Sanfermin, sanfermin

Pamplona, July 06, 2011

Diego's first Sanfermin on the street.

Soccer frenzy

Pamplona, July 3, 2010.
Spain's soccer team wins against Paraguay. Everybody feels this victory is his or her own. They jump, they cry, they hug each other. We're together in this; we're not longer a country splitted in one thousand petty feuds. If only we could face our problems with a tiny amount of this energy!
Photography: as always, I'm using my reliable TTL cord flash. And I've chosen to focus on young and pretty people because I found informative their passion for this game.

Diego: LIFE

January 13th, 2010.
Diego, our son, born on January the 11th.
No picture will convey -ever- the feelings we've been through to have this child. Our beloved baby. Our cry, our laugh, our joy.

Nuestro agradecimeinto a todos los médicos y enfermeras del servicio de Ginecología del Hospital Virgen del Camino de Pamplona que han trabajado con tanta pericia durante largos y amargos meses para mantener a Diego con vida en el vientre de su madre. Ellos han hecho posible que Juliana y yo estemos hoy mirando a esta criatura, tan deseada.
Al Dr. Larrañaga, a la Dra. Huarte, a la Dra. Karlsson y a todos los demás, cuyos nombres no conozco pero a cuya dedicación debemos tanto: gracias.

Dianas (Girls at Left)

Pamplona, July 7, 2009.

"Dianas" or Reveille: the Council Music Band play music at seven in the morning to cheer the people up. I'm shooting the whole thing and it's a fact that, on the melée, I'm composing all the pictures with girls at left and musicians at right. Damm it!

July 05, 2008. Flash & Ambient light

Bull Ring, Pamplona.
"Novilleros" or junior bullfighters.
Before the bullfight (aka: killing) there're some pics of them that should be made so I chose to use some flash light to add to ambient light. I'm grateful to Alfonso de Castro for his invaluable advice on using flash, back on the times of black & white negatives, when pictures were made relying only on light readings and flash number guide.
Thanks, maestro!

July 02 2008. The bulls are here!

Sanfermin festivals are on the air, already. Bulls are here. They're bound to die whithin few days, in terrible pain, soaked in blood. They'll be watched by thousands on the bull's ring and millions on TV (Cuatro Network).

Today, public are allowed to see the animals as they rest after a stressful trip so parents are bringing their offprings. This mother lifts her ponytailed daugther while her other one waits, uneasy. Hello, we're both here.

Assignment for "Diario de Navarra". This picture's been printed on today's paper (July the 3rd)

July 01 2008. Rebajas / Sales

Subject: "Sales". Constraints: Not allowed to make pictures inside the shops. Solution: Working on the street. Visual items: People (AMAP: As Many As Possible); Bags; Sales signs.

Working as a press photographer for a medium size newspaper like Diario de Navarra there're certain news that should be covered on a regular basis. One of them are the opening of the summer sales the first of july.
The final selection of the pictures intented for the print (the physical paper) is not done by the photographer himself but is a task put on other's hands. On this particular paper, not having a picture editor, the quite important thing of editing (here: choosing the right picture) it's been put among the journalists who're writing the pieces of news. This way, some unexpected things happen.
This picture was not chosen on the final edition.

Trabajando para un periódico regional (Diario de Navarra) como fotógrafo hay una serie de temas recurrentes; el primero de julio, la apertura oficial de la rebajas. La selección final de las fotografías, las que van a ir a edición impresa, no la realiza el propio autor sino que es un trabajo puesto en manos de los periodistas que escriben las noticias.