Photo of the Month - September
Another month is done. Just 18 days to go before I complete my 365. Here's the 'best' eight photos from September. Pick your fave and vote for it in the poll on the left!
Day 347 - Raid And Recycle
Garbage disposal works like this in Mexico. Garbage that is thrown in bins is taken away to a dump, where it is sifted through by a community of the poorest of the poor, to find, retrieve and sell anything of value. Garbage that is thrown onto the street or anywhere that is not a garbage bin is sifted through by communities of birds, bugs and rats who find, retrieve, eat or build homes with anything of value.
Day 346 - Fractured
This is me. Relected in a whale tail made of little pieces of mirrored glass. The most bizarre self portrait I've taken yet I reckon.
Day 345 - Turtle Girl
This photo has a nice story. I went for a fairly long walk through Coyoacan looking for something to photograph for today's photo. I walked and walked and found nothing. So I sat down on a bench to have a sip of coke, and this girl appeared from nowhere and sat down on a step outside the main church in the town. I snapped. A minute later she got up and walked over to me, trying to sell some junk in a box. It turned out the 'junk' was a load of little painted wooden turtles - my favourite thing! She wanted five pesos. I gave her ten pesos. Five for the turtle, and five for the photo she'll never know I took.
Dat 344 - Full Set
Today I ran the Mexico City Marathon. I took the Half Marathon option, seeing as I have a bust knee. Which is now killing me. But I managed to crawl over the finish line and now have my third running medal of the year. Woohoo.
Day 343 - The Stone Athlete
There's a courtyard near Bellas Artes, part of a government complex. It has this cool sculpture/frieze type thing on the wall and often has small art exhibitions. And yet this is the first time I've gone in for a closer look. The entrance just doesn't feel inviting and you rather feel like you are trespassing.
Day 342 - Catarina
Independence Day has passed. Next up, Day of the Dead, on November 1st. Catarina and co are making early appearances around the city.
Day 341 - A Very Mexican Virgin
Another shrine very close to my home with yet another Virgin de Guadalupe inside. They are clearly maintained...this one has been decked out in the national colours for Independence Day.
Day 340 - One Grey Day
Belles Artes and Torre Latinoamericana on a cool, grey Wednesday morning, before all the tourists show up.
Day 339 - In Memory
Across the road from me, I assumed the mural was just one more of the millions of Virgin de Guadalupe murals. Turns out, upon closer inspection, it's a special mural. A memorial to the house's previous inhabitant.
Day 338 - La Cueva Del Condon
The questions is, would you look inside this store if you walked past it tomorrow....just to see if it really is a condom shop?
Day 337 - Ring My Bell
The Independence Day decor will remain up till September is over. To make room the the Day of the Dead decor, you see. Coyoacan always looks nice with some brightly coloured kit.
Day 336 - Riding The Lions
Wandering down random side streets and ending up lost has its benefits. How else would I have stumbled upon this cool roundabout monument type thing?
Day 335 - Tlalpan
Less than one month to go before my 365 is finished. I'm looking for regular features of my life this year which I haven't snapped yet. This is definitely one of them Tlalpan. Oh, the hours I've spent stuck in traffic jams here over the last four years!
Day 334 - Dragons Egg
I photograph what I see. And I see this alot. The wall, next to my smoking spot in the yard. It's taken me a while to work out what this paint peeling is. It's actually a baby dragon hatching out of an egg. And I swear, I just sit there smoking normal cigarettes.
Day 333 - The Fly By
Today there is a big military parade in the Centro Historico to mark Mexico's Independence. I didn't go. Luckily the air display team came to me, overflying our neighbourhood.
Day 332 - Flying The Flag
It's Mexico's Independence Day, and we ventured up to the Zocalo for the celebrations. In the rain.
Day 331 - Sweat And Tears
Months ago I came across a Flickr user who had produced some stunning macro images with his Panasonic TZ5 compact, using magnifying lenses. I have since been experimenting with a variety of glasses and loupes, and can confirm it is in fact not as easy as one might think. Or hope. This effort today is the best I've yet managed.
Day 330 - Thumbs Up
There are always some street artists hanging around the Centro Historico, being statues, miming or recreating something weird or wonderful. Or, more often than not, weird and wonderful.
Day 329 - My Only Love
I'm getting closer to the end of the project. Closer to finishing this record of my year. So I'm looking for things I've missed. Features which have been ignored, forgotten or simply overlooked. Here is Pamela, Paola's father's dog. The creature he declares to be his only love.
Day 328 - Birthday Bob
Bob is four years old. As is Homer. It's quite incredible to believe that I've managed to keep a living creature...well, living. For this long. He's had his ups, he's had his downs, but he's still going strong. His life expectancy? Another 26 to 36 years...
Day 327 - Never Too Early
I know. It's insane. We're not even half way through September. But Centro Coyoacan mall have decided now is the time to start selling Christmas trees and decorations. Still, I don't really mind. I love Christmas.
Day 326 - Gone Too Soon
A metro train leaves Miguel Angel station. Or was it Metro Coyoacan? I can't remember. I haven't missed it anyway - I just got off it.
Day 325 - Too Funky
There haven't been too many self portraits in this 365 project. And most have been a bit weird. As is this one. But this one is better than my previous efforts. I think.
Day 324 - Respeta Mi Vota
Have I posted a photos of a protest yet in my 365 project? I don't think I have. What an omission that would be. There seems to at least one a week across the road. Oh the joys of living so closing to a Federal Electoral Commission office.
Day 323 - Dash To The Line
I ran a 15km race today. The Banamex Marathon Tune Up, through Chapultepec. Bloody knackering, but ran a good time. For me, anyway. Next stop, the International Marathon of Mexico City in three weeks time. This photo is of the finish line, which I had crossed 10 mins earlier.
Day 322 - Two White People
This poster is brilliant. It was made for a language school that I visited today. They agreed the design, and the school owner left the job in the hands of the signage maker. Along with the request for an image of 'two white people shaking hands' to sit in the middle. Just two ordinary white business people. The signage maker went to Google, entered 'two white people', and used the first image of two 'ordinary' white people shaking hands that he came across.....
Day 320 - Wave The Flag
A street stall, one of many hundreds that appear in September, offering flags, hats, drums, pins and all sorts. You can choose any colour you like. So long as it's green, white and red.
Day 319 - Bring Out Your Colours
It's September already. Which means the green, white and red flags, emblems and other paraphernalia are being draped over everything and anything ready for Independence Day.
Day 318 - Waiting For The Day
A skeleton aboard a train, manned incidentally by a skeleton crew. Departing from the Museo de Arte Popular soon.
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