testing the Canon G11, my new point and shoot

Las bellas chicas coloreadas del máster en producción artística de la Universidad de Barcelona

El beso de los coches

La primavera ha llegado al edifício de la facultad de física de la UB

Overall I am much happier with the new Canon G11 than with the old Leica D-Lux. However, as with all little digital cameras, the G11 has a little delay and does not like low light situations. Well, as they say in Barcelona, "asi es," or, that's how it is. Nothing can be done about it, such is the reality with the digital imagery technology...

I do recommend this camera. It's small enough and camera enough to always have it with me in my bag anytime I need it. The large cameras (7D, 5D) are just too bulky and heavy to have around all the time, especially since I have back pain.

My favorite feature on the G11 is the video. It works quite nicely, I like the quality even though it's such a tiny camera. Well, that is, of couse, taking light in consideration. In low light situations it's not even worth taking out the camera most of the time, as the result will be a mushy dark soup of pixels.

transgressive theology...

John Mabry is the name of the pastor who married Kiera and Bradford. He was funny. I heard belly laughs loud and clear during the ceremony. I laughed myself even!

I liked John's ceremony, his sense of humor, and his energy. And, besides, he stepped outside the church box (if I may call it that), by choosing to follow a more alternative interpretation of the bible and the teachings of Jesus.

Well, check it out for yourself. Here is his blog: http://johnrmabry.wordpress.com/
And here is the link to his church: www.gracenorthchurch.org

He is based out of the Bay Area and happy to travel, as he did for Kiera and Bradford's wedding two days ago.

behind the scenes at Kiera Mickiewicz's and Bradford Anderson's wedding

behind the scenes with the Mickiewicz family

My assistant snapped some behind-the-scenes shots during the wedding day of Kiera and Bradford on April 10th in Northern California. Here were are the Mickiewicz's family home before heading over to the wedding location in Clarksburg.

more of Kiera's & Bradford's wedding

Kiera Mickiewicz' & Bradford Anderson's wedding

What brought me across the Atlantic from Barcelona to Sacramento this spring was the wedding of Kiera and Bradford.

Kiera, a Sacramento native, met Bradford while studying theater at New York University. They now reside in Los Angeles, where Bradford stars in the daytime television show General Hospital. They chose to marry in Northern California, where Kiera's large Irish and Polish family were represented in full force.

This wedding was filled with lovely and very siginificant details. Kiera's dress had been worn by both her granmother and her mother on their respective wedding days. Her bouquet was adorned with tiny photographs of loved ones who had passed. The arch under which they said their vows was built by a family friend out of hundred-year-old wood.

The chosen location for the festivities was the Old Sugar Mill, a quaint and incredibly photogenic venue in Clarksburg.

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Sacramento, the city of trees?

life and intimacy part V: you and i now make a different us

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life and intimacy part IV: being surprised by changes in the daily routine

life and intimacy part III: being amazed

life and intimacy part II: documenting new life

life and intimacy

In my recent trip to California, I had the pleasure of visiting a lovely couple whose wedding I photographed a few years ago in Sonoma. The artist Yoly Stroeve, the photographer Valentin Almanza and the new addition to the family, Indigo, allowed me to create some images of their intimate life at home.

a modern princess in San Francisco's Mission District

tech talk, let's make it short

I am always bored at camera talk. Yup! I have been working with photographic aparatus for twelve years, but cannot bare to talk about it. I would rather be shooting. So, I shall make this short. I just purchased the Canon 7D. These are two images from the first test shoot, a location scouting for Kiera Mickiewicz's and Bradford Anderson's wedding, to take place on April 10th in Clarksburg, California.

My two assistants and I went to The Old Sugar Mill in Clarksburg, California to perform what I call a "terrain recognition mission." I had never shot at that location before, and went to check it out and test my lights before the wedding day.

As for the 7D, what can I say? It's another ultra overpriced, super fragile camera, which will probably only last me two years tops, as all of the others have. My old faithful, on the other hand, my favorite camera, is the Canon AE-1, made in the 70's and in full operating conditions. I have never had one single problem with it... It surely upsets me that camera (and all other electronic equipment) is made to be disposable in our era...

For more information about the location, go here: http://www.oldsugarmill.com/

easter with family and technology

This easter I was invited to celebrate with a friend and his family in the Mission district in San Francisco. My friend is first generation born in California from Mexican parents. They have been residing in the Mission since the family imigrated almost fourty years ago.

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