Diary and Commentary

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DECEMBER 27

The Past is Prologue

Some years ago I placed on CDs every photo I had taken since 1983. Yesterday I decided to review them all. There were some gems among them, and some horrors that I am glad no one will ever see. Among the gems are the following. They are in no particular order, not of chronology or importance. I left the pictures in large format after running them through Adobe Photoshop. They say that moments before your death your entire life will flash before your eyes. Here is mine, a small preview of coming attractions.

1987, standing above Machu Picchu after walking four days on the Inca Trail

 

With local anti-communist militia, near Sayache, Guatemala, 1987

 

 

Tikal, Guatemala, 1983. Skinny legs.

 

 

With Tim Price at the Mayan ruins of El Ceibol, Guatemala, 1986.

 

 

Somewhere in Mexico at some ruin, 1986.

 

 

At the Mayan ruins of Copan, Honduras, 1986

 

 

At the Mayan ruins of Copan, Honduras, 1986

 

 

The northern Guatemalan jungles, 2004.

 

 

In the Choco village of Balsal, Darien, Panama, 1987.

 

 

Camera shy and pensive, Pico Bonito, Honduras, 2004.

 

 

Quetzal preserve, Guatemala, 1986.

 

 

My self-designed sleeping system during my first 'Year of Living Dangerously,' 1986-87, northern Guatemala.

 

 

With Peruvian family, near the Chachapoyan ruins of Gran Vilaya, 2003

 

 

Peruvian family on the way to the ruins of Gran Vilaya, 2003

 

 

Street scene, Antigua, Guatemala, 1983

 

 

Enough already! There are more photos here and here.

 

Someday I will run every photo on my site through Adobe Photoshop---but not today.

 

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