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Two Blocks on Last Day

Robert Watcher

Robert Watcher

Well-known member
On my final morning before heading home from Nicaragua - I was able to capture 213 images from 9:12AM to 11:25AM - - - including 4 photo stories that I both came across as well as made a special effort to document in the event that I don't get back in the near future. Those include land redistribution, lone survivor of town buried in the 1998 landslide, small high production bakery in rural area, and a teenager rebuilding motorcycle engines under a tent along the side of a road.

First thing on that morning, Anne and I had to walk downtown to the bank to exchange some money for our flight back home. Along a 2 block route closest to the action downtown, I was able to capture 31 non-story people images for my archives. These are a few of the selection.


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Maggie Terlecki

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Wow, Robert, already? Seems you just got there and now it already time to go home. Weren't you supposed to stay 6 months? Surely it cannot be that long already.

These photos are great. I wonder if in the first one, that is some sort of store and they are all waiting to get in. Everyone seems to be avoiding looking at the others, a little like when you see people on a subway who are alone.
 
Robert Watcher

Robert Watcher

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Maggie Terlecki said:
Wow, Robert, already? Seems you just got there and now it already time to go home. Weren't you supposed to stay 6 months? Surely it cannot be that long already.

These photos are great. I wonder if in the first one, that is some sort of store and they are all waiting to get in. Everyone seems to be avoiding looking at the others, a little like when you see people on a subway who are alone.
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Actually we were gone for 5 months. Time has flown by though.

We flew out last Thursday from Managua, Nicaragua with the temperature being 39 degrees and arrived in Detroit, USA with the temperature being 39 degrees. Of course the first one was in celsius and the latter being in fahrenheit. We have gone from one extreme to the other.


We are heading back again this coming October - - - this time to stay for 7 months. Still no end to photo opportunities even after shooting thousands upon thousands during our stay.


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doug anderson

New member
Love these, Robert. I think number two is cropped too tight. Since you're including the woman on the left it wouldn't hurt to see more of her. I love the way Latinos paint their houses and stores. We could learn from them.
 
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