La Boca

Facades of brightly painted corrugated metal--it’s now a total cliché, but I still love seeing what sunlight does on colored walls. To see more, do a google image search for "La Boca buildings."









I wandered around the less touristy parts of La Boca, the Buenos Aires barrio, but didn’t get to take many pix. Every time I took my camera out, someone would come over to me tell me to put it away because it would be stolen. Even on the bus, when I was shooting from the window, the woman in front of me said that “they” would reach into the window and grab my camera if I had it out.

Buenos Colores

Garbage cans and other street furnishings are for most part invisible to us...




until we go someplace else. Waste receptacle, recycling bins, and public telephones in Buenos Aires.

Taxi!

New York: Brash


London: Grim


Buenos Aires: Elegant

Happy Spring!

I'm in Buenos Aires for a conference of the Society of News Design, and this is the first week of spring! The stores are showing summer clothes and sandals, but it feels more like March in NYC and I'm so glad to have brought boots and a coat along on this trip. Not much in the way of winter clothes to buy here, but what's left is on sale. Stay tuned ...