Mid-March 2026

Introduction

The Puerto Rico Ironman 70.3 was held on March 15, 2026. It brought in about 1,000 competitors from Puerto Rico, the United States, and several South American countries.

Ironman Group managed the event. They run events around the world. For example, there were Ironman 70.3 events in San Juan, Dallas, and Hengqin, China, all on March 15. You can visit their website here.

If the Puerto Rico event is any indication, the Ironman Group representatives work closely with the local government and tourist agencies. They must also coordinate with local hotels, airlines, and government agencies. The Puerto Rico event seems to have ample volunteers and seems generally well run.

The Event

The Ironman 70.3 consists of three events. The first is a 1.2 mile swim, starting and ending in the Condado Lagoon. The water temperature will be about 78 F so it should be comfortable for the swimmers. The athletes then transition to the bike event, a 56 mile ride to Dorado and back. The route is quite level but the wind could be a factor. The riders will ride to Dorado with a tail wind but ride into the wind on their way back. They finish with a half marathon, two laps into Old San Juan and back. The run course is listed as hilly for the 13.2 miles.

The participants are timed for each event, and also for the time to transition from the swim to the bike, and then the bike to the run. Placings are determined by total elapsed time.

Preparations

Event preparations begin several days in advance of the event. Portable toilets were installed. by Wednesday afternoon. These are placed where the athletes are starting the run, the final of the three legs of the Ironman, and other sites along the course.

By Friday morning, a ramp is installed to get swimmers out of the water and over a wall which is, I think, a remnant of a defense line for the walled city of San Juan.

Volunteers will help the swimmers up the ramp and over the wall. The yellow tape is apparently to prevent curious tourists from testing the water.

By Saturday afternoon, all the temporary fencing is installed and all the event signage placed.

The athletes will use this sidewalk to take their bikes from the paddock to the start of the bike ride, and then again as they end their ride and transition to the run.

This is where the bike ride begins. Athletes cannot mount their bikes until they cross the Mount line.

On Saturday afternoon, participants is take their bikes to the transition area. They will be left overnight, under guard. I live in one of the buildings in the background so much of the event is in my front yard.

As they enter, the athletes get their timing device – a transmitter they wear on their left ankle.

A contestant with her bike in the transition area. I overheard her as she asked the man to take her picture. I did them one better- I have a picture of both of them.

The Start

The start of the swim leg begins at 6:45 AM, just about sunrise. The athletes gather in groups according to their estimated times for the 1.2 mile swim. Three swimmers enter the water every five seconds – this avoids a group start.

This sign is for the second group of swimmers – the first group is for under 25 minutes.

The athletes exhibit various moods before the start – some seemingly anxious, some looking for friends and family, some ready to get started. Here are some of my photos as they waited to start the swim leg.

The Swim

While the Start is relatively easy to photograph, I have a hard time with the swim. I usually see an orange or blue head and splashing water. Here are a few to give you a feeling to the event.

The swimmers enter on the left and swim east. They make a U-turn and head back west. Volunteers in kayaks keep the swimmers on course and provide assistance as needed. There are sometimes manatees in the lagoon. I wonder what they make of the 1,000 or so swimmers.

Three swimmers are nearing the end of the course.

The athletes use the ramp to leave the water and end the swim. I assume the timing device, on their left ankle, recorded the start and now the end of the swim leg and the beginning of the swim-bike transition.

The elite athletes finished the swim in just over 26 minutes.

The Swim-Bike Transition

The athletes travel about a quarter of a mile from the ramp to the paddock where their bikes are. Some family members wait near the ramp with running shoes at the ready.

Note the timing device on the left ankle of the second runner.

Some choose to run barefoot.

There is another change of footwear as the participants don their cycling cleats.

Three athletes head towards the Mount line.

The riders have to cross the Mount line before they can get on their bikes. I assume there is a timing device here to mark the end of the transition and the beginning of the bike ride. Note the puddles – a remnant of an early morning rain. It is about 8 AM. The puddles would soon dry under the morning sun.

It took most of the elite athletes just under five minutes to complete this transition. You can see the official results here.

The Bike Leg

As noted previously, the riders go west from San Juan to Dorado and then back again. I watch them as they leave and wait a bit for their return. Here is a rider at the very start of the bike leg.

The next two are accelerating just beyond the Mount line.

