Mexico 2009 Part 11 - With the locals

2009-07-23 23:52:51 | 16 Comments

After a long sleepless night of taking photos of first everything I saw, and then the turtle(s), I thought, screw it! Coffee FTW! I can sleep when I'm dead! And while I'm alive and awake may as well make the most of my time. So instead of going to sleep, I just stuck like a leech to the resort employees and followed them wherever they went.

Mexico 2009 - Sea Turtle

2009-07-22 23:57:05 | 22 Comments

You know, it really is quite amazing just how much you can get simply by being nice to others. During the time I was at the resort, I obviously encountered quite a few people, some of them were quite pleasant, but the vast majority were... umm, I don't want to say worthless pricks but I really can't think of a better way to describe them.

Mexico 2009 - Night Shoot 2

2009-07-21 19:45:19 | 22 Comments

Another day, another night shoot. It's actually quite funny, before this, I never before tried during long exposures of 'nature'. All the time it was just the generic photos w/ some car lights here and there, for example take a look at the 'January 5th Night Shoot - Part 1' post. I do however quite love my 'Polar Lights 2' photo - probably is one of my favorite long exposure photos that I ever took. But yeah, was actually quite amazed just how nicely the photos turned out in the first night shoot, so I decided to go back again to take some more photos.

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2009-07-21 14:31:36 | 3 Comments

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Mexico 2009 Part 8 - Leafs, church, cat and ants

2009-07-20 23:31:52 | 5 Comments

Didn't really take too much photos during the day of this day as I was walking around in a half-dead state for most of the day. Can't even imagine living in such a harsh environment. Almost never drops below 30 degrees and the humidity is always over 90%. Living up here in Michigan (not for much longer) I can take a shower once a day (twice at most) and still feel quite fresh for most of the day - there I took about 5 showers a day and still walked around soaked.

Mexico 2009 Part 7 - Food and cicada

2009-07-19 23:19:08 | 8 Comments

One thing I like about these all-inclusive resorts, tons of food everywhere, and you don't have to carry around your wallet. The restaurants in the morning and during the day were all excellent, bunch of very tasty food in unlimited quantities - deep fried grilled cheese for example, holy hell its tasty. With that said, I can't even express how much I hate all the "fancy" restaurants, or whatever you want to call them.

Mexico 2009 Part 6 - First morning

2009-07-18 23:57:58 | 10 Comments

After a long night of wondering, first taking pretty photos, then chasing raccoons, went back to the room for a quick shower.

Mexico 2009 Part 5 - Moths and raccoons

2009-07-17 23:05:10 | 8 Comments

After spending a few hours making all the pretty night photos, I noticed that there were some raccoons wondering around the resort at night. Obviously, I wanted to take some photos of them also, so I left all my things at the bar, grabbed the camera, the flash, took off my shoes, and set off running after the raccoons.

Mexico 2009 - Night Shoot 1

2009-07-16 20:31:51 | 18 Comments

First night in Mexico, tons of pretty (and drunk) girls everywhere... So what do I do? Why I of course grab my camera and go wondering around the beach at night all by myself! So much more peaceful that way then getting drunk and watching people throw up over themselves... sigh...

Mexico 2009 Part 3 - Day 1

2009-07-15 20:11:18 | 20 Comments

After the check-in, went wondering around the resort for a bit. Just to waste some time until the room was prepared. Above is the entrance to the lobby, the photo is an HDR. Don't really make them too often as it takes a while to process them and make them perfect after you have the photos in-hand. Generally speaking with all the tonemapping etc, take me maybe 2-3 minutes to go from start to finish... So thats 2-3 minutes longer then a regular photo would take me. But anyway, moving on...