Photo Of The Month - August
It's the end of the month. Another 31 photos added to the collection. Another 8 photos nominated for the end of month vote. Choose your favourite. Or else choose your least hated.
Day 317 - Marks The Spot
With the rain we're having at the moment, the candle didn't stay alight for any longer than it's potential lifetime than the little girl.
Day 315 - Now What
Elizabeth makes her second appearance in my 365 set. This time, in a slightly more sultry mood.
Day 314 - Cuatro Caminos
Cuatro Caminos metro station, at the very end of Linea 2, as I see it from my seat every Wednesday and Friday morning at about 9.30am, on my way home from an early class.
Day 313 - Inorganicos
A year or two ago the city went on a recycling drive and you'll now see pairs of bins everywhere. One for organic waste, the other for inorganic. These bins are next to my bike in Coyote Park where I've been training for the half marathon.
Day 312 - Quiz Time
It's my early morning Wednesday class, and the team are busy trying to work out what phrases fit in which gaps.
Day 311 - Flowery Respite
Bourgainvilla, if that is how it is spelled, is in full bloom at the moment. The stuff is everywhere. This photo isn't of a park, but of a path between the lanes of an extremely busy dual carriageway. But I can't get the damn plants to take in my garden.
Day 310 - Too Interested
We have ten turtles, but these are the two 'preciosas'. Bob (back) and Baby (front). And Floracita, but she was having a swim at the time.
Day 309 – Truly Mexican
Our ride during the weekly Sunday ciclothon took us past many weird and wonderful animals.
Day 308 – Where There’s A Wall There’s A Way
This wall has everything. A mini Harley, a skeleton and posters galore.
Day 306 – The Daily Wait
This isn’t the most spectacular photo ever, but my 365 project was never meant to be solely a collection of spectacular photos. Not that I have many of those anyway. Another part of it was to record my life over the year, and this scene has been one of the most prominent. I have half my classes in a pharma not far from home, and this is me out front, after class, waiting for my bus. Which is coming, as you can see. And which I missed because I was phaffing around with my camera.
Day 305 - Water Emergency
Our water supply has been cut off for 5 days and won't return till Saturday. Hopefully. So we've had to go and pick up a load of big water bottles to keep us going.
Day 304 - Lap of Honour
I pass this building quite often, but as I'm in a taxi it's not easy to photograph. Today the taxi had a window jammed open, so I took the opportunity to get a passing snap. What is it? The Olympic swimming pool from the '68 games here in the city.
Day 303 - Violencia
There’s a big campaign going at the moment, urging women suffering domestic violence to come forward and report it.
Day 300 - Windows Out
Who wouldn’t love to have an office with one of those lego type outty windows?
Day 299 - Jealousy
Happiness is not a cigar called Hamlet. Happiness is a reliable water supply that runs 24/7. Something we don’t have. We don’t even have one of these black plastic water containers that sit atop roofs and store water to keep the agua flowing even when the supply has been cut off.
Day 298 - Baby Face
It's ugly, it's big and it bites. It was hiding under a turtle plant pot in my garden. It's now dead. I know....live and let live. But there is always an exception.
Day 296 - Carnations First
For a first wedding anniversary, carnations are the proper flowers to give. So I bought her some. And then photographed them.
Day 295 - Chillin On The Waves
Jetskis, waterskiing, microlights and general arse-ing about in little motorboats are the favoured past times at lake Tequistepengo. Or whatever the place is called.
Day 294 - Early Worm
Sunrise. Not something I see very often. It's not that I'm never awake at such an early hour in Mexico City, although I don't make a habit of it. It's just that here, we have smogrise as an alternative to the traditional start of day, natural lighting of the sky event.
Day 293 - Mexico's Riviera
A couple of hours drive outside of Mexico City lies this beautiful lake, surrounded by green hills and dusty towns.
Day 292 - Conforde
Mexico City is no Havana, but there are still quite a few glorious old American gas guzzling cars the size of yachts on the streets. Some, like this one, with a funky bonnet mascot. Mostly, and sadly, in a state of disrepair. I added a couple of aging filters to this photo. It seemed appropriate given the cars age.
Day 291 - Feathers For Ears
This Aztec performer in the Zocalo probably wouldn't think this photo is terribly flattering, but I think it captures the moment nicely.
Day 290 - Any Old, Any Old
Every day, usually three of four times, you'll hear the clanging, as a man wanders down the streets and through the back alleys shaking his old metal bell. To let you know the truck has arrived. And maybe, if I feel like it, or Paola orders me, I'll gather up our rubbish bags and take it out to the truck for disposal. Along with a few coins for a tip. Anything from a couple of pesos to ten pesos. This isn't the end of the journey for my trash, just the last part that I'm involved in. Now it's on to a tip, when Tip People live. Sifting through for anything redeemable, in order to earn their living.
Day 289 - Let Doves Fly
Walking instead of taking the bus lets me stroll up avenues and side roads that would usually go unexplored. And today I found this odd looking building with saint attached.
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