The riders go up a short hill as they leave Parc Escambron and get onto the city streets.

They make a left turn onto Avenida de la Constitucion and begin their ride out of San Juan and towards Dorado.

It takes about two hours for the elite athletes to finish the bike ride, time enough for a cup of good Puerto Rican coffee and a breakfast sandwich.

The returning bikers turn right off of Avenida de la Constitucion and head into Parc Escambron.

There is a tricky S-curve as they enter the park. The riders are warned to slow down by race volunteers.

The next two riders are heading towards the Dismount line. They will then transition to the run.

This rider is dismounting right at the line. I assume there is a timing device here to mark the end of the bike leg and the beginning of the bike-run transition.

The Bike Run Transition

This transition is pretty much the same as the earlier one. The riders rack their bicycle, don their running shoes, and begin the half marathon – two laps into and out of Old San Juan. The run course is considered hilly.

The runner below will pas through a gate and begin the run. Again, I suspect there is a timing device there.

The elite athletes do this transition in around two minutes.

The Run

This runner is at the very beginning of the half marathon.

The runner below is within 50 yards of the finish line. The last 100 yards or so of the course bring the athletes up a dirt trail to the top of a hillock overlooking the ocean.

Final Thoughts

As I noted earlier, I live across the street from Parc Escambron. I look forward to the event as it allows me a chance to practice my photography and editing skills. Like anyone else, I do have by biases, and my selection of images shows those. I find the start fun to photograph. The morning light is soft and flattering. As I noted before, the swim is difficult. I especially like the bike event. I can practice various techniques – speed shots, (slow shutter speed), action shots (fast shutter speed), etc. And I really hate to photograph the run. The sun is harsh, and the runners look like they are in agony.

Notes and Sources

The images are all mine. I use a Sony digital point and shoot camera with a modest Tamron zoom lens. I edit my images using first Adobe Camera Raw and then Photoshop.

Early February 2026

Introduction

The Calle Cerra neighborhood in the Santurce section of San Juan has gone all in for wall art. I’ve documented some of the art there in the past. Here is an update, with occassional comparsions to works now gone.

South of Avenida Juan Ponce de Leon

The artwork begins in the first block, south of Avenida Juan Ponce de Leon. Here are a couple of examples.

This was on the upper story of a building across a narrow street. I do not yet know how to correct the keystone effect caused by pointing the camera up to get the image. Learning how to do that will be next week’s project.

This is on the wall above Cafe Julietta, a nice place to have a meal. The space seems to have been claimed by a particular artist. Here is one of her earlier works in this spot.

This was taken before Cafe Julietta took over and renovated the first floor, part of the continuing gentrification of the neighborhood. By the way, you can see an earlier post about Calle Cerra here.

South of Avenida Fernandez Juncos

Calle Cerra continues south for two or three more short blocks. The heart of the street art is in this area. Here are some examples.

Here is a garage door decorated in the Calle Cerra style. Check out my earlier post featuring shutter art here.

It is unusual to see black and white wall art but here is one example from lower Calle Cerra.

This is actually one short block east of lower Calle Cerra – the wall art has expanded to neighboring streets and businesses.

Planet Pizza PR can be found on lower Calle Cerra. Again, the black and white is unusual.

The two parked cars in front of this wall provide an idea of the size of this mural. Here is an earlier mural from the same spot.

This mural, by Danae Brissonet, was replaced by the one just above. I spent some time with Photoshop and, starting with the image above, created the next image.

The neighborhood feature entire buildings pained in the Calle Cerra style. Here is one.

There was at one time a hjghly regarded Italian restaurant (Grazianos, I think) on the first floor of this building. I did not notice if it is still open.

Speaking of restaurants. there is now a sushi place a block east of lower Calle Cerra. This is a sure sigh of the continuing gentrification of the area.

This is on the outside wall of a sushi restaurtant just east of lower Calle Cerra.

The mural here is on Calle Cerra. Parked cars and trucks are the bane of a wall art photographer.

A vaguely Orintal-looking woman on a mural on lower Calle Cerra.

Now, every neighborhood needs a good hardware store (Ferreteria). The Ferreteria on Calle Cerra is all in with the mural idea.

Here is one nore from the hardware store, on the wall to the right of the image just above.

Again, parked cars are a nusiance for my photography. By the way, here is the Ferreteria in an older scheme.

