ashlar
Choose a side, choose a light
Left or right…
Metallic red
A sunny winter afternoon walking
“Hold my hand” says the blue man to the red lady
Yesterday I had to go outside a while, so I wanted to walk a bit around the plaza, it was unexpected so I hadn’t my super camera ACME Brand to take pictures but my tablet which I use to show my work to possible customers. I don’t like to use the tablet to photograph because it’s not ergonomically friendly to my hand. But it was the only camera I had with me so I took some views. The most of my visitors are from the northern hemisphere. Peru is crossing the mirror so we’re in winter.
Just shadows and mirrors…
My main camera has a big sensor to avoid much processing and get something similar to what my mind saw, nevertheless that’s hard to achieve with the little sensor cameras of tablets or phones, even compact cameras, so with them I allow myself to edit heavily. In this photographs I used the Snapseed app of my tablet, I have used filters, modified contrast, cropped and in part even I used frames to match what I felt.
Two lovers flying the empty walls of the forgotten city
The question with the camera was to foresee the future. The shutter lag and the time to focus, particularly in low light, make anticipate the shot two seconds before it happened. I started with a 0.3 megapixels camera and if you started like me with a cell phone then this behavior is something natural. Somebody that starts with DSLRs surely doesn’t know that problem (and for that reason could think in a cell phone as a toy) but also I guess that person lost the chance to train his/her mind to see the composition in the imagination and not in a screen or viewfinder.
a river marble in the blue night
But here you are: you cannot blame the camera, the one used for this publication is one from an old Samsung tablet. Of course that’s seen from my perspective of a dude that likes to doesn’t forget what he sees so take some pics; I know in the context to be a professional a photographer needs the perfect tools to match his/her skill and vision.
Abertura
Lights and shadows dancing; volumes and textures are born in every movement.
Yanahuara – Main square of volcanic ashlar
ashlars arches tinted of orange morning painting the floor with shadows
After my travel to Ilo in exchange of a favor I had to verify data in return in the Yanahuara’s City Hall. It’s a district in Arequipa city. I don’t like so much the sun of the morning in the desert, nor to make bureaucratic requests. But I had to go there so I took some pics of the plaza in the morning.
Council of palm trees judging red man
I imagine the high council condemned to the red man to a wooden jail. Yanahuara is a residential district whose history spans to pre-Hispanic times. National tourists like to get some photos in the Gazebo because it looks colonial but actually was made in the seventies XP
energy in wood
tables of light
I saw a nice sculpture, but there is no reference to the sculptor. A search in internet doesn’t reveal nothing neither.
under the crust
seeing the people run
The artist made a great work in my opinion. There was a big tree next to the church so I shot it and also I get some details of the colonial, in this case indeed it’s from 1750, church San Juan Bautista.
a tower white and another green
eternal twins
light touching the white stone
volcanic fire
tree praying to a blue temple
A tree growing. It makes me think in Odin, a god sacrificing to himself…
palm army prepared to conquest the world
sequence in vermillion
And that was all. I went to fulfill a promise and everything finished well. Time to fly before the midday sun in the white blinding stone.
arrangement of colors and a closed door
Point of intensity
Under the roofs of a bright desert sun the fresh relieve of a shadow.
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chomp, chomp!
Days ago a kind lady whose Sunday reports really rocks said me that she would like to see more of the blue sky in the photo of a gargoyle. So I thought it would be nice to put another one that I took that day ;-)
Before the long night
Cities at night have different creatures.
