Photograph of a photographer taking a photograph of a photographer taking a photograph of a photographer.

Flying

This is a picture taken a few years ago, when there where still a couple of this street photographers wondering around downtown expecting to find someone willing pay a few pesos for an instant photograph. That business must've died with the advent of compact-digital-mobile-photographing-gadgettery. A sad view that contrasted the surrounding happenings.

This picture reminded me of this other taken of a photographer in action, totally accidental. Its description might as well take us to infinity.

Irma over the mangrove swamps

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.

PostApocalyptic conversations

The Tin Man

Not very far from the university campus I once attended, existed (or perhaps it still exists) this strange and slightly surreal playground. Though located in a pretty busy sector of the city, it always looked awfully lonely. These are the photographs of the day I tried to portray its solitude.

Conversations

Tea Party

Concentrating?

As you can see those are some pretty odd looking figures. Are they supposed to be hens? I only assumed they were birds because I think that nose of theirs is really a beak. I hope at least some zombie children visit this place on a regular basis.

Swines and Skunks, Swines and Skunks Everywhere

You are probably a swine

Some stencil street art before this avenue was revamped. There isn't much of story behind this picture, I just tought it looked good in that light. Stencil graffiti is usually linked to political messages, which will fit perfectly in this case; but interpreting anything from this, is probably pushing it a little too hard.

Down to (the end of) it

Unfortunately, I have never been much of a mountain cyclist. In one of those scarce trips, I decided to film the descent down this very enjoyable trail through some woods near my home. I proceeded to tie this very old camera (so wouldn't be a considerable loss in case any branch, or the floor, crossed its way)  to the side of my helmet. As you can see, inexperience made me struggle down the path. The view angle is a bit low but I thought the video came out good enough to share since many, many locals bike this area and there's little or no information about this routes. Shamefully the trail (which was in a sort of unauthorized area for MTB) had been close down for soil conservation, and I was unable to get to the end of it.