Miscellany

Playa Del Carmen

This is where the tender leaves you should you arrive by cruise ship. If you're sailing with Carnival Cruise Lines, this could be the M/S Celebration, the M/S Ecstasy, or a couple others. Now you have an hour-long bus trip to look forward to. (I didn't make that up.) At least you get free cerveza (beer) or coca (Coca-Cola) on the ride back. Pack water anyhow, you'll need it.

Yup, that's me in front of the Caribbean Sea (left).
Click it if you want to see another pic of me.

Close-up of volcanic rock (below).

Tech Specs (More Than You Wanted to Know)

All these images were taken with a Canon A-1 and Canon FD 28-85mm f/4 zoom lens. Exposure was at f/8 aperture priority (except for a few like through-the-archway shots, which were stopped down) on Fuji HG-V 400 and Kodak Gold 100 print film. The vast majority were taken through a Hoya linear polarizing filter (all except the macro of the young iguana and the shot of me, I think). Scanning was done on my OpticPro 4800P flatbed scanner ($200 at Best Buy), and the images were massaged in an ancient copy of PhotoStyler.

The black-and-white photos were taken the same trip on a Canon AE-1 with a Kalimar 28-200mm f/3.5-5.3. (This lens works fine, but I still don't like it.) Exposure was usually full metered manual (no aperture-priority mode on the AE-1) which I don't remember. The film was Ilford XP2 400 and image processing was the same as for the color photos.

I would also like to congratulate INAH, the Mexican authority in charge of Tulum, for their excellent work in the difficult task of keeping the tourists from damaging the monuments. Or if they didn't stop them, they cleaned it up well.

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