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The Port City of Valparaíso

Overlooking Valparaíso

Ursula and I left Santiago on the morning of March 13 and traveled via bus to the port city of Valparaíso, arriving there in plenty of time to do some major exploration on foot. It was quite a change from Santiago, both visually and culturally. The murals of Santiago are displaced here by graffiti, and architectural beauty is much less abundant.

Corrugated building

Our accommodations were first rate, however. We stayed at the colorful ibis Hotel located along the bay an...

Fun Photo Friday — Mo Ho-Ho from Santia-Go

Gotta Light?

Walking the Dog

Fall Leaves in March

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Santiago Ho-Ho — Part 4

Santiago Ho-Ho

Street art can be entertaining, and I certainly don’t mean graffiti. While graffiti is the bane of many communities, sometimes painting on walls can be a source of beauty:

Santiago Ho-Ho

The difference between art and crap isn’t so much the “eye of the beholder” as it is talent and execution. Any destructive little twerp with a penchant for vandalism can “tag” something. It takes an artist to do a mural worth photographing.

Santiago Ho-Ho

And if that aforementioned destructive...

Santiago Ho-Ho — Part 3

With a couple of exceptions today’s Ho-Ho views will concentrate on street scenes of people.

Santiago Ho-Ho

If you want to get a true flavor of a city then this is the way to go unless you’re photographing iconic architecture such as New York’s Chrysler Building or Paris’ Eiffel Tour.

Santiago Ho-Ho

As you can see Santiago has much to offer. It’s both clean and safe, and the people are quite fun to watch as they go about their daily activities. Even the street art (more on that Wednesday) ha...

Fun Photo Friday — Some Ho-Ho Favorites

For the Birds

Engineered Trees

Answer Your Cell

Taking Flight

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Santiago Ho-Ho — Part 2

Santiago Ho-Ho

While visiting the sights is one advantage of using the Ho-Ho, you can’t beat an elevated view for capturing street images and people.

Santiago Ho-Ho

At street level there are far too many obstacles to good composition, not least of which are the oblivious ones who step right in front of your lens as you press the shutter release. Being above the oblivious has obvious advantages.

Santiago Ho-Ho

But there are disadvantages as well. For one, your ability to take level photos is c...

Santiago Ho-Ho — Part 1

Ursula settles in for the tour — Tour guide headphones included

Over the next two weeks we’ll view Santiago from the vantage point afforded from the upper deck of what is rapidly becoming a touring favorite in cities around the globe — the Hop-on/Hop-off bus. These conveyances are great ways to tour a town to scout out areas that pique your interest and deserve further scrutiny later. Another advantage is that you can hop off the bus at any of the stops, and then hop on another after you’ve w...

Fun Photo Friday — Santiago Fun Stuff

Fun Photos of Santiago, Chile

Fun Photos of Santiago, Chile

Fun Photos of Santiago, Chile

Fun Photos of Santiago, Chile

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Santiago Architecture Part 4

Looking Down from Santa Lucía Hill

One final look at the architecture of Santiago before we move on to this week’s Fun Photo Friday. Next week we’ll begin a really fun tour of Santiago by HO-HO (find out what that means on Monday). Click on any image below to enlarge and bring up today’s photo gallery.

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Santiago Architecture Part 3

Santiago, Chile

Today we continue our architectural tour of Santiago, Chile with these magnificent buildings awaiting framing in your camera (click on any image below to enlarge and bring up today’s photo gallery):

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