Homecoming Day: pre-boarding and boarding All good things must come to an end. And so did my trip to Costa Rica. Not that it wasn’t a good trip, but it wasn’t a holiday, and I was definitely ready to come back to my darling, adorable wife. I got to the airport the usual 3 hours early… …
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12 Days in Costa Rica: Day 11
Lush If I haven’t said it before, Costa Rica is a beautiful place. The climate produces some amazing foliage and some seemingly happy people. These were all shot on one of my last nights in Costa Rica. I got off early enough to have a quick walk around the hotel during a light on/off type …
12 Days in Costa Rica: Day 10
Kodak Porta is a beautiful film stock. MashaAllah. This is the first roll I’ve shot with it, and I’m thankful to have 2 more rolls of 160 and 3 rolls of 400 sitting in the cooler right now. Alhamdulillah. This first, small group of pictures doesn’t quite do it justice. But just wait: there’s more …
A postcard from Costa Rica
Like a picture postcard from 1977 or something, maybe.
12 Days in Costa Rica: Day 9
Cariari (part 4): more manmade interventions into the landscape and more reactions from the natural world…
12 Days in Costa Rica: Day 8
the trip to work So 8 days in, and I’ve yet to show anything about the trip to work… Really, this was mostly by design: I’m sharing pictures more or less in the order they were taken, and I didn’t have the guts to pull out the camera in the taxi until the second week. …
12 Days in Costa Rica: Day 7 (pt. 2)
Cariari (part 3) Indeed, mankind was created impatient. But we only live for 80 or 100 years, at most. All living things die: that’s the way Allah azza wa jall created us. While we’re here, we build all manner of things. And to build those things, we tear down other things. We show little disregard …
