Photos

This image is a partner to my last one, and is, in fact, the house next door to the one pictured there. I wish I could have captured both at once -- cerulean and tangerine side by side -- but it brought too many extraneous elements into the frame.

Here, again, is a good example of the free, florid use of colour in Mexico. I don't think I've ever seen a house this colour in Canada, and don't expect to, but in Merida it's just one more house you see while walking down the street.

Mexico has a lot of things going for it -- friendly people, several ancient cultures, an abundance of archeological sites, beautiful deserts, wonderful beaches -- but the sheer potency of the colours was one of the things I enjoyed the most.

(This photo is titled in honour of that astounding, over the top, much-too-much band Tangerine Dream, whose strange, psychedelic soundscapes captured my attention for a short while many years ago. Filmmaker William Friedkin, who used their music for the soundtrack to his film Sorcerer (1977), famously remarked that he would certainly have used them for The Excorcist (1973) if only he'd known about them when he made it.)