Urban spaces / Espacios urbanos. Lavapiés. November 2012

An autumn morning at EL Retiro / Una mañana de otoño en El Retiro. November 2012

Samsung. Week 6. Mode: Rich Tone

The sixth week of the campaign "Life´s a photo, take it", by Samsung, has just ended up. We had to shoot this week pictures with the Rich Tone mode of the new Samsung Galaxy Camera.

This is a mode I know well, because it is similar to shooting photos with the HDR (High Dynamic Resolution) mode of my iPhone on. In fact, the camera also shoots and saves two pictures. The pics submitted this week were shot last week, because I´m still on holiday in Sevilla, so I had to shoot them before going away from Madrid, I´m not so happy with the result because unfortunately, we had a grey and cloudy sky during the whole week. This kind of light doesn´t highlight the colors of Madrid.

Here are the pictures uploaded to IG, as well as those sent to Samsung. Madrid needs everyone´s hel, in order to win the contest among cities. To help us, please share Madrid´s pictures by visiting to site created by Samsung in Tumblr.

Barajas T4 airport. November 2012

Pics shot before and after my blogtrip to Arousa Norte, at Barajas T4 airport, which I love so much.

Fotos hechas antes y después del blogtrip a Arousa Norte, en la T4 del aeropuerto de Barajas, que tanto me gusta.

Reflections on buildings / Reflejos en edificios. November 2012

Street Photography. Hipstamatic. November 2012

Lights & Shadows / Luces y Sombras. November 2012

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One of my pics on 500px´s Facebook

On November 29th, my dear italian friend Alice, @siciliamia, told me that 500px had published on its Facebook page one of my pics. To me, 500px is one of the best sites, if not the best, for photographers to show their work. I have my own profile there where, from time to time, I post my iPhone pictures.

This picture has been very important to me. As I already wrote on a previous post, the pic had already been highlighted by 500px´s Editors. What I´m most proud of is that my photo, shot and edited only with my iPhone 4S, is among the best photos shot with a real reflex camera.

Thank you, Alice, for warning me about it, it was a lovely surprise!!

Samsung Galaxy. Week 5. Mode: Night

The fifth week of the campaign "Life´s a photo, take it", by Samsung, has just ended up. We had to shoot this week pictures with the Night mode of the new Samsung Galaxy Camera. It was a beautiful challenge for me this week.

All the pictures submitted this week have been shot during a single night walk. I first stopped my car at Puerta de Alcalá, which is beautifully decorated at Christmas time, shooting a lot of pictures of it, and of the beautiful perspective down the street and up again, towards the Puerta del Sol. Then I walked to Atocha railway station, wich is beautifully lighted at night, and had a nice Christmas decoration in front of it. Then I moved to Madrid´s townhall, where I shot some awesome pictures too

Here are the pictures uploaded to IG, as well as those sent to Samsung. Madrid needs everyone´s hel, in order to win the contest among cities. To help us, please share Madrid´s pictures by visiting to site created by Samsung in Tumblr.

Reflection on puddles / Reflejos en charcos. November 2012

Reflections on buses / Reflejos en autobuses. November 2012

Street Photography in BW. November 2012

My exhibition "URBAN SCENES" has just ended.

My second individual exhibition: "URBAN SCENES", held at La Piola during November & December 2012, has just ended up. It has been a wonderful experience to me. So many people, friends, family and unknown people have come to visit it, and I can only be grateful to them all. I´ve also been interviewed twice about it. Apart from that, I have sold eight photographs to eleven different people. And for the first time, some of those photographs have been bought by previously known people to me.

Street Photography in color. Novembre 2012

Samsung Galaxy. Week 4. Mode: Waterfall

The fourth week of the campaign "Life´s a photo, take it", by Samsung, has just ended up. We had to shoot this week pictures with the Waterfall mode of the new Samsung Galaxy Camera. It was a beautiful challenge for me this week.

All the pictures submitted this week have been shot in two of the most beautiful places in Madrid: The Puerta del Sol and El Buen Retiro Park. Those shots in Puerta del Sol were taken at night, and those of different places in El Buen Retiro Park during a freezing morning in Madrid. El Buen Retiro is Madrid´s lung, a huge green area, beautiful indeed, where one can wander and feel as if the world stops,

Here are the pictures uploaded to IG, as well as those sent to Samsung. Madrid needs everyone´s hel, in order to win the contest among cities. To help us, please share Madrid´s pictures by visiting to site created by Samsung in Tumblr.

