San Juan Chamula church Photo

Photographer’s Note

Several Indian villages are located at ten kilometers of San Cristobal of mow Casas, of which San Juan Chamula. Its inhabitants, of language tzotzile, are descendants of the Maya.
The church of the village has a very coloured gate. At the interior, the atmosphere is seizing: Indians, knelt a little everywhere in the nave, request. They stuck candles on the ground, in front of the statues which decorate the nave. The ground is covered with pine needles. Known to be the object of a great religious enthusiasm but also its single cultuelles practices,
the church of San Juan is the most significant place for the very whole community. Only regret; the photographs are in this place as at the time of any religious ceremony with San Juan- STRICTLY prohibited. Any attempt would expose you instantaneously to a violent reaction of the Indians whose beliefs indicate to them that the camera is a robber of hearts…

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Paolo (40755) 2005-06-01 10:39

Amazing picture Dominique.
there is an explosione of colors, with a great contrast of the lightning white of the church and the wonderful blue sky.
thanks, ciao

cmarino (2368) 2005-06-01 15:08

Hi Dominique !
Beautiful colors of a very diferent and interesting church.
Rgds,

Celso

kebek (5434) 2005-06-01 15:10

Serwus Dominique!
Another charming view from Mexico. I like Your natural kind of shooting photos, without experiments and changing them. Your point of view adds some Truth about the places You've seen. Bravo!
Exposure and light effects are good. Colors are wonderful, especially gate of church. And last, including a person, who is sitting at the church add scale to Your photo. So now we know it's really huge.
Besides, very interesting note.
Thanks for sharing.

HalloweenHJB (152) 2005-06-01 15:21

Extremely beautiful photo. Feliciations!

colinbrenchley (6133) 2005-06-01 18:26

Excellent bright sky, plus the greens on the door surrounds stand out really well.

jafadabret (40633) 2005-06-10 15:01

Cette église blache sur ce ciel si bleu c'est un spectacle de toute beauté. La note est très intéressante.

banyanman (7739) 2005-08-26 11:53

A lovely contrast of nicely saturated colours, Dominique, and very well composed Interesting note too. Cheers . . . David

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terimakasi74 (283) 2006-12-10 15:33

Hi Dominique

Amazing colors. The main subject off center, the right amount of super blue sky, nice composition!
I don't think it's soooo bad that one can not take a picture there. Even without a picture, I think you will never ever forget the eerie atmosphere there (I won't at least)....
Cheers,
Juerg