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Posts Tagged → Bogota

At the Iglesia Nuestra Señora del Carmen, Bogota’s Candy Cane Church

posted in Colombia, Pic du Jour on September 10, 2026 by Bob Ramsak 3 Comments

People in Bogota cross themselves. A lot. And not only when I was passing by or when they were passing by me.

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Still Life With a Dozen Dolls, Toquinho, and Mick Jagger’s Primitive Cool, Bogota

posted in Colombia, Pic du Jour on May 16, 2026 by Bob Ramsak 3 Comments

With cameos by Angel, The Pet Shop Boys and John Lennon.

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Soldiers and Street Art, Bogota

posted in Pic du Jour, Street Art on January 16, 2026 by Bob Ramsak 3 Comments

Blending into a city’s background.

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Urban Ballads, Bogota

posted in Colombia, Photography, Pic du Jour on January 11, 2026 by Bob Ramsak 2 Comments

From a series illustrating the interaction between people and street art in urban settings.

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Bogota Day-sleeper

posted in Colombia, Photography, Pic du Jour on December 13, 2025 by Bob Ramsak 0 Comments

Even in the middle of the day, a person doesn’t have to sleep alone on the street in Bogota.

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Fire on the Mountain, Bogota

posted in Colombia on November 17, 2025 by Bob Ramsak 0 Comments

It’s not every day that a fire breaks out on a mountain just as you click the shutter for a long exposure.

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“I don’t want to be here anymore.” – Bogota Taxi Driver Monologues

posted in Colombia on July 30, 2015 by Bob Ramsak 0 Comments
Calle 25 and Carrera 13, Bogota

I stepped into the cab at the intersection of Carrera 10 and Calle 4, one of Bogota’s many blurred frontiers between civility and third world urban reality. In heavy traffic, it’s about a 15 to 20 minute ride to the skyscrapers and modern high-rise apartments and shopping malls of the centro internacional to the north,… Continue reading →

Moving in. Watch your head. And look out for the birds.

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I’m a long-time journalist, photographer and researcher driven by passions for environmental, social and refugee justice. I’ve visited 62 countries and write something and make pictures (almost) every day. This site is a notebook and photolog where I track and (sometimes) comment on those interests, journal my travels and log my current obsessions. At the moment the most dominant ones are the global response to the climate crisis and a renewed passion for birding and bird photography.

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