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More new pictures for the Sea Series.

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"I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it is because in addition to the fact that the sea changes and the light changes, and ships change, it is because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have, in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch it we are going back from whence we came."

John F. Kennedy, 1962

If you've been to my website to view my ongoing project about the sea, you've read this Kennedy quote before. There's really not much else one can say about the power and attraction of the ocean. I am satisfied just to continue making pictures of it. Here are some new ones I made in Mexico last week.

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Here are the last two of the updated portraits. This was a fun project to do on my vacation to Mexico. I also made some new pictures for my "Sea Series" which I will start posting in a couple of days.

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Here are a couple more old/new photos of some children in Sayulita. There are three more I'm looking forward to meeting/photographing tomorrow.

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I began my quest to find the children in my 1996 portraits. It took all of five minutes to meet a a twenty-year old woman, Deera, who graciously agreed to look through the stack of pictures and see if she could identify anyone. She recognized just about everyone; within ten minutes she joined me in my rental car. We then set off on a two hour trip through of every inch of Sayulita as we went to the homes and workplaces of these now twenty-something year olds.

Each was so surprised when Deera and I handed them their picture from 13 years ago!























Stay tuned for more!

sayulita

Thirteen years ago I took a vacation with my kids, sister and niece in a place called Sayulita, Mexico. It was pretty much a dirt road fishing village, very quaint and charming. The beach was beautiful, the townspeople very friendly, the margaritas tasty. I was just beginning to make photographs again after a fifteen-year hiatus. The children of Sayulita were willing and sweet subjects.

Tomorrow morning I am heading back to this place. From what I understand it has undergone tremendous development since 1996. I’m hoping some of the children I photographed will still be around. Well, they won’t exactly be children anymore. My plan is to try and track some of them down.






Packed in among my swimsuit and sunscreen are these old photographs. I plan to give them to their rightful owners. I hope they will let me photograph them again as teens/twenty-somethings. Bet they never thought they’d see me again, much less the picture I took of them!

These pictures, made at a time when I was searching for my stride again as a photographer, are kind of fun to rediscover. I’ll share a couple of them now; if I can find these Sayulita residents this week, I’ll post their “old” and “new” photos in upcoming posts.