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Saturday afternoon I accompanied a few people in a small 6-seater dual prop airplane to fly from Sobral down to Juazeiro do Norte and back. Juazeiro do Norte Is the second largest city in the northeastern state of Ceará. By car the trip takes about 8 hours, but flying direct took only just over a …
The 18th Festival de Quadrilhas Juninas de Sobral was a wonderful display of color and culture as 17 groups from all over the region came with their costumes. The festival was sponsored by the Department of Culture and Tourism of Sobral and was without a doubt a success with an estimated 15,000 spectators in attendance over …
With the World Cup just around the corner I thought it was time for another futsal image. Last night Faculdades INTA held their final matches of this years futsal intramurals. The first game of the evening ended with penalty kicks. Exif Data Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II Lens: Canon EF24-105mm f/4L IS USM ISO: 4000 Focal length: 24mm …
President Dilma Rousseff was here in sobral this week on São José day to announce the investment in the region of R$ 300,000,000 (Three Hundred Million Reis). The money is to build cisterns and reinforce water supplies, water sanitation projects, combat hunger in municipalities in Ceará, and to also the development of sustainable family farming …
Kind of stumbled upon this image up in the mountains this last Sunday. Audrey and I were walking and looked down a path and well… She says, "I see a black horse on top of a brown horse… Awe, lets go and pet them." My response, "No, lets let them be." I love my little …
The Bloco dos Sujos is a an improvised parade through the streets of the city. A band on a big rig sound truck/stage moved through the 9 or so blocks of partiers, decked out in improvised costumes many in drag, dancing to the moving party. Exif Data Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II Lens: Canon EF24-105mm f/4L …
This last weekend was the close of the traditional folk festival of Bumba Meu Boi (the legend of the death and resurrection of a bull). At the Boulevard do Arco in the center of Sobral, all the groups from the city made their presentations in front of a packed crowd. Wikipedia describes this tradition as: Bumba-meu-boi "Hit-my-bull" is …
This year I have been busy. In September I heard about HELP-PORTRAIT, a photographic movement started by Photographer Jeremy Cowart. An ongoing project where you, 1- find somebody in need, 2- take their portrait, 3- print their portrait & 4- deliver it. My wife was a huge help in getting people and a few local …
Every other week a very lovely lady comes to our home to clean for us. Over the past year plus, her family has gone through many difficulties. One of which is that her father was diagnosed with brain cancer. In preparation for December 7's HELP-PORTRAIT event that we coordinated here in Sobral, we asked her …
The Sertão is the semi-arid area in the northeast of Brazil. The typical house here is made with a stick frame and packed with mud bricks and a tile roof. There is no electricity in the typical mud house and with the lack of rain for 9 months out of the year, it is very …
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