22/08/2025

Hobbieless and the way it all connects

I have spent years refining a skill: switching off the different parts of my life so I can enjoy each one fully. It does not always work perfectly, but when it does, it makes all…

15/01/2025

100+ courses, learning from new photographers

I did not exactly want to celebrate it, but I did want to know when I completed my hundredth course. I may have gone four or five over that number, since I never kept a perfectly…

07/01/2025

I don't post, but I exist

A more complex network I can say I have known the internet since its early days, before social media. It was a more complex network because it had not yet been designed to be…

12/03/2020

FIX & MAKE

After several weeks thinking about a name for the next stage of this website, I finally decided to call it a service, which I will name after this post: “FIX & MAKE”. Those three…

11/04/2019

An owl neighbour

A few days ago, we started hearing a family of owls in the park near our home. It soon became a gathering place for photographers, and even now you can sometimes hear one of them…

02/04/2019

“The only source of knowledge is experience.” — Albert Einstein

30/03/2019

Looking back

I had been turning this phrase over in my mind for weeks. In the end, it became the title of this article and of the next episode of the podcast La escuela del Fotógrafo . The…

20/11/2017

Starting from 0,0,0,0

Zero is a number. It adds no value to a sum, but in mathematics, physics and life we treat it as a starting point, just as we do in photography. I am picking up a journey again,…

17/11/2017

I'm my own first client

For a while I have been thinking about doing things on my own—what people call starting a business, becoming self-employed, going freelance, or whatever the word is where you…

17/11/2017

INSPIRATION: THROUGH RESEARCH

I do not want to translate the title, because my own path has always started here: inspiration. To me, inspiration is the set of conclusions that take shape at the end of a…

27/05/2017

Getting started isn't easy

I am used to beginnings and to taking up new activities, but it is not easy. Every time we start something, we enter a little world of its own: new words, skills and…

28/09/2011

Writing is like riding a bike

I thought it would be hard to write again, but after such a long time it has not been as difficult as I expected. Facing a blank space, for lack of a better name, is actually a…