Day of the Dead — Altars

The Day of the Dead altars around town were beau­ti­ful and impres­sive in the amount of work that went into them. Each was ded­i­cated to sev­eral peo­ple with vary­ing lev­els of his­tor­i­cal sig­nif­i­cance. Pho­tograph­ing the altars pre­sented some chal­lenges to my panorama-editing abil­i­ties, but I’m def­i­nitely learn­ing a lot about the soft­ware that I have been using for a few years now, Hugin. There are plenty of arti­facts, but hope­fully they don’t dis­tract from the altars.

The first one I saw was in Mex­ico City in the Pala­cio de Bel­las Artes.

The next one was a tra­di­tional Otomi altar set up in one of the main plazas in town.

The third was inside the Pala­cio de Gobierno.

And finally there was the one with the Cat­rina contest.