the colors of paradise-not...

"...from the water Tarawa always looked good. All evidence of squalor was pleasantly concealed, and the island seemed idyllic with its masses of coconut trees rising from sun-streaked water colored every shade of blue and green..."

--J. Maarten Troost, The Sex Lives of Cannibals.

Heat, harsh light, and the wrong film on Tarawa.

Kirbati, October 2005.

Rolleiflex T, Reala.