If colour was a place Photo

Photographer’s Note

Guanajuato is a UNESCO world heritage site. It’s a university town a little bit north of Mexico City. It is nested in the middle of some very steep hills.

As with every town in Mexico, most of the houses are painted with bright and varied colours. The setting of this town, along with its colours makes it look like the houses are note real, as if they were candys or made out of Lego, each house a Lego brick.

In some streets, it is as if every new house owner looks at the rest of the street and thinks: “Let me see which colour is still missing, so I can choose the colour for my house”.

You can see a previous post in http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/photo281721.htm

and a panoramic view of the whole town, posted by Fred LION,
http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/North_America/Mexico/Central_Highlands/Guanajuato/Guanajuato/photo90505.htm

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This is a scanned image from the negative and I have sturated the colours to give a more real look of this amazing place. I think these pastel colours work better for this image, but I will add another one in WS, with less saturation and more sharpness.
I'm not happy with the overexposed upper part and a blue sky would be much nicer to contrast with all these colours, but I still wanted to show this image.

barrufeto_77, ChrisJ, Galmeida, efigesta, feather, jhm, berek, atus, Tue, Rossignol, Henryk_Bilor, papagolf21, smash2707, pitai, alvaraalto, aznegrao, ulla, Benedict, zeynepe, paura, Amaz has marked this note useful

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pablominto (41372) 2006-03-30 3:32

Hi Ricardo,
Eyecatching colours!
Nice composition, well balanced and with good lines... I agree on the sky, blue would be great!
Greetings,
Pablo -

barrufeto_77 (25935) 2006-03-30 3:41

Hi Ricardo.

The colours in the houses makes an amazing composition!

A really pity the sky...

Rgs, Oscar

AiresSantos (42924) 2006-03-30 4:38

Olá Ricardo,
A foto tem umas cores fantasticas. A diversidade cria um graphismo muito interessante. A definição não parece ser a melhor e o ceu... mas não deixa de ser um trabalho muito bom,
Um abraço amigo,
Aires

ChrisJ (70443) 2006-03-30 4:38

Ola Ricardo

Fantastic color contrastsd & a wonderful pov but lacking a little sharpness. I may try a ws. Good work overall & tfs.

[workshop] [compare] +

alekpet (4659) 2006-03-30 5:09

Hi Ric.

I think colour is the key for the success of this photo and you shouldn't wory about the lack of sharpness.
Very graphical and pleasing, looks like a painting.

Aleks

Galmeida (12559) 2006-03-30 5:48

Olá Ricardo,
De facto até gosto mais da que publicou e menos da que está em WS. O ceú não ajudou mas as cores estão excelentes e a luz. Boa perspectiva, enquadramento e muito grafismo nesta composição. Parabéns e um abraço amigo,

Fernando

efigesta (12181) 2006-03-30 6:24

Ola AMigo
lindos contrastes de cores, um local cheio de cores e de vida
bom pov
abraço
manuel

feather (50154) 2006-03-30 6:27

The colours really are stunning; I wonder if they have an overall plan. There is so much colour in the image the lack of a blue sky would have gone unnoticed if you hadn't mentioned it.
Kath

manatee (4297) 2006-03-30 8:32

Hola Ricardo:

This is real good, I like the rich variety of colors, the stones in the wall and the ivys in the houses make this more rich even. You make a good job. I have some others pictures from Guanajuato and I will upload in the future. I hope you enjoy it.
I wil be out in Morocco for a week, see you soon.

coco (28130) 2006-03-30 8:59

Hola Ricardo.
The problem of the photo is not the sharpness (well, is a problem, but when you scan a photo is a posibility).
The problem is the upper part overexposed.
Anyway, composition and colours are good.

Thanks for share.

markstaples (15670) 2006-03-30 9:15

They do indeed look like lego houses. This is almost an abstract shot, Ricardo. The composition works.
Thanks for sharing.
Best wishes
Mark

jhm (83352) 2006-03-30 11:14

Hi Ricardo,
I prefered your altered image 2, indeed you have use PP, but the colours and sharpness are wonderful.
It's very difficult choose between different pictures but my choice is maked.
Thanks a lot.
John.

berek (29029) 2006-03-30 11:38

Ola Ricardo,
wall's colors are living . I love sense of picture.very good point of view.
Friendly regards.
B.Erek
Meaning ( Sense ) 9,Framing:9,Idea :10

Tue (25608) 2006-03-30 14:15

Hej Ricardo,
Great to see all the colours of the houses here. The angle, looking up at the houses, is well chosen and the photo is well composed too! Thanks for this very colourful picture!
Hilsner,
Lars

Rossignol (2289) 2006-03-30 16:00

Great image, Ric and very clever title too. These houses, jostling for position and trying to out do each other in the colour stakes are marvellous. Agree blue sky would look nice, but white is the way the sky was when you took the photo, and that's no less valid - it's the way it was.
Good work
Peter

bibiweb (8) 2006-03-30 16:36

Hello Ricardo,
I had never heard of this place before. The colored houses and different levels remind me of Valparaiso where I was last month. It's a pity you had a white sky that day (same thing happened to me too in Valparaiso).
Regards, Brigitte

