Browsing Tag

mineral de pozos

Life in Mexico Photography

Dos Catrinas

On Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead), I styled a photo shoot with two young women who are also good friends. I did all the make-up myself and chose a location here in Mineral de Pozos, Mexico.  The San Pedro ruins provided the perfect backdrop for my shoot.  Alejandra and Malenii were terrific models and very patient with my broken Spanish language instructions (thank goodness for universal hand signals). Thanks to Jaime for being my translator when needed and teaching me phrases for future styled shoots with Spanish speaking models.  I love how these turned out and I think I’ll make it an annual project here in Mexico.

These images are available as fine art prints and licensing.

Camera: Pentax 645Z

Editing Software: Adobe Lightroom, Alien Skin Exposure 7

doscatrinas 01 monica y malenii 061 monica y malenii 083 monica y malenii 198-Edit-2 monica y malenii 203-Edit doscatrinas 02 monica y malenii 129-Edit-2

Life in Mexico Photography

Dos Catrinas – Infrared

On Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead), I styled a photo shoot with two young women who are also good friends. I did all the make-up myself and chose a location here in Mineral de Pozos, Mexico.  The San Pedro ruins provided the perfect backdrop for my shoot.  Alejandra and Malenii were terrific models.  My previous post shows the medium format color images from the shoot. This post features the digital infrared images using a Supercolor IR filter.

These images are available as fine art prints and licensing.

Camera: Nikon D300 (IR conversion)Editing Software: Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop

monica y malenii IR 018

doscatrinas IR 01 monica y malenii IR 005 doscatrinas IR 02

monica y malenii IR 026

monica y malenii IR 031

monica y malenii IR 042

monica y malenii IR 051

monica y malenii IR 059

monica y malenii IR 075

monica y malenii IR 078

Life in Mexico Photography

The Children of El Dia de Todos los Santos

November 1st is All Saints Day or El Dia de Todos los Santos in Mexico.  The deceased children (little angels) are remembered on November 1st with toys and colorful balloons adorning their graves.  In Pozos, on this day, the children dress up in costumes and go to various homes to collect candy, much like Halloween night in the USA. A group of us gathered at the home of a friend with bags of candy and greeting the children. There were many more children than we expected and we ran out of candy.  I photographed them as they came into the entry to collect their sweets.

kids dotd 01 kids dotd 02 kids dotd 03 kids dotd 04 kids dotd 05 kids dotd 06 kids dotd 07 kids dotd 08

Life in Mexico Photography

Life in Pozos – More from La Fiesta

We’re coming down to the last day of the annual celebration to honor the town’s patron saint: El Señor de los Trabajos (The Lord of Work). Yesterday was a busy one for Pozos — the day before was quiet because of heavy rains. We wandered around in the evening, looking for yummy food from the street vendors and photographing the scenes encountered. We saw tons of market stalls, food stalls set up everywhere, carnival rides, street dogs looking for scraps, indigenous dancers in colorful costumes and headdresses, and people of all ages making their way on their knees to end their pilgrimage at the church at the top of the hill.  Here’s some of the scenes I captured yesterday.

feria2 b02

feria2 b03 feria2 b04feria2 b05feria2 b06feria2 b07feria2 b08feria2 b09feria2 b10feria2 b11feria2 b12feria2 b13feria2 b14feria2 b15feria2 b16feria2 b17feria2 b18feria2 b19feria2 b20feria2 b21feria2 b22feria2 b23feria2 b24feria2 b25feria2 b26feria2 b27feria2 b28feria2 b29feria2 b30feria2 b31

Life in Mexico Photography

Life in Pozos – La Fiesta de El Señor de los Trabajos

Yes, it’s a big week here in Mineral de Pozos, Mexico. It’s the annual celebration to honor the town’s patron saint: El Señor de los Trabajos (The Lord of Work).  Many Mexicans pray to El Señor de los Trabajos to help them find work to provide for their families. This is also the patron saint of our parroquia.

This week is a busy medley of processions, native drumming, dancing, marching bands, music, markets and food stands along with the constant artillery pops of firecrackers and fireworks at all hours of the day and night. There is so much going on, it’s overwhelming to experience for the first time. This fiesta is something the entire town prepares for and looks forward to all year. The fiesta will end on Sunday with the arrival of a large pilgrimage of indigenous people from Mexico City and other states of Mexico.

I love photographing Pozos and and feel blessed to live here. I will post more images as the fiesta continues, but here’s a sampling of what I photographed earlier today.

feria b01feria b02feria b03feria b04feria b05feria b06feria b07feria b08feria b09feria b10feria b11feria b12feria b13

Photography

2010 In Review – Color Infrared

I’ve been shooting digital infrared images for close to 10 years now and this is the first year that I used a camera capable of shooting color infrared images. I had my Nikon D70 converted to shoot color infrared. My camera was converted by Jim Chen. His website contains information on the conversion process and a lot of great information about digital infrared photography in general.

Here are some of my favorite color digital infrared images photographed with my newly converted Nikon D70 camera in 2010.

Mineral de Pozos, Mexico

Statue Park, Budapest, Hungary

Mineral de Pozos, Mexico

The fair comes to Mineral de Pozos, Mexico

Circus in Mexico

Mineral de Pozos, Mexico

(Left) Central Texas, (Right) Las Vegas, NV

Hortobagy, Hungary

Budapest, Hungary

Life in Mexico Photography

For the Love of Pozos – Textures and HDR

The new home of our art gallery, Mineral de Pozos in central Mexico, is filled with textures and colors that makes it a joy to photograph. One of the best ways to capture these textures is through HDR photography.  These series of images were shot in Pozos and processed using HDR Efex Pro from Nik software. Some of the images are 3 shots at exposures 1 stop apart and some of them are single exposures.

The left image is a reflection in the window (you can see me near the bottom). The right image is a multiple exposure combined in my Nikon D300 camera.

This is night time at Posada de Los Minas, a beautiful boutique hotel in Pozos. It’s one of our favorite places to gather for freshly prepared food in their courtyard restaurant.

I have a soft spot for the village dogs in Pozos. I have started a whole series of photographs of these dogs.

Pozos is magical at night… Note the little black village dog in the shot too.

Pozos has a great panteon (cemetary).

Ruins…. beautiful ruins everywhere in Pozos.