Another Day in Paradise

That above, is one of the reasons I love living in Ashburn (VA).

Anyway, in the future this blog might become a little more wide as far as content, I might start teaching Judo again, so aside from the grappling pictures, I might start adding grappling related content I come across in this new journey.

Be well, I'll be posting a little bit more this afternoon.

Damn is been a while

So I've been busy with life and I haven't been able to update my Flickr account or blog.... well, that's a lie, I just got a new phone, and I've been busy playing with it, so much so that I had forgotten to use my computer at all, now I got close to 5000 images to edit, and really no patience to get the job done..... C'est La Vie!

Well, there are a couple of photographers I've been looking at for inspiration, one is Lucy Shires (Lovely Like Custard in Flickr)

Yup, I'm trying QR Codes now

Her work with Macro photography and her style of lighting is inspiring, plus she is a very nice person who has great imagination (which shows in her photostream), and... well, just check out her work and see for yourself.

The other one is Patty (Patty Pinies in Flickr)

and even though I haven't seen all her portfolio, I do have to say that I love her landscape and portrait photography, it's simple, yet it shows that she has a great eye for details (also, for disclaimer purposes, she is my best friend's best friend, so I could see how people might say I'm bias towards saying she's good, but I swear I'm trying to be fair here).

Well, regarding my own work, I've been kinda uninspired lately, I definitively believe that the Voyeur  set is done, I'm bored, I don't want to do it anymore, I will continue to do street photography, but I will change the approach, I will go for a more Sartorialist (THAT GUY FUCKING ROCKS STREET FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY), and less "creepy guy with the camera three blocks away". But hey, who knows, I might still generate some sniper shots.

Also, there's a big antiquing show this coming weekend, and the wife is gonna drag me (ok, it ain't like I'm kicking and screaming), to it. I will try to start a "100 strangers" set, and hopefully I can find some old camera equipment there.

There isn't much else going on, I'm editing images, so I will probably upload some tonite to my Flickr Photostream so keep an eye out for it.

Have a great day

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Another Day

So I'm sitting, watching "Too Tough To Die: A Tribute to Johnny Ramone", smoking a cigarette and drinking my morning coffee, later I'll be listening to Rise Against's "Endgame" and this got me thinking, a couple of days back, a friend tagged me on a video promo for this CD on Facebook, I liked, and went out and bought the CD.... 10 years ago this would not have happened. I didn't have the money, nor a place where I could get alternative (Punk Rock, Ska, etc) music close by. I think this was one of the motivations behind my move to the U.S. (well, not exactly the music, but the opportunity to better my life).

Today I have so many more opportunities than I used to have, and I think sometimes I take them for granted.

Anyway, in other news, I asked a good friend (Serge Gerlach) to title some of my pics on Flickr and he came up with a lot of crazy shit, I'll be changing titles for a while, but you can see the new titles on the comments of the pics.

That's all for today, I'll be back soon

The City

(This post was originally written on March, 27th, just got around to post it today)
The city is beneath my wheels, it's a beautiful day, the traffic isn't so bad, except for some regular choke points throughout the city, life is good.

I see people going about their business, pretty girls hurrying to their offices, rugged construction workers walking to their job sites, bicycles zipping by, also the people going on their morning runs (I hate you, you healthy bastards), I drive and take the city in, we're a sea of anonymous faces, I"m the only one (I can see) that is recording this moments with my camera, the beauty of people (of all walks of life), going about their days. It does make me a little self aware (god dammit, I just noticed a hair growing out of my ear), I can't be the only person taking pictures right here right now, can I? it doesn't matter ('cause I look good today <joke>), I'm just enjoying the city while I'm in one of those increasingly rare good moods.

Spring is here, although you wouldn't have guessed it by looking at people, it's pretty cold still. I need to make a point to come to the city during my days off, shooting on red lights is getting really old.

Last week was my 4 years anniversary (marriage), and we had a blast, we went for brunch and decided to spend the rest of the afternoon sick (awesome brunch @ the Tap Room...), it was awesome.... Anyway, I decided to continue the celebration on Sunday, so I brought some flowers for my honey and I cooked an amazing dinner, and now, all is good in the world.

Here are some pics, I will be posting more pictures on my Flickr Photostream soon