Quite a scene. So much too look at in there. The various cooking stations with smoke pouring out, the bed, the apples on the spices. Really is some other world.

i this one alot, not for sure why but i do...

what kinda of camera and lens do you use mostly??

I like this scene it tells me life in this place, but the power of some other your shots is missing.

i agree with Inger that there is something missing here that is in your other pictures. i think in your other shots there is usually an obvious moment, expression, or focus that sort of jumps out at you and satisfies the appetite of us viewers for a "point" for lack of a better word.

in this one, the space right in the center jumps out at me for its emptiness. there is plenty of stuff to look at around it, behind it, and in front of it, but looking at it reminds me of times when i randomly stop and zone out for no apparent reason. don't know what you were experiencing or why you took this exactly, but it has a power to me in its difference from your others.

As a longtime site visitor what is odd for me is that I seem to see several other of raul's pictures in this one... The stacks of bread, the strange meat thing, even the couple. Perhaps I am imaging things but they all recall other images. In a normal photoblog I would say this is a strong image, but so many images on Mexican Pictures are home runs that I don't think it stands on it's own compared to the others. Still as part of a series it works nicely as it really gives you a feel for the place in the way that some of the more tightly cropped images don't.

And by the way I think those are pomegranates not apples.

Question for raul. It seems that all your images are full frame horizontal. Would you ever consider putting a few images next to each other like Alain Astruc sometimes does?

Excellent shot! Beautiful composition and (desaturated) colors. I can almost smell the food...