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Why I photograph?
Pregunta que me he repetido mil veces, y que titula un articulo escrito por uno de mis fotógrafos favoritos y fuente principal de inspiración. Pero esta es una pregunta compleja, y no creo que una simple entrada en este blog pueda responderla en su totalidad. ¿Que me impulsa a tomar una cámara, cualquiera que estuviera a mano en ese momento? ¿Que ( Read more... ) -
New Facebook, and why you shouldn't always trust users
There's a big fuzz about Facebook's new design, and I personally don't understand why. The new user interface is more intuitive, easier to use, and all the old good features are still there. Is different? Hell yes! Is new? You betcha! Users like different and new? No if the change was on something they already know and use, even if its performance ( Read more... ) -
Catching light
I haven't updated for a loooong time, mainly because I'm virtually living in deviantArt. I join a pretty awesome club there called The Yard Collective, focusing mainly in Industrial and Street photography. It has all the classic stuff about dA clubs: polls, contests, features from the admins, best photo of the month, etc. Another great thing about ( Read more... ) -
Analog Disaster
This year's last Saturday occurred something that only can be call a catastrophe. There has been some time since something like that happened to me. The catastrophe: the camera I was using (the Zenit-E) had a light leak that I didn't notice, because when my brother gave it to me (with film included), and he didn't check the camera's condition. The ( Read more... ) -
New Hobby
I started learning photography a couple of months ago. I always liked it, but never took it as a real hobby. But since the end of this summer vacations, and in the preceding months, important personal experiences has lead me to reconsider it. Not as a temporal phase, not as an empiric thing, but as a permanent practice. So since beginnings of ( Read more... ) -
Carpe Diem
I was walking back home, and in front of me, in a bus line, there was a young couple. They were standing one besides the other, and were about to take the bus. They were walking slowly because the bus line was long and they were almost at the end of it. Then I carefully look at them, and I realise that he was touching her neck. Well, he was ( Read more... ) -
On Fridays
I always liked Fridays. You see, when I get out the office, I always take the campus's bus. I always have a few minutes to spare, because the bus leaves at 5 o'clock, and I aboard it usually 10 or 15 minutes early. So, I can got up the bus, sat on my favorite spot, put on my headphones and listen to whatever I had on my player ( Read more... ) -
My best and worst time of the year
November, by Tom Waits.
No shadows, no stars
There's no moon and no cars, November
It only believes in a pile of dead leaves
And a moon that's the color of bone
No prayers for November to linger longer
Stick your spoon in the wall and we'll slaughter them all
November has tied me to an old dead tree
Get word to April to rescue me
November's cold chain made ( Read more... ) -
First 10K race.
This past Sunday I ran my first 10K race. Everything started with a simple encouragement by my work's boss, at only 4 days for the race. Thanks God I had several months of running under my belt, and I normally run five/six times a week distances of 5,6 or 7Km runs, depending of the mood I'm in that day. I stood and think about it for a minute. I ( Read more... ) -
Nice Saturday morning, I'm gonna take it with me when I'm gone.
This Sunday I was waiting for my Muay Thai instructor in the park when we usually do our training. Nobody wasn't there yet (usually I'm always the first one arriving), so I sat down and waited for the people to show up. There were two kids and an old man playing baseball. The two kids were playing, and the old man, who was the grandfather of one of ( Read more... )