Yucatan
The Yucatan series is done in a large panoramic format up to 6 feet wide.
In 2012, I started spending many months a year in Merida, Mexico where I would often visit the Mayan ruins. While wandering around the pyramids, I was fascinated by the areas around the pyramids, the paths the Mayans used daily to go build the structures and their lives during and after the pyramids were built.
The Mayans eventually abandoned their cities most likely due to overpopulation, deforestation and the overuse of natural resources causing changing weather conditions, (and droughts) a direct comparison to our world today is undeniable.
Ake Wave
Ake is a ruin close to Merida which has barely been excavated. This photo shows the entrance to one of the most extensive trade routes in the Yucatan.
Other panoramas are of haciendas and structures that once dominated the region but have since been reclaimed by nature as they were abandoned and fell into disuse. They all had a mystical. otherworldly quality which gives you a sense of everything that happened there throughout hundreds of years and show the power of nature to reclaim its territory.
Gallery
YUCATAN
#1 - Ake Wave
#2 - The Connection
#3 - Gateway
#4 - Dichotomy
#5 - Overgrown Wall
#6 - Expansion
#7 - Uxmal Temple
#8 - San Jose Pachul Hut