The year is ending and carnival preparations begin…
As the snow settles in the north, down here it’s getting hot and steamy (not really today which for what ever the reason is raining and quite cold). As much as I miss christmas with snow and the mountains, this is an exciting time of the year down in Uruguay. Carnival preparations are entering the [...]
La previa… Copa America 2011.
Final entre Uruguay y Paraguay. Hoy es un día espectacular. Es como si el de arriba fuese fanático del fútbol. En medio de un invierno crudo, hoy tenemos sol y calor para conmemorar la final de la Copa America 2011. Hoy se enfrentan Paraguay y Uruguay. A lo largo del paseo de KC (nuestro labrador [...]
Peñarol a muerte!
Me pareció muy a tono con la ocasión compartir esta foto que saqué durante las Llamadas el pasado Febrero. En esta ocasión decidí que me iba a enfocar más en lo que pasaba a las orillas del desfile, en la gente que se aglomera a medida que transcurre la noche. Unas cuantas horas antes del [...]
Colonia! A break before the cold.
Clara and I decided to take a long weekend at the end of May, to prepare for the unavoidable winter that it’s amongst us. On a side note, I would actually consider today to be quite close to a ‘hard core’ Uruguayan winter day. Photo: Clara and I in Colonia , Uruguay. By: Martin Herrera [...]
Bar Tasende in Montevideo.
Photo: Tasende. Old bar of Montevideo. By: Martin Herrera Soler. Bar Tasende. This non pretentious bar, located in the south-east corner of the Solis theather is a traditional place, where long ago the cultural and bohemian Montevideo would meet up. They became famous with the ‘muzza al tacho’, a pizza doe covered in thick real [...]
Another good reminder to always carry my camera…
Amazing skies photography opportunity in Uruguay and the case to always carry your camera.
Talk to me about commitment!
A true testament of commitment of a Peñarol soccer fan in la rambla de Montevideo, Uruguay.
Yemanjá, the Goddess of the Sea.
Every February 2nd, hundreds of thousand Uruguayans arrive to the beaches to celebrate the goddess of the Sea – Yemanjá (or Imanja). The city flow gets altered, and the coastline it’s transformed by the celebration, which includes music performers, as well as a high number of worshipers that come to the to sea to share [...]
Por dos galletas [for two crackers]… [Updated]
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Por dos galletas [for two crackers]… documentary street photography with a Leica M8.
Fishermen in Cabo Polonio, Uruguay
Fishermen in Cabo Polonio, Uruguay – Images by Martin Herrera It’s 6.00am in Cabo Polonio, Rocha, a small beach town in the Atlantic coast of Uruguay. I witness 3 men performing their daily routine. No easy task I have to say.The first lights of dawn are breaking through the doubtful skies, which at times looks [...]
While my 'eyes' are still fresh…
This time I don’t have a picture to go along with this story, I wish I did. So technically, I guess the ‘eyes’ portion of the title it’s not accurate. In any case, here is the story… So we are having lunch with my mom and Clara, when we get a call from the security [...]
While my eyes are still fresh… bay watch!
Photo: Lifeguard in playa Carrasco in Montevideo. By: Martin Herrera Soler. I guess this post will make more sense for those of you Californians that have had the chance to witness the blazing yellow trucks through the sandy beaches of Santa Monica and along the coast. For those of you who while surfing or [...]
There is something about living in a beach town…
Photo: Carrasco beach at sunset during the first summer days. Shot with a Leica D-Lux3. By: Martin Herrera Soler. It’s summer down here… and the past few weeks have gotten me thinking about the social implications of living in a beach town. Every day as I head out to work, or on my way back, [...]
Maldonado – Ruta 12.
Photo: Ruta 12 in Maldonado, the east area of the country. By: Martin Herrera Soler. As the warm weather comes south, I’ve been taking more trips around Uruguay. This last time, I drove along many minor routes that I had never traveled before. Ruta 12, heads-up North from Punta Ballenas (very close to Punta [...]
My gratitude project… Parque Roosevelt.
Parque Roosevelt, Canelones, Uruguay – Images by Martin Herrera Since I started the year, I have been looking for a project that would be a support vehicle to regularly express my gratitude. Sometimes, through the course of my life, I tend to focus on the things that are not working as I would like, forgetting [...]
Villa Serrana
The weekend of May 1st, a holiday in Uruguay, we took of to el departamento de La Valleja. For a country which is probably the size of the state of Maryland, Uruguay has 19 ‘states’ (needless to mention that implies 19 government bodies with all the bureaucracy that it’s associated with them, but I’ll write [...]
Candombe…
Fully dressed comparsa during Las Llamadas de Otoño (the autumn calls). Banderilleros performing their magic against the setting sun. It’s been close to a month since we got to Uruguay and yet, it seems like every day we are running errands related to our move. Every time we manage to finish one, two show up. [...]
While my eyes are still fresh…
I am still enjoying this honeymoon of coming to a new place, and being able to be surprised and amazed by all the things different before they become the norm. As much as I would love to be able to have this ability innate no matter where I am (which at times I do), I [...]
Don’t be fooled by the 95…
As many if you know, we are moving back to Uruguay. From a photographic perspective, it is my intention to dedicate the next few years to document many aspects of Uruguay that really stand out to me as I go back an immerse again in society. This is something that I feel I have to [...]
