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Los Locos Day in San Miguel

Posted on 25 Jun ’12 by Salted Herring

Today I made my first Youtube upload. I made a video using some of the still pho­tos I took while won­der­ing through the streets before the actual parade. It seems that I’m more drawn to the prepa­ra­tions than the actual events, both fun for sure. And … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Reserved seating, Locos Day Parade

Posted on 18 Jun ’12 by Salted Herring

The Locos Day Parade is an hours long event. The best spots to view the ‘des­file’ were reserved early. Tweet

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Los Locos Day, the trendiest shoes 2012

Posted on 17 Jun ’12 by Salted Herring

Today, once again, San Miguel cel­e­brated Los Locos, the Crazy Peo­ple. This car­ni­val dates from the 19th cen­tury, when orchard work­ers danced to give thanks and ask San Pas­cual Bailón for a pros­per­ous year. The tra­di­tion might be old, but the … Con­tinue read­ing →

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“Happy Day of the Dead”

Posted on 2 Nov ’11 by Salted Herring

Feels funny to say “Happy Day of the Dead”.…we prob­a­bly don’t say so, but com­ing some­where so far to this cul­ture, and adopted ‘El Dia de los Muer­tos’ cel­e­bra­tion as one of my favorites I feel like say­ing so. Yes­ter­day I  walked to … Con­tinue read­ing →

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♥ would you like to be my friend ♥

Posted on 22 Jun ’11 by Salted Herring

LINK~link~LINK ♥ would you like to be my friend ♥ Ok, Ok, I gave in : T has been putting pres­sure on me “you should down-load your pic­tures on Face­book, so every­body could take a look.…”. Have to admit, I’m poor social … Con­tinue read­ing →

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4 hours!

Posted on 22 Jun ’11 by Salted Herring

Marisol, young woman who helps us at the house, was tak­ing part of the locos parade with her extended family.…even Marisol’s nat­u­rally brown Mex­i­can skin was burned after walk­ing 4 hours with the parade ( Marisol made a very cute … Con­tinue read­ing →

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chicas-locas

Posted on 21 Jun ’11 by Salted Herring

dev­il­ish three­some?! Tweet

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ohmygosh!

Posted on 20 Jun ’11 by Salted Herring

locos fes­ti­val is soooooo much fun! i wish you had been here! I’ll tell more dur­ing the week. Tweet

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Being published as the Locos are coming

Posted on 19 Jun ’11 by Salted Herring

This week my pho­to­graph of ‘Loco and His Son’ is fea­tured as cover pho­to­graph on San Miguel de Allende weekly inter­na­tional news­pa­per, Aten­ción, Que Pasa sup­ple­ment. Also the Span­ish lan­guage fea­ture arti­cle of the parade is illus­trated with my photo … Con­tinue read­ing →

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working hand

Posted on 18 Jun ’11 by Salted Herring

por­trait of a rest­ing work­ing hand… some­times just a thumb-print is enough to tell the story? Tweet

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behind the scenes

Posted on 13 Jun ’11 by Salted Herring

mak­ings Tweet

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tale of a little indian

Posted on 10 Jun ’11 by Salted Herring

I’m not sure how I’m going to tell the story in words, for sure I have plenty of pho­tographs to illus­trate a full book. Per­haps I make a pic­ture story, and you’ll fill the script?   Tweet

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