http://www.markdunnphotography.com/ en-us Copyright (C) Mark Dunn pdunn13445@aol.com (Mark Dunn) Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.markdunnphotography.com/img/v0/u19372528-50.jpg http://www.markdunnphotography.com/ 90 120 http://www.markdunnphotography.com/p708176089 <p><a href="http://www.markdunnphotography.com/p708176089"><img src="http://www.markdunnphotography.com/img/v1/p130685377-3.jpg"/></a></p> <p>As usual this year brought the folkdance festival during the week bridging July into August. Thirteen countries and eleven Mexican States were represented. As always Zacatecas welcomed all with great enthusiasm, warmeth, and attendance. The dance groups work hard, not only doing performances in several city sites, but also across the entire state. <br/><br/>These photos are from the opening parade. I always come away with thankfulness that for a moment the World is at peace and apprciation.</p> pdunn13445@aol.com (Mark Dunn) http://www.markdunnphotography.com/p708176089 Sat, 02 Aug 2008 22:30:00 GMT http://www.markdunnphotography.com/p236272280 <p><a href="http://www.markdunnphotography.com/p236272280"><img src="http://www.markdunnphotography.com/img/v3/p191271900-3.jpg"/></a></p> <p>The Shidoni Foundry in the 1970s was part of a commune of artists located in the same place the foundry is today. The foundry was the only new building I was aware of, other artisans inhabiting literally the chicken coops of the previous commercial inhabitants. In the late 1970s and 80s we would have one or two field trips per school year involving my students which included Shidoni. The commune evaporated, but Tommy Hicks was always extremely gracious when we visitied. In due time I will annotate these slides.</p> pdunn13445@aol.com (Mark Dunn) United States of America North America Travel and Places http://www.markdunnphotography.com/p236272280 Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:38:00 GMT http://www.markdunnphotography.com/p95668055 <p><a href="http://www.markdunnphotography.com/p95668055"><img src="http://www.markdunnphotography.com/img/v0/p991842223-3.jpg"/></a></p> <p>Clouds, for me, are like flowers and other ethreal things. Millions of tons of water floating through the sky, evaporating and condensing, over and over, forming incredible apparitions.</p> pdunn13445@aol.com (Mark Dunn) Patterns Artistic http://www.markdunnphotography.com/p95668055 Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:44:00 GMT http://www.markdunnphotography.com/p293077391 <p><a href="http://www.markdunnphotography.com/p293077391"><img src="http://www.markdunnphotography.com/img/v1/p1032209057-3.jpg"/></a></p> <p>Although Santa Clara has a profound ceramic tradition, there is room to do things in different ways. This is the second version of a traditional firing on this site, and I like the inventiveness. In time I will annotate these visuals so they might make more sense to you.</p> pdunn13445@aol.com (Mark Dunn) United States of America North America Travel and Places http://www.markdunnphotography.com/p293077391 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.markdunnphotography.com/p331060235 <p><a href="http://www.markdunnphotography.com/p331060235"><img src="http://www.markdunnphotography.com/img/v1/p828848054-3.jpg"/></a></p> <p>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.</p> pdunn13445@aol.com (Mark Dunn) Mexico Central America Travel and Places http://www.markdunnphotography.com/p331060235 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.markdunnphotography.com/p191844042 <p><a href="http://www.markdunnphotography.com/p191844042"><img src="http://www.markdunnphotography.com/img/v1/p246958369-3.jpg"/></a></p> <p>Situated in northwest central portion of the State of New Mexico, this &quot;Anazazi&quot; ruin is extensive with separate parts scattered over hundreds of acres. The road into this national historical park from the north, county roads 7900 and 7950, off NM Hwy 44, was graveled a few years ago although I have never been over it since this. The road from the south is dirt and in the Spring can turn to mud a foot deep. Summer is blistering and dry, with few facilities besides a museum and campground. October is a grand time to visit. Yet here in the early part of the Second Millennium C.E., there existed tens of thousands of people who built this, maintained it, traded, worshiped, raised families, and made a living from farming and hunting. Then there apparently was the great climatic change, and eventually moving became the only option. So here exists a ghost city. I will in coming months try to annotate some of these slides as I can which will make the content more meaningful.</p> pdunn13445@aol.com (Mark Dunn) http://www.markdunnphotography.com/p191844042 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.markdunnphotography.com/p118235206 <p><a href="http://www.markdunnphotography.com/p118235206"><img src="http://www.markdunnphotography.com/img/v1/p285674054-3.jpg"/></a></p> <p>Mesa Verde is approximately one hundred air miles north of the great ruins of Chaco Canyon and perhaps two hundred miles northwest of Sante Fe. Mesa Verde is located in the extreme southwest corner of the State of Colorado, and easily accessible by paved road with most imaginable facilities including a hotel on site and nearby. Mesa Verde is built on an elevated flatland, in the Southwest called a &quot;mesa&quot;. It is significantly higher in elevation than Chaco Canyon, giving it more precipitation and a cooler climate.