Below you will find pages that utilize the taxonomy term “Sotero”
Preparing the Door
I don’t know how easy or hard it is to get a door frame in where all the pieces are at right angles to each other. The previous home owners failed at that and so the door could never close correctly. My father-in-law tried to fix it, but he shaved the wrong side. So when my parents and grandparents came, they decided to fix the door. And that’s a great thing because I’d always thought it’d just be something that would take an hour or 2. No, this door took an entire workday’s worth of hours to get to a point where it would correctly fit in this not-quite-rectangular frame that the previous home owners had put up. But thanks to my grandfather and father’s hard work, we now have a door that properly closes and can be locked.
Yashica A (Developed July 2016) Part 3: Dan and Katie Events
This is a short series I’m going to run here on the blog featuring photos from my most recently developed roll of medium format 120 film taken with my Yashica A twin reflex lens camera. I’m grouping photos together by subject.
Between the last post and this one is one photo that didn’t turn out. I’d taken a photo in the woods during my Nude in Nature photo shoot that, unfortunately, was severely underexposed. For a year the camera sat untouched. I wasn’t sure what I wanted to shoot. There isn’t as big a street photography scene here as there is in NYC. Because I had ISO 160 film in the camera, I couldn’t use it for indoor shots. So what to do? Well, I started talking photography with one of Katie’s aunts and so I decided to bring the Yashica to Dan and Katie’s Engagement Brunch. And, who better to take a photo of than my grandfather. He’d probably been photographed with 120 film when he was young. It’s not a technically great photo what with the leaf shadows. But I like it. Still, this is what shooting film helps you remember - you need to look at all the detail before you shoot. You don’t get a redo by the time you have the film developed.
Some Photos from Dan's Engagement Party
Well, everyone’s growing up. Dan’s the last to get married (the youngest three siblings don’t count because there’s too big a gap). Here are some photos from his engagement party.
Multi-Generational Photos
Ever since Sam was born, I’ve been looking forward to a 4 generation male portrait. I’d done a female line portrait with Scarlett up to her great-grandmother. It was finally time to do the same for me. While we were out there and dressed up, we took a few other configurations of family photos. All the males are wearing guayaberas, a traditional shirt worn in the Caribbean, especially in Cuba.
A Trip to Washington with my Grandparents
They’d never been to DC before so we went to the usual tourist spots. Also there - my parents, daughter, and youngest brothers.
My Grandfather's 70th Birthday Party
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After our mini-vacation to Naples, we went to Hialeah, Fl for my grandfather’s 70th birthday party. I wrote in May about wanting to capture photos of my grandfather at his birthday party. I was definitely able to do that.
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A pretty short post: Family and Distance
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It really sucks that I’m so far from my family. My sole living grandfather, pictured here, is turning 70 this year. Although I’ve always been closer to my mom’s family - I really, really love my grandfather. His humor, which was passed on to my father and which I hope to pass on to my son(s), has always cracked me up. In different circumstances I think he would have liked all the same comedies I do.