So there you have it – more evidence of the vibrant art scene on Calle Cerra. If you come visit, I will take you there. All it will cost you is a beer or two – I get thirsty doing all that walking.

Notes and Sources

The images are all mine. I use a Sony point and shoot digital camera, and edit my images with Adobe Lightroom and/or Photoshop. I crop, adjust levels, resize, and sometimes increase vibrance and/or saturtion levels.

Late February 2025

Introduction

Jeff Bezos may be here in San Juan. I haven’t seen him but his mega-yacht Koru is docked in Old San Juan. So I’m guessing Bezos, if he is not here now, will soon arrive to enjoy some Caribbean sailing.

Bezos is of course the founder of Amazon. He has, according to a recent Forbes article, a net worth of $230 billion. And yes that is billion, not million. That makes him the second richest person in the United States, behind Elon Musk. Musk’s net worth is about $385 billion.

This is the second time I’ve seen the Koru here, She was in port in December for a couple of weeks. I knew then that Jeff Bezos would not be sailing her as he was being feted by Donald Trump in Mar-a-Lago. As you might recall, Elon Musk crashed that party. I wonder how the conversation between them went. Perhaps they were discussing Trump’s promise to provide a tax cut for the rich.

It is hard to understand just how rich these two are. For comparison, here are the five poorest countries as ranked by GDP.

Tuvalu	$62 million
Nauru	$184 million
Kiribati	$279 million
Palau	$283 million
Marshall Islands	$284 million

These are small island nations with small populations. And note the GDP is listed in millions, not billions.

I wondered how Musk and Bezos compared to larger nations.

Egypt	$395 billion
Elon Musk	$385 billion
Finland	$300 billion

and

Portugal	$280 billion
Jeff Bezos	$230 billion
Hungary	$212 billion

I think I know why the Republicans want to cut taxes on the rich. There is no way Elon Musk should be poorer than Egypt, or Jeff Bezos poorer than Portugal.

There are better ways to portray a nation’s economic condition. One way to to divide the GDP by the adult population, giving a figure called Personal Purchasing Power. But that is for another time and place.

The Koru

Jeff Bezos’ mega-yacht Koru cost $500 million to build. Here is how that figure compares to the GDP of two countries.

Dominica	$654 million
Yacht Koru	$500 million
Tonga	$500 million

The Koru was built in the Netherlands, at the Oceanco shipyard, starting in 2021. She was delivered in April of 2023. There was some controversy surrounding her launch. The original plan was to partially dismantle the historic De Hef bridge to allow the Koru through. After a public outcry, the plan was changed and the masts were installed downriver of the bridge.

An image of the historic De Hef bridge in the Netherlands.

The Koru is 127 m (417 ft) long with a beam of 17 m (56 ft). She draws 5 m (16 ft) of water. At a gross tonnage of 3,490 tons, the Koru is larger than some warships.

The Koru has a crew of between 35 and 50, and can accommodate 18 passengers.

Note the data receivers on one of the masts. At least, that is what I think it is. If so, it allows Jeff Bezos and guests to watch the latest Prime releases.

When at sea, the Koru is accompanied by its own support vessel, the Abeona. The Abeona itself is 75 m (246 ft) long, has a helipad with enclosed storage space for a helicopter, and carries more crew and relief supplies for the Koru..

I haven’t seen the Abeona here in San Juan. Perhaps they are destined to meet on some other Caribbean island.

Notes and Sources

I used GDP estimates as generated by the World Bank and as listed on Wikipedia. Click here for more information.

The image of the De Hef bridge is from Wikipedia.

Click here for the source of the image of the Koru at sea.

Unless otherwise attributed, the photos are mine. I use a digital point and shoot camera and edit them with Adobe Lightroom and/or Photoshop.

Mid February 2025

Introduction

Tourism represents about two percent of the Puerto Rican economy. Manufacturing, at about 43%, is the largest sector. These data come from a recent report of the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, which is known locally as PROMESA. PROMESA is an acronym of the Board’s name in Spanish. Here is a link to that report.

I don’t know PROMESA’s methodologies but the two percent figure seems low. I’ve read other estimates that suggest tourism accounts for about 15% of the economy.

Even at 15%, most visitors would probably that that was a low estimate. Tourists often stay in the heavily tourist areas of Old San Juan, Condado, and Isla Verde with occasional forays to the rain forest (El Yunque) and other island destinations. But tourists are rarer in other parts of the island.

