Travel

Moscow to St. Petersburg in the Sapsan

Rural landscape in Russia

Still working on the photos from the trip to Russia, you can see the first photos from Moscow on my prior post here. Like mentioned before, I was 4 days in St. Petersburg as well, moved between cities using the first hight speed train within Russia, better known as Sapsan or the Peregrine Falcon. The service [...]


Highlights of Moscow

View of the Moskva River with the Kremlin and Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in the background in Moscow.

Returned from a week in Russia about 4 weeks ago, already processed a bunch of photos but didn’t have time to post them until now. Russia was in my bucket list for a long time, so when Aeroflot started direct non-stop flights from Miami to Moscow last year I had the perfect excuse, they are now serving [...]


Wandering in the Florida Keys for The Daily

Sloppy Joes Bar in Key West

I was sent on assignment for the now defunct online newspaper “The Daily” to the Keys last year, too bad they are not longer around, I really liked their articles and content… but seems that they didn’t have enough subscribers to keep on going. So they gave me a shot list and sent me 2 days to the Florida [...]


While in Buenos Aires…

La Mujer Bridge in Puerto Madero

Already march!!! can’t believe how fast time goes, as I am getting ready to go to the first trip of 2013, going to Russia in just a couple of days, I wanted to post the some of the final edits of the trip to Buenos Aires back in November. I was there mostly for work, [...]


A cabin in the Smokies | HDR Photo

Cabin in the Mountains at night

Back in December went to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, spent some days in this cute lodge cabin located right between Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg in Tennessee. After a long day exploring the parks, while returning to the the cabin I made this photograph, it was the perfect time of the day. For print [...]


A day in Brasov | Romania

Postal office in Brasov

Happy new year!!! just back from a road trip to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee, had a wonderful time there, and I’ll be posting photos soon, but before that here is my last post from the trip to Romania back in October, you can see prior posts from that adventure here: Highlights [...]


Day trip to Colonia del Sacramento | Uruguay

Traditional mate in Uruguay

I am back from Buenos Aires, well, getting ready to go out again and trying to catch up with all the pending editing. Anyhow, during the trip just decided to cross the pond and visit Colonia del Sacramento in Uruguay, several companies are offering day trips, but the best bet is to take either the [...]


The Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest | Romania

Palace of Parliament architectural detail in Bucharest.

Finally had time to finish working on these images from my trip to Romania back in september. The Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest is magnificent building, a huge structure, in fact according to the World Records Academy this Palace is the world’s heaviest and largest civilian building. It was designed by the Ceausescu regime in an [...]


People in the Streets of Bucharest

People crossing street in Bucharest

Contrary to the last post of Bucharest where I’ve focused more in the architectural elements and character of the city, here, I focus more in people, the inhabitants of this truly cosmopolitan city. The photographs were made during several outings, morning, afternoon, parks, the subway system, basically all around the city at different times.           [...]


Highlights of Bucharest | Romania

Dâmbovița River in Bucharest

Just back from a week in Romania, spent most of the time wandering around Bucharest, having more time in one place instead of jumping from city to city makes you get to know it better and make friends, and to keep the story short, this is a country I really want to return…. hope to [...]


Arenal Volcano in Costa Rica | Timelapse

Arenal Volcano in Costa Rica

If you go to Costa Rica, you’ll see volcanoes, they are everywhere, there are six active and 61 dormant or extinct ones, from those the Arenal was one of the most active ones but it entered into a resting phase in 2010, it means for the time being there are no eruptions, but still is [...]


A day in Caño Negro, Costa Rica

Boat in Frio River in Costa Rica

I was really busy the last couple of weeks, overwhelmed with work and planning a couple of new trips for before the end of the year prevented me for keep posting. But here are a couple of images of my day trip to the Caño Negro Wildlife Refuge in Costa Rica, this is a day trip from [...]


The Wonderful Countryside in Costa Rica

Foggy-morning-in-the-Costa-Rica-countryside

The countryside in Costa Rica is just wonderful, and the best way to enjoy it is driving around. During my visit I rented a car and after staying one day in San José I drove to the Arenal Volcano area, the total driving time is about 3 to 4 hours, but the scenery is great, [...]


Wandering in San José, Costa Rica

Street-Scene-in-San-Jose-Costa-Rica

Just returned from 5 amazing days in Costa Rica, my first time in the country, and to make the story short, I hope I can get back soon. Costa Rica, is colorful, warm, with great people and amazing outdoors, I just visited San Jose and the Arenal Volcano area and I am really impressed. I [...]


“Viernes Culturales” in Little Havana

Tower-Theater-in-Little-Havana-Miami

I went down to Little Havana here in Miami last Friday to takes some photos at the “Viernes Culturales” festival in Calle Ocho. I was invited by  Juan Reyes, a great street photographer, he runs the “Miami Street Photography Club”, and it was really great. This is a great group and I had fun. Unfortunately [...]


St. Charles’s Church, Karlskirche, in Vienna

St-Charles-Church-in-Vienna

Here is a view of the dome and columns of this amazing church in Vienna, the St. Charles’s Church or Karlskirche (in German) is one most uniques baroque church structures, and has garnered fame due to its dome and its two flanking columns. I certainly wanted to capture its essence and details when aiming the camera and [...]


Hungarian State Opera House in Budapest

Budapest-Opera-House-entrance

Here is another photo taken during my last trip to Eastern Europe last year. This is an HDR photo of the entrance to the Opera House in Budapest, like most of the historic places in the city this is really an amazing building, it was built in neo-Renaissance style with  elements of baroque, construction of [...]


Marlins Park Stadium in Miami | HDR Photos

Marlins-Park-Stadium

I photographed the Stadium a couple of months ago, just a few weeks after construction was completed, it was one of the very first shoots with the Nikon D4 and I was really eager to try it. I was there right after sunset and waited for the blue hour, again one my favorite times of [...]


Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest

Went back to the archive and found this photo taken in Budapest last year, this is a marvelous city that I really want to go again, as I was there only 2 days and with a spare camera… so many places to see and almost no time. The history of the academy goes back to 1825, and [...]


Castillo de San Marcos in St. Augustine

Here is another photo taken during my recent trip to St. Augustine. This time the Castillo de San Marcos. This is one of the highlights of this old spanish city, construction was begun in 1672 by the spanish when Florida was Spanish territory, this is the oldest masonry fort in the United States. The fort [...]


The Diner in Miami Beach

Found this place walking around  in Miami Beach, it is located in Washington Ave. and 11th Street. It was late in the afternoon, almost night, and I loved the retro look so I started to take photos from across the street, then decided to wait to have people in the scene, either walking in or walking out [...]


Bahia Honda Rail Bridge

I was on assignment for the day last thursday in Key West shooting some vacation rental properties and in the way back to Miami had a chance to stop in Bahia Honda State Park to shoot the bridge. This is a place that I always wanted to go and shoot, every time I passed by on my [...]


Bridge of Lions in St. Augustine

One the most iconic places in St. Augustine is the famous Bridge of Lions, imposible to miss this bascule bridge connects downtown St. Augustine with Anastasia Island. This is a very nice structure, the original bridge was completed in 1927, but it was declared “structurally deficient and functionally obsolete” in 1999 by the Department of Transportation. [...]


Flagler College in St. Augustine

Here is an exterior shot of the main building of the Flagler College in St. Augustine, taken at dusk, I really love this time of the day for shoot. Needless to say this is an amazing building and if you are in the area I recommend you to take the guided tour, it is a [...]