Three landscapes

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Fields near the mountainous woods of Mazamitla

Islets in a semi-deserted beach in Michoacán

The quaint city of Guanajuato

Just exemplifying again the wildly different landscapes that can be found in the region. Sadly the ever increasing reports violence in the zone has steered travellers away from these lands, specially for the first two. Sadder is that it is probably perfectly safe for anyone to go there; all there is is fear.

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.