Friday, 2 May 2014
Serenity in the park
While walking around the village looking for some more portraits of people, I spotted this young lady reading in the very same park where we used to play many years ago. I came closer to ask for permission to take a photo for the Serenity series and I was surprised to see that she was reading an English book.
Even better, this was not the only photo I will be able to add to my exhibition in July here in Berlin, as shortly afterwards I managed to take yet another one.
Sunday, 27 April 2014
Peluquería antigua
La semana pasada estuve de nuevo en El Toboso para pasar unos días de vacaciones. Una visita a una peluquería antigua dio paso a una conversación con el peluquero y a un par de retratos. Yo, que casi nunca hago fotos de extraños, me pasé de repente dos días arriba y abajo haciendo retratos de gente en sus puestos de trabajo. O en la calle. Las típicas fotos de aquí te pillo aquí te mato. Y casi todo el mundo accedió a posar con una gran sonrisa.
Tengo suficientes fotos para hacer una exposición. Son unos treinta retratos de gente variada que me encontré en dos días intensos, en los que tuve que explicar una y otra vez que era nieto de Enrique el músico y biznieto de Brígida la partera, exactamente como cuando era pequeño y mi abuela nos mandaba a hacer recados a las tiendas del pueblo...
Last week I spent some days in my mother´s place of birth, El Toboso. A visit to the hairdresser´s triggered a series of portraits of people from this lovely village. I don´t take portraits of strangers very often, and neither I am much of a street photographer, but there I was, spending the best of two days walking around, asking people for permission to take a photo of them at their workplace and, in some cases, literally entering their homes to take a couple of photos. Quite an experience and very much worth the effort. There is a very good chance that this ends up in an exhibition some time later in the year, as if the one planned in Summer here in Berlin is not enough.
Saturday, 22 March 2014
The Iron Man strategy to complete MOOCs
I would like to share a strategy which has worked very well with me for the last 15 months and allowed me to finish a considerable amount of MOOCs. I call it the Iron Man strategy and it is hard indeed. But very simple to explain. Don´t watch TV. Use the time instead to complete a MOOC, one at a time. And why is it called Iron Man strategy? Well, because you are only allowed to watch TV while doing the ironing!
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