photographs
Camera and Lens: Sony a6000, Meike 35mm f/1.7
Settings: ISO 100, 1/125sec, aperture unknown
Even though we had to call this boat ride short because everyone was cold, I loved that time on the lake that foggy evening.
Calm waters, no one around but a handful of fishermen... so relaxing and beautiful.
Camera and Lens: Sony A7ii, Sony 16-35mm f/4
Settings: 16mm, ISO 100, f/5.0, 1/80sec
Mt Rainier National Park is one of those places that you have to see in person to believe they are real.
The star of the park is, obviously, Mt Rainier. But every corner looks like a fairy tale.
Camera and Lens: Bronica SQ-Ai, Zenzanon PS 150mm f/4
Film stock: Rollei IR400
Exposure: 12
Filters: Hoya R72
Developer: Rodinal
This was my first time shooting infrared with film, and I'm very pleased with the result. I will be doing it again soon!
Camera and Lens: Bronica SQ-Ai, Zenzanon PS 50mm f/3.5
Film stock: Ilford HP5+
Exposure: 800
Developer: Ilfotec HC
What a view. Enough said about this place.
Camera and Lens: Bronica SQ-Ai, Zenzanon PS 80mm f/2.8
Film: Ilford HP5+
Exposure: 800
Developer: Ilfotec HC
They weren't. They hadn't for a while.
If there's a place in the US where you can feel like being in a western, that's probably Monument Valley.
Camera and Lens: Sony A7II, Sony 16-35 f/4
Settings: 16mm, ISO 800, f/4, 1/25sec
A year after I made this image, a wildfire that burnt a lot of the Columbia River Gorge started near this spot. As of right now, it's still closed.
I never made it to the end of this beautiful hike, but I hope the trail will be open next time I visit the Gorge.
Camera and Lens: Sony A7II, 28-70mm f/3.5-5.6 kit lens
Settings: 70mm, ISO 500, f/5.6, 1/80sec
I don't know what I was thinking that day. From Timberline Lodge, I started walking up, and up. It was cloudy, but otherwise a nice day.
When I was close to Palmer lift, at around 8,500ft, the weather started to change: the clouds I had been photographing a while ago reached all of us up there, and it was like being in the middle of a blizzard.
Luckily, it's easy to find your way back from there, and after just a few minutes walking the weather got back to calm.
But in the middle of all of that, I got this image of two hikers coming back down to safety.
Camera and Lens: Sony A7II, 28-70mm f/3.5-5.6 kit lens
Settings: 28mm, ISO 400, 1/40sec, f/4.5 (handheld)
Rain -a lot of rain- welcomed us on the first day of our first visit to the North Cascades National Park. This was one of the many images I made in this beautiful place during 4 amazing days.
Breathtaking sunrises and sunsets, hikes to the top of the world, lakes straight out of a fairy tale and, of course, the stunning landscapes covered by thousands of golden larch trees.
Camera and Lens: Sony a6500, 16-70mm Carl Zeiss
Settings: ISO 400, 16mm, f/8, 1/1250sec
Walking in the countryside on a beautiful foggy morning.
Camera and Lens: Sony A7II, Sony 28-70 f/3.5-5.6 kit lens
Settings: ISO 640, 41mm, f/5.6, 1/60th
The first day we arrived, Yosemite welcomed us with a rainy and foggy day.
Our time in the park was very eventful: that same night, I woke up at 4am to get ready to shoot sunrise. I found ourselves in the middle of a snowstorm, with a foot of snow around us, and a flat (very flat) tire.
I still made it for sunrise, using the spare tire. We had to spend a day looking for a place to fix the flat, but as soon as the car was 100% again, we went back to Yosemite.
Camera and Lens: Sony A7II, Sony 28-70mm f/3.5-5.6 kit lens
Settings: 70mm, ISO 100, f/5.6, 1/800sec
I made this image on the way back from my first visit to Death Valley. I will never forget that sunset, I've never seen clouds like those forming above the Eastern Sierra Nevada that evening.