The government here has a master plan to increase tourism. I have heard of the plan, talked with Puerto Rican friends about it, but have never seen it. As I understand it, there are several components of the plan but two are to: increase cruise ship visits and attract more luxury mega yachts. I see evidence of some changes in the port now in support of these goals.

Port Changes

Past Uses

We can, from our balcony, see Piers 14 and 15 of the Port of San Juan. We used to watch ships carrying steel, cars, and occasionally coal come into Pier 14 and unload. Once we watched as a ship was loaded with chunks of concrete, apparently headed somewhere to be ground up and used as aggregate in new concrete mixes.

Here is a freighter unloading steel at Pier 14. The fork lifts arrive about the same time as the ship and move rebars, rolls of spring steel, and coils of steel wire onto the surface.

The forklift is transporting two rolls of steel wire. After the ship is emptied, the forklifts load a steady stream of flat bed trucks.

These stacks of rebars will be loaded onto flat bed trucks.

This is a vehicle carrying new cars from Korea, Japan or perhaps the assembly plants in Vera Cruz, Mexico.

New cars are being driven off the ship. Drivers deliver cars from the ship to the pier and then are taken by van back onto the ship for more cars. It takes about eight hours to unload s ship this size.

This ship is taking on chunks of concrete. I’m not sure where it will be taken but it will be crushed, graded by size, and used as aggregate in new concrete.

This ship, from Amsterdam, has a deck cargo of new yachts. The stevedores were vary careful as they unloaded some of them and put them directly onto special trailers.

The Future?

We no longer see activities like these at Piers 14 and 15. The activity has moved to the new port area on the other side of the bay, or perhaps to Ponce, on the Caribbean coast.

According to my Puerto Rican friends who have seen the Master Plan, the frontage along piers 14 and 15 and adjoining piers will become a pedestrian-friendly area with walkways, restaurants, sitting areas. Perhaps water taxis will ply the harbor. The idea is to direct visitors from Old San Juan along this part of the port, and perhaps around to District T Mobile, a recently completed area with bars, restaurants,and entertainment venues, located near the Convention Center.

Yachts and Cruise Ships

The Master Plan calls for more cruise ship activity and for more mega-yachts to be homeported here.

Now, mega-yachts have occasionally visited here. For example, the unique Yacht A came a few years ago.

Motor Yacht A belongs to a Russian oligarch and has not been in port for several years. I’ve written about her previously – check out my posts here and here.

Likewise, the mega-yacht Eclipse has not been here for a while.

I also wrote about her in an earlier post.

While visits by these super yachts are undoubtedly welcome, the idea is to make the port available for smaller, but still mega, yachts. And that has already started. Piers 8, 9 and 10 have been converted from freight piers to docking area for large yachts.

Two large yachts moored at Pier 9. Small freighters used to leave from here, carrying 6 or 8 containers to Vieques or Culebra, the two Puerto Rican island east of the large island.

A large yacht moored at Pier 8.

Work has begun to increase cruise ship activity, both in terms of home porting and one day visits. Pier 3 was lengthened to accommodate the largest cruise ships. However, last April the end of the pier was damaged by a cruise ship leaving port. Repairs are continuing but the largest cruise ships cannot be accommodated yet.

The tents house construction equipment to affect repairs on the east side pf Pier 3. Until completed and inspected by the Coast Guard, only smaller cruise ships can dock at this pier.

Summary

Puerto Rico has a master plan to increase tourism. It includes rethinking the current port activities, and attracting more cruise ships and yachts. When will it it be implemented? I suspect no one knows that for sure.

Notes and Sources

The photos are all mine, taken with a digital camera and edited with Adobe Lightroom and/or Photoshop. I learned of discussions of the MAster Plan in informal talks with my Puerto Rican friends.

Mid January 2025

Introduction

The bus lane carrying public transit into and out of Old San Juan passes just south of our building. In the block immediately to the east, one story walls are found on both sides of the street. Over the years, the walls attracted mural artists and they produced a series of colorful works of art.

I use the past tense because in the last day or two the walls have been painted an ugly shade of brown. In this post, i will offer unfounded speculations as to why this happened and celebrate some of the art work that has been painted over.

