Laura Cano Sepúlveda

Laura Cano Sepúlveda, 22, is from Colombia. She has been living in Nosara, CR for 3 months. Besides dancing with Cadenos De Fuego for 5 years, she also designs and sells jewellery.

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Related article can be viewed here.

Laura Chinchilla Miranda, President of Costa Rica

President of Costa Rica, Laura Chinchilla Miranda visited School of San Martin in Nicoya on Saturday, February 19. The purpose of the visit was the inauguration of the recycling center that was built in the neighborhood. She tried really hard not to skip anyone, some of the children were still frustrated with not being able to communicate with her. Even when she was leaving around 1:00 p.m, Laura Chinchilla Miranda kept saluting and listening to her citizens.

She is probably the most accesible president I have ever seen. Not that I have seen that many presidents in my life, but still... I would probably get shot or arrested if I got this close to our president to photograph him.

If you would like to do a further reading on her visit, please visit this link.

Murder Me Always play reading

A while ago I photographed this play reading and wrote an article about it. It was organized to raise fund for the local library. The article can be read here.

nosara

Nosara town is 15 minutes from Playa Guiones. This afternoon, Johnny, who also works for the paper and I went to Nosara to pick up our March issue and distribute it as well as promoting our photojournalism contest. While waiting for him at one of the stores, I got to shoot this image.

playa guiones

chanting workshop and a kirtan

Last week I got to photography a chanting workshop and a kirtan. Here are some outtakes.

krishna das

Last week I had the opportunity to listen to and photograph Krishna Das (KD) and his band. Here are some portraits. And KD interview we published can be found here.

Krishna Das

Arjun, KD's drummer

Nina Rao, KD's assistant and play cymbals

Genevieve Walker, KD's violinist

mermaid

55-year-old Renate Herberger, aka Mermaid, from Germany, swam from Playa Garza to Playa Ostional on Monday morning, February 21, 2011 to bring attention on the marine sanctuaries.

Forth time swimming in Nosara for the same cause, she did her first big swim in 2008. Since then she has been traveling around the world to spread the word about the danger that humans create for the oceans. Activist and conservationist Mermaid said, “ If things continue as they are right now, the predictions are that in the year 2048, there won’t be any edible fish in the ocean.”

A torn meniscus, which left Mermaid with a lifelong disability on her leg, led her to increase the amount of swimming. Since the injury of 2005, she has been swimming for hours each day. She feels pain-free while swimming because of the absence of gravity in the ocean. The longest time she spent without a swim was a week, she said. Mermaid was originally a dance therapist.

Corrido del Toros in Nicoya

A majestic bull run was the closing event of Nicoya Town Fair on Monday night, February 7th. To read the event article please visit www.voiceofnosara.com.