Three women on walls

Today I wanted to show you three more beautiful women from Rio, but hopefully today’s offerings will prove a little less controversial! I’ll start off with a woman I have been admiring for a the last couple of weeks. My daily journey takes me through Praça General Osório, one of the main squares in Ipanema. Each morning I have been in a rush to catch the bus and so whilst I’ve gazed longingly, I’ve never found time to take a photo. Last night I decided to go after work instead. Not what you’d call perfect lighting, but the shadows from the nearby gate add a certain je ne sais quoi don’t you think?

I haven’t looked into who “DP” is yet, but I would like to offer him/her huge congratulations. A beautiful image. **UPDATE** It isn’t “DP”, it is “Di”, the signature of Di Couto. I met her in a bar a few months back and she was very nice!

As I was looking at this last night, it kind of reminded me of something I had seen in Laranjeiras a little while back. I trawled through my photo collection until I found what I was looking for. Another woman with an interesting head-piece! And while this one might not be quite so beautiful, you’ve got to love the way that the artist had the vision and worked it into the existing brickwork.

I’m not 100% sure what this is meant to be. But it has some kind of geisha-type feel don’t you think? Either way, it’s nicely done and very original. Smk does quite a bit of graffiti round Laranjeiras way with someone known as Rew$.

And finally, I thought I’d round off today’s trio with this sweet piece. It is right next to that first lady General Osório (I actually had to mask it off so as not to distract in the first photo). If we were in the Northern hemisphere I would probably trot out some clichés about it being spring and love being in the air, but in fact it ain’t spring and if there were any love in the air it would be soaking wet from 3 days relentless, torrential rain… Have a great day.

Love is in the air! How cute is this?