I suspect it's not that easy to find images of the Quirigua site in Guatemala (mine are certainly not my best), possibly because of the difficulty of shooting these buggers -- the stone stelaes were so roughly textured that the imagery appears highly pixelated even though it's not. And did I mention the glare? If I remember right, it was around 102° the day we visited. Whole lotta heat and light.
Here's a shot from that trip last year around this time, with my original notes:
Full-figure Mayan glyph. If Copan is the Mayan Paris then Quirigua is its Haight-Ashbury, circa Summer of Love -- a kaleidoscope of kool-aid acid dreams etched in stone. Outrageous artistry.
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very cool - congrats!
Congratulations! Looks like a fascinating place (at least from the relatively cool, dark and arid vantagepoint of my hotel room)...
That's one of the things I love about Flickr is how it's democratizing the visual representation of the world. If I want to know what the streets of Kingala, Congo look like for instance, I only have to go as far as a tag search on Flickr....and I won't get the sanitized version either (unless that's what I want). More often than not Flickr gives a better visual representation of a place than any guidebook or coffeetable book.
or even Kinshasa (since there are not pics tagged with Kingala....so much for that theory) :p
Congratulations, rock star!
thanks, guys!
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