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A picture from a recent trip to mexico.

According to wikipedia,
" Day of the Dead (Spanish: Día de Muertos) is a Mexican holiday celebrated throughout Mexico and around the world in many cultures. The holiday focuses on gatherings of family and friends to pray for and remember friends and family members who have died. It is particularly celebrated in Mexico, where it attains the quality of a National Holiday, and all banks are closed. The celebration takes place on November 1–2, in connection with the Catholic holidays of All Saints' Day (November 1) and All Souls' Day (November 2). Traditions connected with the holiday include building private altars honoring the deceased using sugar skulls, marigolds, and the favorite foods and beverages of the departed and visiting graves with these as gifts."

A portrait from august 2011, of my friend Isa @ Bogota, Colombia.

Strobist: Single off camera strobe at 1/2 power bounced on a silver umbrella located above the subject on camera left.

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According to Wikipedia:

"The tilt of the Earth's axis relative to its orbital plane plays a big role in the weather. The Earth is tilted at an angle of 23.44° to the plane of its orbit, and this causes different latitudes on the Earth to directly face the Sun as the Earth moves through its orbit. It is this variation that primarily brings about the seasons. When it is winter in the Northern Hemisphere, the Southern Hemisphere faces the Sun more directly and thus experiences warmer temperatures than the Northern Hemisphere. Conversely, winter in the Southern Hemisphere occurs when the Northern hemisphere is tilted more toward the Sun. From the perspective of an observer on the Earth, the winter Sun has a lower maximum altitude in the sky than the summer Sun."

Shot @ f/8 , 1/320 and ISO-200, with a 50mm (100mm eq) lens.

Yet another portrait of my lovely girlfriend Paulis, taken last weekend in Bogota for her 25th Birthday.
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Shot @ f/1.4 , 1/13 and ISO-200

A portrait of my lovely girlfriend Paulis, taken yesterday in Bogota for her Birthday! I used my Auto-S Olympus OM 50MM lens (mounted on my DSLR) with a very high aperture to obtain a very shallow depth of field.

Shot @ f/1.4 , 1/13 and ISO-200

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