Argentina

Visually Revisiting Argentina

22 November, 2012 by Trevor in Argentina

The foul Scottish Autumn weather has got me reminiscing about the warmer, brighter days I spent in Argentina earlier this year. I have already edited quite a few pictures from that trip, but there are quite a few more to look at and work on so this could be the start of round 2! This picture was taken in the national Parque de los Cardones on a day that wasn’t really all that great for photography. Or, to be more precise, the time wasn’t that great. Taken around midday the very harsh sun bleached everything out so I decided to give it a grittier feeling in Lightroom.

Argentina 2012 – Yellow Meadow

26 April, 2012 by Trevor in Argentina, Cachi, Yellow Flowers

This was the view from our room at the Samay Huasi hostel near Cachi in Northwestern Argentina. As it was the middle of summer, and the Merino sheep hadn’t made it into this particular field yet, the area was covered in these beautiful yellow flowers. When I asked the owners, who had lived there all their lives, what kind of plants they were they just shrugged and said ‘they are yellow flowers’.

We both loved it here. I have never been to a more peaceful place. We were at an altitude of 3200m and the lack of air gave us a good excuse to do nothing.

Argentina 2012 – Mad Dogs

12 April, 2012 by Trevor in Argentina, Purmamarca

As an Englishman I felt compelled to join the dog in the street in the midday sun to take this picture of one of the roads in the village of Purmamarca. Stepping out of the shade of my cafe umbrella into the 40°C heat I instantly regretted it, but the dog lent the shot a perfect composition so I had to do it.

The mud road is typical of all of the towns and villages in the North of Argentina. Occasionally one or two of the most main roads will be tarmac but hardly ever. After a terrible storm a couple of days earlier the residents of the town had been busy digging out the new road again after it had completely filled up to the level of the pavements with red mud, washed down from the colourful hill in the background of the picture. The storm, common at this time of the year but unusually severe, also washed away one half of the main road (also a major route to Chile) and three of the four campsites in the village causing huge disruption and loss of property.

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Argentina 2012 – Desert along Ruta 9

9 April, 2012 by Trevor in Argentina, Desert, Ruta 9, Salta, Sunny

A typical view of the high-altitude desert from the main road, Ruta 9, in North-western Argentina.

Argentina 2012 – Vegetable Crates

6 April, 2012 by Trevor in Argentina, Buenos Aires, Crates

Each morning in Buenos Aires we would walk past the local greengrocers (remember those?) and they would have all the crates from the morning’s delivery stacked up outside on the pavement. I liked that they were made of wood and completely reusable – we would see the same crates stacked up outside the fields when we travelled north through the farmlands, waiting to be refilled.