Idle Speculations

Just down the street from us, an apartment building has been under construction. It is now close to completion. The front of the building is on Avenida de la Constitucion; the back is on the bus lane. I wonder if the building owners, now close to showing the luxury apartments to potential buyers, wanted the walls repainted to ‘tidy up’ the neighborhood.

The new apartment building. I took this image while standing in the bus lane. Our building is visible in the lower left of this image.

There are, by my count, twelve floors. There are perhaps four apartments per floor. And it is in a great location. I don’t know anything about apartment prices but these have to be expensive.

The owners probably had dominion of the wall along the back of their building; that was probably part of the parcel of land the developer bought. But I don’t know how they could extend their influence to the other side of the street, Perhaps the developers, wielding their political clout, convinced the government to paint the walls on both sides of the street. Or maybe the new governor, riding in her motorcade, thought the wall murals an eyesore and ordered the walls painted.

Or it could be some other reason entirely. As I say, these are but idle speculations.

Disappeared Art

So here are some of the murals now gone.

This was one the south side of the street. Actually, it had been painted over, perhaps by the same artist.

This was also on the south side of the street,

Crab Lady was on the wall on the north side of the street,

The Undertaker was a Puerto Rican professional wrestler. This too had been painted over. See my earlier post here.

This is what replaced The Undertaker.

A celebration of grass and surf.

I’m guessing this is an anti-hate statement. This was next to the Crab Lady.

A whimsical smiley face.

Another whimsical face.

Today

The walls, once filled with colorful, challenging, sometimes ugly, sometimes celebratory, sometimes whimsical paintings, is now an ugly shade of brown.

I’m glad I had the foresight to capture some of the images while they still existed.

Notes and Sources

The images are all mine. I use a Sony digital point and shoot camera and edit my images using Adobe Lightroom and/or Photoshop.

Early December 2024

Introduction

The other day, as I was searching for new examples of street art, i began to think of the art that I had seen but has since disappeared. Of course, I had thought along these lines before (check out these earlier posts here and here).

When I started photographing and writing about street art, I did not realize I would have an image repository of wall murals that are now gone, for one reason or another. If you’re a regualar reader of this blog, you will have seen some of these before. But I think they are all worth a revisit. I’ll try to arrange them by neighborhood, when I can.

Sagrado Corazon

This mural, on the wall of a three story building, was visible for several years from the platform of the urban train station in Sagrado Corazon. It had faded over the years; it is now gone. I never did figure out the symbolism.

The evocative Woman with Green Face was also near the Sagrado Corazon urban train station. She has long since been painted over.

Domenech

I first noticed this while on the urban train as the train, elevated at that point, rounded a curve near the Domenech station. A few days later, I went back, got off at that station and took this from street level. The mural is still on the wall but it has faded enough to obliterate it.

Avenida Juan Ponce de Leon

The next two were just off Avenida Juan Ponce de Leon, the main street through San Juan, near the intersection with Avenida de Diego. They have since been painted over.

Plaza del Mercado, Santurce

The next four are from the neighborhood around the Plaza del Mercado in Santurce. The house above was on the street leading to the plaza from the south, off Avenida Juan Ponce de Leon. It is rare to see wall murals with red as the dominant color.

These intricate figures were on the bridge pier along Calle Canal, entering the Plaza area from Condado, to the north. They’ve been painted over.

This smiling face greeted visitors to the Plaza as they headed north, along Calle Canal.

Condado

This was not technically in Condado. It was on a side street leading into Condado, from the south. I was and remain intrigued by this work.

Calle Cerra

As I’ve written before, Calle Cerra is a hotbed of wall art. I’ll probably do another post on it later but here are three examples of murals there that have been painted over with new art.

Conclusion

So there are a few examples of wall art that has disappeared. I wonder if copyright protection still pertains to works painted over. I should check that out. Perhaps I can use these and other images in a book to sell to avid tourists pouring off the cruise ships. What do you think – want to send me a few bucks to get me started?

Notes and Sources

The images are all mine. I use a Sony point and shoot digital camera and edit my images with Adobe Lightroom and/or Adobe Photoshop.

Late August 2024

Introduction

Puerto Rico hosts a professional ironman competition every March. The three components – swim, bike, run – all begin and end near my apartment. I wander around with my cameras in hand and try to capture some of the excitement of the day. Here are some of my efforts.

