Enjoy! I hope they leave as much of a smile on your face as they did mine!

Being 5’8″ I am not particularly tall here in Canada. In Guatemala however, I noticed a distinct height difference between myself and the local people. The average man likely stood 5’2″ and the women closer to 4’8″. You would have thought I would have learnt my lesson after smoking my head on several door frames and clothes-lining myself on ropes holding tarps up in the market but quite apparently I didn’t. To add insult to injury one of the hostel’s definition of a bunk bed was stacking two single beds on top of each other, secured by a single nail in each leg. Although resourceful, I could not admire this handiwork with the recollection of the first morning waking up to my head greeting the upper bunk.

A third year class of women met in Vista Hermosa – at this point of their education they were able to read aloud from newspapers. Spanish is their second language as Mam, a Mayan dialect, is their first. I will see if my next post if I can post a sound clip as it is quite an interesting language to listen to.

I was followed around this classroom by several young boys who were quite enthralled with my camera – this young fellow however was more content listening to the women read.

Class would typically start with a game or exercise. In Don Adelfo’s class ‘head, shoulders, knees and toes’ was the game of choice.

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Hope you enjoy anyways!

As for this last one:

I have an expensive hobby. It’s called driving.

I decided to explore some of the backroads near my house and when I came across this I nearly threw my hands up in the air roller coaster style, but realized that may be a bad idea on a gravel road going 80km/h.

Decided not to test natural selection today :)

Have an absolutely wonderful day

My is it good to be back and shooting! Not to mention kicking things off with this rocking couple – Tammy and Jonas.

Turns out Tammy has actually been head over heels in love with Jonas since the tender age of 13. Now, being a typical male it took him several years to catch onto this.  But are we ever glad he did!  :)

Thank you so much Tammy and Jonas for letting me photograph you and get to know you better. I stand by my statement that you two are the most adorable couple this side of the big pond!
Enjoy!

2010! Wow! Now, the question of the day: is this to be pronounced ‘twenty-ten’ or ‘two-thousand-ten’? I personally am still completely on the fence, not as if it matters too much as it takes me until at least June to write the correct date.

So. Here we are starting a whole new year which is going to be awesome! No seriously. I am looking so forward to working with amazing couples, going on some amazing trips, meeting tons of new people and growing as a photographer and a person.

I had a few spare hours of the Christmas break to edit images from a trip I took to Iceland in late summer of 2008 and I thought I would share.

Enjoy :)