There once was a time, not to long ago when in many
industry’s including my own we got to travel to far off places that other wise
we would of never known existed.
Depending on what you do for a living this usually stopped
around the time on the years 2008 – 2009. It has been about 6 to 7 years for me
that I have been to a foreign place that really blew me away. Well this month
of July 2012 God blessed me using UK Traveller Conde Nast as a vessel.
I techniqually had literally set one foot in this country of
Panama many years ago I thought, while working in Costa Rica. Let me explain.
Many moon cycles ago I did a job in a town at the very south tip Pacific Ocean side
of Costa Rica called Pavones. As for the avid surfers out there of course you
know this black sand, one of the longest left breaks in the world. For the ones
that don’t it borders Panama by meters and is a collage of rainforest terrain
mixed with black sand beaches and every insect, wild life you can probably think
of in Central America. On that trip I actually put my right leg on the side of Panama,
or at least that is what the local told me. In reality it would of taken a quick
bus ride to do so. That is the closest I had ever come to Panama until this
July. Pavones Costa Rica is one of the only spots in all the contents I had
been to that the local misquote loved my blood besides Zanzibar, Africa. The
bites lasted almost a month and still itched once back home in NYC for the full
30 days.
We arrived in Panama City airport, drove from the Pacific Ocean
side to the Caribbean side.
And took a boat to the most wonderful place called El Otro Lado.
A place that a woman from Madrid bought and kept its beauty, history and
encourages its life. Definitely one of a kind. On top of having the honor to see their heritage and culture
at night after shooting all day, I must say besides the misquotes attacking me
all the time it was really a life memory.
I guess what I am trying to make a point of no matter how
many bites you get, and how long they stay a special place God created on this
earth will never go away.
I would like to thank, Noe Dewitt, Finoa Lintott, Craig
Honeycutt, Kevin Keith and our awesome model Guisela Rhein. Thank you for the
gorgeous pictures and the life long memory.
