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It took a little convincing to get our host to “see the light” with this near-silhouette shot for the intro to our story on the Brazil airline maker Embraer. Shooting by numbers is something I try and avoid at all costs.

Landing on Polvo, the offshore oil processing facility. The week before we were there, one of the choppers was shot at so they had to alter the flight path. Hey, if you had a chopper roaring overhead every minute, maybe you would get a little crazy, too!

Rio de Janeiro. At the peak of the 2008 Dengue Fever epidemic, but life goes on.

Next up: Mexico!

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