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at the religion store
I stepped into this little shop – next to the boxing gym and across the street from a church (Gimnasia de Boxeo Rafael Trejo and Hermandad de la Santísima Trinidad, if you’re keeping up with stuff like that) – because I spotted that sequined hat (?). The interior of the store was dark and it seemed like the hat (?) had stolen all the light for itself., leaving all the other religious artifacts to fend for themselves.
Or maybe I was having a heat stroke.
Havana, Cuba
photographed 11.11.2022
mercado industrial (reflexión)
It is still weird to me that my eyes will parse out reflections to see what’s actually in a scene, but my camera’s like, “Nope. You gotta see it the way I see it.” and keeps all the stuff I wouldn’t have noticed.
But on the other hand, how nice that the camera shows me a man who is roughly the size of a backpack (and to make it a little more trippy – he’s WEARING a backpack.)
Cienfuegos, Cuba
photographed 11.9.2022
watch repair
It seems like probably everyone has a certain degree of understanding about this aspect of Cuban life – shortages of various things means there are a lot of repairs being done. This man was a very busy repairing watches (let’s assume that his own watch kept good time – a detail I wish I had thought about noticing). Around the corner there was a cell-phone repair place. And just up the street on the very same block as the watch repair place was the motorcycle repairman that I posted previously.
Cienfuegos, Cuba
photographed 11.9.2022
Cuban Christmas
Merry Christmas, Cuban style. (Or, if you don’t celebrate: here’s a photo from Cuba that was made in November and for some reason there was a decorated tree inside the house.)
Calle Lamparilla
Havana, Cuba
photographed 11.7.2022
my impression
Remember the laundry that was hanging out to dry inside an old building?
Here’s a much less literal interpretation of it – sometimes I like wandering away from my usual just-the-facts-ma’am approach and getting a little more impressionistic or artistic (or blurry!). But don’t worry: tomorrow we’ll be back in territory that’ll be a little more familiar.
Havana, Cuba
photographed 11.7.2022
One Day | One Image 