Colors of Old San Juan
Thursday, October 22, 2009 at 7:43AM 
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Just got back from a wonderful trip to Puerto Rico. I was born on this island. But it had been 30 years since I’d been home. Everything I saw, smelled, heard, tasted and touched brought back a memory for me. I took this trip with my wife to celebrate our anniversary. We’re definitely coming back very soon with the kids.
Everything about Old San Juan was exactly as I remember--the cobblestone streets, the colorful buildings with their distinctive architecture. It was like taking a walk with my father when I was a child. We stopped and got ice cream from a street vendor. I had acerola ice cream. The acerola berry is my absolute favorite fruit in the world. My grandmother had an acerola plant in her yard. I loved to pick a bowl full, wash them and swing in a hammock eating them. Enough rambling for now. I'll post a few more images from PR soon.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy this image even a fraction as much as I did making it.
For those of you in Austin, be sure to come out tonight to see Will van Overbeek speak at the CapMac Advance Photography SIG. More info here.
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Reader Comments (4)
ooh, acerola. the picture of the fruit looks so iconic. next time smuggle some of those seedlings back to Austin; I want to try.
puerto rico looks good too. :)
I love this shot! Very, very nice. Lately I have been reading about the idea of beautiful light, strong design and then as as third ingredient 'action' as part of an image. I know it's perhaps a little cliche, but I do think this image would benefit from that bit of 'action' if you had had a person walking past just in the right moment, but that said I personally also really like and enjoy people-free images like this.
I love to photograph colorful buildings like this. This really a nice looking picture.
Thanks for your comment everyone. Glad you enjoyed this image. I really enjoyed going there and making it. I would have loved to have spent more than a few hours in old San Juan this time around.