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Tikal's main temple, taken with a yellow filter
Tikal, or city of the dead, is a minimimalists dream (compared to Angkor Wat, anyway)--tidy pyramid strutures built in the middle of the Guatamalan jungle. If you lived there you were engaged in one of the following: a peasent farming, royalty lounging or a priest looking to Venus and other heavanly bodies.
The Mayans had a marvelous sense of awarness, organizing their days similar to the way we do, a year was 18 months with 20 days each and a five day period to worship the Gods--the regulars, you know, the gods of the sun, moon, corn--items they were grateful for.
A King too ran around, a rather ostenatious lot, in imagary anyway, wearing jaugar skins wearing, a knife that looked like a fork (it had three blades) and toucan feathers all over his head.
Bless them all on this Thanksgiving Eve.
Blue filter--Mayan king
Yellow filter--lawn outside temple and moss covering part of ruin
No filter--spooky light inside temple
travel photography, Tikal, Mayan ruins, lens filter
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