I’m back!

What a week. I’m now catching up with all manner of business and starting to look at some of the 500 odd photos. Guadalajara, Mexico was absolutely brilliant. Since life moves pretty slowly round here in Alameda, I’m just going to serialise what I did day by day last week with accompanying photos. Tuesday: Arrival, Jose picked me up from the airport, my old mobile phone blinked back to life, got some keys cut, the bed inflated, and went for a quiet night in Cafe Colibri, Las Fuentes…

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Wednesday: Checked me emails at J’s school, then headed straight for the centre and had molletes’n’coffee at Cafe D’Val, shoved the fisheye onto me camera and wandered round for a few hours via the usual centro historico landmarks such as the fountains, San Juan de Dios, La Fuente and suchlike. When it got too hot around 2ish, I headed back to Jose’s and we went round Javier’s to watch Atlas lose 3-0, then on to Fernando’s then on to Bar Scratch, then La Cava, then back to crash on Javier’s sofa…

My fisheye lens arrived…

…And I took a few snaps… This is going to be FUN 😀

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If you’re interested in one, it fits on the end of most DSLR lenses and I may manage some kind of review soon. Here’s the Amazon link in the interim.

Chamelon Cars- Ongoing photography project

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Cars come in pretty much the same colour in most countries, but in Mexico, the same colours are used for painting houses. It’s natural to suppose that if someone buys a red car, then they’re likely to paint their house red too. Maybe. I’m not sure if this is statistically significant but there’s a selection up on Flickr, click any of these photos for a look. Anroad, my latest quest is for shots of chamelon cars, that try and blend in with their surroundings…
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