Leon de Castillo

While I was home (Merida, Yucatan) this winter, I had the chance to photograph Leon Castillo at a few different venues. Leon is a family friend from Merida who for the past decade and a half (or so) has been living in in Vienna where he studied music and is now a professional tenor. For more on Leon check out www.leondecastillo.com

Braving the weather

Today Jeanette and I decided to brave the weather and go out for a nice long walk here in Oslo. It was about -1o which is not so bad when you consider the thermostat was at -25 just last night, so I guess we will take what we can get. Oslo is fairly nice in the summer time, but I have always felt that it most comes in to its own during the winter... hope you enjoy the photos. Thanks Jeanette for the pic of me having fun with the snow fort!

Yaxuna with Dad and Tio Craig

Well well. It sure has been a long time since I last posted, a mixture of holiday laziness and the fact that we did not have the internet hooked up to our place in Merida are mostly to blame, but alas here we are no in January 2012. I hope to be posting a few entries over the next week or so regarding the happenings of the past couple of months or so... so lets get started.
A couple weeks ago I headed over to the town of Yaxcaba and archaeological site of Yaxuna with my dad and my uncle Craig who had been visiting us all down in sunny Yucatan. We explored a litte around town, got some munchies and then make our way to the archaeological site of Yaxuna. I have been to this particular site quite a few times but on this ocassion the weeds had grown quite high and it was a bit of challenge to make our way through the bush, but still we preserved (although I got some weird bug bites on my legs that are still kinda with me). In any case we had a really nice day which we topped off with a big Yucatecan lunch . Hope you enjoy the photos.

November Update!

Well I know I have not been exactly great at keeping up my goal of posting every week, but in my defence I have been quite busy! Anyway things here in Norway are going quite well... I am really quite happy with my Masters program and the weather has been incredibly mild for this time of year; here we are in the last few days of November and still no snow! Jeanette and I will be travelling with her family to Merida in just under two weeks to attend my sisters wedding so we are of course psyched about that... but for now we are just enjoying the mild weather and all the pre-christmas excitement. Anyway I hope you enjoy the photos!

Good times in Norwegian Cabin country

This week my classmates and I made a little trip up to a nice cabin in the woods near Oslo... it was really quite fun and it was of course great to get out of the city and get some nice hiking done. I really hope the opportunity to do more of this kind of thing and maybe take a week long trip up in to the mountains or something like that. Other than that this week has not been particularly eventful, I have been doing tons of coursework (mostly readings) but I really cant complain as I am enjoying it. The first couple pictures are obviously not taken out in the forest, but rather just around my apartment.
Hope you enjoy the photos.