Julia Dose - Photojournalist

Coastal Panoramas – Valparaíso and Concón, Chile

jtdose — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:31:37 +0000

Here are a few panoramas from the famous port city and the upscale beach town:

Valparaíso

View from Cerro Alegre, Valparaíso

Concón dunes

View from the top of the Concón dunes

Volcano – Pucón, Chile

jtdose — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:09:14 +0000

I got a little taste of Patagonia when I went to Pucón a few weeks ago. The small resort/adventure travel town is roughly 600 miles south of Santiago, about a 10 hour bus ride. The mountains, rivers, hot springs, waterfalls and lake were all breathtaking. But perhaps the most amazing experience I had in Pucón was climbing Volcán Villarrica. It took about five hours, but I made it all the way to the summit. It was very exhausting but I’m so glad I did it. In the experience of climbing the volcano, I learned a valuable lesson about wearing sun block in Chile (unfortunately the hard way). Here are some of my favorite shots from the trip.

Dense forests surround the volcano, very different from the arid north of Chile.

Natural hot springs, with many pools of all different temperatures, crop up around the volcano.

It's just the end of spring here, so flowers are everywhere.

Snow at the summit of Volcán Villarica.

Summit of Volcán Villarica

Snow plow seen climbing the volcano.

Colorful kayaks on Lake Villarrica

And a couple of panoramas:

The Beach – Pichilemu, Chile

jtdose — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 04:17:31 +0000

I love the beach. Maybe it’s because I didn’t ever live near an ocean, but I am just fascinated by it. I could take a thousand photos of the beach all day every day and probably never get bored. For this past long weekend I went to the beach at Pichilemu, the surfing capital of Chile. Here are my favorite shots from this particular beach.

Music, Dessert, and the Beach

jtdose — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 16:23:38 +0000

Last Friday I was either shooting or traveling to go shoot for 20 hours. It was a very long but fulfilling day, and the weekend trip to the beach was quite welcome.

This was a 28-hour piano concert that I covered for I Love Chile. Read the full story and see more photos here.

In the afternoon I covered a chocolate and dessert tasting event at a culinary school on the east side of Santiago. And yes, I did get to eat some chocolate, and it was delicious.

Later at night I went to the Vitacura neighborhood of Santiago to cover R&B artist Ana Tijoux‘s concert. She has some great stuff, and has also been a big supporter of the student movement here in Chile.

It was time for some (well-deserved) rest and relaxation at the beach in Viña del Mar, with a stop at Pablo Neruda‘s house at Isla Negra.

Before heading back to Santiago the next day, we stopped for a little walk about Valparaíso.

Valparaíso, Pomaire, and Eastern Santiago

jtdose — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:45:02 +0000

I haven’t been able to do too much traveling so far, just day trips here and there. Here are a few shots from excursions that I went on in the past couple weeks.

I went to Valparaíso with Bicicleta Verde as they work out a new business venture there.

Pomaire is a small touristy town about an hour away from Santiago that’s known for its “greda” pottery.

Last friday I went to the most eastern part of Santiago to see Villa Grimaldi, the Herbarium, and Los Dominicos artisan market.

Marches, Museums, and Sunsets

jtdose — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 17:41:22 +0000

Student protest in Santiago

Last week I went to a student protest in Santiago for I Love Chile. The students here are paying a lot for school (even high school), and are negotiating with the government to allocate the money that they pay more appropriately. The students and professors have been on strike since May. The protests have toned down quite a bit since then. This one I went to was a government authorized march and was pretty peaceful until the end. The students are not violent at all and are trying to make reforms, but at the end of every march people completely unrelated to the students or what they stand for decide it’s a good idea to throw rocks and paint at police vehicles, and because of them the students are portrayed as violent.

Last weekend I went on my own to the Museo de Arte Precolombino in Santiago. I studied Latin American archaeology in college, and it was fascinating to see all the artifacts that I had only read about in text books and written about in papers in person. I’m sure I’ll make a second trip there. It’s not a huge museum, but there’s enough in there for a Latin American archaeology aficionado like myself to need to take a second look at.

Map of Latin American cultures discussed in the museum at its entrance

These jars were used for keeping the entrails of the deceased in a northern Chilean precolombian culture. They viewed the insides as more important than the outside of the body.

Info graphics on the wall

These cheramulls were part of the funerary rituals of the Mapuche people in south-central Chile

Typical moche vessels

Chicha mug

And the other day I went for a wander around the Bellavista neighborhood of Santiago at sunset. Here’s what I found.

