Backyard Jewels in Arizona – Wordless Wednesday. * Click on the photos for a larger view:
From: Dolan Springs Arizona a small Wild West Village
It is simply amazing to see these monster cruise-ships in Cozumel Mexico. My husband and I spent a few weeks in this beautiful location on the Caribbean Sea. And because we were close to the water, we could watch the harbor activity, which is really captivating. I’ve never seen so many cruise-ships in one place, and from so close. * Click on the pictures for a larger view!
It is sometimes cloudy and even rainy in Cozumel in the month of January, but I like to photograph stormy weather. I also had some fun photographing the cruise ships through the water drops, from the restaurant terrace of the hotel we were staying in 🙂
The port is very busy – I even read that Cozumel is the busiest cruise-ship port in the world. Here you can see these giants coming and leaving every day… Some come early in the morning, others late at night.
What I loved most was to photograph them at the golden hour in the afternoon.
Lucky we had a hotel room in a high-rise hotel nearby, so I could photograph them coming in at dusk.
A little later, I installed my tripod and I was able to take this impressive departure of one of the cruise ships, in motion:
What impressed me most, was of course their size. I had fun and couldn’t stop taking photos of these giants from all angles. What I mostly liked was to show the scale compared to other elements around. Look at those people walking on the dock and looking like ants 🙂
And the people onboard are almost invisible. You either have to click for a closer look or try to visualize them 🙂
I still cannot figure out how do they manage to park these huge boats so close to each other…
I hope you were as amazed as I was on seeing the Cruise-ships in Cozumel Mexico through my camera 🙂
We visited San Agustin Etla Arts Center in Mexico a few years ago, and I always wanted to make a post on this ever since. The opportunity came with a WP challenge on reflections. Just perfect, because most of my photos taken there are based on water reflections. I never had such a surrealistic sentiment before… * Click on the photos for a larger format!
But let’s start with the beginning: I’m talking about a historic yarn and fabric factory dating back to 1883.
The famous Mexican artist Francisco Toledo transformed this old factory into the first center of ecological arts in Latin America. It is an incredible artistic place where creativity seems to come just naturally…
Today, everybody knows this fantastic place in San Augustin Etla, Oaxaca, Mexico as the CASA. The whole Spanish name of it is Centro de las Artes de San AgustÃn.
The idea of using water as one of the main artistic features obviously came from the industrial process of the yarn and fabric. And water is everywhere there. Even the pink steps in the photo above are just waterfalls, framing the main entrance.
San Agustin Etla Arts Center water reflections
The real beauty comes inside, where the central area is just water, reflecting the old factory walls. Just incredible to see all this play with shapes, lines, planes and visual illusions!
We visited the place in the month of February, and it happened to be a gray cloudy day. That was fortunate, because the natural light helped emphasize the idea of an old industrial kind of building.
There are several basins of water at various levers, and it depends on the angle you look at them.
You go and visit the outside workshops and exhibitions by walking on large enough alleyways on the sides of the water basins.
And here are a few more reflections:
Inside, the windows reflect the light on the old factory floor,
and outside, the beautiful surrounding landscape:
But as you leave, another reflective water basin that you may have ignored when you came in, is waiting for you.
I hope you enjoyed this virtual visit to San Agustin Etla Arts Center and its water reflections
Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #87 – Reflections | Art Unexpected |