Agaves & Magueyes in Mexico City

I have a friend who keeps telling me, “Alex you are reiterating yourself.” And yes, I often do. Because I have now written 6358 blogs I forget that I have written about a subject before (and sometimes more than once).

When I went to Mexico City in October of 2023 I was dazzled by the perfect agaves/magueys (magueyes is the plural in Spanish). I wrote a blog about them. Using my 20-year-old Photoshop 8 I colorized them (they were 35 mm b+w film) to their approximate real colour. And I combined those photos with some of my favourite portraits of my granddaughter Rebecca next to a maguey under the dome of the Queen Elizabeth Park.

Today, 23 March 2025(I will put this blog to fill a hole in a recent past), I became obsessed in finding those negatives. I get depressed when I lose negatives. But I found them! I decided I wanted to do what I call scanner negative sandwiches without mayonnaise. I am aware that I could do something similar with the Photoshop app Layers. I simply like the mechanical method of sandwiching and scanning them.