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Above is the west bound lane of the M4 motorway, so it's a view very few see or know it exists.
Pentax Super A with smc Pentax A 50mm f1.7; f11, 1/60 sec. Fuji Pro 160C
Cyrille's desk busy with linocut
Pentax Super A and SMC Pentax 50mm f/1.7, Ilford HP5 exposed as ISO 800 developed in Rodinal 1+50 for 17 min @ 20°C, digitalized using kit zoom with macro rings.
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Near Papantla, Veracruz, Mexico there is a huge archeological zone from the Tajin culture and some people live practically along archeological treasures.
Picture taken with film camera Pentax and kodachrome. Scanned with. Nikon scanner.
Above is the east bound lane of the M4 motorway, so as with its preceding partner shot, it's a view very few see or know it exists.
Pentax Super A with smc Pentax A 50mm f1.7; f11, 1/125 sec. Fuji Pro 160C
The ancient city of Teohtiuacan, in the central Mexican State of Mexico is a huge archeological site and place of an old prehispanic civilization that came to being before the Aztecs reign in the country.
The pyramid of the Sun seen from the top of the pyramid of the Moon.
Pyramids from the ancient cultures of México, the prehispanic era, differ from the Egyptian pyramids in several aspects, the most important is its function. Where Egyptian pyramids were used as burial signals or monuments, the Mexican ones were mostly used as ceremonial sacred places and many times as temples often tagged to a certain deity, in the case of Teohtihuacán its complicated because of the enourmous quantity of temples, ceremonial places, plazas and of course pyramids where each one is assigned to a different deity in a polyteist society, As you can see they have stair systems to climb to the very top. It is supposed by archeoligists that the pyramid of the sun was assigned to the God of rain "Tlaloc" and the pyramid of the moon to the Goddess of rain "Chalchiutlicue"
Another difference is the building methods and materials. While most of the Egyptian pyramids are made of huge stone blocks from queries not far from the river Nile, put in place through an intricate system of rollers, hand made cranes, ramps and lifts, it is believed they covered it with layers of moulded material so in the end it shoul've have an even and smooth surface. This finish in principle is the same as the Mexican pyramids where they also painted this smooth surface with colorful designs. And their building methods differ where they often used a method of prefabrication and an intricate method of reinforcement made of raw concrete to make the construction to withstand earthqùakes and pouring everlasting rain from the tropics and jungle.
The Mexican pyramids were part of a city layout and were part of a "total design" which according to the famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright was amazing because the urban design and main image was preserved throughout many generations.
The Schwanthaler, the scourge of the schoolyard, at least according to what every Textorschule Alumnus will readily tell you. The textorschule has moved to a new site (my kid was in the last propmotion that did its whole time at its historical site) and the Schwanthaler has closed altogether.
Pentax Super A and SMC Pentax 50mm f/1.7, Agfa APX 100 in Rodinal 1+50 for 13min @ 20°C, digitalized using kit zoom with macro rings. The Super A is my latest acquisition - It's one I've been quite curious about for a while, and a guy at the flea market made me an offer I couldn't refuse. Its viewfinder is unfortunately not as big as that of the MX and ME, but it has that way of feeling just right Pentax has the secret for.
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