Check out the blog if you want more story behind these pictures! All were taken on an Olympus Tough TG-6.

Paraty was so colorful, both in the nature and in the architecture.

I love the composition of this shot! The lines of the clouds, sea, waves, wet sand, and dry sand weave together like a warm blanket.

I didn’t have the time/energy to take a walking tour of the city with a guide, but I know this church is older than the United States. I had a really emotional moment shortly before leaving for my trip, looking at the full moon and knowing I would soon be seeing the same moon from the other side of the world.

A few of the crew I met on the kayak tour.

I have to give a shout out to small(er) towns for opening up the possibilities for kids to be kids aka playing! Such as unsupervised jumping off bridges.

If you know me as a photographer, you know I like to get down low. If you know me as a dancer, you know I also like to get down low.

A cutie white heron who gave a nice honk as we passed by it.

I won’t soon forget the smell of the shin-high mud we trekked through to get out of the mangrove and back into the ocean.

A boat chilling in front of my favorite swimming spot from this trip.

I have a couple blogs up from my time here, but I’m using the gallery page on my site as an Instagram replacement for shorter blurbs.

I didn’t want to bring my Fujifilm camera (too expensive) or my Minolta film camera (too bulky/expensive), so I snagged a used Olympus Tough TG-6.

It’s not much better than a modern cell phone camera, so the editing has to do a lot of the heavy lifting. Many of the pictures from my Brazil trip will be color graded to match how the scene felt. I’m honestly not that interested in realism.

As seen here. The blues of the underground metro helped intensify how literally cool it felt compared to the late-summer tropical air on the surface.

I love a perspective shot at a music festival. It’s always fun to me to see how big a crowd is and say “hey I was in there shaking ass.”

The architecture in São Paulo surprised me at times with how historic it felt.

Something I noticed in both São Paulo and Paraty is how GOOD buskers/street performers were. Maybe it’s the vacation brain talking.

I loved how intent this woman was at picking out the perfect pop culture trinket. I’m also fascinated by how much humans communicate with their hands (especially Brazilians).

Mascots also are fun to take pictures of. I think the pressure of discrete street photography is lessened when you can’t see the human inside.

I wasn’t really “into” cars before street photography to be honest. The dents and missing hubcap on this car seemed to fit in well with the graffiti.