• North America, United States, New Mexico, Albuquerque. Shadows angle down from structural wood support beams onto an adobe stucco wall in Old Town, Albuquerque.

    Adobe Sunlight and Shadow

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    Walking Old Town Albuquerque (a touristy attraction comprised mostly of trinket shops) I turned down a side alley to find this simple adobe wall with wooden support beams (technical term: vigas), casting long shadows at a 45-degree angle across the stucco canvas.  
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  • A 3-foot wide, shallow basket, made of out thick twigs, shows off 100 or more colorful Mexican peppers that fill the screen with green, yellow, orange, and bright red. Two small, white plastic bowls sit atop the stack of peppers with additional peppers arranged into a design like an opening flower—some leaning over the side of the bowl, and some pointing upwards.

    Benito Juarez Market Peppers

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    Close up of a basket of red and green peppers for sale at the Benito Juarez market in Oaxaca, Mexico. This 3-foot wide basket of peppers completely covered the spectrum from green, yellow, orange, and bright red. Bekki and I traveled to Oaxaca, Mexico, February of 2020 with my sister and brother-in-law who organize cultural trips to Central America and Mexico. While the Benito Juarez Market isn't the only market in Oaxaca, it's a large and vibrant one with over 360 vendors selling ... everything.  
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  • Vertical portrait of man dressed for the carnival celebration of lent in the village of Tilcajete, Mexico. The man has painted his face in light-blue paint, which covers his forehead down to his chin. The blue paint also covers his short mustache and beard. He has painted three blue vertical lines down his face, across his eyes and cheeks; and down the middle of his forehead, nose, and chin. He wears a paper-mache jaguar head mask like a hat on the top of his head. About 35-peacock feathers protrude from the back of his head in a 180-degree arc. Over the top of a brown and white tie-dyed shirt, red-dyed corn and brown acorn necklaces hang around his neck.

    Blue man Tilcajete carnival

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    Prior to Ash Wednesday the village of Tilcajete, near Oaxaca, celebrates carnival with imaginative animal and creature masks in chanting, grunting, colorful processions. Here, a carnival celebrant wears blue face paint with a jaguar mask on top of his head, and peacock feathers fanned out behind his head. (I have a similar shot of his female companion.) Bekki and I traveled to Oaxaca, Mexico, February of 2020 with my sister and brother-in-law who organize cultural trips to Central America and Mexico.  
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  • Vertical portrait of woman dressed for the carnival celebration of lent in the village of Tilcajete, Mexico. She has painted her face in light-blue paint, which covers her forehead down below her neck. Three blue vertical lines run down her face, forehead, eyes, cheeks, and chin. On top of her head, an American Indian-style headdress sprouts peacock feathers which stick up into the sky. Large multicolored earrings dangle from her ears. Four beaded necklaces drape over her jaguar-print shirt, underneath a long sleeve V-neck blouse with a faux fur collar. She carries a small human skull on a stick in her right hand.

    Blue woman Tilcajete carnival

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    Prior to Ash Wednesday the village of Tilcajete, near Oaxaca, celebrates carnival with imaginative animal and creature masks in chanting, grunting, colorful processions. Here, a carnival celebrant wears blue face paint with a peacock head dress. (I have a similar shot of her male companion.) Bekki and I traveled to Oaxaca, Mexico, February of 2020 with my sister and brother-in-law who organize cultural trips to Central America and Mexico.  
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  • Horizontal photo of shirtless man dressed for the carnival celebration of lent in the village of Tilcajete, Mexico. His back is covered in black paint which has caked and dissolved in sweat from his activity in the hot sun. He has tied ten or more black cowbells around his waist, visible across the center third of the image. The cowbells bounce and carom into the air as he dances and chants. Underneath the cowbells we see a heavy burlap garment, stained from his black body paint, and fraying around the edges.

