OE OE OE OE OE OE!!!!!

Hoy toca español! Qué alegría!

Comenzaba la tarde mal! El bar al que fuimos estaba lleno de alemanes, no tenía comida y estaba hasta la bandera.

Fieles al estilo Spanish! la mayor parte de la banda llegó tarde y desde allí decidimos tratar de crear ambiente en otro lado.

Acabamos en un restaurante con una gran pantalla. Faltaba algo asi que Caro y Maria se decidaron con una bandera a reclutar espa~noles en la calle. En breve teniamos mas de 30 personas.

Empezo el partido, llego Torres y .... el resto es historia!

Ferrari California - No explanation required!

NY Times: A Goya Tour of Madrid

One of my favorite readings is NY Times travel section on weekends. Today, they are covering a Tour of Madrid center on the figure of Goya. It's really worthy.

One of my passions

Since I was a kid, I always loved photography. It gives you the opportunity to freeze a memory forever; the opportunity of capturing that fraction of a second where everything happens; the opportunity of bringing your own creativity to the world changing the way it appears to the eye; the opportunity ... You know, unlimited opportunities.

I still remember the time where I took just one or two shoots trying to guess what is going to be result; where I needed to remember that each "click" was going to cost me more than 50 cents. Those times are gone, are gone forever.

I bought my first digital camera, point an shoot camera, and I kept since then as a precious memory the words of everyone telling me what a short future that new trend had: "digital pictures, who cares? people love to see paper". I still laugh remembering that :-)

A long time has passed and one month ago I started to update all my gear and the process is not over. This is my gear, I'm more than happy with all the elements, so I strongly recommend them to anybody trying to jump to more serious photography.

• Body: I replaced my Canon 400D XTi for the Canon 40D (semi-pro). I was thinking about the 5D Full Frame but price, weight and knowing that the 5D-II is coming stopped me.

• Walk through lenses: Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4.5. It's a fast glass that brings together a zoom and good aperture range

• Telezoom: Canon 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM. The image stabilization plays along with this great lenses. Some people call this a L lenses hidden on a EF price.

• Must have: Canon 50mm, f/1.8 II. It's a fixed lens that has an amazing quality for just $89. Who can resist it? It's a shame that 50mm with an APC camera is not so usable, but still it's worth any penny. Great for portraits

• Backpack: Canon EG200, great offeering for the money: a lot of space, good compartments, protected, ... It lacks some protection against water, but it cost less than $30

Now, I'm just longing for opportunities to use it.

Paraskavedekatriaphobia

The fear of Friday the 13th is called paraskavedekatriaphobia. Today is considered a day of bad luck in all English, French and Portuguese speaking countries in addition to tons of other countries (e.g., Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, ...)

Spanish speaking countries have their thing with Tuesday 13 and Italians, as usual, have decided to honor a complete different number, Friday 17th.

It seems that the idea of bad luck came on the 19th century from joining two different concepts:

1. Thirteen is in general associated with bad lack as it's the first number that come after the magic 12 - 12 months, 12 zodiac signs, 12 Jesus' apostoles, ...
2. Friday is, in Christian societies, a dark day. The day when Jesus Christ was crucified.

One plus one equals two. My question is, what the hell happen on Tuesday?