Day 97- Tequila tasting

I think she really likes it.

Day 94- Daddy I want to go home

She seems serious about it.

Day 93- 2 days late– 2 days early it all depends

Having a number 5 run as your picture, could best suit the picture of the 5th of april, or the 5th day of the blog, but the moto behind really, is that 2 days ago was the 1st anniversary of me in this apartment, should we celebrate? not sure, but at least we should have the so waited "housewarming party".

Day 92- A bold Statement

There's time when you should not worry about anything, even smells.

Day 88- … and the moon will shine for everyone

Day 87- Self Breakfast

I can hardly remember the last time I went out for breakfast on my own. It was nice, but cold, and at the end my roomie passed by, so even though I had breakfast on my own, at the end I had some company at least for a few minutes.

I think the experience is somehow meditative, or insightful, selfthinking, good exercise try it one day.

Day 80- Casualty or Causality?

Some times, you don't need to force yourself on to making things happen, you just have to flow, and let yourself be who you are, and life can surprise you, or give you little wink, just to let you know that you're heading the right direction.

I hope I can surprise you, one of the days, with some good news about photography.

Day 79- When your car let's you down… you may meet some interesting people

It can actually be a good thing, as most mechanics I met in my life, are such a characters, loads of stories to tell, loads of wisedom, and many times you even feel like they know more about you than yourself. Shit I just notice that I forgot to ask his name.

Day 75- Rule of Thirds

It was there before, is still there today, use it or brake it under discretion.

Day 74- 100 Years and counting.

Good soul, good heart, and good health, as good as 100 years can allow.

Strange ways has life, as well as strange ways have this journey through picture making, specially when you have two people on the same journey, different stages-nationalities-point of view-age-cameras and many others as well as things in common, anyways what I'm trying to say is that some times we submit the same theme, or a picture really similar to the other, and some other days totally opposed themes like today.

Day 73- Making good use of our rooftop

One of the nice things of this aprtment, is the rooftop, with it's small chambers, and the sunset up here. we should throw a party up here. Everyones welcome. (I don't what the neighbors would think about this, anyway as far as I know they're not regular to the blog.

Day 71- The Hat Week

Which I'm determined to close today with this picture. Promise this is the last time a hat is the subject on one of my pictures of this project.

Day 62- The road to happiness may be as the rabbit chasing the carrot

Meeting this guy remind me that there's a lot of people happy with what they just have, living in a city, exposed to merchandising make's us forget what happiness is about, they first make us feel empty or the empty us, then they fill that space with desire, desire for things, status, etc. and sometimes it looks quite clear that what we need to be happy is to get that something, but then once we achieve that, the space is quickly replaced with desire of something else, just like a racing dog, chasing a rabbit they'll never get, always thinking tit's so close. His name is Arturo, he's a real mexican cowboy, lives in a small room, and just loves the way he is, where he lives, and he probably owns just the clothes he's wearing. Nice fellow.

By the way, this is the picture for yesterday, taken yesterday, and communications, technology reach, and being in a really nice place, in a ranch in the countryside, out of cell coverage, is the reason why I didn't got my picture uploaded yesterday, i have no regrets, and I can happily support Sharon.

Day 58- The False Prophet

Everyone knows ( i think) that buying new photogear, won't make you any better, you obviously need some basic equipment, for some type of pictures, I believe that eacj picture has an specific arrange of things to happen, like a certain camera, with a certain lens, certain lighting, and some other stuff, but, it's also true that you can improve faster not having things and being creative on how you shoot to achieve a certain look with what you have. But sometimes it's nice to just flow and cheat yourself allowing you to buy something, this is the case of a background support, that I'm just trying out (I had a homemade one that it's drilled to my ceiling, but this one i can take anywhere. So try number 1 on white seamless.

how it was shot?

2 nikon sb-800 at 1/16 aim at 90 degrees camera left and right, flagged wth cardboard to not spill on front (there's some spill i know)

sb-600 camera right up and looking down with a grid, aim in front of the model to cast just some light on her face.

