La Mercè 2025

La Mercè is one of Barcelona's biggest events every single year. It's a celebration of the city's patron saint, The Virgin of Mercy or Mare de Déu de la Mercè. It's a day full of music, dances, exhibitions, open museums, and everything you can think of! Luckily it was also a bank holiday so for me, after almost two years, I took out my Nikon camera from the drawer and brought it with me to the city center to be in the celebrations.

Here are some photos that I took from the beautiful events along the Cathedral area and to the center of Placa Sant Jaume. It was a rainy start of the week but today it was a perfect combination of sunshine and cool breezy weather. I'm just so happy I decided to bring my camera and take these lovely memories to share with you all!

       

Never Stop Celebrating!

Stevenson

Pictures from Verona

Last June, my teammate from work who became one of my bestest friends, let me tag along on his trip home to his country by land so that I could also celebrate my birthday with him because he's basically like family to me. For the first stop of our 4 day drive to the Balkans, we stopped at Verona. It was a quiet city compared to the big giants like Roma, Milano, or Venezia but it was really beautiful!

Here are some pictures from my camera - unprocessed and unaltered - that I would love to share with you all from the City of Love!

“There is no world without Verona walls,

But purgatory, torture, hell itself.

Hence banished is banish'd from the world,

and world's exile is death.

Fes through my Nikon Z 30

Just a short note to say thank you to everybody who sent me kind words with regards to my photographs and stories regarding my last few posts about my trip to Morocco. Here's a few more shots but this time through my camera. I am a very lazy guy to bring something extra such as a camera when everything can be done through the smart phone, but sometimes it just does more magic when you have it on your neck right? All of these are taken using my Nikon Z 30 with just the kit lens.

ISO1100 36mm f4.2 1/125s

ISO450 24mm f3.5 1/125s

ISO900 24mm f3.5 1/125s

ISO640 24mm f3.5 1/125s

A Walk thorough Time in Fes

Walking around this beautiful city is a marvel on its own. It's like you just entered a portal to a millennia past, and that you are the hero inside that era. I did not have guns or swords, just my camera and my self. Experiences like these make me realize that time will come and I won't be rich - will never have cars or luxury bags to flex and keep, but I will always have memories that will never be stolen nor will ever fade, and with that, truly money (and time) well spent.

    

    

    

    

Blue Skies in Barceloneta

It has been a while since I used my camera to take pictures and I have to be honest, I did miss the feeling of doing photography using a camera lens. I cannot blame myself because mobile photography is really good nowadays given the power of our phones but still the way you take pictures manually and control the way you see them gives us a bit of extra power.

In the past I have taken a lot of landscape photos of nature and of beautiful places but lately I am growing fond of taking pictures of people and streets and the actions that are happening and it give me more room to challenge my timing and creativity.

                     

I have so much more to learn about Street Photography mainly to take out my shyness to talk to people and I really hope to take a lot more portraits of actions but I know I can only do that if I learn to speak up of course for their concent. I am really grateful to be living in one of the most beautiful and vibrant cities in the world. It sure will help me improve in my photography even more.