Aldo Rios' Blog & Photography

Recurrence

aldorios — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 07:15:02 +0000

Same places, different people… but still walking this place over and over again gives me a lot of peace…

families, couples…

just good times…

just a reminder that we all can get along…

kids… we all should be like them…

getting along…

thoughtfulness

shadow play… and thinking of you

contemplation…

chit chat…

I certainly love this corner!

sibilings

I’m lazy to translate… but they won’t sell solvents or glue to kids… did I just translated that?… I guess I did…

no clients yet…

Floun…

Squirrel!!… did anyone watched Up??… If you did you’ll get it

a beautiful day at the zoo…

with a beautiful companion that keeps hiding every time I lift my analog camera trying to take a photo of her… but I still love her so much!

seals watching humans…

just a blurry owl…

have you noticed that this post has totaly random photos?…

did I told you that I love people walking next to doors?… you’ll notice it in a bit…

see?!

tres amigos…

again…

and again!… Chingaderitas, if I knew how to translate that word I would but I can’t find the right word for it…

Not sure if… (okay, now I’m starting to talk in memes!! too much 9gag for me…)

waiting for lunch while my mother was in the health center for a sprained finger… shit happens…

Emiliano y Pancho!

good boy…

I would be eating all that instead of texting!

mexican curios

silhouette

couples…

…and families…

and children playing… back where we started…

just a succesion of random events…

and the lab fuckin up my film…

cheers y’all!

A series of random moments

aldorios — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 08:02:04 +0000

Some photos in this post are from quite long ago, some others are from not so long ago, that makes this post a little random in subject, but still I hope you enjoy it. The Holga keeps rockin’!

Gay parade…

Not so tough gay guy.

Avatar… nice try!

Lots of colours

even more colours…

I guess this is the first architecture shot I’ve done in a long time!

Brokeback mountain cowboy?

nice evening with friends, beers and jazz music!

Alexis…

Erwin…

totally random shot…

recording some stuff…

Floun… and for some reason I love this photo.

I was reading some stuff about photos being classic without the need of being sharp… I dunno but I like this photo even if it’s totally blurred out.

Hanna… piece of cake!

Couldn’t be happier!! Luvin’ her so much! though she doesn’t like this photo…

cheers y’all!

Deja Vu

aldorios — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 08:30:36 +0000

I like photos of the same places but at different times, it’s like documenting the time over a little piece of the earth, I’ve done this a couple of times and well… its cool actually… like this in ’06 and this back in ’07… did someone moved that bench? and what about those cranes?… I remember takin this photo while on a World Press Photo exhibition…

same place, Norman Foster exhibition, a couple of years after…

same place but different angle…

yes, I did a shot like this one too years ago… same place…

no, this shot is completely new, I don’t see the point in taking a photo of your son in a fountain… anyway…

I guess this photo would’ve turned out better if it was totally vertical, but well, sometimes you don’t have the time to perfectly compose your photos, specially not in street…

at the Norman Foster exhibition… a scale model from the Reichstag…

another scale model but from Beijing’s airport…

at the museum where the exhibition was held… just walking around and observing…

I really don’t know if that thing is comfortable.

Something that gets me mad, kids “working” in the streets… my father had to go through that too when he was young…

contrast… kids working for money to bring home… one block away, people throwing away money buying latest fashion stuff, plain luxury, just to gain some social status…

Nuns… they always get me in a good mood…

I think they noticed me… nah!…

drinks and snacks…

Tlaquepaque… nice place to just walk around, have lunch, go shopping…

uncomfortable couple moment…

Ajijic… every time I go there to visit my grandparents I go take a walk… just the best thing you could do there…

My cute little nephew Paula!!

Isn’t she beautiful??

by the lake…

nice place to enjoy some Coronas!

it was my father’s birthday so we went get some breakfast, take a walk and just chill a little bit…

taking a nap in public makes you an easy target…

Paula and my dad…

fishing lessons…

again… kids working… it sucks and gets me mad!

…

ahhhh love love love… I have to admit that is a cool place to hang out with your significant other…

dam… leap forward to christmas time… my cousin Israel and his french gf Marine… this is at the top of the Cerro del Cubilete which is said to be just in the middle of all Mexico…

my sister and my brother taking photos… my brother just bought an E-P1 and he seems to enjoy the ease of use the camera brings…

Montse, my little cousin with Marine’s dog… she’s super sweet, always smiling and that stuff…

nice hat and cool camera…

Israel and Marine again… he was so curious about the AE-1P, not that you see those cameras these days…

the view from the top of the mountain…

the remains of the farmer’s market…

learning to play a song…

arriving?… again… same place as this photo…

waiting for something maybe…

dunno… maybe an Elliott Erwitt tribute? I love his work with dogs…

more dogs…

very friendly ones actually!

good ol’ cowboy…

coffee…

…

just sneaking through open windows…

cute, isn’t he?…

I think this was the first real post in a while… good lord, the space between some shots on these rolls might be months! I need to take out that camera more often!… I still have some shots from the Holga I’ll be posting soon. So keep an eye for them!

Cheers!

You were a child, crawling on your knees toward it…

aldorios — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 03:52:08 +0000

geez!! my last post was on July 24th… damn it! I need to post a little more, I’ve been more active with the other blog, but kind of different stuff from this one. Doesn’t mean I’m not taking photos!… okay, actually I haven’t been taking that much photos as I would like to, I’ve been more busy finding a path in my life… dunno…

anyway, today was Janet’s birthday, she’s the little sister of my friend Maf. I always like to take photos of little kids having fun… yeah, kids are awesome!… when they are cool of course, you know…

mhhh… I remember when my friend told me her little sister was born… now she’s 3 years old…

all her little friends at the kindergarten

sneaking ti get child’s reaction

Janet again

girl in blue sweater… just take a look at her through this photos!

just one more!

okay, hilarious!

finally cake!!

they always smile!

okay… not always, she was a little bit shy, but nice… she liked the cake!

you gotta love the kid in the left!!

presents!!

granny… cool granny actually!

congrats to Janet!

new Barbie by the way…

I really need some fast lens!!…

mmmm… I’m not gonna promise I’ll be posting soon… don’t wanna lie…

cheers!!

Moor Tale

aldorios — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 03:16:30 +0000

I just made this slide show today, it’s from a lot of photos I took on a holiday in Andalusia back in 2006 during the holy week. I edited these photos in Aperture 2 with the trial version but never could export them because I never registered the software… dumb me! Anyway, iMovie let me use those photos so finally they’ll see the light!

When I first heard La Llorona by Beirut it reminded me a lot the songs that I heard on this processions, they were some of the most heaviest songs I’ve ever heard!! It was just so overwhelming. If you ever have the chance to attend one of this processions, do it!

I don’t take good photos, I’ve just been to beautiful places…

aldorios — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 05:45:13 +0000

The other day I was scanning a lot of negatives from photos I took with the Rolleiflex 4 years ago… I don’t know why it took me so long! At that time I got three frames printed for a gift I made for a friend (though it never reached its recipient) and those photos looked great, I love the square frame, it’s very symmetrical (obviously, duh!), compositions are nice and well, it’s a beautiful camera!! Well, I could finally take a look carefully at the images I took with this camera and it definitely has something magical, and obviously the places where I took this photos are magical too! If you haven’t been to this places, well, let me tell you that you oughta go before you leave this world!

Four years have passed since then and I really feel it was few months ago, but still I want so much to go back to this places. These are big memories of great days!

The Alhambra was a dream come true for me, and I have said that many many times, but I really love this place! I felt like I belong there…

I’ve seen this images in books before… but nothing like being there…

So much detail in everything… I can’t even think about how all this was made…

mmmm… I have some sort of fetish for doors… I think it’s my father’s fault…

… it seems like an amazing place to sit and read a book…

uhmmm… no, I don’t have a window fetish… bit the symmetry is amazing…

If my mind is not playing tricks on me this is in Malaga’s Gibralfaro… damn! Malaga is just beautiful, I think 75% of the population are women!! Of course I wanna go back there!…

I remember one night I was hanging out with some girl friends then suddenly they all disappeared… yeah, Antonio Banderas was hanging around and they saw him… sure, big deal!

…texture…

You can easily find this kind of design in modern architecture… how some things prevail…

SYMMETRY #FTW

I love how this big blocks emerge in the scenery…

looking up…

Doors, windows… whatever! they look cool with all that ornamentation…

Walking through this narrow alleys in Cordoba was amazing… getting lost and just enjoying… ahhh…

Sevilla…

The cathedral is amazing… gothic architecture…

The Giralda… the landlord of the place I was staying at in Madrid told me that a man once went up in a motorcycle… there are no stairs inside, just ramps…

The Alcazar… the most beautiful gardens you could ever been to…

Inside the Alcazar…

Next time I’ll use a level… I swear…

These people were geometry masters and stunning craftsmen!

Sorry, I can’t avoid it!! Door fetish!

The Giralda at night…

Barcelona was another city I was so eager to visit… Gaudi’s architecture is totally out of this world, he saw things differently, I’m sure of that! The shapes he conceived are totally shocking, he cared for details as much as he did for overall design and he had one big and true love… architecture… nothing else!

The Sagrada Familia… well… nothing, absolutely nothing compares to it!!

…still in construction…

damn! dirty scans!

FYI this is also a door!

The temple has two main facades, each dedicated to a theme, one to the birth and other to the passion of Christ… guess which one is this…

Casa Batlló…

…all comes from nature…

Casa Milà…

a.k.a. La Pedrera

mmmhh… awful scanning…

nothing has the same shape… details…

Some rooms inside the building are decorated according to the time when it was first used…

Parc Güell…

Modern architecture in Barcelona is also amazing!

Forum Building by Herzog & de Meuron…

I did this shot in digital as well… dunno which I like better…

hanging around Parque Diagonal Mar…

you could see this cranes all around the city…

Dali’s Museum in Figueres… just watch this, I can’t say more about the man…

The Barcelona Pavillion by Mies van der Rohe… enough with saturation… minimalism is also amazing! more than beautiful!

Switch to slide film…

Less is More… some people just don’t get that!

damn!… someone please remind me the name of this building!!

okay… not minimalism… but amazing!! Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao…

I swear this is the original image with absolutely no photoshop… Velvia 50… I doubt there’s another kind of film with such saturation!

This photo is so different from the rest in this blog… but when I saw this man I knew I had to take a photo of him! I asked and it didn’t seem he liked the idea… but I like how the photo turned out…

…geez!!… I’ll never leave that amount of film without being scanned! anyway… this brought a lot of memories, beautiful memories!!

cheers

Sacred Family Tree

aldorios — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 05:46:28 +0000

I took this photo back in April 2006, a few days after my granddad passed away and it will always remind me of him. The Sagrada Familia church and the leafless tree superimposed give it some kind of meaning, you know, my grandfather wasn’t in this world anymore but he is in a better place now.

I always admired him, his parents died when he was just around 14 (his father was shot from behind), being the oldest of all his brothers and sisters he got them land they could work on growing corn, he worked on coal mines, then he went to Guadalajara where he started selling bread at the central bus station, he worked very hard for my father and his brothers and sisters, if any of them needed an extra thing he would work even harder.

In his late days he couldn’t remember things from 20 years until then, but he could tell you a lot of stories from his days as a young man, he could exactly tell you the sound the coal made when it broke in the fire, I can remember him playing the harp and singing those old songs and my father beside him singing along with a big smile, I remember when he shed tears in a museum about the Mexican Revolution. When my sister send me and e-mail telling me he passed away my heart broke, it was different… it was like he could live forever, he was invincible, I know it sounds stupid but he was a man so strong that lived through lots of hard things in his life… and 95 years later he left this world… I also did this the day I knew about it… rest in peace granddad!

Make a sound…

aldorios — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 07:20:59 +0000

…if you agree to be my company… mhhh… yeah, I like to sing at the beginning of my posts, I just don’t know how to give them a title, and songs like this one are cool… go check out Colour, they added me on myspace a long time ago and the first time I listened to them I was left jaw left wide open… unfortunately they disbanded lie a year ago or something, that made me so sad… anyway…

I’ve been posting a lot of stuff with the Holga and digital, and the AE-1P was a little left behind but I’ve been taking it with me lately… it’s just a beautiful camera, it has been with me since I can remember…

I shot colour this time… something like Kodak Gold 400, super cheap film but well… it’s okay if you can’t get anything better right? I just hate the fact that I have this cheap scanner which works awful with colour film…

He’s Mario a.k.a. “Pelon” he plays the drums with Yucatan a go go, funny shit…

Johnny and Mario, both drummers… musician’s best friends (stupid joke, I know)…

Sammy and Mally… best friends…

It was a nice day for a walk in the park… holy week times so everyone thought the same…

you know, just the average kissing couple…

Mally fell in love with this dog… awesome buddy actually!

…he was just all around finding new friends…

This old man was just sitting there on his own listening music and watching people pass by… dunno… a beautiful scene…

more couples…

nice day for a picnic too…

more cliché scenes from a beautiful day in the park…

There were no playgrounds like these in my childhood! that thing looks like lots of fun!

Mally seemed a little bit envious…

taking dogs for a walk… you know… more average stuff I don’t do…

Johnny… we were heading to Zihuatanejo…

I want candy!! … sorry… I have to do it… enjoy it!

Hot dogs, Hamburgers and Tacos… the average late night stuff…

Drug stores… they are always so colorful and look so cool at night

Mally tweeting… she just doesn’t get it yet… dunno why!!

I went to Jalisco just to get away and disconnect from everything… it felt so nice…

this is my father at Mazamitla… a little town in the middle of the forest…

my grandparents…

You know I have this fetish thing for religious stuff…

Already in Ajijic in my parents’ little bungalow… they rent it for retired people who come from the States, Canada or even Europe to spend winter in here… some of them stay there all year long…

My mother and Grandmother on Mother’s day…

Horse riding in Ajijic… it’s been a long time since the last time I did it…

These new generations seem to be one with technology!!… ha!

Some random street stuff…

chatting on the street…

there must have been something interesting inside…

this street leads to the lakeside…

looking inside places…

maybe the grandson of a retired american couple… who knows!

Chapala Lakeside…

…plus…

…equals…

…she just lift that fish up and turn up to me… instant click on the shutter…

Girls…

…and Boys…

3 points for him…

General view of the lake side…

…after playing basketball he just sit there, some water, shadow and rest…

back in the streets…

can you see the Virgin Mary images??… sooo cool!

… not a beggar… just sitting there…

yeah, I have a thing for alleys too…

Next day went to the farmer’s market…

if there’s no clients what better to do than read the newspaper?

or take a nap…

maybe it’s better just to wait…

selling time??…

traditional music it’s an important piece in these kind of markets…

this is in Guadalajara… went to have dinner with my aunt and cousin…

getting the table ready… some pasta, wine and salad!…

My brother and Paula, my cousins daughter… she used to be afraid of cameras… now she seems to love them!

Back to Mexico City on the way to the lab…

they liked that dress I guess…

an important part of all our lives… texting!!…

…and waiting…

God!… I don’t know why it took me so long to do this post… the photos were ready since more than a week ago… guess I’m not in the mood… could you tell it??… anyway… I’m glad I had the chance to go out and shoot this much… more than I’ve done in a while!!… I’ll go and shoot more now that I have the time…

whatever… it’s hot, I need a glass of cold water!… later lads!

The boy with the thorn in his side…

aldorios — Mon, 17 May 2010 00:01:43 +0000

…behind the hatred there lies a plundering desire for love… God, I love The Smiths!!… yeah… random post title… anyway, I just got some film developed from the Holga and some more film from the AE-1P will be ready soon. I just returned from Ajijic, a little town near Guadalajara, there you can find a lot of retired people from the US, Canada and Europe making their new lives in the lakeside with an amazing wather. I was there for a little less than a week and it was a nice big breath of fresh air, street shooting, pool swimming, great food… ahhh… just nice!

I forgot about the Holga for a little time, I was using digital for the immediacy it gives you… but I’m back now with film…

Ivan a.k.a a selfish little whore! That day we went to Tepito (really, you don’t wanna go there) and then to Malafama at the Condesa Neighborhood… so we went from one of the worst and most dangerous neighborhoods to the hippest in the city… cool!

Some beers and cheese at Malafama…

Devo… maybe tweeting from his BB…

Devo and Ivan walking…

Cotton candy… yummy!…

this is a well known landmark in the north of the city…

Folken at some party with…

Audrey… she just dyed her hair for a nice change…

and I didn’t did this for a change exactly…

I had to shave for my Diploma photo….

I haven’t shaved in 10 years maybe!! It felt really weird but now I have my beard back…

Street shooting with the holga is nice… it’s an extremely quiet camera!! so you can get really close without getting noticed… poor man’s Leica!

Jus walking around…

Days later Katja celebrated her B-day… it was a long time ago since the last time I saw her…

Left to Right: Katia and Katja (Yes, same name, different spelling) both amazing girls!

Someone, I don’t remember her name (sorry!) and Katia…

Ceci and Ana, more amazing girls!

Katja and some of her friends… dunno who they are…

Some more street shooting…

outside a school…

on the bus on my way to the lab…

…and then dropped the rolls on the lab…

Maybe next week I’ll upload shots from the AE-1P… I think I got a couple of nice frames…

oh yeah… sad news today, Ronnie James Dio passed away today in the morning. I’m not a big fan, but he was indeed an amazing vocalist and an important piece in Metal music, I once heard an interview with him and he was an amazingly intelligent and down to earth person. Here’s my personal favourite

Another creature that passed away in these days was Phoebe, Johnny’s beloved dog, she was lovely! We’re gonna miss you Phoebs…

so yeah… Rest in peace Ronnie and Phoebe…

that’s it for now guys… until then! cheers…

Into the night

aldorios — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 02:29:38 +0000

There’s something in the lights that survive the night that appeals to me so much…

soothing…