Good Photos Don’t Come Easy

This past weekend we were able to escape to the awesome city of Duluth, MN and of course I was able to take some pictures. Now, most of the time I take some decent pictures and I feel pretty pleased with the results but sometimes there is that one picture that I just don’t know where it came from, is like BAM! a big slap on the face followed by a crotch kick, you get the point.

Honestly I think it’s all luck, like many awesome photos, it’s all about being in the right place at the right time and pressing that button on the right moment.

For a while I’ve been entertaining the idea of overexposed pictures, now, overexposure is not something you want in your pictures and to use it as a technique it’s a gamble, the picture will either turn out really good or just one big crap. By no means I think I’ve conquered the technique, I don’t think I’m able to pull it off at will but somehow the picture above turned out just the way I wanted with no intention whatsoever. A little tweak here and there…voila! my best picture ever.

I also been playing with bokeh and out-of-focus pictures. Again, I’m pretty pleased with the results but nothing like that overexposed picture…not yet. Check out my best pictures of the month so far on my flickr page

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Happy Papi’s Day!

The best father’s day I’ve EVER had….

Model Tries To Use Calculator Watch And Gets All Confused

Yes, yes…that’s it…No, no, no…you are doing it wrong!

Why people who are in charge of the photoshoots do these things?

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The Right Me

It doesn’t really sit very well with me the whole idea of having “followers” in Twitter, it sounds cultish, it sounds egocentric, it sounds center-of-the-universe-ish, whatever…you get the point. But if you are going to follow me, make sure you follow the right me.

Today I realized a friend of mine was following someone with my name thinking it was me, it was funny. It made me think though…back in my country both my first name and last name are not very popular, I actually used to get teased a lot growing up in school. Once in the US and with the birth of Google, whose mission is to control the world, I soon realized how common my last name was and even realized there were one or two other dudes with the same first name and last name as me. That doesn’t include the illegal immigrant who stole my ID but that’s another post.

So, if you are into Twitter and are going to follow me I’m not the one who describes himself as: “Just a crazy boy who should’ve been born a vampire.”

How To Make Perfect Coffee

Hmm…I wonder what would happen if I opened the bag a different way…

First Time Parents

The other day someone told us: “Do you think you have enough photos of Jannike? Just like new parents… just remember you have to do the same for all the rest to”

Being parents for the first time is funny business. You do things you probably won’t do again with the next kid, and the more kids you have the less they get from you…so younger siblings are definitely not raised the same way as the firstborn. This has its advantages and disadvantages, how do I know that? I’ve experienced it myself and I’ve seen it in other families too. Of course, this is a generalization but it is pretty common.

I don’t know if I will have more kids or not, but if I do, I do know that future kids will not be raised the same way as our firstborn. You see, as first time parents we do so many things first time parents do, even though we try not to it is almost impossible not to. Tonight we are taking our 7 months old daughter to swimming lessons, yes I know…that’s a very first time parent thing to do. Can a 7 months old really learn how to swim? I don’t think so. However we want Jannike not to be afraid of the water when we go to the beaches in Venezuela, so this is more about exposure and less about hoping she’d learn how to swim. But again, I’m pretty sure we’ll do many more things like this…music, gymnastics, ballet, languages, art, singing, etc…