I have been rolling around the idea of switching from special education to a photojournalism major or something along those lines... what's another 4 years eh?

Thanks for the compliments everyone! :thumb:

I love those hibiscus flowers. They just look brilliant.

Do you ever enter any comps with your pics Bullitt?

The pics of the locks are incredible too. I can't quite describe why I think they're so amazing. I think mostly the subject. I've never seen anything like that in real life and I guess because it's kind of like seeing it through your eyes which are real as in a real person that I sort of, in a way know, it becomes more real.

Thanks for sharing this. I really appreciate it.

Bullit - they are fantastic pics!!

Do you mind if I put the black and white one of the dirt steps as my background?

I love that one and the one of the stray dogs!!

I think the switch would be great for you, seems to be right up your alley.

Thanks! And I don't mind at all, here's a larger version if you'd like.
I really would love to make the switch, I just need to look into the details and figure out a thing or two.


Yeah the hibiscus flowers were everywhere and always such cooperative subjects!
The lock basically was incredible. It's mind boggling how much water is used and the sheer size of everything involved. They don't even use water pumps, it's all gravity and valves and culverts that you can fit a train into.
I've never really entered any contests, only submitted work to my schools creative arts publication.. I got the cover last year :D

Here are some more random shots that I couldn't help but post:

Local neighborhood. Complete with shoes tied together and strung over the power lines
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f8...n/P1040195.jpg

Lil local kid
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f8...n/P1040298.jpg

F'ing roosters and chickens were everywhere. The roosters acted like dogs.. they crowed to each other at night at unGodly hours like a couple dogs barking back and forth. And when you would pass one while walking down the road it would crow at you for getting too close to its territory.
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f8...n/P1040329.jpg

Construction day.. 90% humidity and 105 degrees when the sun was out.. 100% and 85-90 otherwise.
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f8...n/P1040367.jpg

Goofing around
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f8...n/P1040389.jpg

Fruit was everywhere. Mangos, bananas, pineapples, these wierd little ones that came in bunches, looked like miniature limes but had an orange-ish fruit inside
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f8...n/P1040394.jpg

You tried to avoid these little sonsabitches as best you could.. but chance eventually caught up to you.
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f8...n/P1040373.jpg

Sad
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f8...n/P1040374.jpg

View of Paso Blanco at night. This is where we were building the pavilion for the children feeding program. It's an old slave community that has never broken out of the cycle of poverty.
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f8...n/P1040459.jpg

More ruins of Old Panama
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f8...n/P1040616.jpg

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f8...n/P1040580.jpg

And some more of the canal/lock
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f8...n/P1040550.jpg

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f8...n/P1040561.jpg

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f8...n/P1040560.jpg