It's always polite to ask people if you can take their picture, but, sometimes you just can't resist the urge to snap "the moment" before it disappears. So...my humble apologies to those whose faces may show up on this blog that I wasn't able to ask....you were all loved or I wouldn't have taken your picture! In many cases, however, we tipped the people whose pictures appear because, that 1 peso or so, is a lot of money to them and we were more than happy to contribute.
Here's one of my favorite snaps....this gentleman in the barber chair, was very patient while I shot numerous shots all on different settings in the camera and wound up loving this particular one. I purposely left my large SONY DSLR (& all the lenses) at home and only used my Canon SX60HS with a fixed zoom lens and my iPhone 7+. I just flipped over the blurry effect I got with my camera while his face stayed in focus.
The Malecón (officially Avenida de Maceo) is a broad esplanade, roadway, and seawall which stretches for 8 km (5 miles) along the coast. Kids and fishermen and ordinary people hang out there day and night and it always provides a wonderful backdrop for people pictures. Lenny never took picture taking seriously before this and he shot a few of these as well and loved the whole process.
I caught these 3 pictures below with my iPhone and a filter...they turned out to be one of my favorite series.
This was a very special type of trip. We went with a small group of photographers, led by Jim O'Donnell a professional photographer from Taos, NM, and a highly personalized Cuban guide, Carlos Enrique González, both representing Espiritu travel based in the U.S. So with Jims' knowledge of photography (based on his past visits to Cuba) and Carlos' tremendous presence in the community we went into every area imaginable. Good, not so good and all the etceteras!
We saw musicians
and kids
and wonderful people everywhere
Needless to say, I took bazillions of snaps!
No time to put them into Lightroom or Photoshop or even in iPhoto.....just wanted to get them out to you to enjoy. There are much more coming....architecture, galleries, more interesting people, street art...just keep coming on back!
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