For this week’s picture of the week – my favorite shot of San Miguel at dusk. Shot from the roof of the building where I stayed.
What’s of note is that with the Canon 1D Mark IV, this is the first time I have started shooting in RAW and using Adobe Lightroom.
Next week, I’ll show what can be done with that…
Surrounding the Church at Atotonilco are many abandoned native chapels. Just sitting there. In cornfields. Or converted to barns, etc.
The shot here was taken in the near dark, as there was zero light other than from the front entrance – of the ceiling of one of these chapels. Again, using 24-70mm f/2.8 lens with no flash and no tripod.
One of the more interesting locations I visited in San Miguel was the Church at Atotonilco. It is a World Heritage site – and upon perusing its interior it is easy to see why.
However, it is anything but a museum. It is a working Church – and services are held regularly. And there are many worshippers present even when services are not being held.
And, there is no flash photography allowed – for good reason.
Hence, it poses something of a photographic challenge – as there is no loitering around to setup a tripod for a long-exposure. I managed to capture this and other photos simply by using the high ISO and multiple auto-focus points on the camera to get a good shot – in a big hurry with a 24-70mm f/2.8 lens with no image stabilization.
The results were fantastic. I have rarely succeeded with these types of shots with my previous gear.
As I was disembarking on a business trip to Seattle from an Air Canada Dash-8 on the tarmac – I did a double take. No, time hadn’t shifted back a few decades. But there was United’s old Friendship livery – on an Airbus A320 at gate N16 just getting in from San Francisco. It’s great to see the old UA livery outside of an air museum. Now, if only they’d repaint something in the Saul Bass Tulip scheme.
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