Fiestas Patrias

jtdose — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 19:43:13 +0000

This past week has been very busy and exciting here in Santiago. Chileans were preparing for their independence day on September 18. The children at elementary schools danced Cueca, the national dance of Chile, for their parents and teachers, public parks held large outdoor festivals called fondas, and the air was filled with kites and the smell of barbecues. Here are some highlights from this past week’s assignments and Fiestas Patrias. Be sure to check out my multimedia piece!

TV host Felipe Camiroaga died tragically in the Juan Fernandez plane crash. His ashes were driven through Santiago and fans paid their respects.

Here are a few of my favorite singles from Escuela Básica Lumen Viae. To see the mutlimedia piece I made about the event, click here.

Elementary students at Básica Lumen Viae show off traditional Chilean dances for teachers, family and friends on Sept. 15, 2011.

Here are some shots from Independence Day weekend – the party here goes on for four days, not just one or two.

Typical Chilean asado for Fiestas Patrias on Cerro San Cristobal.

A couple waits for results of the Cueca competition at one of the many fondas (large outdoor festival).

Cueca competition at the fonda.

Spectators try to get a view of the military parade at Parque O'Higgins.

Spectators at the military parade in Parque O'Higgins.

Bienvenidos a Santiago de Chile

jtdose — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 13:55:55 +0000

I was so worried about getting on the plane to get to Santiago in the weeks before my trip that I didn’t have time to come up with any expectations for the city, my internship, or my time in Chile in general, and as a result I spent my first week in Santiago, Chile as a quiet observer of the culture and the city. I am starting to get my bearings in the city using convenient geographical guides such as the Cordierra to the east of the city (the Andes Mountains that border Argentina) and the Río Mapocho that runs from the mountains west through the city. I am also slowly getting used to Chilean way of life, and not expecting things to happen on time and plans changing quite frequently. These are some shots from my week of observing, as well as my first assignment for I Love Chile.

The giant Chilean flag in front of La Moneda, the President's office.

As Chile is in the southern hemisphere, I arrived at the very beginning of Santiago springtime.

Cerro Santa Lucía near Santiago Centro, is a hill right in the middle of the city. On top of the Cerro is Castillo Hidalgo.

My friend Steve showed me the biggest cementery in Santiago, which was very vast and well cared for. Pinochet is buried there and there is also a wall of names of the Desaparecidos, the people who disappeared during Pinochet's rule.

Memorial ceremony for 9/11 terrorist attacks Chilean victim Juan Armando Ceballos Riveros at the United States Embassy in Santiago, Chile on Friday, Sept. 9, 2011.

On a Saturday I went up Cerro San Cristobal, the biggest Cerro in the city, to relax. The hill was filled with Chileans enjoying their weekend relaxing, picnicing and jogging and biking up the hill.

The view from Cerro San Cristobal: sometimes it's easier to get your bearings when you can see the city from above.

La Virgin stands on the top of the Cerro.

There has been an education strike going on in Santiago. This is a fence outside of a school with the desks and chairs hung on it.

County Fairs and Appalachia

jtdose — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 23:05:23 +0000

I spent the past week running lights at both the West Virginia Interstate Fair and Exposition in Mineral Wells, West Va. and the Buchanan County Fair in Grundy, Va. Growing up in the Chicago area, county fairs are a new thing for me. I grew up going to outdoor festivals in Grant Park and when I was younger I went to the Minnesota State Fair every summer in St. Paul. County Fairs are completely different, especially in Appalachia. In Mineral Wells, I worked with Billy Bob, the lead stagehand, and more people came to see their family and friends in the Country Showdown than came to see Chuck Wicks perform. In Grundy, I had a very hard time understanding anyone speak, and they had equally as much trouble understanding what I said. The main industry in Grundy is coal, something else I’m not familiar with to the extent that it is prevalent in Grundy. The actual fair grounds were on top of a mountain that had been strip mined. It was quite an experience, and for the time being, I am country music-ed out.

Belpre, Ohio

West Virginia Interstate Fair and Exposition

Poplar Gap Park, site of the Buchanan County Fair

Main Stage at the Buchanan County Fair

Buchanan County Fair

Last Ohio Summer – for a while

jtdose — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 01:39:28 +0000

I’m not sure if or when I’ll be in Athens again, so for the past couple months I’ve been enjoying Athens and traveling around Ohio in my station wagon visiting friends and saying see you later, not goodbye. Here’s a few snaps from the summer so far.

Moving Out

Skyline Chili, Cincinnati, Ohio

Fourth of July Fireworks, Cincinnati, Ohio

Watching fireworks, Cincinnati, Ohio

Driving on I-77

University Commons, Athens, Ohio