Photography, hobbies, learning and personal projects by César González.https://hobbieless.com/enhttps://hobbieless.com/en/blog/hobbieless-how-it-all-connects/https://hobbieless.com/en/blog/hobbieless-how-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…Fri, 22 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://hobbieless.com/en/blog/100-courses-learning-from-new-photographers/https://hobbieless.com/en/blog/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…Wed, 15 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://hobbieless.com/en/blog/i-dont-post-but-i-exist/https://hobbieless.com/en/blog/i-dont-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…Tue, 07 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://hobbieless.com/en/blog/fix-and-make/https://hobbieless.com/en/blog/fix-and-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…Thu, 12 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://hobbieless.com/en/blog/an-owl-neighbour/https://hobbieless.com/en/blog/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…Thu, 11 Apr 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://hobbieless.com/en/blog/the-only-source-of-knowledge-is-experience/https://hobbieless.com/en/blog/the-only-source-of-knowledge-is-experience/“The only source of knowledge is experience.” — Albert Einstein — HobbielessTue, 02 Apr 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://hobbieless.com/en/blog/looking-back/https://hobbieless.com/en/blog/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…Sat, 30 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://hobbieless.com/en/blog/starting-from-zero/https://hobbieless.com/en/blog/starting-from-zero/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,…Mon, 20 Nov 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://hobbieless.com/en/blog/im-my-own-first-client/https://hobbieless.com/en/blog/im-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…Fri, 17 Nov 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://hobbieless.com/en/blog/inspiration-through-research/https://hobbieless.com/en/blog/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…Fri, 17 Nov 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://hobbieless.com/en/blog/getting-started-isnt-easy/https://hobbieless.com/en/blog/getting-started-isnt-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…Sat, 27 May 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://hobbieless.com/en/blog/writing-is-like-riding-a-bike/https://hobbieless.com/en/blog/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…Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT