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Day of the Dead is not all partying in large cities in Mexico.
In the village of Las Guacamayas, in the mountains north of Oaxaca City, Andrés Ramirez Matías brings marigolds to the cemetery. If I remember correctly this was the grave of his grandmother. (tap or click to enlarge)
Another scene from the tombs in Oaxaca City's Panteón General.
Inside the corridor of tombs in Oaxaca City's Panteón General.
Volunteers placed a candle and a marigold by each tomb in the corridor, since many of the tombs are over 100 years old and have no living descendants to care for them.
I took this photo, and others to follow, with my new iPhone 11 Pro. I bought the camera (upgrading from the iPhone 7), specifically to have its low light (night-mode) and portrait-mode capabilities for this trip, both of which I used in this picture.
I'll have more to say about the phone's camera in a future post. While these modes are not perfect, I am very happy overall with the results. In fact, the photos I took of these candles and flowers turned out much better with my iPhone the my much more expensive camera... The white balance straight out of the phone was better than I could achieve with my other camera after a long effort in Photoshop!
Faces in the crowd.
This is a rather unusual picture, but I think it captures the atmosphere of the shoulder-to-shoulder crowd in the street next to the cemetery in Xoxocotlán, on October 31 of this year.
This is Evelyn, photographed outside the cemetery in Xoxocotlán.
I encountered her next to a vendor of cell-phone cases, so I used the cases as a colorful, if atypical, background.
A lovely girl poses in the tombs in Panteón General in Oaxaca City.
This is Paulina, posing outside the Panteón General in Oaxaca City.
Coco is one of my favorite movies.
Here are figurines of Miguel, the main character, on sale next to the Panteón General in Oaxaca City. (to the left is Hector!)
I don't think these are a very good likeness of Miguel. Let's just say that copyright protection of animated characters is not the strongest in Mexican street markets...
I photographed this woman as she walked past me in the crowded street next to the cemetery in Xoxocotlán, Oaxaca.
Photographed in the cemetery at Xoxocotlán, just outside of Oaxaca City.
