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  1. Montevideo, the places you'll see.

    Blog: Bearshapedsphere - 6 May 2009

    There are many things to love about Uruguay. For one thing, the capital city is mostly safe, very pedestrian-friendly, pretty easy to get around by foot, bus and taxi (and the taxi drivers are unerringly honest).

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  2. The old man and the river

    Blog: Bearshapedsphere - 4 May 2009

    If I were to post only one picture to represent my recent trip to Montevideo, it would be this one.In the dying light of one of the last days of summer, an old man with long hair comes out to sit on the sea wall (except it's a river wall) along Rio de la Plata, Montevideo Uruguay's waterfront and playground.

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  3. A point of comparison

    Blog: Bearshapedsphere - 27 April 2009

    I suffer from an inescapable desire to compare this to that. Everywhere I go, I put under the subjective lens that it's taken me all these years to painstakingly construct and send into orbit, like some kind of personal Hubble Telescope, but without blowing the budget quite so much and without such stunning images. (though more than one editor in recent months has asked me if I've thought about seriously pursuing photography, but maybe that's some kind of weird ego-fanning that editors do; if I understood editors, my life would look very different.

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