Blue Palapa

Photo © Howard Dratch 2007.
I was playing with Gimp, a freeware image editor much like Photoshop and re-edited this shot of a palapa-like building I have always liked in the middle of Bacalar.

It was made when I was still using film cameras and was made with Nikon F3HP or FM3A.

Photography
Mexico
Travel
Bacalar

Jungle Nursery

The tropical garden:



Photo © Howard Dratch, 2008.

Flowers
Gardens
Mexico
Photography
Laguna Bacalar

Mayan Boy

Photo of Mayan boy at a local vivero/plant nursery in the jungle near Bacalar, Mexico.

Photo © Howard Dratch, 2008

Flowers
Gardens
Mayans
Mexico

Palenque Palace Steps

Photo ©Beringer-Dratch

Photography
Mexico
Maya

The Mayan Arch

The arch of the Mayan -- this one at Labna on the Ruta Puuc south of Uxmal which is south of the city of Mèrida.

They had one with which to build. Did they develop it in total isolation from Europe? It worked. The arch in architecture means so much.

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Mexico
Maya

Ra, The Sun God

Ra. One of 6 massive masks at Kohunlich, the ruins of a once beautiful Mayan city about 40 minutes from Chetumal or Bacalar, 3 hours south of Tulum.

Photo ©Beringer-Dratch.


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Mayan Ruins
Mexico

Mexican Primary School

Primary school graduation. The children practice far harder for this than for anything educational -- the goose-step march honoring the tri-colored flag with a Mexican eagle holding a writing serpent in his beak.

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