Henryk_Bilor (20371) 2006-03-31 4:08

Ola my friend
It looks amazing for its colours and structure of the walls. Great perspective.
I prefer a bit the more sharpened version.
Regards

papagolf21 (56749) 2006-03-31 4:22

Bonjour mon ami Ricardo,
De belles couleurs bien nuancées plaisent à la vue, mais ce plaisir est purement de sensation. C'est le dessin, c'est l'imitation qui donne à ces couleurs de la vie et de l'âme ... .
[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]
Une prise de vue intéressante et pleine de vie.
Bravo !
Amitiés.
Philippe

atus (15476) 2006-03-31 5:29

Hi Ricardo,
I like a lot these colourful pictures. This is very well composed with a very good POV.The vegetation is a bonus for the pic because of the nice contrast.
Thanks and regards.
Attila

sergio1 (12150) 2006-03-31 5:44

Hola Ricardo
Un gran estallido de color nos demuestra esta foto. Parece ser un lugar lleno de encanto que usted captó muy bien.
Composición buena y manejo de contraste.
Saludos

banyanman (7739) 2006-03-31 8:53

You've captured some very vibrant colours here, Ricardo. I do like the workshop that Chris has done - that has overcome a lot of the problem with the over-exposure at the top. Cheers . . . David

gaby (19793) 2006-03-31 9:16

Ricardo bonsoir - an amazing but splendid shot - all these colors are fantastic-
Thanks
Have a nice WE
Regards
Gaby

smash2707 (2516) 2006-03-31 13:22

The colors of your picture are amazing. It just looks like a mosaic of different textures and colors. Interesting geometric lines. Have a nice weekend, Yvonne

devimeuxbe (56370) 2006-04-02 3:00

Hi Ricardo
It's a nice color festival. Incredible. A good spot for photographer.
NIce POV and frame.
Bertrand

lestans (15500) 2006-04-02 17:25

Beautiful colrs, Ricardo. I think that Mexico has an its own skill for colors! I remember for example architect Barragan: I never saw his works, but I love his colors and his shapes, impossible to use here!
Ciao, thank you
Livia

pitai (3925) 2006-04-02 21:47

Hello Ricardo, Very colorful image. I like the layers of buildings you show us this time. You are right, the sky is over exposed. That takes same definition. Thanks for sharing, Gabriel

beijokense (498) 2006-04-11 9:10

It's kinda Mexican salad ;)
Abraço,
Beijo

jbweasle (9294) 2006-04-11 13:33

Hello Ricardo, the colours in this image are stunning. It looks like the houses were painted this brightly just so TE members could take incredible photos!

alvaraalto (5303) 2006-04-14 11:03

Hi Ricardo,
If a workshop is needed for this excellent colourful picture it should be something like this.
I used your inspiring picture to search for a picturesque approach. This is an example of it.
Groet Rob

[workshop] [compare]

aznegrao (10246) 2006-04-16 9:54

Ola Ricardo!!
Gosto da combinação das cores nessa composição, voce tem um olhar muito preciso, gostei.
Abraços.
aznegrao.

nika (0) 2006-05-20 18:11

Hola Ricardo , los colores son fantásticos y recrean una atmósfera paralela en esa ciudad , la inundan de alegría y exotismo ,. Es uno de los lugares que más deseo conocer de México , está por allí el callejón del beso (creo que porque es tan estrecho que casi de balcón a balcón puedes besar a otra persona). Quizás haya un poco de sobreexposición , pero es un detalle tonto que no impide que se trate de una foto muy característica de ese bello lugar y transmita un anticipo , virtual , de su exotismo

Feliz fin de semana

Miguel(Anette se fué a Szeged , sur de Hungría al dentista ;) )

cepekdong (3668) 2007-04-06 4:43

wow the town is so colourful ! it looks beautiful and cozy ! in germany impossible because of the many "paragraphs" in our law ! very nice rico !

daniel

zeynepe (9362) 2008-10-12 3:31

Ola Ricardo,
"What color is in a picture, enthusiasm is in life !" Van Gogh
The vivid colors are very attractive as a color lover. You POV that is looking up at the houses makes the composition splendid. As it is scanned image,the sharpnes is OK.When I saw your Mexico photos, I thought that you would also go to Guatemala...
PS: I need your advice , when you insert a link in your note, your link is opened as a new window, how can you do it ?
Have a nice evening,
Zeynep

paura (39306) 2008-11-17 2:11

Ricardo,
Gosto especialmente da variedade de formas e cores. Lembra até um desfile de carnaval no Rio de Janeiro, pela variedade.

Abraço

Paulo

Amaz (7512) 2009-09-11 6:58

Excepcional captura, Ricardo!!
Parece-me uma pintura de Diego Rivera, mas un pouco modernizada!!!

Lidíssimas cores e interessante enquadramento, amigo!!!

Belo travalho!!!

Parabéns mil,

jmdias (19899) 2009-12-09 5:45

ricardo

linda vista, gosto bastante do inusitado deste mix de cores e deste ponto de vista. pena que a nitidez estivesse prejudicada, mas o resto da compo está muito bom,

abraços

jorge