Preparations

It takes three or four days to prepare the course. Traffic barriers have to be put up for the bike race. Inflatable pylons have to be placed to mark the swim course. A paddock has to be constructed to store the bikes.

A worker begins to prepare the ramp by which swimmers will exit the Condado Lagoon and make their way to the paddock to get their bikes and start the bike leg.

The completed ramp awaits the swimmers. The protective tape is presumably to prevent curious tourists from using it.

On Saturday afternoon, a competitor wheels his bike to the paddock. A bike like this has a list price of about $9,000.

More bikes in the paddock. The bikes are assigned places by number; the the athletes will store their running gear by their bikes.

The Start

The event starts Sunday morning. The competitors line up by the times they expect to finish the swim, with the fastest swimmers starting first.

The first cohort of swimmers line up behind the 25 minutes or less sign. Once the event begins, three swimmers will enter the course every five seconds.

After the U.S. and Puerto Rican national anthems, a percussion band serenades the swimmers.

The first group of swimmers await the start.

An athlete anxiously awaits her start. She will swim 1.3 miles, bike for 56 miles, and then run for another 13.1 miles – a total of 70.3 miles.

As you can see, most of the athletes seemed serious, even anxious, before the start.

The Swim

Three swimmers enter the water every five seconds and begin the 1.3 mile swim. They head east and then around the end of the Condado Lagoon. They exit after they pass under the bridge connecting Condado to the Isleta de San Juan, the small island of San Juan.

The swimmers enter the water to the left and head east and then around the east end of the Condado Lagoon. They have to keep the pylons on their right. Volunteers in kayaks and on paddleboats keep an eye on things.

The swimmers pass under a bridge on the way to the ramp. The air and water temperature are both about 80 F.

The Swim-Bike Transition

The swimmers leave the water via the ramp shown earlier, and run about a quarter of a mile to the paddock to don their biking gear and run with their bikes to the start of the bike leg.

Some of the athletes make the swim-bike transition barefoot, others stash a pair of running shows by the ramp.

The athletes enter the paddock, get into their biking gear, and grab their bikes and make their way to the start of the bike leg.

The bikers have to cross the Mount Bike line before they can get get on their bikes and actually start to ride.

The Bike Leg

The riders start in Parc Escambron, in San Juan, and ride to Dorado and back. It is a flat route. They finish at the Dismount line, and then run with their bikes to the paddock, don their running gear, and start the run.

Two riders have just mounted their bikes and are starting the bike leg. The long shadows reveal the early hour; it as about 8 15 AM.

A rider accelerating put of the park.

More riders just starting their bike ride. By this time, the elite athletes are well into the bike leg; these competitors are in it for their personal aggrandizement.

Two more just starting the bike leg.

The fastest riders complete the bike leg in a bit over two hours. I waited for the first riders to return.

An elite rider nearing completion of his bike race.

The riders make their way back into the park, dismount just before the Dismount line, and make their way to the paddock.

There is a tricky S curve just as the riders enter the park.

A short section of the road into the park utilizes these tiles to identify a cross walk. It is good it was a dry day – they are very slippery when wet.

Three elite riders speeding towards the Dismount line.

A rider just at the Dismount line.

The Bike-Run Transition

The athletes run with their bikes to the paddock, change into their running shoes, and start the 13.1 mile run. It is two laps into and out of Old San Juan. The course is hilly,

Three riders just past the Dismount line. The racing bikes identify them as competitive athletes.

Volunteers assist along the way. This one is offering a spray of sunscreen before the run.

The Run

The run,13.1 miles, is two laps into and back from Old San Juan, along a hilly course.

I find the run uninteresting. The runners seem to be in agony, the sun is high and harsh, and I find it difficult to capture a good image. But here are a few.

A runner leaving the paddock as he begins the half-marathon.

The runner to the left is finishing his first lap; the others are just starting theirs.

Results

Matheus Salto Martine of Brazil was the overall winner, with a time of 4:04:46. Javier Figueroa of Puerto Rico was second, at 4:09:33. Kiel Bur of the US was third at 4:11:01.

All in all, it was a beautiful day

The solicitation for the 2025 event is out; click here to see it. If you’re thinking of entering, better start training now. March 16, 2025 will be here before you know it.

Notes

The images are all mine. I use a Sony point and shoot digital camera and an old 35 mm Nikon. I edit the images with Adobe Lightroom and/or Photoshop.