Add this to the list of job hazards: horrible mosquito bites acquired while shooting in the Amazon Jungle.
The insect repellant I used could not deter the especially aggressive insects I came in contact with last week while on a photo shoot in Ecuador.
I look like I’ve contracted chickenpox but the photographs and the incredible adventure I had outweighed the inconvenience of these bites.
Today I’m back in NYC this week recovering.
More from the field soon.
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I’ve spent the last week traversing Ecuador from the South to the North. I spent a few days in a remote village at the foot of the Andes Mountains in the Amazon. Late one night on our drive to the next location we walked into this restaurant in a small town for a meal. I saw this mural and did a double-take. I laughed at the honesty of it. It reiterated to me just how surreal this incredibly beautiful and bountiful country is. I just had to share this with you.
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This is an image I made after photographing this traditional Ecuadorian crab meal called a Congrejada, what many people in the states call a crab boil.
It reiterates the point that sometimes the best photographs are of the objects and scenes left behind after consumption. I’m always thinking about this type of image, always lingering after a meal to see if it lends itself to this idea.
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I woke up early this morning in Quito, Ecuador scouting locations for my assignment here. I saw this beautiful vantage point over looking the Plaza de San Francisco on a roof top in the old part of the city.
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Mott Street, early morning, downtown New York City
Filed under Food Photography, iphoneography, New York City, Street Photography
This is how New Year’s Eve is done in my part of New York City: everyone celebrates big, but in smaller than usual spaces. It just means we all get a lot closer. Hope you all have a great 2013.
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Happy holidays and here’s to welcoming a new year. In 2013 I hope to have more photographs and words on this blog. Today this photograph of my dog Nigella on our morning walk this weekend speaks a thousands times better than anything I could ever say.
Have a great final day in 2012!
Thanks for reading.
Sincerely,
Penny
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I got up early today to check out the morning light in this fish market I found last night here on Vis Island. I wanted to see if the light was good, if there would be a photographic moment, some nice color, anything that said something about Croatia and the food culture here on the Dalmatian Coast.
What I found was unexpected. It was a sparse market with just a few fishermen and not that much fish. When I travel on these assignments I’m used to seeing markets like this with more fish than would ever be sold in a day and it leaves me with an uneasy feeling. This morning I found a humble offering: it was truly their catch of the day. Pretty cool to see.
Fish Market in Vis, Croatia, one of the Adriatic Islands
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I discovered something here the other night. After waking at 6am to photograph the early morning light and not stopping work until 9pm that evening the writer and I decided it was time for a break, a cocktail was in order. We settled on gin and tonics; one of my favorite drinks.
My first sip was a big surprise too. The tonic water here is much sweeter than the Schweppes I get in the states.
Croatia caries the same brand too.
It’s different in the way that Mexican Coca-Cola taste different in Mexico than in the states.
My guess is the tonic here is sweetened with real sugarcane and not high fructose corn syrup which makes for a
sweeter more smooth taste.
I never knew tonic could be this good.
So basically after a long day on assignment working, I’m having the best G&T’s I’ve ever had, ever.
It was a nice little nuanced discovery I had to share.
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I find myself on an assignment that is culturally rich and full of so much food porn. Not only is the Dalmation Coast beautiful but the food Croatians eat is too. They eat a very simple Mediterranean diet: fresh seafood, locally grown fruits and vegetables and incredible homemade wines, olive oil and cured meats.
Yeah, this is one of those assignment that reminds me just how much I love my job. Pinching myself.
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Penny is an award winning photographer and a senior contributing photographer at Saveur Magazine. Based in New York City she specializes in food and travel photography
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