Edificio 1 at Sabacce, again, but in this image I let the gorgeous Chaca trees, growing up around the ruin, take centre stage.
At the end of November, I took my third trip to Mexico since 2014 to photograph Mayan ruins. I visited a number of ruins not open to the public, overgrown and hidden in the jungle, in order to continue working on my series of infrared images of Mayan Ruins. Many people think that the large ruins (Chichen Itza, Uxmal, Labna, Sayil, etc.) comprise the totality of Mayan civilization in the Yucatan, but there are literally hundreds of smaller or satellite cities spread throughout Yucatan and Campeche. These are the ruins that draw me - beautiful, sometimes remote, ruins, partially overgrown, but still standing after more than a thousand years.
If you'd like to read about this trip, I have a blog post about it that you might enjoy.
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One more image from the wonderful ruin of Xkipche, buried in the jungle.
Between 1990 and 1997 and again between 2002 and 2004, a team from the University of Bonn in German and Mexico's INAH (the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia) did thorough and detailed excavations at Xkipche. Then it was left to go back to the jungle.
At the end of November, I took my third trip to Mexico since 2014 to photograph Mayan ruins. I visited a number of ruins not open to the public, overgrown and hidden in the jungle, in order to continue working on my series of infrared images of Mayan Ruins. Many people think that the large ruins (Chichen Itza, Uxmal, Labna, Sayil, etc.) comprise the totality of Mayan civilization in the Yucatan, but there are literally hundreds of smaller or satellite cities spread throughout Yucatan and Campeche. These are the ruins that draw me - beautiful, sometimes remote, ruins, partially overgrown, but still standing after more than a thousand years.
If you'd like to read about this trip, I have a blog post about it that you might enjoy.
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The light was so beautiful when I photographed this beautiful ruin, that I can't resist posting another image. And there might be one more.
While the sites I've been posting images of are not open to the public, in Yucatan there is a group called Manzana (Mantenimiento a Zonas Arqueológicas No Abiertas - Maintenace of Archaeological Areas Not Open) that monitors the state of the ruins and, on occasion, will clear some of the vegetation around them. Though there are literally thousands of ruins on the Yucatan Peninsula, and there isn't money to maintain all of them, some effort is being made to monitor them.
At the end of November, I took my third trip to Mexico since 2014 to photograph Mayan ruins. I visited a number of ruins not open to the public, overgrown and hidden in the jungle, in order to continue working on my series of infrared images of Mayan Ruins. Many people think that the large ruins (Chichen Itza, Uxmal, Labna, Sayil, etc.) comprise the totality of Mayan civilization in the Yucatan, but there are literally hundreds of smaller or satellite cities spread throughout Yucatan and Campeche. These are the ruins that draw me - beautiful, sometimes remote, ruins, partially overgrown, but still standing after more than a thousand years.
If you'd like to read about this trip, I have a blog post about it that you might enjoy.
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Kom is an amazing, sprawling site and this wonderful building (and a few others around it) sits at the top of a long climb straight up. In the Puuc area, arable land was highly valued, so most buildings sit not in the valleys, but atop rocky outcroppings or, in this case high atop a hill. One can imagine that the view from here would give you oversight and control over all the surrounding valleys.
At the end of November, I took my third trip to Mexico since 2014 to photograph Mayan ruins. I visited a number of ruins not open to the public, overgrown and hidden in the jungle, in order to continue working on my series of infrared images of Mayan Ruins. Many people think that the large ruins (Chichen Itza, Uxmal, Labna, Sayil, etc.) comprise the totality of Mayan civilization in the Yucatan, but there are literally hundreds of smaller or satellite cities spread throughout Yucatan and Campeche. These are the ruins that draw me - beautiful, sometimes remote, ruins, partially overgrown, but still standing after more than a thousand years.
If you'd like to read about this trip, I have a blog post about it that you might enjoy.
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This beautiful ruin is located just on the border between the states of Yucatan and Campeche.
Getting to Xkipche was quite an adventure. In the days before I could meet up with my friend Balta, I hired an American who lives in Mexico, Dan Griffin, to take me around. I requested to go to Xkipche one of the days we were together. To do that, we hired a local guide who knew the site and could get us permission (and keys) to go through the 7 or 8 gates we'd have to go through to get across the properties (mostly cattle ranches) in the 4 or 5 kilometres between the main road and the site. We got through the gates without problem, but found the dirt road close to the site a washed out, muddy mess. We had to leave the truck and walk the last couple of kilometres. The site is heavily overgrown, so Oswaldo (our local guide) cleared paths for us with his machete. I remember photographing here when the only sounds were the wind in the trees, the birds and Oswaldo's machete as he cleared paths around this building. It was an amazing experience - a site truly buried in the jungle.
At the end of November, I took my third trip to Mexico since 2014 to photograph Mayan ruins. I visited a number of ruins not open to the public, overgrown and hidden in the jungle, in order to continue working on my series of infrared images of Mayan Ruins. Many people think that the large ruins (Chichen Itza, Uxmal, Labna, Sayil, etc.) comprise the totality of Mayan civilization in the Yucatan, but there are literally hundreds of smaller or satellite cities spread throughout Yucatan and Campeche. I am so drawn to these beautiful, sometimes remote, ruins, partially overgrown, but still standing after more than a thousand years.
If you'd like to read about this trip, I have a blog post about it that you might enjoy.
Website | Blog | Instagram |
Tags: Infrared Maya Mayan Mexico Ruins Xkipche Yucatan
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