Best Photos from My Part-Time Life in Mexico
Any photographer, or anyone who takes photos at all for that matter, knows how rare a good photo is. However, as they say: now and then even a blind squirrel gets a nut. Since living in Mexico part-time in 2014, I have been lucky to take a few I really like. All remind me of a special vibe I was experiencing when I shot them.
The end of a good year seemed like a good time to share them. None of the ocean pictures have been touched up. The images look exactly as I saw them. A few others have minor edits, like cropping. Only one was touched up in a major way (the singers on the bus). Some of the images have been in blogs, others not. They remain sitting in the closet waiting for a ball to which they may or may not ever be invited. Hope you enjoy them!
My friend Lupita and I took a ferris wheel at a local carnival one night. They have some pretty crazy rides, ones you’d not see in the U.S.
The only way to understand (and grow to love) Mexican regional music is to be invited to be a part of it, as I was here.
One of the things I miss most when I am in the U.S. is Mexico’s nightlife. Even older people stay out much later. Once out, it’s rare to be home before one or two in the morning.
The only photo I didn’t take myself, this picture is of my friend Cayo surfing off the point in south Mazatlán reminds us that Mexico too has its surf culture.
El Faro de Mazatlán is one of the highest (not tallest) lighthouses in world, operating higher than any other lighthouse in the Western Hemisphere, second only to the Gibraltar Aerobeacon.
The only benefit of insomnia is the opportunity to see ocean in it’s rarest forms. This was taken at about five in the morning.
Believe it or not, I had never had a mango until arriving to Mexico. Glad I waited. Calls out to you, doesn’t it?
I have always written that one of the main reasons I come to Mexico in the summer is for the thunderstorms, which some nights arrive from different directions at the same time.
My friends and I spent a night in this small fishing village drinking wine and watching a thunderstorm from my balcony window. Her husband took this picture, which always reminds me how my Mexican friends are the most important things in my life in Mexico.
This was shot taking a bus in Guadalajara. I remember they were singing “A lobo en Paris.” (the link to the song to hear it is there behind the song title, sorry it’s hard to see.)
The best shots of the ocean are to be taken in the morning. I finally got up for one and took this on a Sunday walk in November.
These little guys that appear from time to time in my apartments alway crack me up - how fast they are and, surprisingly, how much noise they can make (he does look a little guilty, doesn’t he?)
Some days the sun hits the ocean just right.
The malacón in Mexican coastal cities always carries a party atmosphere, or should I say, someone is always carrying it.
This free pool in Mazatlán affords people safe swimming with a view.
For me, this picture captures the gentle conviviality of a week-end night along coastal Mexico’s malecóns, where families, friends, and lovers enjoy the simple experience of being together.
A rare photo of a flock of snowbirds landing.
Cliff Divers work for tips.
About the author:
Kerry Baker is a partner with Ventanas Mexico and the author of the “Interactive Guide to Learning Spanish Free Online,” “If Only I Had a Place” (a book on renting luxuriously in Mexico) and “The Mexico Solution: Saving your money, sanity, and quality of life through part-time life in Mexico.” (links are behind title.)