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Sunsets, Caves & Fireworks
Friday, August 03, 2007


Some years ago Vancouver master photoprinter Trevor Martin and I were asked to judge a photo show at St. George's School for Boys. Without saying anything we made three piles. One pile consisted of sunsets, the second of cat pictures and in the third we put everything else. We judged only the third pile. I feel that the excitement of a sunset, a display of fireworks or a stalagtite that might resemble a roaring iguana is lost when photographed. I don't want to go as far as saying that when you see one of these you have seen them all.

In 1966 on a slow boat from Buenos Aires to Veracruz I photographed as many sunsets as we had during the almost two-month voyage. I have long lost the Kodachromes and I don't feel all that sad.

Going up the stairs to our room in Mérida, Rosemary pointed out the sunset and suggested I photograph Rebecca. The clouds in Mérida, and much of Yucatén seemed to hug the ground.



They hovered above and I felt I could almost touch them. These clouds filtered the sunlight (but not the heat!) so that the light in the evenings had a warm pastel glow. And so I took these photos.



     

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Defect, Defect, Waiting For The Real Thing

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Buying Shoes For A Doll (Difficult)

Palenque & Beetles Again

Uxmal & Rebecca Heats Up

The Jeweled Beetle & Rebecca Cries

A Flamingo Fly-By Stinks Of A Disneyland Hippo

Casa Catherwood At The Dawn Of Lithography

El Caracol, Chichén Itzá & A Flat in Hoctún



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