The good doctora and I are celebrating our 10th Anniversary… the Opening Ceremony of which took place last night in Tlaquepaque and was nigh on perfect. As we ordered our tequila and dinner the heavens opened; the cloudburst stopped just as the sun was setting and with the view down towards the city being pretty much due west, it made for a gorgeous sight. Back home v. soon. It’s been magical as always.
Sounds like some kind of online multiplayer roleplaying game that title…
Anyhoo, barring a radical change the number of times I upload pix, this’ll be one of the last photos from NYC in this blog that has been variously:
Mostly Mexico
From Mexico to (Ala)meda
From Mexico to Multnomah
From Mexico to Maine
From Mexico to Manhattan
and soon to be ‘From Mexico to Salt Lake City, Utah’ or a variation thereof. Thank you for your continued patronage, looking forward to sharing the Utah landscape with y’all 🙂
but still no snow. Can’t be far away now.
I like the reflection of the Manhattanery in the bauble and the reflection of Radio City on the water. I don’t like the blurred bit where the xmas tree is in the background; it’s ‘cos of a scratched patch on my kit lens, which any day now will cease to be a problem thanks to amazon.com 🙂
From Wikipedia: “The Flatiron Building, or Fuller Building as it was originally called, is located at 175 Fifth Avenue in the borough of Manhattan, and is considered to be one of the first skyscrapers ever built. Upon completion in 1902 it was one of the tallest buildings in New York City.”
And now I have captured its soul… mua hahaha, etc.
Having a video on the homepage is more hassle than it’s worth, so here’s one to replace it from Sunday’s early morning walkabout in Soho (which stands for South of Houston, as I’m sure you already knew).
Today’s pic (or, rather at my current publication rate… this month’s pic) is one that moves. Unless you’re viewing it in your email inbox… in which case please click here. I stopped at every road crossing and took a quick snap, along the route above, on the way to meet a friend I hadn’t seen since about 1990. Music’s the ever-wonderful Catatonia…
From another photo meet-up in Chinatown, this time a lot more low-key, just 10 or so people, which wasn’t quite so overwhelming for the locals. My new technique is sitting at the side of the road and just taking shots as they occur. Which has about a 5% success rate, but I’m a lot more comfortable with that than rushing up to victims and stealing their souls… One day there’ll be a meet up that isn’t in Chinatown.
Looking down from our apartment as the sun sank lower in the sky there were all kinds of cool shadows going on this avo. This pic’s not on Flickr (yet), when it arrives there I’ll probably stick with the uncropped portrait version.
Ideally at some point this autumn a herd of camels will pass so I can try and duplicate this shot:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com.tr/ngm/0502/masaustu/4_b.jpg
Just wondering how square images would look with the new transmogrified landscape template. Two posts in one day! Good times.
10 days in and I’ve finally got round to updating this blog. Managing a curious schipperke and a pentax with manual focus in the big city is proving harder than I though.
Here’s a pic from a block from where we’ll be living for the forseeable future.
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.
Loved this graffito in Oaxaca (I want to write something but I don’t know what). I want to post it everywhere as it captures a feeling I regularly get.
Today we might finally sit down with a calendar and work out how this summer is going to happen. There’s a lot to sort out, and I keep getting asked for dates for everything. Hopefully we’ll sort it out today so I can give more useful answers.
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I MISS MEXICO… (you’d be surprised how many people Google ‘Miss Mexico’ and end up here… can’t imagine why)
One of the few things I regret, other than not still living south of the border, is that I didn’t take a tripod with me on our trip to Oaxaca. That said thanks to me 1:1.4 50mm lens I managed a good few hand-held night time shots like this one in the courtyard of Santo Domingo’s church which, though they don’t hold up to close scrutiny, give a good feel for the atmosphere.
It was coming down thick and fast, the only people out were business owners suddenly demoted to street sweepers and this poor, bedraggled poodle. Atticus was safe and warm back at the house. He’s due a long walk today.
Taken after stumbling into the street blinking and full after lunch at Bijou in Portland with Tanya and Jonathon.
The sleet had just stopped, the sun came out, and it wouldn’t hail for another hour or so… Good weather for Powell’s books, then bananagrams.
I tried this in black and white, but decided it worked slightly better desaturated.
Or Portland, 2008 through a Kodak Duaflex II from 1963(ish)…
Looks like the temperatures have risen and from today on there’ll no snow at the metro level. It were good while it lasted.
I went on a walk round the Hawthorne area on Saturday afternoon and about 30 kids were shooting hoops. With varying degrees of success.
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…
