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No Sunday is complete without voting and BMX tricks

idiotwon — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 05:44:04 +0000

Finally the day has come when small percent of the people in Mexico decide who are the people who will make decisions for them. I was up to my ears of all the election advertising and noise pollution that could be seen and heard on the streets all over Mexico. Tomorrow the ads will be removed and world is once again a more beautiful place to live in.

Today I decided to go and take some photos of the elections but I guess I wasn’t thinking well ahead since of course I needed a permission to take photos of people voting. After several hours of walking pointlessly around the city I saw our university’s office building and on the outside entrance of it there was a voting place. I was wearing my, almost clean, white University shirt. That should give me a small change… I walked straight to the voting place, sat down to a corner and started waiting. After a while I lifted my camera right in front of the officials and started taking photos while still sitting. 10-15 minutes later I had about 60 photos and I decided to move to phase 2. I stood up and changed my position. After 4 shots a lady, that had seen me the whole time, came to ask if I had a permission to take photos. Of course I didn’t so I apologized and walked away.

After that I decided to go home and on the way took some more photos of people on the street. Nothing special but just playing around with camera and point of view and waiting for the right moment.

Waterfalls. A little paradise outside Guadalajara

idiotwon — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 23:30:16 +0000

Last Sunday we went to some waterfalls just outside Guadalara. The entrance was 50 pesos (3 euros).
There was a thin line between feeling like getting beaten up and getting a massage when standing under the waterfalls. It all depended pretty much were you were standing. The second craziest place to stand was at the end of the waterfalls where you could only see rocks, water and, this huge noise in your ears. But the best place by far was at the entrance to the waterfalls. There the wind inside the cave blew outwards. When mixing this cold wind with vaporized water and the water that was pouring from above my whole skin was tinkling. When I was standing waist deep on the warm water the contrast was incredible and all the senses of my body were blasting away full on. I could have stayed there a lot longer.

Few words about the photos. At the moment I’m struggling finding the “right” photo. That means finding the best one if that is possible. Here I have several photos of the waterfalls and 3 different shots of a man sleeping with a boy. I do have my favorites but sometimes it’s a real pain in the ass to choose the best ones, what ever that means.

Sunday morning walk

idiotwon — Sun, 24 May 2009 16:55:26 +0000

…and one photo from Saturday night