Montevideo, much like Kosovo, has a…collective…fireworks display. Buy what you can afford (at any size) and set it off. It leads to some interesting displays overall.
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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.
Montevideo, of course, has a lot of beaches. It has a massive coastline, most of which is actually along a river (Rio de la Plata) rather than the ocean. The further east you go, the better the water is.
Montevideo has a wide variety of native birds. As you might expect for South America, they seem exotic to “outsiders.” I’m still not used to having flocks of parakeets flying around the back yard, myself. The most common birds here are a Hornero (not pictured), the Tero (top picture), and the Monk Parakeet (the green [...]
Arriving in Montevideo for it’s spring meant a lot of opportunities to take pictures of flowers in bloom, including quite a variety in my back yard.
While wandering down 18 de Julio in Montevideo, we happened upon a group performing in front of the Pre-columbian Art Museum. They reminded me of Stomp, but were named Latasonica. They used a variety of barrels, pots, and PVC tubes to produce music. I thought they did pretty well. You can see, and hear, for [...]
Not long after arriving in Montevideo, I had the opportunity to take a quick tour of Montevideo. We didn’t stay anywhere long, but we got a layout of town, where the historical areas were and a bit of the history related to them. Pictured here (in order): Cannons at the Cerro, Flowers at the Japanese [...]
