So I may have disappeared off the blogosphere for a while, but the good news is I'm back with tons of pictures and even more to come as I try to get back into my old photojournalistic ways. Since my hiatus, I have wrapped up my undergraduate career, embarked on a four-month-long adventure through the highs and lows of South America, and returned home for an excruciating year of job scavenging in a jobless market.

My first catch was an unpaid internship that I kind of wish I had seen through, because it is the closest I came to the stories I'm actually interested in. My next catch: another unpaid internship at the high-end studio of a well-to-do Miami photographer. After a brief stint of trying out both ventures along with whatever else I could nibble on, I came to the realization that I am too experienced to work for free and too inexperienced to work for salary, considering the 3- to 5-year criteria minimum in the field. Well, how am I supposed to get the necessary field experience if no one wants to take a chance on teaching me? Anywho, this is the continuous conundrum I am in at the moment and that I will continue to be in unless I do something major...like blog! At the very least, keeping up with this blog on the journey to jobdom will sharpen my wits and stir whatever creative juices I have left. That said, here are the pictures from the continent that stole a lot more than my heart last summer (my Canon 60D included).        

Paranapiacaba- SP, Brazil. The day when Tati and Paula got headaches from speaking too much English with me and I showed them just how long I could shishi for.

 Lu and Vini and the Campinas sun.

Candomblé in Campinas. One of the most enlightening and exhausting experiences of my life.

Peru and all its color 

Blazing the Inca Jungle Trail- May 2011
These two ladies and I could've very well won an award for 'Best fall from a bike atop a mountain', if ever one existed.

The lizard man at the market, how could I not?

The Danes at the 'Casa del Mono'

4-for-1 happy hour with chips and guac included.

The three musketeers, one of them (on the left) in the habit of rolling back his eyes to show the white part to passing tourists.

A street-sweeper in Lima. 

The Festival of the Stars- Liberdade, SP, Brazil 

A cool convention of jugglers and street performers happening weekly in SP, Brazil.