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La Aduana, Sonora, Mexico

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La Aduana Sonora Mexico photo galleryHere are some photos from a trip I made to the Alamos area in the state of Sonora, Mexico, a few years ago. This first set features the old silver-mining town of La Aduana which was founded in 1540 to provide a location for the collection of taxes and royalties on the silver mined from the Quintera mine before there was any chance of loss to highway robbers or pirates on the high seas. La Aduana in Spanish means the "customs office".

Today La Aduana is almost a ghost town, with a small local population and many crumbling adobe ruins, all providing rich material for a photographer!

Reminder: The 40% off sale on my flower prints will end after this weekend.


These photos were actually taken way back in December 2002. Not knowing what I was doing at the time, I over-compressed the jpg files and they are pretty small as well. But I managed to save them by devising a way in Photoshop that smooths the jagged edges of the jpeg artifacts with a painterly effect that is somewhat like a colorful watercolor. I'm so glad I spent some time figuring out a way to salvage these images as there are so many great places and moments to share from this trip. There will be more to follow.

La Aduana Photo Gallery

Here's the video of the La Aduana set:



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Samoan Youth

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This young man was preparing with his friends for his moment of fame on the stage at the Samoan Village at the Polynesian dance festival called Pasifika in Auckland in March this year. Samoan Youth Canon EOS 20D 1/30sec at f/20 ISO 200 Canon 70-300mm lens at 300mm More photographs from the same Pasifika Festival day can be found in my new post, Faces of Pasifika 2007 — A Day at Auckland's Pacific Festival .
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The Active Seniors Collection: Ollie Grandpa and Heart Granny

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Ollie Grandpa — © John Corney The whole spirit of retirement, done right, is this: after a long working life, you finally have time to do the things you always wanted to. Not everyone slows down when they retire. Some people speed up. Some people get on a skateboard for the first time at 68, or ride a motor scooter through the city just because they've earned the right to, or start showing up to family gatherings in outfits that require sunglasses. That's the spirit I wanted to capture in my Active Seniors series — a collection of cheerful illustrations celebrating older people who have decided, quite firmly, that they're not done yet. Meet Ollie Grandpa Ollie Grandpa is the piece above — a spirited older man catching serious air on his skateboard, silver hair flying, a flower-adorned helmet keeping him sensible, a striped scarf trailing behind him because scarves in the wi...
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Cool Granny in Her Austin A35 — © John Corney 2026 This one has a real backstory, and I'd like to tell it properly. An Auckland Sighting On one of my annual visits home to New Zealand, I was walking through central Auckland — at the corner of Queen Street and Karangahape Road (K Road, as everyone calls it) — when a small yellow car went past me and stopped me mid-stride. It was a beautifully kept Austin A35, one of the little British runabouts that were everywhere in New Zealand when I was growing up in the fifties and sixties. Driving it was a woman of a certain age with the confident bearing of someone who had been driving that same car, or one like it, for decades. She looked entirely at home behind the wheel. She belonged to the car and the car belonged to her, and neither of them was in any hurry to change. If you know Auckland, that particular corner will register: Queen Stree...
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