Guanajuato Photo Galleries

I have scanned in sixty or seventy photos from Guanajuato (including the seven or eight included in my April blog entries). Let me know what you think: I definitely need to pare down to one gallery with fifteen or so really good pictures. Calles de Guanajuato Las Caras de Guanajuato,…

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The Strip: Part 2

My trip to Las Vegas the week of 25-MAR-06 for TheServerSide Java Symposium will be, I hope, my last for several years at least. Not my favorite place. But I dutifully brought my camera and tripod along with me to capture a few pictures. My first target was the skyline…

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Under Guanajuato

Biding my time at the airport. No one’s even here so I can check-in. I neglected to explain what I was doing in Guanajuato’s tunnels back when I was dazed and confused. For background, Guanajuato was founded in a river valley, and sometimes during the summer monsoon season, there was…

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Culto de los Muertos

Next to El Museo de las Momias was a small exhibit on the “Culto de los Muertos.” I didn’t quite get it. For example, there was a coffin containing, according to the sign in Spanish, of a man whose name was not recorded. The man who “we” know was German…

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Desiccated corpses

El Museo de las Momias was a little bit disturbing. It wasn’t the desiccated cadavers that I found alarming. It was how obsessed I became with photographing the naturally mummified corpses of people so poor their families could not afford to bury them when they died over a century ago.…

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