It’s an easy decision to leave the studio for the streets in Antigua Guatemala because outside, on the streets we have literally hundreds colourful backdrops or backgrounds. Street photography sessions on the streets benefit by the beautiful textured walls that frame the subject. The street photography style adds the natural, candid aspect to the images … Read more
One of the aspects that makes walking around La Antigua Guatemala is its many textures and colours, even on broken down abandoned houses as shown here. These make amazing backdrops for lifestyle photography, of course, and every block has at least one or two walls with natural textures and rich saturated colours. I use them … Read more
Often enough you find lots of textures and patterns in my photography such as in this column found inside Convento Las Capuchinas in Antigua Guatemala or in many of the images of my current photo exposition #Guategrams on display at El Fotografo Photo Gallery during August and Proyecto Cultural La Puerta Roja during September. If … Read more
I am sure I am not the only one who enjoys looking at the repetition and texture created by the terra-cotta Spanish tile roofs. Even when the tiles are old and weathered, they still look great. Nowadays, however, most Spanish tiles roof, tejas in Spanish, are ornamental since they are place above modern roofs.
Beauty in things exists merely in the mind which contemplates them. —David Hume’s Essays, Moral and Political, 1742 (source: phrases.org.uk) I agree completely, what about you? [gmap]
We, graphic designers, are a weird bunch. We like thinks like patterns, textures, colors, signs, letter shapes, shapes, you name it; if it is visual we’re hooked. Since I am, after all, a graphic designer, please forgive my indulgences every once in a while.