Juan Carlos's blog

Just a little information for those visiting my stream : for the past months I've been mainly shooting with a nice Canon A-1 and some beautiful lenses for it that I've obtained second hand. This started strangely enough as an experiment to see what "full-format" and good lenses could do before going broke and getting myself a Canon EOS 5D and some L lenses. Result of the experiment, my next camera will probably be a Mamiya 7II ... and that can surely wait some years !!

Just back from a week from Frankfurt. Let's see if you like the images I brought back. The first batch of them is already up. …read more

I'm back from nine days in Normandy : Saint Valery en Caux, Fécamp, Etretat, Honfleur, Houlgate, Dives sur Mer, Beuvron en  Auge, Lisieux, Mont Saint Michel, Caen, Rouen ... .  I never took so many pictures in my life and I'm afraid you will feel the consequences ;-) Enjoy!

I'm going away to Normandy for a week. It's the first time I take a holiday with the primary aim of taking pictures, but classes start soon and my very intensive self-taught Summer course in photography is coming to an end. I hope you like the pictures of …read more

After about a hundred pictures of sculptures I decided to start photographing people. Decided is not quite the right word. I was photographing birds in the park and kids kept getting in my way. Is there a clear ethical guide about photographing people? …read more

Today I bought from a friend a Canon EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III lens and went to "La Piscine" Museum to test it (actually, first the test, then the adquisition ...). So in the next few days those brave enough to visit my photostream will be subjected to a tour of this museum (note for Germans : this used to be the Roubaisian version of the Müllersches Volksbad München) all in 75mm x 1.6. Sorry about that guys ! I will try to just post the very best pictures.

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