Fotografiando personas || Photographing people

I wasn´t very interested in taking photos of people before. I found it particularly boring. It was very hard for me to try and take a nice portrait of a kid... you know most kids, moving all the time, unable to sit still for more than 20 seconds... Whenever I shot it, the photo came out  looking funny... Was it me? Was it the kid? Was it the camera?... 

I kept blaming the camera, to be honest! Oh my compact camera! But then, something happened. I started browsing other blogs, professional photographers blogs. Annie Manning and her kids happened. 

I started to find beauty on the funny little faces. I found beauty in silly facial expressions and looks. I discovered the gigantic beauty of the not so perfect photo. 

That did it for me. It changed something in the way I was looking at my people photos. All my judgemental and quizzical thoughts faded away! I´m even developing a new project with people in pictures but I haven´t officially started it yet... just yet... I may have taken the first set of the project already. I may... 

So, in honor of my personal discovery, here are my lovely girlies Cecilia and Audrey in black and white and color, playing and being their usual goofy selves! {Notice I´m also starting on B&W photography!} 

And this is my friend Aldo when we went to Rosario the other night. I actually went to Rosario, he already lives there. Although, he is not a native from the city. He moved here a year ago for work. We actually work at the same hospital but in different areas and we became friends. And, most importantly, he is not camera shy. In fact, he loves to have his photos taken! (Oh, the male ego!) So I´m taking full advantages of this fact. Most pics I took are not good because I was trying to find the perfect setting regarding lighting and shadows and backlighting. It was at night and all the neon lights were on making it hard for me to do what I wanted. The picture I love the most is blurry and unfocused. Such a shame because he had this huge and sincere smile on his face!

This is my younger brother, Leonel. He is a nurse and works as chief nurse at a retirement home. I keep telling him he should be working in an Intensive Care Unit or even an ER because he is great to work under pressure. He is very smart and performs flawless procedures in no time. But he just wants to work with old people and he is really good at it as well. The patients just love him!

Rosario at night | Rosario de noche

Peatonal Córdoba y calle Corrientes de noche. Me gusta mucho la coloración ámbar que le dan las luces de la calle. 

Córdoba pedestrian walkway and Corrientes street at night. I like the golden tones from the street lights.

No soy una gran fan de la fotografía en blanco y negra. Sinceramente prefiero las fotos a color porque me transmiten mucha vida. Pero esta foto tiene un feeling y una textura tan singular que el blanco y negro, a mi entender, le queda fantástico! // I´m not a big fan of the black & white photography. I really prefer color photography because they have "more life". But I adore the texture and the mood of this photo below and I think it looks great in black and white.  

De balcones e historias de amor | Parte 1

Una de las historias de amor mas conocidas en el mundo y la mas trágica, quizás, se desarrolla en un balcón. Posiblemente ese sea el motivo que me llevó a asociar, directamente, balcones con el amor. 

Calle Pellegrini en Rosario, es una de las zonas en donde abundan los balcones mas lindos de la ciudad. En el top 5 también se incluyen Bulevar Oroño y Peatonal Córdoba. 

De a poco voy documentando mis balcones y ventanales preferidos.
For the English readers (and those who feel like reading in English today!): One of the most known and saddest love story took place on a balcony. Maybe, that´s the reason why I inmediately thought that love and balconies go together. Pellegrini street, in Rosario, is one of the places in town with the most beautiful balconies. You can, also, find Oroño boulevard and Cordoba pedestrian walkway feautred in the city´s top 5. Slowly but surely (and hoping for nice weather), I´m gonna be documenting with images  my favorite balconies and tall windows around town. Stay tunned!!!

La ciudad de las cúpulas

Hace un tiempo atrás, esperando a que un semáforo diera la luz verde para seguir el camino, miré por el parabrisas del auto hacia arriba y mencioné lo magnifico que era lo que estaba viendo. "Por eso la llaman La Ciudad de las Cúpulas a Rosario" dijo mi acompañante. 

Nadie pudo haber estado más acertado al llamarla de esa manera! Y es que mirar hacia arriba caminando por Rosario es un festín visual, te guste o no te gusta la arquitectura o los detalles. 

Rosario tiene unos edificios antiguos con las mamposterías, balcones, ornamentos, columnas y cúpulas mas lindas que he visto en mucho tiempo. Desafortunadamente, muchos de los edificios están bastante deteriorados por el paso del tiempo o cubiertos por el molesto musgo de la implacable humedad rosarina. Aun así, ni eso le quitan el esplendor y la majestuosidad! 

Muchas veces pasan por demás de desapercibidos porque no es muy aconsejable caminar mirando el cielo por Peatonal Córdoba: las posibilidades de colisión con otros peatones son grandes. 

Ayer pude hacer algunas fotografías mientras visitaba Rosario en busca de mis [tan ansiadas] ballerinas rojas. 

Por ahora, solo dejo las cúpulas, campanarios y torres de la catedral rosarina, del Jockey Club y del antiguo hotel Savoy. Prometo ir a la cacería de más edificios fascinantes pronto!

Torres de la catedral rosarina Campanario de la catedral Fachada de la catedral Detalle de la cúpula del Jockey Club Hotel Savoy