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ℑ𝔪𝔞𝔤𝔢𝔰 𝔣𝔯𝔬𝔪 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔱𝔢𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔯𝔞𝔠𝔱
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Waxes and wanes like a meandering river.
Prolific shooting, selective showing. But some ideas enter your mind and refuse to leave no matter how much time goes by.
Ten years ago, back when I was first starting to get serious about photography, I read an eye-opening interview with a large format photographer. One phrase of the photographer stuck to my mind.
"If I only show my very best pictures, even if they are just a tiny fraction of all the pictures that I take, then maybe the people that see them think that every single picture I take is that good. Which is not the case, of course".
Portrait of Jadwiga Golcz - 1905 - Franciszek Żmurko
Como los elegidos de los dioses, como Sigfrido, te enfrentaste al dragón; como Amadís, luchaste con afán por la dama de tus desvelos, para librarla de las brujas; como Garcilaso, hiciste poesía y caíste por el Imperio, sin casco ni coraza, a cara descubierta, al asaltar el castillo de tus ilusiones. En tierra de palmeras gallardas cual fuera y cerca del mar Mediterráneo, clásico como tu cultura, luminoso como tu cerebro y azul como tu camisa, reposa por ahora el cuerpo, pero tu alma habrá entrado ya en ese paraíso que cantaras, y en donde en las jambas de las puertas, junto a los ángeles con espadas, hacen guardia tus escuadras caídas cara al sol, por Dios y por España victoriosa de todos sus enemigos, sin pactos ni mediaciones.
—Raimundo Fernández-Cuesta
Sleep deprivation against depression.
You're not horny, you're just depressed and crave the dopamine high.
If we only put half as much energy into art as we put into chasing women the world would be a much more beautiful place.
La faccia sua mi parea lunga e grossa come la pina in San Pietro a Roma.
Dante, Inferno, canto XXXI
It might not last for long.
But in the meantime, it gets you going.
Las postrimerías de Fernando III el Santo - 1887 - Virgilio Mattoni
Sanctus Ferdinandus Rex, ora pro nobis.
Do not think that I came to send peace upon earth: I came not to send peace, but the sword. For I came to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man's enemies shall be they of his own household. He that loveth father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me; and he that loveth son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of me.
—Matthew 10:34-37
"So what's your favorite song?"
"Oh, that's an easy one: Me duele la cara de ser tan guapo, by Los Inhumanos".
Is falling in love God playing the alchemist with our souls?
The virtue of chastity comes under the cardinal virtue of temperance, which seeks to permeate the passions and appetites of the senses with reason.
CCC 2341
We think of photography as the intersection of science and art.
—Edwin H. Land
Of the arrow that flieth in the day, of the business that walketh about in the dark: of invasion, or of the noonday devil.
—Psalm 90
Our Lady of Carmel and Saints - 1641 - Pietro Novelli
Simon Stock, Angelus of Jerusalem, Mary Magdalene de’Pazzi, Teresa of Avila