</p> pdunn13445@aol.com (Mark Dunn) http://www.markdunnphotography.com/p118235206 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.markdunnphotography.com/p388459760 <p><a href="http://www.markdunnphotography.com/p388459760"><img src="http://www.markdunnphotography.com/img/v1/p331373495-3.jpg"/></a></p> <p></p> pdunn13445@aol.com (Mark Dunn) http://www.markdunnphotography.com/p388459760 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.markdunnphotography.com/p254187716 <p><a href="http://www.markdunnphotography.com/p254187716"><img src="http://www.markdunnphotography.com/img/v1/p358609403-3.jpg"/></a></p> <p></p> pdunn13445@aol.com (Mark Dunn) http://www.markdunnphotography.com/p254187716 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.markdunnphotography.com/p528410642 <p><a href="http://www.markdunnphotography.com/p528410642"><img src="http://www.markdunnphotography.com/img/v1/p206876501-3.jpg"/></a></p> <p></p> pdunn13445@aol.com (Mark Dunn) http://www.markdunnphotography.com/p528410642 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.markdunnphotography.com/p348911410 <p><a href="http://www.markdunnphotography.com/p348911410"><img src="http://www.markdunnphotography.com/img/v1/p70002236-3.jpg"/></a></p> <p>El Tajin is a major ruin in the northern Verazruz State of Mexico. These few photos were taken in June 1990. Everything you ever wanted to know about El Tajin is on the Internet, but what interested me at the time was the restoration. Mexico over the course of two decades made a very major effort to exccavate and &quot;restore&quot; most of its major ruins. So as often grass covered mounds were dug out to reveal origonal construction, or portions excavated decades earlier, these areas were &quot;reconstructed&quot; to their origonal appearance. This is not an impossible job, but certainly requires skill and experience. Portions were &quot;Disneyfied&quot; so as to give the appearance of the wearing of time. Much the same has been done at our great ruins such as Mesa Verde or Chaco Canyon. Sites also had museums built to illustrate what tourists beheld. Over the course of time I will annotate the slide to point out details I think interesting.</p> pdunn13445@aol.com (Mark Dunn) http://www.markdunnphotography.com/p348911410 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.markdunnphotography.com/p288472620 <p><a href="http://www.markdunnphotography.com/p288472620"><img src="http://www.markdunnphotography.com/img/v1/p30732910-3.jpg"/></a></p> <p>Located in the lower slopes of the Jemez Mountains of New Mexico, we call this ruin T'siping although this is actually only the first part of its formal name and also has other names. These photos were taken over a decade starting about 1980. We have visited it perhaps two dozen times, including trips with my students. My children could draw accurate maps of it decades later. What makes this special is that it is one of the very few per-Columbian pueblos made of hewn stone. Second is that it was not badly disturbed by methodical pothunters, probably because they could not get a back hoe up to it. Last, it was also never seriously excavated by archeologists. So if we say arbitrarily that it was abandoned in the late 1200s, this is what it had deteriorated to over seven to eight hundred years. As I have time I will annotate slides so their content may be more clear.</p> pdunn13445@aol.com (Mark Dunn) http://www.markdunnphotography.com/p288472620 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.markdunnphotography.com/p15356488 <p><a href="http://www.markdunnphotography.com/p15356488"><img src="http://www.markdunnphotography.com/img/v1/p428436616-3.jpg"/></a></p> <p>With the help of the Lonely Planet Mexico Guide, this ritual has many symbolic fascinations. Some have connections to Pueblo ritual in the American Southwest according to some sources. This Totonac ritual was traditionally done once a year, but has become a daily tourism attraction for better of worse. The intepretation is that it is a fertility rite with the fliers making the appropriate invocations to the Four Corners of the Universe before falling to the ground, bringing with them the sun and rain. Note that each flier circles the pole, which can be sixty feet tall and in this case steel, 13 times giving a total of 52 revolutions. This is obviously the number of weeks of the Gregorian calendar, but also has important implications in pre-Hispanic calendars of Mexico and parts of Central America. Pre-Columbian Mexico had two calendars, one corresponding with the 365 day solar year calendar. The other ritual calendar has 260 days. A day in one calendar coincided with a day in the other calendar every 52 years! How is that for a bit of magic? The four fliers and the drum/flute player in the middle make a quincunx, the Four Corners of the World with the Cieba tree in the middle to hold up the sky. I have simple notations on many of these visuals which may help with the conceptualization and practical aspects. This series was taken in June 1980.</p> pdunn13445@aol.com (Mark Dunn) Mexico Central America Travel and Places http://www.markdunnphotography.com/p15356488 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.markdunnphotography.com/p635906219 <p><a href="http://www.markdunnphotography.com/p635906219"><img src="http://www.markdunnphotography.com/img/v1/p448874901-3.jpg"/></a></p> <p>If your French is as good as mine, Shelly is pronounced &quot;Shea&quot;. As a national monument in northest Arizona, it is, if memory serves me correctly, actually Navajo Tribal land on which they allow a national monument to exist. If offers a wonder perspective on Navajo culture for the curious. One thing that will always make me smile is staying in the campground. As vehicles full of Navajos toured the campground to see that day's crop of campers, the music issuing from their sound systems varied from traditional drumming to Led Zeplin. These slides attempt to show geography, geology, biology, and a tiny facet of Navajo culture. These visuals were taken about 1980. I will annotate each in the near future so that their meaning can become clearer.