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October 5th, 2008
Old City of San Juan – Puerto Rico
Here are some pics of the beautiful old city of San Juan that I shot today evening after arriving at Puerto Rico.
The dark blue water in the background of first few pictures is Atlantic ocean. The cemetery on the shore reminded me the scene of my favorite movie Assassins, where Julianne Moore slips from hotel to attend a festival at a similar looking graveyard where the villain Antonio Banderas nearly misses her. I am not sure if the movie was shot here, but the spanish styled streets and cemetery looked quite similar to the movie.
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Night at San Juan
Here are few more pics I took today [actually tonight] at the old town of San Juan.
I experimented with my camera and took few pictures in darkness at around 9pm local time. It was so dark that the camera refused to take pics in auto-focus mode and the shutter got automatically set to be opened for a whole “FIFTEEN SECONDS”. I did not bring a tripod on this trip, therefore had to get these pics by putting the camera on ground and by using some quarters to adjust the angle of the camera.