Weekly Photo Challenge: Companionable

What’s a companion? What is companionship? Here are a few takes on the notion.

My personal companion. My husband of thirty-plus years. The secret of our long marriage is enjoying each other and laughing a lot. This photo says it all.

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Legendary companions. These craft dolls represent the Brazilian Northeast folk hero Lampião –who led a long career of large-scale banditry through six states of the Northeast– and his girlfriend, Maria Bonita. The couple was subject of innumerable folk stories, novels, comic books, popular pamphlets, songs, movies, and a number of TV soap operas.

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A match made in heaven…

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Birds of a feather…
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Curves

Yesterday I went to a football/soccer game of the Confederations Cup in my hometown in Brazil. This is sort of dress rehearsal for the 2014 World Cup, which will also be hosted by Brazil. As I entered the sports arena, I saw curves everywhere. Here are some of them.

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Santa Monica Beach

Today was a beach day in Santa Monica. It was sunny with pleasantly warm temperature (70F or 21C), and although the sea was several degrees colder, people were swimming as if it were high summer. Coming from Northeastern Brazil, where the water temperature is much warmer, I chose to walk around and shoot some photos of the beach, the pier, and of the powerful “Arlington West Memorial,” a temporary memorial installed every Sunday on the beach, next to the pier. The crosses are set up at 6:00am on Sunday mornings – rain or shine – and taken down shortly before sunset. The memorial is a project of Veterans For Peace, and similar ones are installed in Santa Barbara and San Diego, CA.

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The Brooklyn Bridge

I love the Brooklyn bridge. It’s so iconic. Always so crowded with tourists, locals, vendors, people walking, people in bikes, people talking loud, music playing, it gets a little crazy. It was difficult to take good photos with all that commotion. But once I looked up I was able to appreciate and capture its beauty and character. It was as if we were alone, me, the Brooklyn bridge, and the New York sky.

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