Archivo para la categoría ‘Picasa’
Mayo 23, 2009 | Por hostel-colonial | Claves: Buenos Aires Blog, Buenos Aires Neighborhoods, Hostel Buenos Aires, Hostel Colonial | # Enlace permanente
May in Buenos Aires. The weather is strange in this season. Autumn in South America. I went out to walk from Hostel Colonial and took #6 images that reflect what I write.
Rainy days, cloudy days, sunny days, tropical days, sometimes many people, sometimes few people, movie nights and more, more Buenos Aires.
This is Buenos Aires, and I like. This season is incredible to visit.
Enjoy these photos of Buenos Aires in this order: Retiro Railway Station, 9 de Julio Ave., La Plaza Shops, Downtown, Puerto Madero.
Abril 30, 2009 | Por hostel-colonial | Claves: Buenos Aires Blog, Hostel Buenos Aires, Hostel Colonial | # Enlace permanente
Some time ago, every image I post on this blog is materialized from an idea: “What you see is what you have“. Unedited images, taken with an IPhone. Simple, no effect, (don´t forget that Hostel Colonial is a trendhostel, I like this word).
I think the result was very good, but the amateur photographer temptation is great . I have 2 cameras, prized collectors items: A Leica since 1932 and a Voigtlander since 1955.
I was missing a wonderful camera to complete my hobby and I decided to buy it:
LOMO, that’s it, Ленинградское Оптико-Механическое Объединение (
Leningrad Optical-Mechanical Amalgamation), this small Russian camera, converted into an object of worship and that gave rise to the
Lomography.
The Lomography motto of “don’t think, just shoot” presumes spontaneity, close-ups, and ubiquity, while deemphasizing formal technique. Characteristics such as over-saturated colors, off-kilter exposure, blurring, “happy accidents”.
Photos transformed into artworks. While I hope that I sent my LOMO, I decided to investigate this phenomenon and found: The 10 Golden Rules of Lomography.
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Take your camera every where you go.
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Use it any time – day and night.
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Lomography is not on interference in your life, but port of it.
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Try the shot from the hip.
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Approach the objects of your lomographic desire as close as possible.
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Don´t think.
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Be fast.
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You don´t have to know beforehand what you captured on film.
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Afterwords either.
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Don´t worry about any rules.
Read this manifesto, I decided to put to work and begin to imagine Buenos Aires places and from my desktop (using Photoshop) to get the LOMO Effect.
These are my artworks, before and after. A different view of my city, Buenos Aires, really amazing.
Bar Los Galgos, Callao Ave. in corner with Lavalle St. – Buenos Aires – Argentina
Hostel Colonial, 509 Tucuman St.. in corner with San Martin St. – Buenos Aires – Argentina
El Salvador Church, Callao Ave. in corner with Tucuman St. – Buenos Aires – Argentina
Obelisk, 9 de Julio Ave.view – Buenos Aires – Argentina
Gaucho Grill, 876 Lavalle (pedestrian) St. – Buenos Aires – Argentina
Soon, when they send my LOMO, I will start publishing the pictures of Buenos Aires to do with my new toy.
Abril 22, 2009 | Por hostel-colonial | Claves: Buenos Aires Blog, Hostel Blog, Hostel Buenos Aires, Hostel Colonial | # Enlace permanente
Una imagen que no parece tomada desde un celular (Iphone Camera Pro), parece que se hubiese utilizado un gran angular y sólo es una postura corporal. Diría que es una imagen MUY Buenos Aires, tomada desde la Plaza de Mayo, puede observarse a la izquierda, la simétrica altura de los edificios de la Avenida Roque Sáenz Peña (Diagonal Norte) y a la derecha la belleza de la Catedral Metropolitana, aquí cerca, a unas pocas cuadras de Hostel Colonial.
Abril 21, 2009 | Por hostel-colonial | Claves: Bicentenario de la Nación Argentina, Buenos Aires Blog, Hostel Buenos Aires, Hostel Colonial | # Enlace permanente
Parece que en este edificio comenzó todo, la historia de Argentina como país. El Cabildo, es sin dudas un ícono de Buenos Aires, si bien el Obelisco es “la postal” obligada de la ciudad, este edificio es nuestra historia.
Tres imágenes y cómo fué cambiando su fisonomía. El Cabildo en 1810, en 1910 y actualmente, en 2009 (2010), rumbo al Bicentenario de la Nación Argentina.
Para disfrutar de este hermoso edificio, toman hacia el sur por la calle San Martín (partiendo desde Hostel Colonial), son sólo 5 cuadras.
