I will do a series of posts showing some of the beautiful sites that we have in the wonderful city of Miami. It is dedicated to all the brides, young ladies and any others that would like to come to this marvelous city to celebrate their special day. I will start with the beautiful and very romantic Villa Vizcaya which was designed using European traditional architectural styles.
Sometimes there are images that keep bringing you back to them. You can’t seem to get away, if you believe in such things as ghosts you would say that they haunt you. I don’t believe it that way but still this image keeps showing up every time that I’m looking at the Lightroom gallery in which it is placed. It just pops back at me, maybe is the color palette that it has maybe is the veil, I’m not sure but here it is a simple portrait. If we were to analyze the image we would find that certain elements are at play. First the eyes are not staring at the viewer so there is a sense of detachment from the subject. Second the color is to me at least flowing in the image, working its way around moving your eye back and forth. And last the brick reddish background keeps pulling the eye of the viewer towards the face which is framed by it.
It seems that only yesterday, November 1st to be exact, the ranking of my blog on Alexa.com was at 25,975,500. And here we are today one day before the end of 2011 and the ranking as gone up to 727,861. A lot of hard work and many comments have been the source of such a success.
Some would say that Alexa ranking is not that important while others would argue the contrary, truthfully is only a measuring stick, but is a constant non variable measuring device. Webpage and blog ranking be it on Alexa or Google help to support and encourage the posting of informative articles and images. The ranking is a reflection of daily visitor activity and that is where the encouragement part comes in. It is a great feeling to see one’s ranking climb on what is mostly a one way street. On a blog you get many more visitors than actually leave comments behind, that can be a bit frustrating because you feel that your words and your images are simply vanishing into thin air.
So today I mark a bit of a milestone having had this blog going for less than a year I feel happy that I’m coming into 2012 with a fresh, positive outlook and some exciting numbers. Now the goal for the coming year is my Google ranking.
Happy New Year to all.
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Images from my world: Sometimes as photographers we get so focused on assignments and working to keep the bills payed that we stop looking at our on lives for the images that one day will bring memories to us.
We forget the reason that we originally picked up a camera, which at least to me was to capture rectangles of my life. I loved the quick drawing of the things that surrounded me, as Henry Cartier Bresson would say in his later years that was what photography was for him. He was known for capturing the “decisive moment”, that moment that wouldn’t been seen ever again. Those flickers of light where everything was in place to frame that second that later would become eternal for the memory.
Life goes fast, maybe as fast as the speed of light. You blink and it’s gone, no turning back there is no rewind, no pause button in life. It is constant the movement forward, never backwards. The only thing that we have that comes close to be able to pause this spinning into the future is our memories of past events. But as we grow older it becomes harder to tap into those memories, the layers build up and it’s not as easy as before to recall our youth, our life moments.
That is the greatness of photography, like nothing else in the world it is wonderful tool, medium to use for recording those flickers of light full of details. Those moments that will not be here again. I will use the image above to illustrate this point: It is a simple image of three young men waiting to leave for Church on a Sunday afternoon like many other Sunday afternoons. Yet this moment has not been repeated again and it might not they way things have turn out. Now you might say what does it matter, well to one of these young man every time that he will see this image it will remind him of that afternoon when he gave a Bible study to Tarzan as he is called because of his long hair. It will remind him of the burden that he felt in his heart to reach out and share something that is the most important thing in his life. When he is old and in that place in his life that God has for him, he can recall this little moment by just looking at this simple image that his dad took of him and his friends.
I guess as I get older what once I took for granted is coming under a new light. Wisdom, I don’t know if that is what it is or maybe experiences that are driving me to not allow life to pass by without clicking away at it.