Reflections on cars / Reflejos en coches. November 2012

The world upside down / El mundo al revés. November 2012

My experience at ReTwittMadrid. 05/12/12

El pasado miércoles 5 de diciembre se celebró el encuentro de ReTwittMadrid en The Irish Rover, en el cual yo estaba invitado a formar parte de la mesa redonda en la que se iba a hablar de Fotografía en las redes sociales. Mis compañeros de tertulia fueron mi querida amiga y compi de Instagramers Madrid Kim, mi compi de IG y gran iger Carlos Jimeno, la twittera y también iger Adry, la fotógrafa profesional Laura Reyero, y el periodista y profesor universitario Oscar Espiritusanto.

Cada uno habló del tema propuesto desde su experiencia personal y su campo de trabajo. En mi caso particular, hablé de lo que Instagram había supuesto para mí, de mi pasión por la fotografía móvil, de lo que yo entiendo como esteril debate entre cámaras réflex y "smart phones", ilustrándolo todo con anecdotas vividas.

Fue un debate apasionante, en el cual lo pasé muy bien. El tiempo pasó volando. Desde aquí quiero dar las gracias a Félix Garrido, de ReTwittMadrid, por haberme invitado, a Hacer Fotos por su colaboración, y al resto de contertulios por ilustrame con sus conocimientos y diferentes puntos de vista.

Este post lo ilustro con las fotos que tan gentilmente me ha cedido Ana, @nebelang, autora de las mismas, y que están en el grupo ReTwittMad de Flickr.

Urban spaces / Espacios urbanos. Barrio de Las Letras. November 2012

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Street Photography in BW. October 2012

Samsung Galaxy. Week 3. Mode: Silhouette

The third week of the campaign "Life´s a photo, take it", by Samsung, has just ended up. We had to shoot this week pictures with the Silhouette mode of the new Samsung Galaxy Camera. It was a beautiful challenge for me this week.

With my IG friends, Olga and Jordi, I went last Saturday to Madrid Río to shoot some pictures of Perrault´s bridge. And then, I also brought the camera with me while wandering around Madrid´s downtown.

Here are the pictures uploaded to IG, which are the same ones that I sent to Samsung. Madrid needs everyone´s hel, in order to win the contest among cities. To help us, please share Madrid´s pictures by visiting to site created by Samsung in Tumblr.

Street Photography in color. October 2012

Invited by ReTwittMad to speak about Photography on social media

On October 1st, I recieved an email from Félix Garrido, asking me if I wanted to participate at the meeting ReTwittMad was going to celebrate on December 5th, in which they were going to speak about Photography, especially on social media.

ReTwittMad is the meeting organized by Twitter lovers, who once a month make an appointment at The Irish Rover, in Madrid, to speak about an specific issue. This time, they had chosen to speak about Photography, and therefore, invited me to participate. Of course, I said that I would join them with pleasure, and speak about my experience as mobile photographer.

Afterwards, they contacted Phil González, dear friend and founder of Instagramers network, and Hacer Fotos. Phil proposed other igers to participate too. My friend and collegue from Instagramers Madrid, Kim, will also be on the stage with me, as well as Carlos Jimeno, a great iger, from Territorio Creativo.

Thank you ReTwittMad for counting on me, and just willing to be on the stage with my other friends, trying to add something interesting to the debate. See you tonight at 20 hours at The Irish Rover.

Semana de la Arquitectura. October 2012.

The C.O.A.M. (College of Architects of Madrid) organizes every year the so called "Week of Architecture". During this week there are guided tours around architecturally interesting buildings, which can hardly be visited by the public otherwise, as well as debates, lectures, activities, etc.

I always try to visit some building. This year I did not miss the opportunity to visit one of the buildings I had always longed for: the rehabilitation of the former brewery El Aguila, transformed into the Municipal Library and Archives, designed by the great architects Tuñón &  Mansilla. The rehabilitation is magnificent. I shot some photographs from the outside (we were not allowed to photograph the interior), which I now present to you.

Villages of Arquitectura Negra, Guadalajara. October 2012

I had long wanted to visit the towns of the so-called Black Architecture, in the province of Guadalajara. At last, during a four-days weekend , we went hiking to see the towns of Black Architecture.

Although there are several, the largest are Campillo de Ranas and Mataelrayo. I was impressed by its beauty. It is lovely to get into that territory, where one discovers the reason why slate is used in construction, as one see the cut in the ground to build the road, and you see that the whole land is made of slate. We had an excellent day. I took advantage to take pictures with my iphone, some of which I post here for you.

Sunset over Albufeira´s beach / Ocaso sobre la playa de Albufeira. October 2012