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Fishing in Baja California. A bit of a heavy crop but I liked the watercolor feel (and the beautiful bird).
Photographing with my favorite compact camera, the Canon G9, in the late afternoon during mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady Guadalupe in Ensenada, Mexico.
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Osprey caught a fish for meal in Baja, Mexico area. The osprey's scientific name, Pandion haliaetus, comes from a mythical king of Athens, Pandion, whose daughters were turned into birds, and the Greek words halos (sea) and aetos (eagle)
I have been spending the last couple of weeks archiving and backing up my photos to a couple of online services. Hard drives fail and memories fade.
It has been a great treat to go down memory lane and to see how far I have gone with my photography. I am posting from my archives not because I have a lack of new material to share with you guys; in fact I am backlogged in processing photos from my current travels. You can view those photos over at my Facebook and Google+ pages so stop by there if you want to check them out.
Breaking speed limits, eating fresh seafood and shooting (photographing) the gray whales in Baja, Mexico.
I reprocessed this photograph from an amazing road trip I took with my friends Randy and Florence down to the San Ignacio Lagoon in Baja, Mexico back in 2009. We broke speed limits on Mexico Highway 1 also known as the Transpeninsular Highway. The highway begins in the North in Tijuana and ends at the Baja Peninsula in Cabo San Lucas.
It was a 14-hour drive from San Diego to the San Ignacio Lagoon. We divided the drive up over two days and enjoyed one too many cervezas (not while we were driving) and delicious seafood along the way.
San Ignacio Lagoon is home to Baja California's friendly whales. It is the best place on earth to get close enough to touch these friendly, curious animals in their own environment (of course those are the whales in the water, this one is a little dried up)!
Be sure to visit my Baja Whale Watching Trip 2009 set.
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Where have all the flowers gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the flowers gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the flowers gone?
Young girls have picked them every one
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Oh, when will they ever learn?...
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The ocotillo is a funny plant...most of the year it looks like a dead stick in the sand and as soon as the monsoon passes through, it bursts to life...
These were on the property that we purchased and had planned to build a retirement home on but once we saw the complete picture of what inhabits this region, we gave the property away...
Breaking speed limits, eating fresh seafood and shooting (photographing) the gray whales in Baja, Mexico.
This photograph was from an amazing whale watching road trip I took with my friends, Randy and Florence, to the San Ignacio Lagoon in Baja, Mexico back in 2009. We broke speed limits on Mexico Highway 1 also known as the Transpeninsular Highway. The highway begins in the North in Tijuana and ends at the Baja peninsula in Cabo San Lucas.
It was a 14 hour drive from San Diego to the San Ignacio Lagoon. We divided the drive up over two days and enjoyed one too many cervezas and delicious seafood along the way.
On the first day one we stopped in Ensenada, Baja Mexico. Known as the "Cinderella of the Pacific,” Ensenada is located 70 miles south of the international border, a 90-minute drive from San Diego.
Just across from the fish market in Ensenada are a row of restaurants that serve (would you guess) fresh fish and shrimp tacos. Competition is fierce among the restaurants so they deploy barkers to grab potential customers from the street to come into their restaurants.
These two were dueling it out to see who would earn our business.
The guy with the big, fat mouth won.
Wishing all my Flickr friends a wonderful and blessed Christmas!!!
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Mexican drug cartels! Shootouts in Mexican border towns! Violence toward U.S. citizens!
Yes, a perfect time to take a road trip to Mexico!
Back in 2009 my friends, Randy and Florence, and I decided to drive over 580 miles from the US-Mexico border to the San Ignacio Lagoon to experience Baja California’s friendliest whales.
It was a 14 hour drive from San Diego to the San Ignacio Lagoon. We divided the drive up over two days and along the way enjoyed one too many “cervezas” and delicious seafood along the way.
With my water soaked Canon G10 I captured this moment out in the San Ignacio Lagoon of another “pangas” (Mexican fishing boat) encountering two gray whales.
So what about the hype of the violence in Mexico?
I couldn’t tell you.
We were too busy breaking the speed limits on Mexico Highway 1( also known as the Transpeninsular Highway), eating fresh seafood, shooting (photographing) gray whales, and all the while laughing every minute of the way.
Happy Travels!
Text and photo copyright by ©Sam Antonio Photography
San Ignacio Lagoon, Baja California Sur is home to Baja California's Friendly Whales. The best place on earth to get close enough to touch these friendly, curious animals in their own environment (of course those are the whales in the water, this one is a little dried up)!
Be sure to visit my Baja Whale Watching Trip 2009 set.
Happy Travels!
Text and photo copyright by ©Sam Antonio Photography
Sun is like an open eye
Big wind is blowing over
Lead me to another life
All my ties are broken
I'm in wonderful
Disarray...
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We had planned to build our retirement home here but got so disenchanted with the Americans who now call this slum home, that we gave our property away, with no desire to ever visit again...