The Original Boy On The Seahorse Poster

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The Boy on the Seahorse statue, (El Niño Sobre el Caballo de Mar) is one of two iconic symbols in downtown Puerto Vallarta.

The other is Our Lady of Guadalupe parish. The first statue that was placed on the Malecon in downtown Puerto Vallarta, was a 10-foot replica of the Boy on the Seahorse statue that was originally at Las Pilitas on Los Muertos Beach.

In 1960, eighteen-year-old Rafael Zamarripa Castaneda won the Mexican National Sculpture award. He created the lovely seahorse statue that was originally placed at Las Pilitas, an outcropping at the south end of Los Muertos Beach, in the late 1960’s. A recent addition to the site has been the tiled mural of the city’s name.

The statue became an iconic representation of the city that remains to this day. Unfortunately, it was swept away in a storm. The sculpture was found and returned to Guadalajara for repairs. While in Guadalajara they “lost” the statue and a larger replica was made and unveil...

Photography has always been my passion, since I developed my first print, under a dim red light bulb in our basement, at about age ten in the small mining town of Ishpeming, in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan's Iron Ore Range. This love was also greatly inspired and nurtured by our dear and close family friend, the Family Doctor that brought me into this world, Dr. J. P. Bertucci. I dedicate this website to him, along with my parents, who always encouraged my photographic endeavors. I know they would be all proud. I have pursued the hobby of Photography with varying highs and lows of intensity all of my formative years and my adult life. For much of my working life, my camera sat on the top shelf of the closet, as life crowded it...

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