Day 56- Clockwork Orange

Not that he actually works, but at least for the project he may work.

Day 54-Wide Space

It's nice when you look at something you think is nice and suddenly you realize that is actually the reflect of something greater, that happend to me today, when looking to a buidling washed with orange light, where that light was coming from? and if that was cool, ta da, look back and so this amazing sky, so i had to go running to a clear spot to the sunset (as clear as you can get where I was). I thought it was a good idea to make a panorama, sorry for the stitching if you look carefully there's some black blocks at the edges, but I had no intention to reinvent the rest of the scene.

By the way the format of the blog doesn't make justice to a panorama, click on the image for horizontal view.

P. S. How it was shot? 9 pictures taken, 3 going left to right-then up and 3 right to left- then up and 3 left to right. Some exposure adjustment in Aperture, Stitched later in photoshop via File/Automate/Photomerge/Automatic/crop/black background/flatten/Save As.

Day 52- What A Nice Sunday

They say that climbers a rare race that uses the rest days to get tired, but I have to tell you, this sunday i did wake up late, had breakfast with my girlfriend, watched some tv, went eating, had some coffee and then late in the afternoon had an scouting session for an upcoming photo shoot (more on that later, and maybe in my other blog onedayonefoto.blogspot.com ), and I really feel good today. I couldn't remember how good rest is for the body.

Back to photography, I think that photographers are, like most artists, "restless", always perceptive and aware of the environment, even when resting you're more perceptive, so our minds get on working, thinking ideas, so this morning when making breakfast I couldn't help myself but take some pictures, there was this something about the ordinary, the bright soft light of the morning coming through the kitchen windows and curtains. At the top, my picture of the day, on a post on my other blog some other photos, I'm sorry I forgot to take a photo of the finished meal, it just looked so tasty and I was so hungry that I forgot my creative self and jumped on it.

Day 51-So what about peace?

Day 50- What a minute means to you?

As this photo doesn't seem to describe the subject of this post (as a watch or something that represents time would do) you'll see the connection later on.

Introduction

Last night I was thought a hard lesson on how much a minute of your time is worth, I forgot earlier to upload my picture (as usual) and my girlfriend, roomie, a friend and I went out for a drink, then I remember "the picture damn't" and as it was very unlikely that we would be back on time, I let it settle, then on the way back, for some circumstances all was indicating that I was gonna make it, get home, take out the iphone, pull the picture, edit, look at the time 11:59 ,curse, post to an email, send, 12am, curse, damn not again, for a couple of seconds i just missed uploading my picture on time which means "Sharon"(the pink piggy). The point is, this time a minute made a difference a huge one, a day difference. Many times have happend to me that the day seems to go, it's early i got wrapped on things and suddenly it's gone, you don't lose a day of your life, you loose 86, 400 minutes, you loose it a minute by minute, and you can just keep adding numbers on, and then your life suddenly unfolds behind you, not that I feel old now, is just that I don't want to be to prove my point.

Another experience this morning, I spare a minute to tie one of my laces, after all I thought i didn't have a minute, and as I was on my way downstairs to work I step on a poodle and the lace and off I go to the ground (curse again) felt so stupid, didn't get hurt, but it could go worst, "just for a minute".

And the image at the top of this post, I was again running down the stairs at midday, in my way back to work, passed this shadow, thought for a second it was late, and that what i just saw would have to wait for another time, at that moment it was going through my head this post about the minute so "it's justa minute right? and I'm already late" so I took a couple and made a picture: "Daniel in the run, chasing the minute".

Day 46-The sun will shine for us

The ones that wake up early shall be rewarded… or something like that states the old say, I haven't pay attention enough to these kind of days, but I'm sure that I get quite some things accomplished, as for skies goes, what can I say? I could just not choose to upload this picture, I woke up open the window and thought holy shit! (or something close in spanish).

Baby this picture is for you.