More from Mexico..

Along with my digital SLR I had my Yashica T4 (35mm), which I managed to lose at airport at the end of the trip (it was a bad trip for my cameras apparently). The 2 rolls I managed not to lose contained these photos...

There was a protest in front of Bellas Artes which featured a few hundred nearly naked and fully naked people. The women were fully nude and went around asking for donations while the men picketed in the streets. It was quite a sight!

This is Torre Mayor (The Great Tower), Latin America's tallest building.

MEX$20 (US$2) sunglasses in Chapultepec Park.

Estadio Azteca. Apparently the 4th largest stadium in the world. It holds nearly 120,000 people and it was about full for this match. Insane. This was at the very end of the game. The local team lost and people threw stuff onto the field, but there were no riots. Outside the stadium, a hundred or so riot police stood guard. They don't fuck around with soccer in Mexico.

This place had the best tacos I've ever eaten, and is one of the cities most famous taquerias. Open 24 hours with a drive in parking lot.

a little bit of ciudad de mexico

I didn’t shoot nearly as much as I expected I would in Mexico City. I think perhaps it had a lot to do with my reluctance to use my 5D (I used my backup 20D instead) but more so the fact that I found my Nikon FM2 lens was not focusing properly upon arrival, and therefore was of no use. I had hoped to do mostly 35mm b/w photos while there, but alas it was not to be. My time was spent mostly wandering endlessly and trying to take everything in as much as possible. In the end, my visual memory is better than my photographic evidence. I did get a few shots that I liked a fair amount.

In Zocalo, the main square of the city and area most frequented by tourists. Perhaps the only foreign tourists I noticed the entire four days were all in this area of the city.

Many streets are all filled with similar stores. Much like the “districts” you will find in other cities. In D.F. I passed some interesting ones, like the lamps and lighting district, the wedding/formal dress district, the pluming supply district.. as I liked to refer to them.

Mexico City Cathedral, one of the largest cathedrals in the western hemisphere.

View to the North from Torre Latinoamericana. It’s one of the taller buildings in the city. Rumor has it that a man was on the top of the tower during the earthquake of 1985 and went insane after watching numerous other building collapse in the area and feeling the tower sway back and forth, as designed to do in an earthquake.

35mm #11

Pussy in a bag (get it?), Justice at Metro, PBJ, me with braids, the candy incident, the stop light incident, Vivian loves the coffee, Chicago cat, Mexico City cats, afternoon hailstorm in Mexico City, plants for sale, the metro, Chapultepec park, Torre Mayor (Latin America's tallest building), ancient ruins, VW, nude protesters, PDA, McDonald's, more cats, back in the metro, Estadio Azteca with 120,000 people watching futbol, the best taqueria in Mexico City...

El Turista