Fotografo de Bodas, Santiago

January 31, 2010

We arrived in Chiloe on Monday night after an hour and a half plane ride to the Puerto Montt airport, then a 30 minute bus ride into the city of Puerto Montt and from there another 3 hour 30 minute bus ride to Castro, Chiloe’s capital.

I fell in love pretty much immediately. Even in Puerto Montt, commonly known as Muerto Montt (dead Montt, because it’s supposedly so boring), I blissed out sitting in the sun on a rail overlooking the ocean, watching about a dozen people swimming, even though I knew that the water must have been freezing.

Our bus drove us straight up onto a ferry, which took us to the island and as soon as we were on land, it reminded me of Ireland — the climate, the suffocating/freeing feeling that comes with being surrounded by endless expanses of ocean, the green and the windblown.

We’ve been touristing the way we always tourist — zero information, zero plan — just walking. Well, today we switched it up a little and went for a jog. But in between good meals we just wandered and photographed at our leisure. That’s how we always travel. That’s how I like it.

I’m writing this to you on Wednesday night, but by the time you read this we’ll have shot the wedding and have been camping with the bride and groom that we came for! I’m so excited! It’s raining right now, but with a little luck the weather will clear up. It’s been nice the past three days so I have faith.

In the mean time I’ll leave you with a picture. I don’t have Photoshop or Capture 1 on this computer so the Raw-Jpeg conversion was done in a free program and then I used the same software to up the contrast and saturation (Fast Stone Image Viewer, if you’re curious). But, my travel computer is a little bitty netbook so the screen is tiny, and on top of that, is currently uncalibrated, so I have now idea how this even looks. Hopefully not too horrible!

Anyway, citizens of Chiloe, you have been tilt-shifted!

Fotografia gente Castro Chiloe

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I. love. Chiloe. so. much. And well, Southern Chile, in general.

Comment by asuhey — February 1, 2010 @ 12:03 am

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Great picture! I can't wait to see pictures of the wedding. I hope it didn't rain!

Comment by flojindamesa — February 1, 2010 @ 5:34 am

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Oooh, wonderful intro! Can't wait to see the rest now…

Comment by GlobalButterfly — February 1, 2010 @ 6:25 am

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I've never been to Chiloe… have heard wonderful things though. And OMG how much do I love “rocks my socks??!!!” Ha!! Anyway, when are you back in the smog-filled entity known as Santiago??

Comment by Andrea Gonzalez — February 1, 2010 @ 2:41 pm

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I loved Chiloe too. It has a certain charm that isn't found anywhere else, I think. And I love that picture, despite your lack of photo editing software

Comment by Abby Hall — February 1, 2010 @ 2:57 pm

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Glad to hear that your experience was better than mine. I think mine mostly sucked because of something that I saw happen there. I, too, remember that wind on the ferry. We really thought we would blow away. It was insane.

Comment by Sara — February 1, 2010 @ 7:12 pm

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I love this photo! Chiloe sounds like a charming place. A few years ago, I gave my husband (then my boyfriend) a lovely book that featured photographs of everyday life in Chiloe by American social documentary photographer Milton Rogovin. Opposite each photo was a poem by Pablo Neruda. My husband loved the book even though he had never been to Chiloe.

Comment by Debora — February 1, 2010 @ 7:52 pm

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looks fine K what TS lens do you use?

Comment by weddingphotochile — February 2, 2010 @ 4:51 pm

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Sounds like my kind of holiday – the walking, the good food and the relaxing, although I'm not so sure about the running!

Comment by elizaclaire — February 3, 2010 @ 3:24 pm

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You and O should come down and visit us with F

Comment by kyleracine — February 4, 2010 @ 8:28 pm

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It did rain, the first night we were camping. After that we got lucky with the weather

Comment by kyleracine — February 4, 2010 @ 8:30 pm

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Are you guys staying?

Comment by asuhey — February 5, 2010 @ 5:06 pm

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Are you guys staying?

Comment by asuhey — February 6, 2010 @ 1:06 am

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