Argentina – 2010 – Año del Bicentenario
Abril 11, 2009 | Por hostel-colonial | Claves: Buenos Aires Blog, Hostel Buenos Aires, Hostel Colonial | # Enlace permanente
The sky, the clouds,the airplane begins to descend. Joy, you begin to see better, here begins another story, you’re coming to Buenos Aires, a house is waiting for you, it’s called Hostel Colonial.
Abril 9, 2009 | Por hostel-colonial | Claves: Buenos Aires Blog, Buenos Aires Downtown, Buenos Aires streets, Hostel Colonial, Hostel in Buenos Aires | # Enlace permanente
The pedestrian Florida Street, famous all over the world, is located only 70 meters from the Hostel Colonial, at one of the most crowded spots in the Buenos Aires Downtown (2.000.000 people walk through the street every day), a neighborhood that already has 4 important pedestrian streets (Florida, Lavalle, Reconquista and Tres Sargentos, no one more than 200 meters from the Hostel Colonial).
Now, well, let´s get back to Florida St., always changing and being reinvented. Lately, it has been very commented that some blocks (it has a total of 11) have their public spaces taken by informal sellers that compete with the owners and tenants, almost outside the legality, some things that are not related to this blog, but even tough I cannot ignore, that why I mention that, and the other subject is the lack of information in some travel guides and local means, that publish grand things like “On weekends, there is nobody in the Downtown” or “When the night comes out, when the offices close, the Downtown became a desert“. There is nothing wrong and fallacious.
Its been more than 20 years, 2/3 part of my life, Monday to Monday passing in this neighborhood which I know as much as the palms of my hand. Hundreds of bars and restaurants (La Posada de 1820, hostel downstairs, La Casona del Nonno, El Gaucho Grill and Almacén Suipacha are four examples of those who can speak very well), cinemas and theatres (Ópera, Gran Rex, Nacional, Maipo and Tabarís, sold about 8000 tickets on Saturday night), the Luna Park Stadium, Puerto Madero and Florida St., always crowded. You don´t believe me? Look at these pictures, I´m going to divide them in 3 parts so you can understand the dynamic of the street, considering that the pictures were taken in a Saturday afternoon.
Florida St. – Part 1. From Rivadavia Ave. until Corrientes Ave., Financial District, so it should have almost no activity.
Florida St. – Part 2. From Corrientes Ave., the crossing with Lavalle St. until Cordoba Ave. (Galerias Pacifico Shopping Mall) – Concentration of local sellers and people.
Florida St. – Part 3. Between Cordoba Ave. and M.T.Alvear St. , the most chic and classic postal of Buenos Aires.
Now you know people, if somebody tells you that Buenos Aires, the Downtown, Florida St. some times get empty, this person is simply lying or missing information. Or a bit of both, don´t you think?
Abril 4, 2009 | Por hostel-colonial | Claves: Hostel Buenos Aires, Hostel Colonial, Hostel in Argentina | # Enlace permanente
A pocas cuadras de Hostel Colonial, bajando por la calle Tucumán hacia Puerto Madero, llegamos a la Recova de Além, viejo refugio de personajes tan disímiles como armadores de diarios, marineros y prostitutas, otra época de Buenos Aires, contrastando con la Plaza Roma y la modernidad los edificios de Catalinas Norte.
Marzo 10, 2009 | Por hostel-colonial | Claves: Hostel Buenos Aires, Hostel Colonial | # Enlace permanente
# 2 Images , the bright side of the moon in Buenos Aires, it seems a fitting incorporated into the urban landscape. Maybe so.
Captured by IPhone Camera Pro. No flash.
Febrero 27, 2009 | Por hostel-colonial | Claves: argentina, Hostel Buenos Aires, Hostel Colonial, Tango en Buenos Aires | # Enlace permanente
These are some drawings I made some time ago. Try to rescue the spirit and essence of the Tango in Buenos Aires.
Those who stay in Hostel Colonial can see these finished pictures in the corridors (when I took these pictures were on stage sketch). Some of these works were painted on the walls of Almacén & Restaurant Suipacha, one of my restaurants. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do
Febrero 25, 2009 | Por hostel-colonial | # Enlace permanente
There was not enough time to post pictures of Buenos Aires in duotones. It´s a good time to do so. Transport photographed near Hostel Colonial in Corrientes Avenue and around the Luna Park Stadium. Taxi, bus ( colectivo, bondi) truck and camper, urban movement.
The train to the suburbs of Buenos Aires, arriving at Colegiales Station.
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