Ok, this should be part of Misc, right? Nope, photography is not miscellaneous for me.

One reason why I enjoy photography so much is because it naturally slows me down. Photography is an exercise in patience and persistence. I can't tell you how long I've waited for birds to make up their minds whether to take off or not, how many photos of the kidlets I've taken before I settled on one expression, how many clouds I waited to pass across the sky to achieve the highest brightness and longest shadows, the number of intersection lights to turn green so I could shoot car headlights in motion blur, the aerial shots I wasted trying to focus through a spotty airplane window, and oh boy, the many shots I missed entirely because I couldn't change the batteries fast enough or I filled up the memory card to capacity with lots of dud pictures!

When I think of how many shots I discard, keep, try to fix, and eventually upload the ratio is something like 20:1 or worse. In film terms, that would make photography a prohibitively expensive hobby. I'm glad I belong to a generation when I can remember film as the norm and appreciate digital for what it's been able to afford me: practise. I can continue learning without breaking my bank account.

What's new?

Chicago / Las Vegas (June 2008, HDR) NEW

Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay (April 2008, HDR)

Categories

Landscapes, Nature & Weather	Animals
People & Culture	Travel
Events (Weddings, Birthdays, etc.)	HDR
Black & White	Misc

If you want to see more, please go to my Mixed Portfolio @ Facebook.

Here you have some of my recent work at Javier Echaiz Photography :

Note: if you want to get a print (glossy or matte) of any of these photographies contact me for details and pricing. The quality of the photographic prints are far greater than the small digitized images depicted in these galleries.