</p> pdunn13445@aol.com (Mark Dunn) United States of America North America Travel and Places http://www.markdunnphotography.com/p635906219 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.markdunnphotography.com/p202981187 <p><a href="http://www.markdunnphotography.com/p202981187"><img src="http://www.markdunnphotography.com/img/v2/p709609566-3.jpg"/></a></p> <p>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 &quot;Grito&quot; is read by the Govenor before a minimum of fifty thousand people jammed into the main plaza. 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.</p> pdunn13445@aol.com (Mark Dunn) Mexico Central America Travel and Places http://www.markdunnphotography.com/p202981187 Sun, 06 Apr 2008 20:37:00 GMT http://www.markdunnphotography.com/p65018479 <p><a href="http://www.markdunnphotography.com/p65018479"><img src="http://www.markdunnphotography.com/img/v1/p823036007-3.jpg"/></a></p> <p>This slide series is meant to help people understand the historical implications of a colonial gem of a church in rural New Mexico. Many slides are annotated to explain their meaning. If you choose to look at them in manual mode the explanations are on the upper right, as well as a way of moving to the next visual. If you use the slide show mode, once the slide show comes up, move the cursor to bottom of the screen and you will find a full set of controls, including speed. If there is a small blue bubble to right of visual, move your cursor over it and the explanation will appear. <br/> <br/>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</p> pdunn13445@aol.com (Mark Dunn) Churches Architecture and Structures http://www.markdunnphotography.com/p65018479 Sun, 06 Apr 2008 20:22:00 GMT http://www.markdunnphotography.com/p77850276 <p><a href="http://www.markdunnphotography.com/p77850276"><img src="http://www.markdunnphotography.com/img/v3/p19767661-3.jpg"/></a></p> <p>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.</p> pdunn13445@aol.com (Mark Dunn) Mexico Central America Travel and Places http://www.markdunnphotography.com/p77850276 Sun, 25 Nov 2007 20:20:00 GMT http://www.markdunnphotography.com/p379476363 <p><a href="http://www.markdunnphotography.com/p379476363"><img src="http://www.markdunnphotography.com/img/v2/p730914709-3.jpg"/></a></p> <p>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.</p> pdunn13445@aol.com (Mark Dunn) Close-ups Objects http://www.markdunnphotography.com/p379476363 Fri, 16 Nov 2007 19:16:00 GMT http://www.markdunnphotography.com/p205847645 <p><a href="http://www.markdunnphotography.com/p205847645"><img src="http://www.markdunnphotography.com/img/v0/p743195613-3.jpg"/></a></p> <p>The Jaramillos lived in the very small village of La Madera, off the "back road" from Ojo Caliente to El Rito in north central New Mexico. Although born and raised in this area, their married life was spent in Utah where Dennis worked in copper mines and contracted black lung for one thing. They also raised a family. Upon retirement they returned to La Madera, and curiosity led to their discovery of pottery. At some point in the historical past Apaches would come into this valley to mine clay and make cooking pots from it. It is a special clay full of mica with enough flux material to at least partially fuse it together in an open wood firing. One could take a olla of this clay and cook directly on the gas flame of a kitchen stove. The Jaramillos heard of this, and there were a few older residents around who remembered where the clay was and how to process it. One way or another, these two managed for the most part to teach themselves the processes needed to produce their particular variation on an Apache tradition. The following slides takes one through the entire process from mining clay to pulling pots out of the firing. They also over time taught some classes at Ghost Ranch. They were dear people, very generous to us, and I remember them with great fondness. These photos were taken about 1969. This series is fully annotated so you can know what is happening slide to slide.<br/><br/>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</p> pdunn13445@aol.com (Mark Dunn) United States of America North America Travel and Places http://www.markdunnphotography.com/p205847645 Fri, 26 Oct 2007 18:22:00 GMT http://www.markdunnphotography.com/p140071593 <p><a href="http://www.markdunnphotography.com/p140071593"><img src="http://www.markdunnphotography.com/img/v0/p659008645-3.jpg"/></a></p> <p>I must be a visual person as I have had window seats forward/rear of the wings for decades. Zeus could not fly, but here we mortals can. Magic that we take for granted? To each their own. If it is cloudy I love to read, but if the ground is visible or the clouds stupendous my eyes study what is there out that window. Having also studied maps since I was a kid I usually know about where the plane is, too, which enriches the mix.</p> pdunn13445@aol.com (Mark Dunn) Commercial Airplanes Transportation http://www.markdunnphotography.com/p140071593 Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:41:00 GMT