Mark Dunn: Featured Galleries and Collections

The macro series

pdunn13445@aol.com (Mark Dunn) — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

After purchasing my first digital camera, I noted that it had a macro setting. The second camera had a macro and super-macro, thus taking photos close-up became too easy to refuse. Flowers were an obvious subject along with other various assorted things like lichens.

Horno

pdunn13445@aol.com (Mark Dunn) — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

This series in now in the photo archives of the Palace of the Governors/New Mexico History Museum in Sante Fe, New Mexico. If you have interest in them contact: http://www.palaceofthegovernors.org/photoarchives.html

Making Bricks & Roof Tiles: Mexico

pdunn13445@aol.com (Mark Dunn) — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

As a former ceramist who ran a studio business and taught ceramics, my interest in things clay never goes away. Thus I prowl around brick yards here in Mexico and have even found the one roof tile fabrica near Alamos. In due time I will elaborate on these images as while most is obvious, a few things are not.

This series in now in the photo archives of the Palace of the Governors/New Mexico History Museum in Sante Fe, New Mexico. If you have interest in them contact: http://www.palaceofthegovernors.org/photoarchives.html

Fireworks; Independence Day; Zacatecas, Mexico

pdunn13445@aol.com (Mark Dunn) — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

So many of the World's peoples love fireworks, and Mexicanos are a particularly intense example. On the eve of Mexican Independence Day, which is September 16, at 11:00 PM sharp here in Zacatecas, the "Grito" is read by the Govenor before a minimum of fifty thousand people jammed into the main plaza. (Similar events occur in every rancho, pueblo, and cuidad across the Republic, on extremely modest to extravegant scales.) After this comes the fireworks for this special occasion. Then the night is occupied by celebrations, both public and private, some of which literally involve dancing in the streets. As is the custom all celebration is on the eve, and the actually Independence Day is very quiet and subdued. Some of these photos are from other events throughout the year, not just Independence Eve.

Southern Veracruz Coast

pdunn13445@aol.com (Mark Dunn) — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

All geographic areas and all peoples have their own special beauty, but there are areas and peoples which strike special chords within each of us. For me, the Tuxlas Mountains area of the Veracruz Coast is perhaps the most beautiful place I have ever known. We return occasionally, so these photos were taken over years which explains why subjects are returned to.