Tulum's Moon

On a January eve, just after sunset. It's amazing what you can do with a handheld little digital camera these days... No teleconverter, or tripod, or postprocessing. Just a well worn Canon G7, in Manual Mode.

With crystal clear skies, Tulum is one of the best places on Earth to contemplate a full moon.

The Albaicin at sunrise

Betsy Pecanins

My camera run out of batteries that night, so this is one of the mere two images that I managed to capture before a blank screen made me long for my old, film, totally mechanical and trusty Contax S2b.

Can't understand how Canon could think that not including a battery charge indicator in the G7 was a good idea. Fortunately the G10 has one...

Anyhow, the performance was magical, and she was full of grace. Betsy's concert was part of Xcaret's Day of the Dead celebrations, this past November. It was the first time I saw her, and words won't do justice. If you have the chance to see her performing live, do not miss it.

THEhotel...

Somebody had a really hard time coming up with this hotel's name...

A night view from my room at The Mandalay in Las Vegas, captured a couple of weeks ago.

Lightworks

I have said it before... I've something about windows. I always find them incredibly romantic. I guess for a photographer they're, what would we do without light? Windows are exactly that... an opening for light.

This is from the Alhambra in Granada.

Tulum ruins at sunset

Trying out my new Nikon D300 and 18-200 zoom lens, at sunset in Tulum. Still playing with my new equipment, and very happy with the results so far.

Jardines del Partal

It's been a long time since my last picture. As life has been full of travels and changes lately. One of the good parts was being back home...

This is home for me. The Alhambra in Granada. A view of the Partal (a reflection in fact). And introducing my new Canon G10.

Brooklyn

This picture it's all about texture and light. I like it. Reflects well what this neighborhood it's all about. I loved Brooklyn.

Can't wait to go back to NYC. After Photokina announcements, I'm longing for a new Canon G10... and a 5D Mark II (plus cool Zeiss lenses) too. I won't miss B&H this time!

Mahahual

South of the State of Quintana Roo, and with a beautiful coral reef... It has the cleanest waters of the peninsula.

Those moments before sunrise...

...when time's still, even if only for a few seconds...

another picture from last weekend's trip to Tulum.

Room with a view

The view from cabaña no.40 at Copal. No A/C or Plasma TV, or even electricity, but when you have this view (through the mosquito net, that's it) from your bed... who cares?

Hotels can be this beautiful

Took it today, at Tulum. A view of Cabañas Copal.

I love Mexico, I really do.

And I do consider myself very lucky to live here.

Izamal sunset

It was this red... really. Sunset at Yucatan's yellow city.

Half Moon over Manhattan

Nobody is sleeping in the sky. Nobody, nobody.

Nobody is sleeping.

If someone does close his eyes,

a whip, boys, a whip!

Let there be a landscape of open eyes

and bitter wounds on fire.

No one is sleeping in this world. No one, no one.

I have said it before.

No one is sleeping.

But if someone grows too much moss on his temples during the night,

open the stage trapdoors so he can see in the moonlight

the lying goblets, and the poison, and the skull of the theaters.

Federico Garcia Lorca, 1929

A fragment of "City That Does Not Sleep"

(from the poem book "Poet in New York")

Happy Family

I've been meaning to call Mario all week to get us back working in our exhibition... but I've been way too busy lately.

I love the B&W one I published a while ago, but this one works too in color.

Tribeca Sunset

This is Tribeca at sunset. One of those NYC sunsets in which the light has to play hide and seek with the walls of the skyscrapers to finally win a spot in the pictures.

I had created an image of the place before I ever got there. I had Tribeca linked to Scorsese, to images of Ranging Bulls, of course to De Niro who once even said “I’m Tribeca” and for some reason to Edward Hooper (even if he was a Village resident).

Getting ready for the wedding

A Mayan community wedding is something very different to your average medium class stiff and pretentious ceremony. To start with the entire family helps in the preparation of the party like cooking the dinner (usually “cochinita enterrada” – textually that would mean buried pork, meat that it’s cooked in a hole covered with stones and coal) or making the decoration (with palm leaves, or even glittered paper).

He was very skillfully making the decorations that were going to be used in the church. The bride was very young and totally relaxed. The entire atmosphere was one of celebration and joy. We were cordially invited, shame we couldn’t stay…

Blue walls

I've something about windows and doors. Thinking about using it for a forthcoming exhibition. One clean and simple image.

Pool

This is my idea of what a cool pool is. Amazing beauty and detailing all around the property.

Color walls

Under a bright sun, you need bright colors... Otherwise they wash out. Another one from The Hacienda Santa Rosa.