Atardecer Lluvioso en Tlaquepaque

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.

¡Salud!¡Salud!

Shadow of Empire

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 🙂

Gearing up for xmas in NYC

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 🙂

Flatiron Building, NYC

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.

Trompe le monde

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).

Bleecker to 54th

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…

Places to be

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.

New York, New York

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.

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.

Quiero escribir algo pero no sé qué


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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Templo de Santo Domingo, Oaxaca

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.

Bijou

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.

Siberia, 1963

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.

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…

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