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I didn't realize exactly how much Cuba was stuck in the 50s until I went there for the first time and saw their cars. It was like being on a film set, only this was how people lived their day to day lives. I wanted to give this picture a vintage feeling for obvious reasons, and so so so tempted to turn it into b/w....but I had to do justice to the beautiful colours!
Havana Cuba - I shot this image at a barber shop in 2012 and came back a year later to find that the building had collapsed.
Schoolgirl looks out on the world from a window in Trinidad, Cuba. Photos available for purchase at Wits End Photography. Follow my blog Traveling at Wits End for ways to create travel adventures everyday.
(First of three) Cuban Emeralds, Chlorostilbon ricordii, are common in Cuba. These West Indian endemics are also found in the Bahamas.
This young bird was going all in on these tubular flowers along a small town street in northwestern Cuba. The background color is from a painted wall.
April 21, 2017. San Diego de Los Baños, Cuba.
Cuban Cake (8)
The Cuban Convertible Peso (CUC) is one of two currencies used in Cuba. The other currency is simply called the Cuban Pesoand has been in limited use since 1994. Retail stores and other businesses mainly use the Cuban Convertible Peso. For international exchange purposes 1.00 CUC = $1.00 USD.
Havana's Old Town – the site where the city first took root in 1519 – is one of the historical highlights of Latin America, an architectural masterpiece where fastidiously preserved squares and grandiose palaces sit alongside a living, breathing urban community still emerging from the economic chaos of the 1990s.