When visiting the Gaucho Festival in Tacuarembo we stayed in Valle Eden, which is just west of the city itself. It was a pretty area. We rented a room, which seemed like the migrant sheep shearer’s quarters and was insanely over priced. Friends that went up with rented camping spots. They were dirt cheap and [...]
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For a city of millions, Montevideo has a surprisingly dark night sky. For the most part, I have only shot the moon from Montevideo. However, the surrounds offer some neat foregrounds (see the pictures below) sometimes.
Woke up late last night needing a drink. I looked out the kitchen window while drinking and noticed the moon and Jupiter (though I couldn’t tell if it was Jupiter or Mars at the time). They were close enough together to get in a single shot and I was waiting for an excuse to use [...]
