Come in, I’ll show you the bluest world possible
Weeks ago I had published some photographs in film about this monastery in a visit with my friend Melissa (they say this monastery is the biggest on the world, probably because it certainly is a small city)
I process my photographs to match what I see and what I feel, sometimes I’m driven by a certain color or meaning, shooting at the same time with film helped me to understand better the colors. I hope you enjoy the trip.
Built with blocks of blue sky
Some of the buildings have a blue so intense that even the sky with its intense blue of the desert can appear almost invisible.
Sometimes a heart of flowers can be harder to break than a chain of iron
I wonder if that heart is product of a sensible gardener, or just product of my imagination…
Head portrait
There is a trend to use HDR techniques in photographs; put it in a quite simple, and unfair because it can get nice and natural images, way it’s a technique to get the most of details in shadows and highlights. But I love deep shadows, and under the sun of the desert in Santa Catalina the shadows are almost solid, turning the architecture in a sort of old watch pointing the path of time in the slow procession of the shadows.
Feline eye
A city without windows
It’s a crowded place with tourists, as I was in that moment, but being a city covering a large area there are always moments of ancient silence, that language that the ashlars of volcanic origin whisper after the heat of the day.
The photographs were shot in July, in winter; the season in the desert means clean blue skies.
If the ashes could talk…
I love kitchens, they are the place where a home has the strongest amount of familiar memories, conversations, moments, true life.
A red color trying to cross the blue wall
The photograph lines below is a place I’ve taken before so it could be familiar to you. But what I can say, I like it a lot and certainly to me it would be a wonderful place to read or just simply rest to the warm of the afternoon.
Enjoy the light and take a sit
Volumes and shapes of Santa Catalina
Blue and white
And that’s all, in a certain way it’s a sort of street photography of a city whose life now endures in a little (although quite comfortable and modern) corner. Although that’s good, I think it was a sad destiny to be in such a beautiful place but not by choice but for the cruel rules of tradition. In colonial times rich families used to send one daughter to buy influence from church. Now fortunately seems that heaven doesn’t need money ;-)
Remembering a time when it had fire
Qhapaq 