Pestilence

Just to expose some more of the horrible water management of my home land, I searched for a picture of how this small waterfall on Santiago river, in the State of Jalisco, Mexico, looked like before it was severely polluted. This is what I found:

Taken from http://www.mexicoarmado.com/campismo/159949-lo-que-ya-no-veras-en-campamentos-fotos-antiguas.html
Attributed to Henry Jackson, 1884

This is what it looks like today:

You can see the foam flying through the air, its a truly stinking spectacle; the result of years abandonment in water pollution policies. People have been even murdered by this pollution (heavy metal poisoning! as you can read here) and yet little is being done about it.

Over a Grim Panorama

Lake Chapala's capricious shore

This is, I'd say a post-sunset panoramic picture of Lake Chapala. It is probably the most frequented leisure destinations by the inhabitants of the city I live. In the recent years the lake-shore has been coming and going, this picture was taken from the pier and you can see that the water is a little far in, but not the nearly the worst it has been. You can get an idea of how bad it was some fifteen years ago in this article by Tony Burton, it certainly was dying (I hadn't realized how hard it was to find anything informative in the net nowadays outside Wikipedia). Today the lake is in an OK water level, though the same can not be said about the pollution.

The panorama was stitched together using one of the greatest open source tools ever made; Hugin Panorma Photo Stitcher. Very versatile and powerful, at least for amateurish purposes.

Gothic Revival

Who can resist taking a picture of a Gothic construction under the light of a full-mooned thinly-clouded night sky?

Pink is like yellow, but not quite

While promenading near the university campus, I was stricken by the view of a tree with no leaves but full of yellow flowers. Not having my camera at hand I resigned to memorise the sight and promised myself to come back with a camera. It took me a while to actually return.

'cause pink is my favourite crayon

I found what I think is the same tree, only flowers had changed colour, or perhaps I never really found the three again. Still, the pink version looked cool enough.