More from Mexico..

Along with my digital SLR I had my Yashica T4 (35mm), which I managed to lose at airport at the end of the trip (it was a bad trip for my cameras apparently). The 2 rolls I managed not to lose contained these photos…

There was a protest in front of Bellas Artes which featured a few hundred nearly naked and fully naked people.

The women were fully nude and went around asking for donations while the men picketed in the streets. It was quite a sight!

This is Torre Mayor (The Great Tower), Latin America’s tallest building.

MEX$20 (US$2) sunglasses in Chapultepec Park.

Two workers install new cement panels while a third guy takes a nap. With I had a longer lens, this was as close as I could get. I shot this thru a steel fence.

The two cats living at the apartment I stayed at. Thanks Pepe! They were quite interesting cats for sure. Gatos Locos.

Another cat on the street, hanging out.

Estadio Azteca. Apparently the 4th largest stadium in the world. It holds nearly 120,000 people and it was about full for this match. Insane. This was at the very end of the game. The local team lost and people threw stuff onto the field, but there were no riots. Outside the stadium, a hundred or so riot police stood guard. They don’t fuck around with soccer in Mexico.

This place had the best tacos I’ve ever eaten, and is one of the cities most famous taquerias. Open 24 hours with a drive in parking lot.

It suddenly began puring around the afternoon rush hour. Hail! Everyone took cover in the buildings. I had a broken umbrella and my waterproof T4 so I braved a few shots, which don’t do the storm any justice. It was pretty brutal.

Perros

Enjoy,
Clayton

A little bit of Ciudad de Mexico

I didn’t shoot nearly as much as I expected I would in Mexico City. I think perhaps it had a lot to do with my reluctance to use my 5D (I used my backup 20D instead) but moreso the fact that I found my Nikon FM2 lens was not focusing properly upon arrival, and therefore was of no use. I had hoped to do mostly 35mm b/w photos while there, but alas it was not to be. My time was spent mostly wandering endlessly and trying to take everything in as much as possible. In the end, my visual memory is better than my photographic evidence. I did get a few shots that I liked a fair amount…

In Zocalo, the main square of the city and area most frequented by tourists. Perhaps the only foreign tourists I noticed the entire four days were all in this area of the city.

Guy hoping he wins the day’s lottery.

Many streets are all filled with similar stores. Much like the “districts” you will find in other cities. In D.F. I passed some interesting ones, like the lamps and lighting district, the wedding/formal dress district, the pluming supply district.. as I liked to refer to them.

Shoe shining is very commonplace. Most people were decent shoes. Among the endless amounts of street venders were a healthy supply of shoe shiners.

Fancy building.

Mexico City Cathedral, one of the largest cathedrals in the western hemisphere.

Back in Zocalo main square, they were constructing a giant temporary museum, along with a large skating rink they were calling “the world’s largest” which seemed to cause a slight controversy among the citizens.

The giant Mexican flag that flies in the square.

Traffic in Zocalo square with the National Palace to the right.

View to the North from Torre Latinoamericana. It’s one of the taller buildings in the city. Rumor has it that a man was on the top of the tower during the earthquake of 1985 and went insane after watching numerous other building collapse in the area and feeling the tower sway back and forth, as designed to do in an earthquake.

Inside the Cathedral.

Another panaramic from atop the Torre Latinoamericana.

And there is a small taste of what I got to see and do while in the world’s 2nd largest city.

Enjoy,
Clayton

Mexico

So, I’ve been in Mexico for a few days now. Playa Del Carmen y Ciudad de Mexico. I took a few hour break from the insanity here in Mexico City to look thru the photos I shot before and during the wedding I was flown down here to cover at a resort in Playa Del Carmen. More to come!

Enjoy,
Clayton