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We arrived in Popayan, a beautiful Colombian colonial town, at night. After a long day driving over bumpy roads and long waits at landslides we were beat, but still game for a look around. All of Colombia is in a Christmas frenzy right now. Christmas lights twinkle all over this pretty country, even in remote villages. In the central plaza, I found these pink Christmas decorations. I asked our guide, Jorge Jacobson, to sit on the bench to the bench to give this rather European-looking image a Latin American twist. The poncho he is wearing does the trick. I exposed two seconds at f11 with the camera on a tripod.

See more of Christian Heeb’s work right here.

This article appears in Dec 15-21, 2011.

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Christmas in Popayan, Colombia

by Christian Heeb, The Source - Bend, Oregon
December 19, 2011

<h1>Christmas in Popayan, Colombia</h1> <p class="byline">by Christian Heeb, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />December 19, 2011</p> <p> We arrived in Popayan, a beautiful Colombian colonial town, at night. After a long day driving over bumpy roads and long waits at landslides we were beat, but still game for a look around. All of Colombia is in a Christmas frenzy right now. Christmas lights twinkle all over this pretty country, even in remote villages. In the central plaza, I found these pink Christmas decorations. I asked our guide, Jorge Jacobson, to sit on the bench to the bench to give this rather European-looking image a Latin American twist. The poncho he is wearing does the trick. I exposed two seconds at f11 with the camera on a tripod.</p> <p>See more of <a href="http://www.ccophoto.com" target="_blank">Christian Heeb's work right here.</a></p> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/christmas-in-popayan-colombia-2139695/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com&quot;&gt;The Source - Bend, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-Untitled-design-4.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=17062&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/christmas-in-popayan-colombia-2139695/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bendsource.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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