Patagonia Argentina, this is where I am at right now

One of my favourite views in the world. This is lake Gutierrez with lake Nahuel Huapi on the far left. 
We are spending some days in a log cabin in the Patagonia, staying in Villa Catedral which is a neighbourhood of  San Carlos de Bariloche a city in the province of Río Negro, Argentina, situated in the foothills of the Andes.

This is where I´m planning my Daily Life on the Go project. A year of photography prompts.

I´m also making lists of exciting plans, cool books to read and awesome places to visit this year.
Next: how to plan a creative project. Coming soon!

Week 04 2013. Last Patagonia batch of pics

For Creative Every Day challenge 2013 by Leah Piken Kolidas, I´m taking at least a picture a day for the whole year. This is my fourth time around with the Pic-a-day project and at the end of each month I make a mosaic of the month´s pictures and also summarize it in numbers for the My month in numbers feature by Julie Kirk. I´ve taken 027 out of the possible 027 pictures for 2013 so far.

Each week I make a cover page for it and I also invite an artist to make a piece (any size, any technique) for the week´s number which I will publish on Fridays.

Weeks available if you want to play along and be published here: 05, 07, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 20, 21, 24, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 38, 39, 40, 41, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48 and 49.   


Monday, January 21st (021/021): lake Guillelmo, about 30km from San Carlos de Bariloche.

Tuesday, January 22nd (022/022): I told you last week that my cousin, his wife, his 3 kids, his sister-in-law, brother-in-law and niece are staying in Bariloche for their summer holidays too. We met for different activities like an afternoon at the lake. 

 Wednesday, January 23rd (023/023): a picture for my mom´s peace of mind. We have LOTS of sunscreen. ;) 

Thursday, January 24th (024/024): lunch at the Fundo, in Colonia Suiza (Swiss colony). Best fondues around the area. :)

Friday, January 25th (025/025): for our last day in Bariloche Daniel decided to run up the mountain to the Refugio Frey. 

 Saturday, January 26th (026/026): back on the road. We stayed at the Lihuel Calel hotel in Santa Rosa, La Pampa province.

Sunday, January 27th (027/027): second day on the motorway. We met my cousin Pablo and his family for lunch in Chivilcoy, Buenos Aires province.

Bonus pictures for the week:

My cousin´s wife and her sis

Tati entertaining the kids

Week 03 2013. More Patagonia views and my first guest this yea: Lindsay Drya Vanhove

For Creative Every Day challenge 2013 by Leah Piken Kolidas, I´m taking at least a picture a day for the whole year. This is my fourth time around with the Pic-a-day project and at the end of each month I make a mosaic of the month´s pictures and also summarize it in numbers for the My month in numbers feature by Julie Kirk. I´ve taken 020 out of the possible 020 pictures for 2013 so far.

Each week I make a cover page for it and I also invite an artist to make a piece (any size, anytechnique) for the week´s number which I will publish on Fridays.
Weeks available if you want to play along and be published here: 05, 07, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 20, 21, 24, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 38, 39, 40, 41, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48 and 49.   





For week #3 my guest is Lindsay Drya Vanhove.

Lindsay is an artist, a dreamworker and an oracle reader. You can find her at her blog Dryada Journals where she writes about art and creativity, photography, her inspiration, personal stories and products she loves. Her page with her service offerings will be up at the end of this month. Go visit her and enjoy her colourful and inspiring art.

Her piece to represent number three is an art journal page with 3 macro shots of the page. She transformed the piece by making colour corrections in Photoshop.

And now, on to the week´s summary in pictures:

Monday, Jan 14th (014/014): my cousin Pablo, his son Santiago and Daniel ready for a bike ride. My cousin and his family (that is his wife, his three kids, his sister-in-law, her husband and their daughter) arrived yesterday and will stay in the area for two weeks.

 Tuesday, Jan 15th (015/015): Tati was not feeling well today so we stayed "home". We are living in the right hand side part of the first cabin. 

