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December 15, 2015

6 Holiday Gifts That Make A Difference

The holidays are approaching fast, that’s just the way it feels many times. It’s a time of joy & bliss, and of course, for last minute gift purchasing—which is my case this year. Alejandro’s gifts are all backordered…

This entire year I have had the opportunity to get a little closer to myself, to listen to my feelings and act upon my gut’s beliefs and I came to the conclusion that this holiday season I will be giving gifts that make a difference in people’s lives. Yes, it is nice to get that new iPad or any other cool gadget but most of the time this things are not life changing and ephemeral. During the year, I had the opportunity of experiencing new ways of seeing and doing things because of a blog post, an audiobook, or an internet videos show I downloaded or just a link that a friend shared on social media with a kick ass message. These kinds of things usually don’t cost much but a little bit of time… and maybe some money.

August 19, 2015

She’s everything to me

As time passes I have learned to become in-tune with my emotions. I don’t know when this new way of feeling hit my head. Maybe it was the reach of my mid thirties or the new found love for my children…. the only thing I know is that now I’m a different person when it comes to letting my feelings do their stuff—If not, ask my wife Luz.

August 12, 2015

Smile, Be courteous, Be grateful—Dance with the Time

I love what I do because it helps me see time. Seeing time is so difficult specially today when it has become the most expensive commodity in our society. We try to spend time doing the things that we love, caring for the people that surround us, and maintaining a balance between work and life and sometimes we forget what’s important.

What’s important to you is the biggest factor that pushes you to do what you do all the time. It’s the reason you wake up at 5:00 in the morning everyday against your will but you do it because you need to do it. Either is because you need to pay your bills—who doesn’t? Or because you are working double shifts to save enough money to finally buy a pair of legs for your dream to start. Whatever the reason is… it will take all of your “free” time. Time that it’s reserved for your family, friends or social life. But if you dedicate yourself enough and keep on regardless of how tired you become—and yes, you will be so tired… it will pay off. At least for some time, because it keeps on moving and we have to move with it, we have to dance the slow waltz and the fast merengue with the same grace and happiness in order to keep the ball rolling.

May 1, 2015

I need to lose 10 pounds before I… (fill in the blanks)

May 17, 2014

How a hard drive failure changed the way I see and do my work.

File storage.
I know I’m guilty. I’ve been saving my files very irresponsibly for a photographer—One terabyte drive on my working machine and 3 terabytes of external backup. It may seem that this set up was plenty for the type of work I was getting but Oh Boy I was wrong. The story goes like this. I own a one terabyte iMac which needed desperately a hard drive update. The whole thing was full. I poorly could work Photoshop out of it and I needed a replacement fast.

March 3, 2014

My "OTHER" Homes

As general a rule, we creatives I tend to have many passions—cooking, teaching, designing… etc. This help us shape what we will be doing with our art in the future, it also creates a sort of art junk if you can call it like that. We love to share our creations and while at it, help others if possible. Some of us have Youtube channels with tutorials, others create blogs like this one, or even podcasts. At the end, we want you to be able to view all of this content that makes the internet so great but we don’t want to mix everything we do in one website, other wise it will look like a pile of mixed-color-dirty laundry. So we create homes for each passion.

February 17, 2014

The beauty & the dress—Why I love going to thrift shops

I love going to thrift shops! It’s been almost a year since my visit to the Salvation Army and getting this dress for 3 bucks but I had not found the time to shoot it until now. I have a “je ne sais quoi” for old furniture/clothing and I have been wanting to do a vintage-looking portrait with a Victorian style meets Renaissance period, meets Edwardian… If I make any sense.

January 17, 2014

PIn Me Up

I can’t believe how fun this session was. A tease for
you… With the beautiful Johanna Espinal.
MakeOver: Making Faces.

November 19, 2013

Gratitud—the end of the year

It is almost the end of the year, time I get all melancholic and revise my past months and see how little is left for this year to end. Then, What comes next? gets in mind. New ideas, exciting places to shoot and great people to meet… but before I plan my next 12 months, I think is time for a recount.

October 24, 2013

Necessary Unwinding Creative Time

Sometimes as creatives we need to unwind and play like the kids that we are— just do anything without the need of having a particular aim. Take it as “Play Time,” time for you to just do whatever the heck you want. This time, we shot this two beautiful ladies with the fashion-careless direction in mind.