Cafe con Leche

With my mom and sister visiting this past week, I've been spending my time site-seeing, relaxing, and drinking lots and lots of coffee.

Rome, February 2012

Photos from the week (our wanderings around Madrid and trip to Rome) coming soon!

Tranquility

Marrakech, Morocco - April 2011

Cotton Candy Skies

Muted Palette

The photos from my flomography logo:

I love the way my Diana Mini captures cloudy weather, it creates more depth in the color palette than my digital point and shoot, which tends to wash it out.

El Retiro

Kids Say It Best

In one of my private english classes today I had the 8 year old boy make a valentine (in english) for any person he wanted. He chose his best friend, Victor, and wrote:


Hello Victor!
You are my friend.
Are you happy?
Do you like valentines?
Love,
Sergio


He topped it off with a green heart, a yellow star and lots of monster stickers. Most of the time, kids say it best - simple, sincere and right to the point. No frills attached, unless it's actual frills on a Valentine's card :)

Calle Gran Via

Nugget Art: Finishing Up the Murals

Tomorrow we're putting together all the different parts of the mural! After weeks of poking and prodding at the imagination and creativity of the spanish nuggets, we've got some impressively spike-y cacti, sandy pyramids (apparently the desert they envisioned is in Egypt haha), twisty snakes and loads of other desert creatures! Now it's just a matter of getting 25 spanish kids to calmly work as a group (in english, hypothetically) and make it all come together. Two things are certain: it will get really, really loud and there won't be a dull moment. Maybe, in the end, we'll even wind up with a mural ;) Hopefully I'll have some photos to share tomorrow!


In the meantime, some food for thought: 
"You must work, we all must work, to make the world worthy of its children." [Picasso]

Street View Sky View

I love taking a sky view of a street. I think these photos can actually provide a lot of information about a place - sometimes more than a normal street view picture. You can find shapes, shadows, curves, details, and angles that you may not have noticed before; for example, the jumbled cables in the Tangier photo, a building reflected in a mirror in Toledo, the pastel blue sky of Cadiz's golden hour...

Toledo, Spain

Left and Right: Trujillo, Spain

Left: Cadiz, Spain; Right: Tangier, Morocco

El Oso y El Madroño - The Symbol of Madrid

Located in Puerta del Sol

Segovia

The castle and cathedral in Segovia (a day trip from Madrid):

Lomography Lag

As a result of an accidental exposure to a roll of film from my Diana Mini camera (oops), I´ve been lacking lately in lomo photos. I plan on finishing my current roll tomorrow and dropping it off at the photo lab to get developed. I should have the photos sometime next week :)