Don’t Travel with a Red Car In Mexico! 🙂
I took this humorous photo in a rural area of Chiapas, Mexico, and I thought it was a good photo-journalistic image 🙂
My husband and I noticed this funny scenery while driving on the back-roads of Mexico. We happened to be behind this red truck and had to slow down to better observe and photograph the scene in front of us.
This big horned animal was really agog by the red moving car and started to follow it on the paved road. I’m wondering what the driver was thinking about, but maybe people there are used with kind of encounters… Of course, we’ve seen cattle on the road many times before, but never something like this.
Well, it looks like the saying about bulls being attracted to red–moving objects is not a myth! Toros can be dangerous not only in a Bullfighting (Corida in Spanish), but also on roads – huh!
So, don’t travel with a red car in Mexico, especially on the country roads! 🙂
Now, if you think this image is funny, the good news is that you can have for your wall. I uploaded it to my Fine Art America gallery where it’s available as art prints for wall, home decor, accessories and gifts. Just click on the picture to see all the options:
I also invite you to check my Mexico Travel gallery for more travel photographs I took in this beautiful touristic Latin American country.
RDP SATURDAY: TRAVEL
LIQUID – was the theme of a 7 day challenge for fun at Fine Art America, that ended today, and Hey!, I got a Certificate for accomplishing this 🙂
Oh, the certificate says “7 Day Water Challenge“, but in reality it was about “Liquid” not just water. Anyways, good enough 🙂
The rule was to post everyday an image that was done, in the day of participation. I have lots of images containing water or generally speaking liquids. Therefore, I choose to use archived photographs, freshly made as digital paintings.
Let’s start:
Day 1: Sunday morning rest in Gabarus Nova Scotia
As you may know already, I love the Canadian Maritime area. For this reason, I started with a digital painting of a photograph I took while visiting Cape Breton. I like to photograph fishing boats floating on water and fishing tools in general. While traveling and taking photos in Nova Scotia, somebody advised me to go and see this village. Oh I cannot thank enough for that wonderful advice! I was so happy to find this picturesque fishermen village of the Atlantic Canada 🙂 Well, there is not too much of liquid in this image, but the idea is there.
Day 2: Feeding the dolphins – Digital watercolor
I made this digital watercolor from one of my original photography taken at Xcaret Eco Park, Quintana Roo, Mexico. While spending a winter vacation on the Riviera Maya in the Caribbean sea environment, my husband and I visited this wonderful ecological park. Here we are at the dolphins pool, which has direct access to the sea. One official man was feeding the lovely animals swimming in the blue clear water, while a tourist girl was watching the scene. The two dolphins looked happy and almost like smiling, …and there is a lot of liquid in my photo 🙂
Day 3: Glass of Red Wine
While being in a restaurant in Spain and waiting for the food, I looked down into the glass of red wine, sitting on a blue tablecloth in front of me. I loved the contrasts of colors and the reflections at the first sight, and took the photo. However, I never posted it, because I always wanted to make it look more artistic. I think that now was the time, so I made it as a stylized abstract digital creation 🙂
Day 4: Almost Ready For Breakfast – Digital Painting
It was breakfast time, and broke a beautiful organic, yellow egg, in a white plate. But I couldn’t decide how to make it. While looking at it, the glossy surface, the white-yellowish liquid and the brown shells appealed to my view, so I photographed it. Not only, but I also decided to make it as a digital painting still life picture. Here it is:
Day 5: Mexico Magic Digital Painting
Now, here is an exciting one, I think! 🙂 I made this digital painting from a photo I took some years ago at nighttime, at the pool bar in one of the Mexican beach resorts. The combination of Tequila and Sangrita (“little blood” in Mexican), made with tomato juice and spices, was my favorite! In my picture, the two glasses sitting on the granite surfaced bar counter, are backlit by the nightlights coming from the pool and the highly illuminated resort buildings.
Day 6: Chocolate Fountain Las Vegas – Digital media
Yes, you read correctly: a chocolate fountain – something you don’t see everyday! It’s a digital painting and close-up on the famous Chocolate Fountain at Bellagio, Las Vegas. GUINNESS certified it as the World’s Largest Chocolate fountain in its WORLD RECORDS BOOK. It’s a kinetic glass sculpture with three types of chocolate continuously flowing: White, Mocha and Dark. My present image shows the mocha chocolate. This is just a detail, but you can see the whole Chocolate Fountain in my VegasGreatAttractions.com website, along with a lot more details and info about this place:
Day 7: Soap balloons play in Barcelona
While wandering in the backstreets of Barcelona, Spain at summertime, we took a brake in a small plaza, attracted by a little unusual scene. It was not yet dinner time – Spanish people dine late. Instead, some families and their kids, were having tapas outside, in the patio of a small restaurant cafe. It was a picturesque place, and a common European scene. What was more attractive was the young lady performing a soap balloons demonstration. She was using a can of soapy water the she placed on the pavement and two long sticks making huge soap bubbles. Of course, the kids surrounded here in big delight, trying to catch the balloons. I captured this so sweet scenery with my camera and today I was inspired to make the picture as digital painting.
If you enjoyed viewing my “liquid” digital paintings, click on the images for more information, and thanks for visiting! 🙂
No Trespassing historic sign, dating back to 1869 in Wells, Nevada
I saw and photographed this poster/sign in Wells, an old almost ghost town in the western United States, on the northeast of Nevada.
The town is full of history from the time when Chinese, Irish and Italian immigrants came here to build the Central Pacific Railroad. Here is another interesting sign describing the history of this town:
I took a lot of photos from this place so interesting to explore, but I haven’t yet uploaded them to my FAA gallery.
The intriguing No Trespassing historic sign was on the outside wall of “The Bullshead” tavern, now closed. I found it interesting because of the words and rule: “All Nations Welcome, Except… Carrie – No Trespassing”. I didn’t know who Carrie was, so, I assume there was a misspelling. I thought that the sign was meant to say that people carrying weapons were not allowed to enter 🙂
** I was wrong! Read Terri’s comment about Carrie Nation. That explains it all 🙂
– People must have been exasperated by her! Ha, ha…
The tavern sign also brings back the old-time nostalgia of Wild West life in the USA. I think that it can make a great poster. If you want to hang it on your wall, it’s available as art print in my signs art gallery.
Here you can see a framed wall mounted version of the No Trespassing historic sign in Wells, Nevada. Click on the image to see all the options:
