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A Portrait of a Young Woman

A Portrait of a Young Woman
A Portrait

 

Sometimes there are images that keep bringing you back to them. You can’t seem to get away, if you believe in  such things as ghosts you would say that they haunt you. I don’t believe it that way but still this image keeps showing up every time that I’m looking at the Lightroom gallery in which it is placed. It just pops back at me, maybe is the color palette that it has maybe is the veil, I’m not sure but here it is a simple portrait. If we were to analyze the image we would find that certain elements are at play. First the eyes are not staring at the viewer so there is a sense of detachment from the subject. Second the color is to me at least flowing in the image, working its way around moving your eye back and forth. And last the brick reddish background keeps pulling the eye of the viewer towards the face which is framed by it.

Your thoughts?

 

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Stopping Life: Images of my World

miami family portrait photography by jorge r gonzalez photography
Jonathan, Brandon and Tarzan by Jorge R Gonzalez

Images from my world: Sometimes as photographers we get so focused on assignments and working to keep the bills payed that we stop looking at our on lives for the images that one day will bring memories to us.

We forget the reason that we originally picked up a camera, which at least to me was to capture rectangles of my life. I loved the quick drawing of the things that surrounded me, as Henry Cartier Bresson would say in his later years that was what photography was for him. He was known for capturing the “decisive moment”, that moment that wouldn’t been seen ever again. Those flickers of light where everything was in place to frame that second that later would become eternal for the memory.

Life goes fast, maybe as fast as the speed of light. You blink and it’s gone, no turning back there is no rewind, no pause button in life. It is constant the movement forward, never backwards. The only thing that we have that comes close to be able to pause this spinning into the future is our memories of past events. But as we grow older it becomes harder to tap into those memories, the layers build up and it’s not as easy as before to recall our youth, our life moments.

That is the greatness of photography, like nothing else in the world it is wonderful tool, medium to use for recording those flickers of light full of details. Those moments that will not be here again. I will use the image above to illustrate this point: It is a simple image  of three young men waiting to leave for Church on a Sunday afternoon like many other Sunday afternoons. Yet this moment has not been repeated again and it might not they way things have turn out. Now you might say what does it matter, well to one of these young man every time that he will see this image it will remind him of that afternoon when he gave a Bible study to Tarzan as he is called because of his long hair. It will remind him of the burden that he felt in his heart to reach out and share something that is the most important thing in his life.   When he is old and in that place in his life that God has for him, he can recall this little moment by just looking at this simple image that his dad took of him and his friends.

I guess as I get older what once I took for granted is coming under a new light. Wisdom, I don’t know if that is what it is or maybe experiences that are driving me to not allow life to pass by without clicking away at it.

More to come later…

Jorge

 

 

 

 

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One Full Glass: Mason Jar Photography

After reading Jonas Peterson’s Mason Jar Manifesto I got inspired to shoot some of the objects that surround me. Even though he is dealing with pulling back the layers of what Weddings and Wedding Photography should be it still touched something in me. Ironically the first thing that I pointed the lens of may camera was to a mason jar.

These jars have been kind of adopted into my family. While before we always seem to have a fight trying to keep full sets of those glasses that you buy in boxes, these are multiplying. Their soft, warm feel in ones hand and lips feel comfortable and natural. Their original design might have not been as objects of beauty or elegance but to us they are part of the family.

There is no demand from them to be cared for, no delicacy that we must be aware of. They are like stray dogs thankful that they have had a second chance and thankful that some one simply cares. They are not just simply objects in a “different” type of wedding where the decor tries to send a message of down to earth people. Where the groom must wear converse sneakers to look cool, no these are the real thing objects that were on their way  to the trash without any further use. They where not created to be simply a display item, a “detail” in a wedding no on the contrary they are real working objects like working dogs not to be pampered but to be used and abused. They are simply thankful mutts.

Wedding and Family Photography in Miami by Jorge R Gonzalez

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Anderson’s Corner Store 2011


I passed the other day with my children by the Library in Homestead, Florida on Campbell Drive and US 1. As I entered the building I noticed a photograph displayed on one of the walls. It got my attention because it was the image of a famous landmark here in South Florida. It turns out that this building had been added to the national register of historic places back in the late 70’s. But as I close to the photograph to my surprise I read the name of the artist who captured this image, William Maguire my old photography teacher at Florida International University. His image shows the building  when still shined and stood as a solid structure but now it has been totally abandoned and has become the home of chickens and other animals. I took the time a few weeks ago since I live close by to do a study of the building. I was looking for the light early in the morning hitting the wood panels and the beams and such things. As I walked around the building I discovered more and more details, abandoned machinery and wildlife. Here are some of the images from that small trip of discovery.

Old Country Store in Redland Florida photographed by Miami Wedding Photographer Jorge R Gonzalez

Old Country Store in Redland Florida photographed by Miami Wedding Photographer Jorge R Gonzalez

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Yashica Electro 35 GSN

Cracker Barrel image done by miami wedding photographer jorge r gonzalez

Victory at Cracker Barrel

Yashica Electro 35 GSN  Kodak 100 TMAX

Portrait of a Young Man taken with an old film camera on Labor day with the special treat of just having consumed a large amount of “healthy grease food” at Cracker Barrel. Boy we love breakfast there especially the Uncle Hershels menu. There is nothing that compares to being with your family, enjoying time together while you shoot a roll of film.

I love walking around with this old camera it has become my favorite. The focusing takes getting used to but the fun of the sound has you advance the film. It is so quite when you press the shutter. It is a beautiful camera with the shinny chrome and the old school look, now fuji came out with something similar in design. My kids say that it is my Leica. Too think that I picked it up at ebay for less than fifty including shipping. It has no light leaks and it was CLEAN!! I had the film developed and scanned here in at a local lab, but I’m not happy with the file size. I will be trying a lab in Cali next time. All of the shots are straight out of the camera only the logo was added no Photoshop adjustments!!

image done by miami wedding photographer jorge r gonzalez

Nothing Chages

Yashica Electro 35 GSN 100 TMAX

 

A bit of info on Nothing Changes, this is a body shop in the Miami area that I have been going to since I was about 15 years old. One of my uncles is the owner of the business, him and is brother. They have been working at this location in Miami since the early 70’s. I find it interesting that the vehicle which takes up most of this image is about as old as the business. It feels like you are walking into a museum, at least for me it does. Nothing changes everything stays the same it is locked in a frame of my mind and of my camera. Without question soon there will be a change since they, the owners are both getting very old and there will be no one to replace them.

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