Archeological site - Teotihuacán México

[armando_m]

Me and my family visited between Christmas and new year, it has been probably 30+ years since I was here the last time, the site is north of Mexico city - where I lived until graduating from university -  It is nice to come back with the family and visit places I have not seen in a long time
 
1. Pyramids of the sun - big one in the background, to the right, and pyramid of the moon, even farther to the left. the nearby constructions are to each side of a long street , about 4 kms (currently explored length) , the site excavations started near the conquest of Mexico in the 1600's, a big push was done before the revolution before the WW fair in the early 1900's to promote Mexico as a country to the more developed countries. The site was eventually listed by the UNESCO as a world heritage centre in 1987.
 
The pyramid of the sun is 64m high and measure 225m per side. It can be climbed and usually is a crowded climb, this time was not an exception.
The pyramid of the moon is 42m high and can be climbed to a first stage, not all the way to the top.
 
Light was very bright with bit of haze, so I chose to process in b&w

2. Pyramid of the moon
3. Pyramid of the sun in the background to the left

[Akira]

These are spectacular images.  Thanks for the detailed info on these fascinating pyramids.

[elsa hoffmann]

very interesting and thanks for the photos  - or should I say thanks for the info -
I enjoyed reading and referring to your images
Those steps appear to be very steep!

[John Geerts]

Thanks Armando, these are impressive.  Great to see it in B &W. 

I only know the images from jig-saw-puzzles from the seventies 

[armando_m]

Akira, Elsa , john, Thanks for commenting

[Jakov Minić]

How I would love to visit Mexico and the pyramids

[elsa hoffmann]

Jakov I agree. Mexico must be a wonderful place to visit.
(and free coffee at Armando's ) 

[armando_m]

You would be gladly welcome

Plenty of interesting places to shoot

[elsa hoffmann]

Armando - one day.... we swap - you come here and I go there

[Anthony]

Mexico is an amazing travel destination, not least as a photography paradise.

[golunvolo]

They represent a magical place. Compositon in the last one works very well; I like yuor choice of bw for this series.

  In a older style, timeless actually, very accoplished first image. I will fit anywere -in case it sounds odd, that´s a big compliment in my book-

   Thanks for sharing!

[pluton]

They represent a magical place. Compositon in the last one works very well; I like yuor choice of bw for this series.

  In a older style, timeless actually, very accoplished first image. I will fit anywere -in case it sounds odd, that´s a big compliment in my book-

   Thanks for sharing!

Yes, the first image reminded me of the style of documentation from 100 years ago.  All are really well composed and processed.

[armando_m]

Thank again for all the comments

When processing #1 I was getting frustrated, this is probably my fourth attempt and I was surprised when I got this look, the original image looks all washed up and I was struggling to get a bit of contrast on the farther pyramid vs the background,while my usual b&w processing is to use the red filter, this was not getting me the results I wanted (as it did in the other two) , so after a bit of persistence (stubbornness) to salvage the image I selected the blue filter.