Live the same

By the way, a lot of movies are filmed in the Dominican Republic. For example, xXx: Return of Xander Cage, where Vin Diesel somehow covers hundreds of kilometers on skis and a longboard in just 10 minutes. 😂 Or The Godfather Part III, where they used Santo Domingo as a stand-in for Havana because they couldn’t film in Cuba due to the communists.

There’s also a scene in Red Notice shot in the town of Altos de Chavón. These are just the ones I know for sure because I’ve actually been to the filming locations.

But tour guides on excursions tell all sorts of crazy stories! They’ll swear that Francis Ford Coppola filmed Apocalypse Now on the Chavón River, and that scenes from King Kong, were shot there… oh yeah! Pirates of the Caribbean and The Blue Lagoon! And yeah, that’s all nonsense too. 😆

What always amazed me was that no one ever bothered to fact-check these stories, even though every tourist had a phone with internet right in their hands! 🤷‍♂️

A quick note about the photos in my posts - I'd like to clarify that unfortunately not all of them are directly related to the stories they are attached to. But I try to find ones that are at least from the same places or have some relevance. 🙂

All of these photos from the Dominican Republic were taken by me between 2013 and mid-2018 - some with my phone, some with my camera. Unfortunately, I lost most of my photos along with the hard drives during my many moves. 😞

Some of the photos I have left I can't share because of contracts I had with a company. Luckily, there weren't many of these shoots, and usually it was at the request of the client... For example, once we shot for the birthday of the wife of the Minister of Defense of the Dominican Republic! The company sent four photographers there, and we handed over all the photos, never to see them again. Yes, that happens! 😅

I've always felt bad about parting with my work, which is probably why I went from being an artist to being an analyst 🤣

You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending. 
- C. S. Lewis

I officially have more than 10 professions, I have been working since I was 15 and on average at each job less than a year (except for photographer), and then I master a new profession))) I worked as a lumberjack, welder, mechanic, carpenter, salesman, manager, store director, worked at a furniture factory, as a manager of a huge drilling machine, bartender, cook, photographer, 1AC, cameraman, focus puller and that's not all, ahaha 😅

You have an interesting and wide range of work experience)

Yes, but finding a job is still a problem))

It seemed to me that nowadays on the contrary it is a problem to stop at one thing, there are so many options and possibilities around