PV Art

A couple of public pieces of art in PV and one "mask" or bust in a shop (closed or surely I'd have bought this!) -- there was another bust next to the one pictured here but the sun was hitting the window directly and the only angle that allowed any shot included this piece only.

I don't know who the wet algae covered guy is (no interpretive sign of any sort) but he's got a very god like look to him;

Just loved the lines of the bronze sax player and her flowing ponytail.

Beach

Parasailing marketing.

Morning rush hour at the PV pier.

The Sporting Type

Among the greatest charms of Puerto Vallarta as a holiday destination a la sun is the fact it is NOT a fenced off resort. Old Town PV surrounds the hotels which are mostly along the beach. One actually sees residents going about their daily lives -- on the Sunday we were there the locals equalled the number of tourists on the beach in many places.

The only person working here is the guy with the yellow rope. It was his job to swim out to the boat and bring the tow line into shore for the parasailors. He also harnessed them, caught them upon landing and gathered up the deflating parachute. The surfer and his pal watched counltess waves for every one they charged -- the boards they were using were this skimming boards so they would run from shore into the surf which is always heavy it seems in PV.

The soccer goalie had three friends kicking the ball at him; the ocean his net to mind.

The volleyball player held the court in front of our hotel all day on Sunday so it seemed to me -- most games were locals against the tourists.

Thar She Blows

Went whale watching in PV.

Chose a tour given in a small Zodiac, which was good for speed and getting in as close as the law allows, but I learned it was not so great for providing any kind of stable base for taking photos. Case in point is the shot here of the humpback calf breaching -- totally out of focus as I was standing up in a boat that was not only on the ocean but was moving forward under power at the time of the shot; as well, the breaching was a gift and it came unpredictably and without any warning as to location... All the fast shutter speed and anti vibration technology couldn't save the shot with that sort of movement.

The back/tail and tail shots are of a young adult male.

What the camera did not capture was the singing of the whales captured by a hydrophone dropped overboard -- perhaps the most amazing thing I've ever heard.

The other great noise on the trip was our guide (a biologist) blowing a whistle and screaming at private boats (such as the one picture in the shot here) to move back to the required distance.

Sunset on Puerto Vallarta

Taking a one week vacation is sheer folly at the best of times; insanity itself when leaving Canadian weather in February for the near perfect weather of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.

This shot from the balcony of PJ & K's condo digs in PV.

Ice on a wire

Yorkville, Toronto.

And now for something a tad more colourful and cheerful

A couple of blown glass birds in the window of an glass works art gallery in Yorkville.

Monday Cometh II (it's gonna stick to my boots)

Few things enrage (sadly, quite literally) like idiots who don't pick up after their dogs. The pseudo spring we just had heightens the problem as the white recedes and the shite floats, so to speak, into view...

Young Tree

I promise these not much of anything shots will end soon -- at such time I actually photograph something interesting or beautiful. Mind you gotta love the bokeh (24-70, 2.8; and it must have been wide open as it was dusk).

Camel Nose

This two humper was featured at Toronto City Hall's Winter Festival events last weekend. Yah, that makes sense -- camels and ice and snow; perhaps a camel should become Toronto's mascot for winter tourism...

Drift

Outside a cheap hotel on Jarvis Street.

Trashed

Self portrait reflection in a broken mirror in a trash can in front of a red tile wall on Jarvis Street.

Monday Cometh

And there's no escape from it!