Wednesday, Jan 16th (016/016): lake Guillelmo. This area is good for trout fishing. We didn´t bring fishing rods but we had a bottle that Tati used to fish baby trouts. They are very docile and actually played along, entering the bottle to investigate. All four were given back to the water after the photographs. :) 

Thursday, Jan 17th (017/017): lake Guillelmo again. Getting the dust off the car with a camping pot. It kept both entertained for a longtime. ;) 

Friday, Jan 18th (018/018): painting by the lake. This is the finished piece.

Saturday, Jan 19th (019/019): Maggie´s birthday. We went to my cousin´s place for her party and brought her an ant´s laboratory as a gift. All the kids had an awesome time putting it together and looking for bugs.

Sunday, Jan 20th (020/020): around the neighbourhood ;)

Some bonus pics from the week:

Look closely and discover the moon, right above the mountain

 

Tati´s drawing- Giant manga character

PPF #45 v.2: Painting by the lake

When it was time for cover page #3 I started by a tree, much like those Lía from Taller Manufacta paints. Then I looked up and saw this:

Why not paint the scene? Because I have never tried anything like this!

I had paper.

I had pencil.

I had the scenery.

Time to start!

Lake Guillelmo - Patagonia Argentina

 The finished piece, pencils on Canson paper:

 Checking how my version looks in situ. :)

Linking this with Paint Party Friday.

What do you wish to try?

When I read Jamie´s prompt for today I confess I smiled and whispered: "Eeeeeeeeeeeasy!" as I had been working on my 2013´s list yesterday.
Here´s my setting:

Coloured pencils, markers and fine point pens. I had Leonie´s "Create your incredible year" workbook in my iPod (Want to know more about it? Click on the link!) and Cerro Catedral as the view from my window.

I started by dividing my list in two: personal and digital.
Some of my items were very specific numbers on how to take farther the good things I´m already doing, like Jamie´s Full Moon Boards or participating in Paint Party Friday, reading, walking ...
Some others were new and those are the ones I wish to try:
* a paint on glass class
* the new japanese food restaurant in the neighbourhood
* learn how to start a bbq fire
* learn to shoot my camera in manual
* a scrapbooking seminar
* learn how to offer organizing PDFs here at my blog. Any tips on how to post things so readers can dowload them?
and quite a few others. :D

See that Facebook icon on the right? Id you Like my Paula - Buenos Aires Page I´ll give you tips and suggestions for things to try all year long. See YOU there! :)

Week 02 2013

For Creative Every Day challenge 2013 by Leah Piken Kolidas, I´m taking at least a picture a day for the whole year. This is my fourth time around with the Pic-a-day project and at the end of each month I make a mosaic of the month´s pictures and also summarize it in numbers for the My month in numbers feature by Julie Kirk. I´ve taken 013 out of the possible 013 pictures for 2013 so far.

Each week I make a cover page for it and I also invite an artist to make a piece for the week´s number which I will publish on Fridays.
Weeks available if you want to play along and be published here: 05, 07, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 20, 21, 24, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 38, 39, 40, 41, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48 and 49.   

Monday, Jan 7th (007/007): cold weather meant a walk around San Carlos de Bariloche, Río Negro, Patagonia Argentina
Tuesday, Jan 8th (008/008): the elf´s waterfall

Wednesday, Jan 9th (009/009): first outdoors bbq of the summer at Los Rápidos (River Manso)

Thursday, Jan 10th (010/010): Los Baqueanos camping has the best (stone) beach of lake Gutierrez

Friday, Jan 11th (011/011): the road to the Frey

Saturday, Jan 12th (012/012): Lake Guillelmo

Sunday, Jan 13th (013/013): around the neighbourhood ;)

Bonus tracks: 

Jan 07th, the city center

Jan 08th the view from the top

Jan 9th Manso river

Jan 10th Lake Gutierrez

Jan 11th up the mountain

Jan 13th up the other mountain