    Cowbell carnival cacophony

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    Prior to Ash Wednesday the village of Tilcajete, near Oaxaca, celebrates carnival with imaginative animal and creature masks in chanting, grunting, colorful processions. Here, a carnival celebrant parades through the dusty village streets with his group of similarly-costumed friends. The cowbells strapped around his waist clang and and jangle as he grunts and dances. Bekki and I traveled to Oaxaca, Mexico, February of 2020 with my sister and brother-in-law who organize cultural trips to Central America and Mexico.  
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  • Horizontal photo of four large, light blue ceramic urns, 18-inches at the center diameter, that appear to have been abandoned in the church of Saint John the Baptist, located in San Juan Bautista Coixtlahuaca, Mexico. The dusty urns lean against a stucco wall, askew, on a table along with several discarded candleholders and an old hanging chain light fixture with four dirty bare lightbulbs.

    Forgotten blue urns

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    Three long-forgotten, dust-coated, blue ceramic urns sit abandoned on a dusty table in the organ loft of the church of Saint John the Baptist  in the village of San Juan Bautista Suchix Hahuca. Old wooden candlesticks lie strewn about the table. A still life image caught in time. Bekki and I traveled to Oaxaca, Mexico, February of 2020 with my sister and brother-in-law who organize cultural trips to Central America and Mexico.  
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  • Inn and Spa at Loretto, Santa Fe

    Inn at Loretto Adobe Geometry

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    The Inn and Spa at Loretto is located on the Old Santa Fe Trail, just southeast of downtown Santa Fe. The hotel's abstract geometric adobe block architecture, punctuated with brown metal gutters that look like wooden support beams jutting out from the walls; and the shadows from the morning sun, caught my attention.  
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  • Overlooking the Plaza de la Danza with the Basilica of Our Lady of Solitude on the right side of the image. A dark blue twilight sky frames the silhouetted trees in the back of the plaza and twinkling lights on the nearby mountain in the background. Young friends gather to talk on the far side of the plaza underneath the lamp light. Photo is taken from Avenue Jose Maria Morelos.

    Plaza de la Danza

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    People gather in the Plaza de la Danza (literally, "dance square") at dusk, adjacent to the Basilica of Our Lady of Solitude in Oaxaca, Mexico. Families still gather socially in plazas and squares throughout Mexico. This plaza was very close to our hotel, so we walked past it almost every evening. I thought it was a quintessential Mexican scene: a plaza with families and friends adjacent to the church and lights twinkling on the distant mountain as twilight fades to night. Bekki and I traveled to Oaxaca, Mexico, February of 2020 with my sister and brother-in-law who organize cultural trips to Central America and Mexico.  
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  • Horizontal photo of an albrijes carving—brightly colored Mexican folk-art sculptures—of a fantastical mythical red bull. We see his torso and head from the right side. Extremely fine detailed albrije patterns completely cover the bull's skin. Colorful patterned strips outline the mouth, nose, eye, and horns. Circular patterns radiate from the chest, side, and hump on the back. These intricate patterns include minute chevrons, diagonal lines, dots, smaller circles, dashes, and stripes in colors of red and orange with accents in yellow and blue. His pink nostril centers over a long, bright pink tongue, which sticks out from his open mouth. Brown horns, accented with similar patterns in dark browns and gold, curve forward and up over the bull's forehead.

    Red bull alebrijes carving

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    Red bull alebrijes carving in the Isaias Jimenez’s studio located in the small town of Arrazola, about 4-miles southwest of Oaxaca.  Isaias continues the Oaxacan alebrijes style created by his father Manuel Jiménez Ramírez (who has his own Wikipedia page). Alebrijes are a style of brightly colored Mexican folk art sculptures of imaginary and mythical creatures. Bekki and I traveled to Oaxaca, Mexico, February of 2020 with my sister and brother-in-law who organize cultural trips to Central America and Mexico.  
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  • Horizontal photo of an arched, covered walkway at the church of Saint John the Baptist in San Juan Bautista Coixtlahuaca, Mexico. A row of stone arches forms the right edge of the rock walkway on the right side of the image. The walkway diminishes in perspective to a solid wall, about 100-feet distant. On the left wall, in the front left of the photo, we see a brightly painted, teal-colored wooden door set into a curved stone arch.

    Teal arched doorway

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    A stone walkway with arched teal door at the church of Saint John the Baptist in the village of San Juan Bautista Suchix Hahuca. Construction for this Renaissance architecture church was completed in 1576. Bekki and I traveled to Oaxaca, Mexico, February of 2020 with my sister and brother-in-law who organize cultural trips to Central America and Mexico.  
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