Month: March 2012

Week 11 | 2012

This week was relatively slow and uneventful. On the personal side of things, life is much different but I’m glad to report that finally my interview with Wouter Brandsma was completed and published. If you have not viewed and read it, then I highly recommend you do and learn from someone I consider a master. Electro-Optical System(EOS) To be honest, my online presence has been scarce this week due to the personal side of things. New perspectives, different strokes, the waiting game, healing, and as always my permanent shining beam of light, Isabel, which always lights my days and just when I think I can’t smile. Photographically Speaking I don’t know about you guys out there(the ones who photograph) but there comes a time that as you mature through anything in life you start to realize where your forte is and in what direction you want to go. I believe I’ve had a few of those moments already with my photography.   First, it was the realization that I love to incorporate small compacts in …

Smokes

Just a brief update. Hope everyone is having a great week, its Friday and I just wanted to say the Week 11 | 2012 is done and will be published tomorrow. I think I’m going for a Saturday deadline as I’d like to rest on Sunday’s and not really focus on the blog at all. Big changes coming soon.

Week 10 | 2012

First off, I normally don’t post so many images but this was quite a journey and I was bitten by the documentary bug. I’m still recovering from last week’s blow. Everything is new. New perspectives to a complicated situation which in the end will get resolved but at the expense of what I ask myself. Thank God, things are turning around and all good things for those who wait. Planes, Biscuits, & Limos Back to my journey. I had to fly to Louisiana for a job interview, a specialty I would like to embark on. Getting there felt like an eternity despite it being not to far away from Miami, but a few connecting flights here and there and all suddenly I felt like I landed in a Quenten Tarantino film, something like Pulp Fiction or True Romance, not necessarily riddled with all the drama but the air certainly felt like it or perhaps something akin like the movie Fargo as well but to be fair, it was the entire time at the actual airport, …

Self Portrait #2

Just wanted to give a quick update. Thank God, things are turning around and all towards the best. Here’s another post titled “Self Portrait #2” which continues to explore that deep intertwined relationship between photographer and camera and how those two are able to mix and portray a mood. Cheers and stay tuned for Saturday’s Weekly installment, think of a documentary adventure as I took a trip to [to be continued . . .]

Wouter Brandsma Photography

Togs Series welcome Wouter Brandsma

I write this introduction straight from the heart, no editing, no preformed thoughts, just pure heart felt words. Wouter Brandsma is one of the best things that have happened to my photography so it is with great pride and I feel lucky to call him a friend. Not only a friend but a teacher and a source of inspiration. As many of you know Wouter is a Stroll Photographer who documents his surrounding with an amazing eye which pierces through the lens and captures indelible images that leave us thinking, wanting more, asking questions, and in the end deeply enthralled in his view. Wouter Brandsma epitomizes what can be done with dedication, deep thought to one’s imagery, and off course a compact camera. So it is a great honor to have Wouter join the Togs Series. Ladies and gentlemen without further ado, I present you Wouter Brandsma, Stroll Photographer from the Netherlands. →

Week 9 | 2012

They say that life comes at you with a hammer when you least expect it. Well, during this week I had such a day. Its quite incomprehensible when someone so very close to you gives you a blow you never expected with no mercy. I guess we only have to keep living and if we’re lucky we’ll experience just about all emotions, this is one, that no one needs to experience, there are better ways.     Lies & Betrayals The word pain & suffering all of a sudden have a new meaning to me, coupled with the deep sorrow I feel every time I think about what happened. I guess I just don’t feel comfortable talking about it anymore, but I felt I needed to share a glimpse of this because after all this is a photojournal/diary of sorts and it has a direct effect on how I see things. To be honest, this week pictures were incredibly difficult to even make but I needed a respite in spite all of this turbulent time …