awnings

On a beautiful mountain hotel in Apaneca, El Salvador. A very cold town for such a tropical country!

Poststamps on the mirror

I took these three images on my way from work the other day. It was a beautiful evening, with the sky full of orange hues from the sunset. I took the first and second pics through the lateral rearview mirror of the car. Once again, these were taken with my phone.

pipes

The top of the table on a thai restaurant.

Barbwire

This is actualy a drawing on the back of a book (an essay compilation by Carlos Alberto Montaner) and I just closed up on it (again, my phone). You'd think is a barbwire fence on a very foggy day.

Vigil

I was just smoking on the patio that night. I sort of like the mystic and profane mix of the light of the candles over the newspaper front page. I took this with my cell phone camera (RAZR V3).

Bored in class

I was so bored that day, I just started playing with the (shitty, admitedly) camera of my mobile. These are the blinds of the classroom window, which were not enough to keep out the light of a terribly beautiful summer day.

So serious.

the moon in sepia

The image is a little overexposed, but I simply love the way light plays with the clouds of the night.

la luna

The moon. This is my first shot with a new cam I just received. Right out of the box! I just mounted it on a tripod and that was it.

And this picture (my first one) reminds me of a poem I very much love. I read it for the first time some 4 years ago, in a posh italian restaurant in Bogotá.

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La luna

by Jaime Sabines

La luna se puede tomar a cucharadas
o como una cápsula cada dos horas.
Es buena como hipnótico y sedante
y también alivia
a los que se han intoxicado de filosofía
Un pedazo de luna en el bolsillo
es el mejor amuleto que la pata de conejo:
sirve para encontrar a quien se ama,
y para alejar a los médicos y las clínicas.
Se puede dar de postre a los niños
cuando no se han dormido,
y unas gotas de luna en los ojos de los ancianos
ayudan a bien morir

Pon una hoja tierna de la luna
debajo de tu almohada
y mirarás lo que quieras ver.
Lleva siempre un frasquito del aire de la luna
para cuando te ahogues,
y dale la llave de la luna
a los presos y a los desencantados.
Para los condenados a muerte
y para los condenados a vida
no hay mejor estimulante que la luna
en dosis precisas y controladas

This is the main crater of the volcano... a very good pic of my friend Karen.

Introducing myself

This is me. A month or so ago I went to the Irazú Volcano, just to get away from the city noise and stress for a couple of hours. My friend Karen and I spent a beautiful thay up there, enjoying a very bright (and rare) morning walking on the craters and the uphill paths and trails that you can find there.