Mexico: What a wonderful country. What a nice people. They still have bookstores, how quaint, and they still read the Spanish classics. I noticed that prices tend to go down when you speak fairly fluent Spanish, though I am still saying Arabic numbers, even Spanish numbers with Arabic grammar, like: I should say veinte y siete for twenty-seven, but Arabic grammar makes me say siete y vente, and most often it just comes out Arabic--sebba w osherine. A good idea to reshoot the whole works with the SLR Nikon. The little Lumix I used here five years ago and raved about produced an embarassing collection. You must be able to control your apertures--take control of that camera and you need a camera with a big CMOS sensor, at least 26 milimeters. Most point and shoots start with around a nine milimeter sensor, not good if you have heavy contrasts coming in and you want to manipulate them for artistic effect.. The other night I rented a room in the jungle at the Coba Mayan Pyramdes, and could see the Milky Way slice through a third of the sky with Scorpio right next to it--perhaps twenty years since I have seen the Milky Way, about five thousand light years to the outer Sagetarius wall from here and another twenty-two thousand light years from there to the galacic center--I know so much more about it than I did the last time I saw it. Got some wonderful shots of Chichen Itza today--so many wonderful carvings I strangely missed before. Something to be said for coming here in the summer as the rains have a way of clearing the air, whereas in places like Yucatan and Cambodia of similar latitudes the winter dust tends to hang above everything. Mostly Mexican tourists this time of year, a gracious people--the foreigners are mostly Europeans. The Americans tend to stay in Cancun with the exception of a few weirdly nice Oregonianites.
Posted on: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 01:26:25 +0000
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