Mexican Field Trip

February 14^th to March 2nd

 

 

I was fortunate to be able to join a group from AIAPS on a field trip to Mexico where we would look for cacti and succulents in the states of Puebla, Oaxaca, Morelos and Hidalgo. Our leader was a distinguished French botanist, Professor Norbert Rebmann, who had previously visited these parts and was able to lead us to a number of habitats from personal memory, as well as others from well documented research.

 

Our group in total was:

 

Prof. Norbert Rebmann,       Field trip leader, Professor of Botany at University of Paris

M. Pierre Fontaine               Treasurer of AIAPS

M. Michel Brossier

M et Mme. Gerard and Michelle Baudry

M. et Mme. Alain and Annie Legal

M. Laurent Breysse

Mme. Madeleine Esteve

And myself.

 

In keeping with previous records, I have organised these pages into a daily narrative, and a link to the pictures that I took on each day. At the end of each days pictures, the back link will return to this page. I start with Day 4. since days 1-3 were filled with flights, acclimatisation in Mexico City and the journey to Puebla.

 

Day 4 – Thursday, 17^th February – Puebla to Tehuacan

 

Day 5 – Friday 18^th February – Mesa de San Lorenzo, and towards Canada Morelos

 

Day 6 – Saturday 19^th February – Texcala, Zapotitlan de Salinas and Acatapec.

 

Day 7 –  Sunday 20^th February – to Oaxaca via Calipan, San Gabriel (San Rafael), Teotitlan, Los Cues, Cuicatlan, and

              San Juan de los Reyes.

 

Day 8 – Monday 21^st February– Monte Alban, and then towards Mitla via Yagul

 

Day 9 – Tuesday 22^nd February – South West from Oaxaca – the Mammillaria albilanata day!

 

Day 10 – Wednesday 23^rd February – From Oaxaca to Cuautla via Huajuapan de Leon

 

Day 11 – Thursday 24^th February – Towards Hidalgo, via Peñon de Amujar

 

Day 12 – Friday 25^th February – After Teotihuacan, to Pachuca and Huasca de Ocompo

 

Day 13 – Saturday 26^th February – Barranca de Metztitlan

 

Day 14 – Sunday 27^th February – Venados, Metztitlan, San Cristobal, and over the mountains to Molango.

 

Day 15 – Monday 28^th February – Mirador Piña del Aire and back to Mexico City

 

I’d welcome any comments, reports of bad links, problems with loading or viewing, so I can improve the site. Just email me at ID: woodedge.internetmail @btinternet.com. Don’t rely on this being the email address for ever, it probably with change as spammers pick it up and I get flooded with junk.

 

For the technical, the photos were taken with a Konica-Minolta Dynax 7D with 17-35mm K-M, 24-85mm f 3.5-f4.5 Minolta, 100-300mm APO Minolta and Sigma 105mm macro lenses.

 

I shot these all in RAW + JPEG, and used an Archos AV400 40GB player as the store onto which the 1MB Sandisk Ultra II 1GB card was downloaded.. The images on this site were from the JPEGs, typically with minor levels adjustment and a USM of 80, 2.5, 2 as the camera is set up with no in camera sharpening. All galleries were created with Adobe Photoshop 7, and the web pages themselves created using Microsoft Word on my 3.2GHz Pentium PC running Windows XP.

 

Enjoy.