the windows of our apartment in São Paulo. I used my Nikon f8 500mm mirror lens for most of these images and a Nikon F100. All shot on film developed at home. 

Films used:

Kodak Color Plus 200

Kodak Ektar 100

Parque Nacional Conguillío Aruacania Chile

Plenty of time these days to scan all of the film we have lying around. So here's some slides from our trip to Conguillío National Park outside of Temuco in south central Chile.

US Road Trip - NY to Dallas August -September 2019

11 States

2,000 Miles

3 Rolls of Kodak Ektar 100 Film

2 Homes of Former US Presidents (Garfield and Lincoln) 

1 Sunset over the Mississippi River

Jardim Botânico São Paulo Brasil

Having visited quite a few botanic gardens at this point in my life I can say that the Botanic Garden of São Paulo is one of the "wilder" parks I have been to. Due to its location next to the São Paulo Zoo and it being situated on the edge of the city where the urban part of São Paulo starts to enter into a more improvised organization interspersed with large swaths of semi wild Atlantic Rain Forrest the botanic garden sort of melds right into that surrounding greenscape and therefore contains a quite a bit of local wildlife and a more rough around the edges feel and look.