Photos & etc.

Well, folks... I'm calling it a night.

I finally finished uploading the remainder of the forty May Day photos to the website. There are a few, um... provocative? ... challenging? ... sensitive? ... photographs in the series. Give them a look, and let me know what you think.

As a pre-emptive comment, I'll confess that I did think twice before adding three of the photos in particular. In the end, though, I realized part of a photographer's responsibility is to capture and share moments in time. And in that sense, not publishing them for fear of provoking discomfort or other negative reactions in viewers would be the worst type of self-censorship.

Coincidently, I've started reading an amazing book: Susan Sontag's On Photography. I'll post any quotes that I find to be interesting, inspiring, and relevant!

And on a completely different note, for those of you worried I'm spending a bit too much time staring at a laptop screen... fret not! Just last night I dropped in on a party and ended up in the middle of an impromptu reunion with muchas amigas from my not-so-recent past. At one point I was dancing with Adela, Quimmy, Dina, Miriam, and Claudia... it took me back about ten years.

Yeah, there were some jokes about soon being able to qualify for a senior citizen's discount at the dance clubs, but all-in-all it was a terrific night. We even shut the place down! (OK, so that's not too difficult to do in Guatemala, where the "Dry Law" closes bars and nightclubs at 1am, but still... I was impressed.)

And tomorrow I'm off to the movies. What a life.

One last bit of positive news: This is my 250th journal entry! Go me for writing it, and go you for reading it!