1979 | Mexico City
Here’s another old one from that trip. A fine drizzly day.
I remember exiting the Metro station at Parque Chapultepec, carried along by the dense, vibrant crowd, with no room at all to make a picture. I asked my experienced companion Alberto what kind of event might have been scheduled: “Is the Pope coming to town today?”
“No,” he said. “It’s Sunday.”
1979 | Chapultepec, 2022 scan
▹ It’s nice to be able to find these bits of film and run them through my “new” scanner. It’s almost as old as the Nikon model I bought in 2004 for the first scan at top, but several orders of magnitude finer. My intuition suggests that the Imacon was engineered for NASA to digitize the many thousands of rolls from the astronauts’ field work. I’ll look that up.