Creativity
How Injuries Made Me a Better Creative
Not so long ago I got the abundance wrong. I thought it was about carrying more things and being all over the place. I’d pack my backpack full of gear, suffer throughout the hike and use only a small fraction of what I carried to capture the moments that mattered. I’d make checklists of what…
What 6.5 Years In Spain Taught Me About Creativity and Courage
Would you still go if the path ahead of you felt uncertain ? That’s how my journey to Spain began. Not with a plan-but with a… Suitcase full of courage and a leap of faith. I followed the call of my heart. More precisely-a Venezuelan man I met in Iceland in 2017. When I arrived…
What 451 days in Segovia taught me about creativity and life
451 days ago, I thought creativity was about doing more. Segovia proved me wrong. When I first arrived in Segovia, I thought throwing myself into constant creative activity would help me heal and find inspiration. I believed that the more I captured, the more I’d create. So, I did what seemed natural: I grabbed my…
Healing Journey Through Photography
“Worry less about being a great artist. Worry more about being a good person who makes art. Worry less about making a mark. Worry more about leaving things better than you found them” – Austin Kleon This blog post is about being a better person above being a good photographer. We all have our dark…
How Using One Lens Makes You More Creative
What happens to your creativity when you limit yourself to just 1 lens ? This is what I found through my experiment. In 2021 I had my hands on the Sigma 35mm f1.4 rental lens. The following year I decided to have it in my lenses arsenal for good and continued my challenge with this…
April Snow
Out of all things, waking up to a complete whiteout in the end of April is the least one you expect in Spain (unless you live in Iceland or Norway or elsewhere in the north where spring snow is a regular thing) . So on April 20 we woke up, opened the shutters and voila!…
Manzanares Walks
It happened that in the month of April we stayed grounded in our San Fermin district and to challenge my creativity within the neighborhood I made a series of walks in Manzanares park. It was the time observing spring, trees turning all to green, flowers blooming, sportsmen and cyclists doing their morning activities or watching…
Madrid 35 mm
In a post-lockdown Spain I needed to have a vacation away from home. An idea of exploring the city with 35mm lens has been brewing on my mind for a while. It struck me that if there is any place I should start with, it’s where I live. In late March I rented a Sigma…
Madrid Post-Quarantine: Life Outside
The taste of freedom is tasted best when we realise what it means to have it limited. Nearly 3 months of pandemic raging in Spain people spent in confinement at their homes. With restrictions gradually lifted we were first allowed to leave homes for walks in the mornings between 6 am to 10 am and…
Wandering Around Madrid
Like grown-up kids, mature and blooming, they rebelliously turn away. Parks inside Madrid are not the only places begging for escape and surroundings of Madrid have a plenty to offer. Each of these places is beautiful in its own season and some are always great. 1. Segovia North-west from Madrid. Before I moved to Spain,…