Hunting "Pharos"

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"Self-Portrait", Manitowoc, Wisconsin_2012

© Flavio Martín Morante_2012

While spending a nice time with my sisters during their visit, among some of the things I have taken them are the many lighthouses that are part not only of the landscape but also of the rich maritime history of Lake Michigan.

I always have had a liking for "pharos" (lighthouses) and as we visited many towns and cities of the lake's coast, I took advantage too to make photographs that I hope to use for some paintings I would like to make. Today I share some here which I hope you like them.

From north to south:

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Eagle Bluff Lighthouse, Peninsula Park, Door County, Wisconsin_2012

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Kewaunee Pierhead, Kewaunee, Wisconsin_2012

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Wind Point Lighthouse, Racine, Wisconsin_2012

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Kenosha, Wisconsin_2012

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Chicago Harbor Light, Chicago, Illinois_2012

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PS_ I know the question will be: Where is Port´s? To that I answer that Port´s one has been featured in this blog many times already too.

Memento Mori of the Tomato.

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Caro & Me ( Then & Now)

Left photo_ Carlos Morante - "Mi Viejo" (My Old Man), circa 1987 (?)

"At home" - Montevideo, Uruguay

Right photo_ © F.M. Morante_2012 

"At Home" - Wisconsin, US

Adding a little of humor to this other set of "time machine photographs".

Time, Time, Time

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Dani & Me (Then & Now)

Left photo_ Carlos Morante - "Mi Viejo" (My Old Man) , sometime in the 80s (82?)
Roosevelt Park, Uruguay

Right photo_ © F.M. Morante_2012
Waubedonia Park, Wisconsin, US

"All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt."

Susan Sontag "On Photography"

Yesterday me and my sisters got a good laugh taking the picture on the right, me and Daniela. It has been almost 30 years since my Dad took the one on the left. It is something quite compelling to do this sort of "exercise on time passing", which it is hard to explain with words, and which I prefer the images to do me the favor.

Thirty years is a lot (or not sometimes) but one thing is for sure, we may be different in many ways, we have taken many different paths and we are not already the same we were yesterday when we took that picture (based on "Sontag's statement), I am really happy of been with her on that picture as I was back then. I really do hope in another thirty years to do another picture like this and still be laughing about it.

For now I share it here, hoping to have soon one similar with my other sister Carolina.

Good Times!

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My sisters Dani & Caro, Dawn and I on Chicago. 

Photo_ Courtesy of Elevate.net, free street photo booth.

Happy to say that not only I am one year older, but also to have had my sisters and Dawn this year celebrating my 36s with me in one of my all time favorite cities_ Chicago.

We had a great time and despite of been a little absent from the web because of work and their visit, I want to thank to everybody that wrote me for my birthday, even the ones that wrote late ;)

Best to all of you and will be posting soon.

See you then.

A Postcard from a "Not So Rainy City"

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"Untitled" (Dawn & I, Seattle, 2012) 

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Nicknamed "The Queen City" (name held until 1982), the "Emerald City" (because of its green forests), "The 206" (because of its area code), "Getaway to Alaska" (since it is the last U.S biggest city before Alaska), "Rain City" ( according to information it rains more in NY, but...) and also named "Jet City" (because of the Boeing HQ), Seattle left us with a nice taste on the mouth and the desire of going back someday, something I only hold so far for few cities in this country.

Rich in its history and its widely varied cultural mix, I would like to share today some images that reflect my first and best impressions of the city without intention of a city study (specially in such a short time).

If you would like to access the short gallery of images I put together, please click HERE.