Photoblog

  Some of the best photographic opportunities come unexpectedly. After a brilliant sunrise at XiangGong Hill, the guide asked us if we mind an hour break in a small village close by. Him and the driver were willing to have a breakfast and he offered us to either joined them or have a walk in the local farmers market. Being Sunday people were gathered from surroundings to sell all kind of merchandise, fruits, vegetables, meat, live animals and various snacks. We decided right away to use this opportunity to explore something that we could not have a chance otherwise; normally a farmers market in a touristic brochure is a place crowded with tourists, selling overpriced merchandise, together with souvenirs. So seing a genuine local farmers market seemed like a great opportunity. The guide told us that people might get annoyed by us taking their pictures; and that we should take good care of our belongings. We experiences the local ‘dangers’ few minutes later: a totally ...

This is an image I shot last summer in Mallorca, in a colorful morning, right after sunrise. I wake up pretty early so I took my camera just to see the sunrise colors and the small city quite and without the hordes of tourists. The sunrise location was not so good as the sun was raising from below Formentor tops but that day, the clouds were nice , coming fast from the middle of the island to the sea. I wondered for some minutes but there was nothing really interesting to shoot. Suddenly the clouds were back lit by the sun and they were looking like a giant dragon. I took couple of quick shots. One minute later, they were spread on the sky due to marching with different speed. The dragon was gone. I haven’t processed the image last year and I almost forgot about it. Some other pictures popped up as more interesting, then other new images were shot. However yesterday, back from work, I had a strange thought about exactly this image. I was just watching some boring shapes...