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Lunchtime chorus, originally uploaded by GafferBee.

It´s been a while since the last post. Six days in the Colombian jungle followed by five days at the beach with intermittent internet connections at best have created a bit of a backlog.

But while I can I thought this was a good chance to blog one or two of the film shots I´ve taken on this trip with my little Lomo LC-A+, a natty little camera that produces a completely different kind of image than modern digital cameras.

You can find out more about Lomos and Lomography in this very useful piece by one of the BBC´s best journalists…

These two chaps entertained us one hot Buenos Aires lunchtime. Drunk by midday and left in charge of a refreshment stall in La Boca, they regaled us with Argentine folk songs and insisted that, as an Englishman, I should both recite Shakespeare and sing them a Beatles song.

For my part, I took a picture of them on a Lomo camera loaded with slide film, and developed it several weeks later as normal negative film – a technique commonly known as cross-processing. The effect is to accentuate some colours and alter others. It is unpredictable and sometimes doesn´t work.

This one did, I thought. You can view some more of my Lomo pictures on my Flickr stream by following this link, which includes some pictures not from the current trip to South America.

I´m off again for a few days now, to find spectacular sunsets on a remote Caribbean peninsula on Colombia´s north coast. When I return I´ll tell the tale of the Lost City and Jose the indigenous man who is now somewhere in the jungle desperately trying to solve the mystery of the Rubik´s Cube.
Meanwhile, here are some more cross-processed Lomo pictures from Argentina – two from La Boca and one dramatic morning sun shot from Ushuaia, the town at the end of the world.