Danza de Fierro

Back at Latitude Blue last night for our third annual visit. As before, the food is good, the people are nice and the fire dance show is spectacular. (It always is. Here are some of the photos from 2014 and 2015.) These are some of the new shots. I have a hundred more I could edit but it's getting very late.                     

Tamarindo Portraits

People shots around town:

The pizza maker at La Esquina.

Mr. Honey, a vendor at the weekly farmers market, Feria Tamarindo.

Three Italian guys on Playa Langosta. As happens so often, they saw my big camera and asked me to take their picture with their little camera. Then I got a few for myself.

Waiting for the fire dancers at Latitude Blue. Looks like a low-end version of the last supper. We had ours in the condo last night. Back to STL today, where it's really cold and snowing hard at the moment.

No local material so I'll stick with the tropics for a bit.                        

Valentine?

Well, Valentine's Day is associated with passion, isn't it? No better place to give it full vent than at the nightly fire dance show at the beachfront restaurant, Latitude Blue. This was pretty intense. Beautiful, athletic young dancers in slightly kinky costumes, flinging flame around their twisting bodies. At times it made me think of The Rite of Spring.

Robert Frost wrote:

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.

Fire and passion won last night. I got a lot more of these pictures to edit.