Mexico. See Matt, I do post pictures. Sometimes.
If it wasn't for Matt, one of my travel partners in India a couple years ago, I would never post new pictures here. One of two things usual prompts me to put new stuff up: A) Matt calls and makes fun of me for never updating this site, or B) Matt posts a funny/sorta dirty post on an older post and I remember that this site exists. In this case I think he did both.
So here I am again. After a long hiatus I'm putting some new pictures up. These are from a trip I took to Mexico this January. A couple friends and I took three weeks to explore Oaxaca and Chiapas, with my travel partners making a detour through the beach. I have a long-standing hatred of sand, so I skipped that part.
We spent the first week in Oaxaca City, the capital city of Oaxaca state. We stayed in a hostel owned by a French woman, who was married to a man from Israel. They were funny and kind and the rooms were spotless. And cheap. Most of my waking hours, at least for the first week or so, were spent eating churros and drinking coffee. It was decadent. Oaxaca is the perfect city to walk. It's small size makes it very manageable and there was something visually exciting on every block. My goal in Mexico was to shoot things that interested me on a basic visual level. Colors, shapes, patterns.
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We took a day trip to the ancient ruins of Monte Alban, a city built on a hilltop just outside Oaxaca City. I'm not a big fan of ruins, having been to approximately....er....one ruin site my entire life, but Monte Alban was amazing. What stuck me the most was the sheer size, or ginormity, of the city. Also, similar to the number of commas in this paragraph, there were many, many steps.
The daily markets in Oaxaca City were faily large, but the Saturday market (the photo above) was insane. It was like a huge antique mall. But instead of teacups, beat-up G.I.Joes and stacks of National Geographic magazines thinned of the nudie issues, these markets carry chicken heads, snake-skin belts and babies. OK, full disclosure: These markets didn't sell children. But there were so many kids running around that your offer would probably have been considered.
I spent a few days in Cuajimoloyas, a tiny town in the Sierra Norte mountains. The elavation in Cuajimoloyas in around 10,000 feet. I nearly suffocated every time I walked from my rental cabin to one of the town's restaurants. When I got to the city, I fell into a wedding procession that had started the day before. It didn't end until way up in the night. The man in the third picture is handing out shots of tequilla to the audience. This may be why the party didn't end until way up in the night.
Finally, the last two pictures are from San Cristobal, Chiapas. We loved Chiapas. I can't put my finger on why we had such a good time there, but I would love to go back. The man in the first picture tailored a pair of pants for me and my partner Joel. He works out of a stall in the market with his family. His daughter took our measurements and his sons are learning to sew.
That's all for now. I would love to say that I'll post more pictures from the trip soon, but I'm a realist. Maybe I'll get some up before my next trip to San Cristobal. Thanks for reading.
So here I am again. After a long hiatus I'm putting some new pictures up. These are from a trip I took to Mexico this January. A couple friends and I took three weeks to explore Oaxaca and Chiapas, with my travel partners making a detour through the beach. I have a long-standing hatred of sand, so I skipped that part.
We spent the first week in Oaxaca City, the capital city of Oaxaca state. We stayed in a hostel owned by a French woman, who was married to a man from Israel. They were funny and kind and the rooms were spotless. And cheap. Most of my waking hours, at least for the first week or so, were spent eating churros and drinking coffee. It was decadent. Oaxaca is the perfect city to walk. It's small size makes it very manageable and there was something visually exciting on every block. My goal in Mexico was to shoot things that interested me on a basic visual level. Colors, shapes, patterns.
click the photo to order a print
We took a day trip to the ancient ruins of Monte Alban, a city built on a hilltop just outside Oaxaca City. I'm not a big fan of ruins, having been to approximately....er....one ruin site my entire life, but Monte Alban was amazing. What stuck me the most was the sheer size, or ginormity, of the city. Also, similar to the number of commas in this paragraph, there were many, many steps.
The daily markets in Oaxaca City were faily large, but the Saturday market (the photo above) was insane. It was like a huge antique mall. But instead of teacups, beat-up G.I.Joes and stacks of National Geographic magazines thinned of the nudie issues, these markets carry chicken heads, snake-skin belts and babies. OK, full disclosure: These markets didn't sell children. But there were so many kids running around that your offer would probably have been considered.
I spent a few days in Cuajimoloyas, a tiny town in the Sierra Norte mountains. The elavation in Cuajimoloyas in around 10,000 feet. I nearly suffocated every time I walked from my rental cabin to one of the town's restaurants. When I got to the city, I fell into a wedding procession that had started the day before. It didn't end until way up in the night. The man in the third picture is handing out shots of tequilla to the audience. This may be why the party didn't end until way up in the night.
Finally, the last two pictures are from San Cristobal, Chiapas. We loved Chiapas. I can't put my finger on why we had such a good time there, but I would love to go back. The man in the first picture tailored a pair of pants for me and my partner Joel. He works out of a stall in the market with his family. His daughter took our measurements and his sons are learning to sew.
That's all for now. I would love to say that I'll post more pictures from the trip soon, but I'm a realist. Maybe I'll get some up before my next trip to San Cristobal. Thanks for reading.
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