Just wondering how square images would look with the new transmogrified landscape template. Two posts in one day! Good times.

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.

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.

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.

In other news. Look it! This photo already has comments. How? It’s thanks to the import comments from Flickr plugin I’ve installed. Shoot me an email if you’re interested in the machinations involved. More comments are always welcome. Even if you don’t know what to write.

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.

It was coming down thick and fast, the only people out were business owners suddenly demoted to street sweepers and this poor, bedraggled poodle. Atticus was safe and warm back at the house. He’s due a long walk today.

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.

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.

I went on a walk round the Hawthorne area on Saturday afternoon and about 30 kids were shooting hoops. With varying degrees of success.

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…