Mesoamerican (Aztec, Maya etc) history and archeology obsessive who does giant infodumps on other boards here
Mostly posting because I am trying to get in touch with photographers in Mexico (or Guatemala, Belize Honduras or hell even down in Peru and Bolivia, etc) I can pay to help me with some projects, if you live in those countries (or visited and have photos) and are interested in taking some photos, being paid to allow them to be used on Wikimedia, email me at
[email protected]I was gonna post a photo a friend of mine who does museum photography sometimes made to keep my post on topic, but he's too lazy to downscale a image below the file size limit for me, so instead here is a photo we recently secured permissions for to be on Wikimedia (since Wikimedia already supplies lower resolution smaller versions), being a feather mosaic "painting" produced by Aztec, Purepecha etc artists for the Spanish. Before contact the same technique was used on Mesoamerican warsuits, shields, some garments, textiles, etc as well, but was adapted to Catholic icons as seen here, mitres, etc after contact.
Here is the full size upload:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%22Saint_Augustine-San_Agust%C3%ADn%22_feather_mosaic_at_%22Relatos,_Art%C3%ADsticos_de_la_Conquista%22,_Museo_Franz_Mayer,_Angled_Zoom_2.jpg keep in mind I believe this version has some postprocessing compared to
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%22Saint_Augustine-San_Agust%C3%ADn%22_feather_mosaic_at_%22Relatos,_Art%C3%ADsticos_de_la_Conquista%22,_Museo_Franz_Mayer,_Angled_Zoom_1.jpg, tho I don't into photography enough to know if it's that vs the same image just taken with different settings or what
>>4421199>>4421201>>4421202>>4421203There's legitimately no postprocessing here? It's all just from overdoing the exposure? Neat stuff. You email me too, actually, if you're open to taking more photos like this and to have them on Wikimedia
