I just spent a weekend in the south again, in Loja, Spain. It´s nestled in the mountains between Granada and Malaga, in Andalucia.

So I´ve finally shot something I´m proud of using long exposures on a tripod. Enough that I´m going down south to shoot a weekend of similar work. Wish me luck...samples below, but remember, one per customer please....









these were done at around 30 seconds, some at night, some early morning the next day.

Today I went out and played street photographer. Funny thing is I´m extremely excited about a couple of shots here below. Hope you enjoy.

This is a quick peek at this series from today´s walk with my new photographer friend Alejandro. We stopped by blank paper, had a nice discussion there and went for a walk around madrid to take advantage of the fleeting light.

Call for entries and other stuff

Just thought I´d put out the info for the 3 people who read my blog about Gomma mag. They´re looking for photographers to collaborate. So if you shoot, take a look here and submit your best unpublished work.

I´m meeting with a collaborative group of photographers/agency here in madrid called Blank Paper. They do some pretty incredible stuff.

Oh and FFFFound! is pretty amazing when looking for a little bit of inspiration or need to find some stuff that at least doesn´t make you puke in your mouth.

So I decided I´d look a bit more thoroughly through my loja pictures from last year. The first few are from the august fair that happens every year and the others from holy week. All of this is shot with my super takumar smc 55 1.8 via an adapter on a 5d. I really want to revisit all of this subject matter with a film camera so I´m not limited on how large I can blow some of this stuff up. I just have to figure out how I can get my massive monorail 4x5 to Spain from Chicago. I have a couple of packs of film just itching to be shot.

new landscapes

So today was another road trip between loja and madrid and this amazing fog was everywhere. I liked these shots but now love them as a series in groups of two. Sometimes two different shots, sometimes the same shot just reflected with subtle differences. Either way, these are going to get printed and put up somewhere, just not sure where quite yet...