El de los lonches
Black and white candids around NYC is all well and good, but you can’t beat the honest to goodness colour and warmth of Mexico. Matey here made a fantastic lonche. I promised to give him a copy of this photo the following week but due to gastric unpleasantness beyond my control I didn’t get a chance.
Yet another reason to go back 🙂
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Hallelujah
The sunsets the last few days have been stunning. Huge storm clouds, red-tinged light, and all at the perfectly acceptable hour of about 9pm. It’s been raining a fair amount too, but the good, Mexican, kind of rain that soaks you to the skin in 30 seconds but is as warm as a heated swimming pool. An hour or two later and other than the occasional missing road, everything’s back to normal. Love it.
Anyway, this ain’t a sunset, but a quick snap of the sky while walking Bolo the Beagle in the tapatían afternoon.
Todo con medida…
Nada con exceso…
All adverts for alcoholic drinks in Mexico have to have a government safety warning on them somewhere. Corona has gone with ‘Todo con medida’ literally ‘All with measure’. There doesn’t appear to be any law on the relative size of the warning to the rest of the ad though.
This was taken after a rainy morning stroll through Tlaquepaque a lovely neck of the woods. Still loving it here.
Luchador – Victoria!
We went to the Luchas last night… Normally in the Coliseo de Jalisco they don’t let you take cameras in. In the F Bolko they were much more forgiving, I only wish I’d brought more lenses and an external flash. The camera’s beside the point though because it was another fantastic evening of flying masked men, beers and shouting nonsense.
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Bolo
We’re being treated like royalty here in Guadalajara by Mario and Ange, and all we seem to need to do to repay the favour is take the occasional photo of the very photogenic Bolo the Beagle… Read More “Bolo”
Playtime
This is from yonks ago when I was taking photos for a primary school’s website I was designing in Guadalajara. Now they’re looking to update it as it has aged badly in the intervening 3 years… As I was looking for inspiration in my photostream I found this one and thought I’d share it.
End of days
After the snow comes rain. After the rain comes snow.
Mexican Colours
Oregonian temperatures… I liked the way the shadow cast itself across the decidedly Mexican looking paintwork. It’s a photo from my ‘thanksgiving’ stroll yesterday morning.
Here’s a photo from Guadalajara to contrast with…
Charro in Guadalajara
More info on things to do in Guadalajara here.
Upgraded to WordPress 2.6 today hence the sudden post…
La Iglesia de los Santos Ángeles, Guadalajara, Mexico
Off of Enrique Diaz de Leon in GDL, near the Mercado Juarez.
Y (gracias a Ale) si quieren casarse ahi o mandar hacer misas 38-25-09-45
( http://www.arquidiocesisgdl.org.mx/horariomisa/hrmisatemplos.php )
Mexcalzingo
This one’s hot off the presses from the photos from last week all in Mexico. This is an old street with ancient wiring in the Mexcalzingo area of Guadalajara, otherwise perfectly maintained and clean. I like the colours, obviously 😉
Vocho
Getting carried away with me fisheye lens in Alameda
Arcos del Milenio, Guadalajara
We’re in the middle of moving house right now and deciding the future of this phlog. It’s going to have to be a lot less Mexico and a lot more Alameda from now on… Or should I start another one? Details as and when…
Marketing
Yep, there’s been a hiatus while we moved from Mexico to Oakland, California via a wonderful 3 week holiday in Somerset in the UK. Apologies for that. I’m going to keep posting Mexican photos for a while until the quality trails off then there’ll be some kind of thematic shift. I’m still not sure what it is I want to capture exactly about my new whereabouts. There’s lots of houses and the usual chain stores and I also don’t feel as comfortable wandering round with my camera as I did in Mexico, but hey ho, something will come up. Maybe I’ll advertise for muses on Craigslist.
This photo’s from Guadalajara’s Mercado de Abastos, the food market where shops and restaurants do their supply shopping.
Irresistable
Destroy your teeth and get stung at the same time with these delicious toffee apples on display at the Mercado de los Muertos in Parque Morelos, Guadalajara, Mexico.
Bicycle in La Fuente
Legend has it that 80 years or so ago a punter couldn’t pay his bar tab so he left his bike there promising to come back the next day with the cash. He never returned and so his dusty bike now surveys all in the La Fuente Cantina in the centre of Guadalajara. It’s now their logo too.