The other side of the previous post. The top photo is a postcard. As usual, when posting an album page, I show the whole page to show position, then the other photos individually. Click on The Trips Collection in labels to see the rest of the album. and fair warning, it will be a while before everything gets put up.
It's been a long time since I've posted anything from this photo album. The fact is, it's a real pain in the behind to disassemble the pages, scan, and then replace the page in the album. Call it laziness if you want. Anyway, this album is another example of true found photography. I was walking down the street, there were a bunch of garbage bags on the sidewalk, and this album was sticking out the top of one of the bags, and since it wasn't covered in some sort of nasty crap I wouldn't want to touch, it came home with me.
Chitzen Itza was a large pre-Columbian city built by the Mayans. It's located on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. Chitzen Itza is translated as at the mouth of the well of Itza. The Itza were an ethnic-lineage group that once was politically dominate in the Yucatan.
Click on The Trips Collection in labels to see what else is up. Fair warning, it will be while before the entire album gets posted.
It's been a while. This is a really big collection of a traveling family's many vacations. Every time I post something I've got to take the album apart and then put it back together again. Needless to say, it's going to take some time. So, we're still in Mexico, and it's almost impossible to see it from the scan, but the middle photo is dated "JAN 74." As usual, I'm putting up the whole page to see positioning, and then a separate scan of each individual photo. The top image is a postcard labeled "Uxmal, the middle snapshot "Nunnery" and the bottom. "Rounded Pyramid." Click on the trips collection in labels to what's been posted.
This post is just the other side of the album page that I just put up. The last post was frolicking in the ocean at Acapulco. This one is ruins, ruins, and more ruins at Uxmal, an ancient Mayan city in southern Mexico. And by the way, there is a misspelling in the caption. It should be a corbeled arch, not "korbeled." So, to see more click on The Trips Collection in labels to see what's been posted. And by the way, there are a lot of pages in this album, so it will be a while before the whole album will be online.
Back to the trips album that I actually found in the garbage. A few years ago, my computer died, and while the scanner wasn't affected, I lost the software and it was too old, so the manufacturer wasn't supporting it anymore, so there went the color correction setting. Too bad, I'd love to see these photos closer to what they looked like when they came from the photo lab. Anyway, a collection of family vacation photos from multiple locations and multiple years. These are all from Mexico, and it looks like they drove from Los Angeles. Well probably, since that's where I found the album. Click on The Trips Collection in labels to see everything that's been posted.
As a rule, I don't publish text-only posts, but this is an exception. Over time, I'll be putting up this entire album, and since the lady who put this album together typed out these four pages of reminiscences of her trip to Mexico, well here it is. And by the way, I didn't crop out some of her text. There are a couple of lines where she typed beyond the edge of the page. Click on The Trips Collection in labels to see everything that has been posted and will be posted in the future. That is if my scanner doesn't die again.
No, I haven't purchased a new scanner. For reasons I don't understand, it just started working again. So, before it goes down again, it's back to The Trips Album. Anyway, go to labels and click on The Trips Collection and you can see what's on the other side of this album page. Still in Hawaii, still wandering around.
If I were being completely honest, this blog would be called The Recently Purchased Photography since almost every image I've posted was bought at a thrift store, antique store, flea market, or online. Every once in a while, however, I actually find photos and this new collection is truly found photography.
Anyway, I was walking to the pharmacy to get a flu shot and the latest COVID update, when I passed by a stack of garbage, on the curb, waiting for pickup by the trash collectors, when I caught sight of a rather large photo album just sticking out of a large, black garbage bag. After making sure it wasn't covered by rotting food or some other nasty thing I wouldn't want in my home, I grabbed it, stuffed it into my pack, and hurried off to get needles stuck in my arm.
So, when I write that this album is large, it's not just the sheer number of photos, but also, its dimensions. I couldn't get a scan of the album cover, so I had to take a photo with my cell phone camera. It was when I tried to scan the first page that I had to decide just how anal I was going to be about getting every inch of information posted. To make a long story short, after experimenting with posting the entire album page to show placement by doing it in sections, and then seeing just how unevenly lit a phone pic was, well let's just say that the date, 1971, got cropped a bit and I'm just going to have to live with it.
I don't know how long it's going to take to post this entire album. More than likely I'll go back to using one post to show the whole album page for placement and then do the individual photos in a separate post. Something to look forward to, there will be a couple of posts with no photos at all. The owner has some written pages that are kind of interesting. So, click on The Trips Collection in labels to see everything, though it could be a while until the whole album is up for viewing.
