London Calling

I went there when I was a child. I have some memorie, flash, image. I can remember the river, Buckingam Palace, Hide Park. I can remember a lot of colours (I don’t know why…. did my parents give me some good drug?), a lot of people and the tube. I remember the room of the hotel and how surprising was for me to find in there a kettle.

And now i’ll be back, 18 years later.

How different will be my glance?

London calling guys.

Make decisions for my photo-course

What the hell r u looking at?, a photo by Raffaella di Iorio Photography on Flickr.

 

Yesterday I went to my first class of “Portrait: advertising, cinema, and editorial”.

Tomorrow I’ll have the second class: I’ll have to show a portfolio of  10 portrait …. I have been looking and searching and discarding and choosing  and discarding again…. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

Participants and professors will discuss the portfolios presented  all together. The topis is obviously “the portrait”

The point is that all the people in the class are professionals or semi-professionals. I am the only one doing photos trying to be a professional. The result is: I do not have any work ready to show. I did not make any professional book or expos!!!!! 

ok, I have the solution:

I will show my friend the big gorilla.  

It is a portrait and he is really expressive.

I fell in love with it

 

NY 085, a photo by Raffaella di Iorio Photography on Flickr.

Last november I went to the Big Apple and while I was in Central Park, I fell in love with this tree. It’s like gold.

It’s like a lot of arms trying to hug the sky.

I love this tree.
I love NY.

(one day I’ll be living there, one day I’ll have a photo-study there, one day…)

 

World Press Photo

55th World Press Photo Contest

The most famous photojounalistic contest of the world.

I am so proud to see that the winner is a Spanish guy: Samuel Aranda.

Here you can see his image:

Please click on this link to see it on the official website Worldpressphoto and read all the details about it.

If you want to see all the other categories please click this link.

It is worth, believe me.

It is life through images. It is feelings through pictures.

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Frosty Europe – More (wonderful) pictures

Photo from www.theatlantic.com

Having a look in the web (through Twitter) allowed me to discover a new serie of wonderful pics taken during these freezing european days.

I strongly invite you to see them all: just click here!

No snow in Madrid, the temperatures are going up…

 

About me: still full inmersed in my big trip organization.

Extreme Cold – Europe under snow!

Do you have a Twitter account? I do. And all the contacts I have are related to photograpfy, travels and nature. I am totally crazy for “the big Picture” – one of my contact, of course! – that’s why I want to let you know this reportage on the “extreme cold in Europe” publishde by www.boston.com

This is one of the pic of the reportage:

If you are interested in see all the pics just click this link (strongly recommended!):

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2012/02/extreme_cold_weather_hits_euro.html

Winter in Europe this year has come really late, but really strong. Even Rome – my beautyful city – has been covered by a white blanket of snow!

Here in Madrid we did not have snow, but a very low temperatures….

How’s winter in your town?????????????????????????

About me: today full inmersion in my next big travel organization.

About the pic of Rome: I found it @ this link:

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/425365_10150533953027639_679922638_9121608_1026383622_n.jpg

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Berlin (where I should have been working in today)

Thinking, a photo by Raffaella di Iorio Photography on Flickr.

Everything was ready. Me, The bag, My camera. Then a call.

“Raffaella, the course has been cancelled”.

WTF.

So the pic of tonight (that should have been a view of Berlin from the Reichstag – as I planned) is me, just me.

No Berlin, no pic.

Berlin one of the most impressive city I ve ever seen in my life. I’ve been there 2 times. This should have been the third one. Damn. Check point Charlie – see you soon I promise.

Well, I have been working from home, my migrany with me as always. Then a couple of our working with pictures (the session I had with my friends last week) at my new PC.

Bye bye Berlin, hope to see you in spring (what the hell the max temperature was -7… what’s this? Antartica?)

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