I got me camera…
…it´s this one. Even better than I thought, 7 megapixels, wide angle and various other bells and whistles, just what I needed for when my bulky but lovely Pentax DSLR is overkill. It’s charging now and then I’ll wander off and try it out. Tomorrow I get me mugshot in the paper and I reckon a fair few Flickr peeps will also have their photo published too.
I bought a tripod the other day as Day of the Dead is when you really need a steady camera to take long exposure night pictures. Here´s one from Myrna´s house of the altar she made for her mum.
I watched Carlos Reygada’s latest yesterday, Luz Silenciosa, which is a relatively restrained film about the Mennonites in the North of Mexico. Very nice photography in it, but not really my cup of tea. By a long way. Frankly, I’d rather read a book of the pictures than have to bear 2 hours or so of very, very slow moving plot. Luckily Jose, Javier and Franz came round to provide a commentary throughout. Without that I’d’ve been asleep after 15 minutes. No gerontophilia this time, and that is something to be thankful for. After watching Japon I badly needed the mind bleach. I just looked at the IMDB page, one user has the perfect one-line review: “Art-house pretension at its most tedious” Amen to that.
Sita’s being interviewed today in america, and I haven’t heard from her today yet but yesterday she seemed well impressed with the place. It’s in the foothills of the Rockies, so that means I have no clue where she is. Upper Left Gringolandia? Looking forward to a phone call later…
ajalas, muy bien por los de Mural (y por ti sobre todo) que no dan regalos chafas. Felicidades!
Eso Mario, se pasaron de buenos.
hullo gwyn, congrats!! loved the photo for which you got the award. hope s’s visit stateside is a tremendous success! look forward to hearing about it and getting some advice from the expert. love, t
Whoa, an interview! Well, that’s great, and if it gets y’all closer, that’s even better.
Hey, can you get me some of those paper cut-out things for the day of the dead (if there are any still around–I shoulda thought of this before the holiday. Is there such a thing as an after-holiday sale there?)My altar is lacking…
I have this army of sugar skulls here left over from our party Friday that no one will eat. Vance is going to throw them into the wine we are making…
Hi T, young Sita’s having a day of rest today, deservedly. Once she’s back to normal I’m sure she’ll be ringing you up with all the juicy sociomological details.
Will do, Kathy, I’ll keep my eyes open for bargain basement papel picado, and save us some sugar skull wine.
Saludos!
¿A que parte de Jalisoc aún te falta ir desùés de tanto tiempo?
Santa María de Oro, Comala y San Juan de los Lagos están en mi lista para visitar antes de que nos vayamos. Un saludo!