Still admiring the skies, something caught my eye on the side of the road: a lone Joshua Tree. I had to pull over and stop to take this exposure.
I pointed which at the time was still my camera, a Sony full-frame, and took the exposure. I knew I had gotten something special but for some reason I kept this image away for a while.
So many things have happened since that moment and still, it's been only a year and a half.
Camera and Lens: Sony a6500, 16-70mm f/4 Carl Zeiss
Settings: 26mm, ISO 800, f/8, 1/2000th
I had tried to take some photos of this rock formation earlier that morning on my way to the peak, but the light wasn't right. The Sun was still rising behind the mountains you can see in the background.
On the way back, though, I got the right conditions.
Camera: Holga 120N
Film stock: Ilford HP5+
Exposure: 800
Developer: Ilfotec HC
Rainy day at Chain O'Lakes State Park, Indiana.
Camera and Lens: Sony a6500 + 16-70mm f/4 Carl Zeiss
Settings: ISO 100, 70mm, f/8, 1/2000sec
This is one of the few images I managed to create during the hike to Pena Trevinca, in the Galicia / Castille border.
I made it at the beginning of the hike, when my mind and legs were still fresh and the light workable. I had none of those two things for almost the rest of the day in the mountains.
Camera and Lens: Sony a6500 + 16-70mm f/4 Carl Zeiss
Settings: ISO 320, 17mm, f/8, 64 seconds
A few weeks ago, during a trip to A Coruña, I visited the beach of Sabon where I wanted to create an image to show the contrast between the beach and the chimney of the power station.
This place is familiar to me. Years ago, I used to work just a few hundred feet from there, and some times during lunch time I'd go to that beach to take a walk.
The idea behind this image was to make believe the viewer that they are looking at yet another image of the ocean breaking against the rocks, and realize a little bit later about the "small" detail on the top right of the frame: a chimney from a power plant.
Camera and Lens: Bronica SQ-Ai, Zenzanon PS 80mm f/2.8
Film stock: Ilford HP5
Speed: 800
Developer: Ilfotec HC
This unreleased image is part of my project America Untitled that is being exhibited this month.
I made this image on a very, very cold day in Michigan City, Indiana. The beaches along the shore of Lake Michigan looked like anything but sand beaches where people get tan or children play, and all the equipment used during the summer by visitors and staff were like out-of-place artifacts.
This lifeguard tower stood out to me, and I think it made for a compelling image.
An image of Mt Hood from the archives for today. I really can't wait to visit this beautiful place again.
This was a lovely evening spent at Larch Mountain watching the Moon rising above Mt Hood. I made several exposures with my Bronica, you can see some of them on the Mt Hood National Forest page of my archive.
I also have a short video about this evening that you can watch here:
Camera and Lens: Sony a6500 + 16-70mm f/4 Carl Zeiss
Settings: ISO 100, 32mm, f/9.0, 246 seconds
I made this image during my recent trip to Foz, Lugo. In this region of Spain, cruceiros (calvary)) are everywhere.
I wouldn't have paid attention to this one if it weren't for the tree that was right behind it. I noticed that the wind was moving the leaves and I thought that could make for a good image.
This is the result of a 4-minute-long exposure. I like it.
Camera and Lens: Sony a6500 + 16-70mm f/4 Carl Zeiss
Settings: ISO 500, 16mm, f/8.0, 1/640sec
I woke up really early to be at the Castro (a 2,000-year-old fort) for sunrise. This is a very popular spot and it gets crowded during the day. At that time though, I was the only one there.
It's a beautiful place. It feels surreal to see all these structures and think that people lived (and fought) here thousands of years ago.
An hour and a half after sunrise (I was already on the way to the car), the fog started to roll in. It was then when I made the best images there, and this is one of them.
Camera and Lens: Bronica SQ-Ai, Zenzanon PS 80mm f/2.8
Film stock: Ilford HP5+
Exposure: 800
Developer: Ilfotec HC
I wasn't expecting to find a tower like this in Grand Canyon National Park. I loved the way it looked, and the birds flying around gave it an almost creepy feeling to it.
I knew I had to make an image.
