MID-OCTOBER - (STREET PHOTOGRAPHY SERIES)

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It's already mid-October of this long 2026, a year filled with all sorts of unexpected events for all of us here in my country. But what doesn't seem to have changed much is the fog, which is becoming slower, denser, and more frequent on the streets during the mornings of this month. And today, wandering around my neighborhood before 7:00 AM, a flood of memories from my elementary and early high school years came flooding back. October was (and I think it still is) the month when classes resumed after the mid-year break, which usually started in the second half of July. I remember those years in the late 70s and early 80s when I was allowed to go to school alone, not holding my mother's hand or the hand of one of my aunts or older cousins. Back then, I liked to wake up earlier to leave the house much sooner and spend a little more time in the foggy streets. I think that ever since then there has been this kind of "visual love affair" between these streets and me, something that, as you can see, remains intact to this day...

Son ya mediados de octubre de esta largo 2026 repleto de eventualidades de distinta 铆ndole para todos nosotros aqu铆 en mi pa铆s. Pero lo que no parece haber cambiado demasiado, es la niebla haci茅ndose m谩s lenta, densa y frecuente en las calles, durante las ma帽anas de este mes... Y hoy deambulando por las cercan铆a de mi vecindario antes de las 7:00 AM, han venido a mi mente un mont贸n de recuerdos de mis a帽os de escuela y los primeros de la secundaria. Pues era en octubre (y creo que sigue siendo as铆) el mes cuando se reanudaban las clases despu茅s de las vacaciones de mitad de a帽o, las cuales usualmente comenzaban en la segunda mitad del mes de julio... Y recuerdos aquellos a帽os de finales de los 70 y comienzos de los 80, cuando se me permit铆a ir solo al colegio y no de la mano de mi madre o alguna de mis t铆as o primas mayores. Entonces me gustaba despertarme m谩s temprano para salir de casa mucho antes y poder permanecer un poco m谩s de tiempo en las calles repletas de neblina. Creo que desde entonces existe esta especie de "idilio visual" entre estas calles y yo, algo que como pueden ver, permanece intacto hasta estos d铆as...

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Sometimes I would get so distracted wandering around in the fog on my way to school that, even though I left home early, I would still arrive late to class. Then my teacher (I remember one named "Dora" with special fondness) would scold me, and I, with my eyelashes and eyebrows covered in dewdrops, would reply: "Please excuse me, 'Mae' (a loving nickname for teacher), but I got very distracted looking at the foggy streets." Then she would smile a little and say things like: "Oh, Jes煤s Armando, you seem like you're going to be a poet or a painter when you grow up, because you have such talent..." And I would smile at my teacher's words and reply: "No, teacher, I want to be a priest!" 馃榿 Because until I was twelve or thirteen, I was always telling everyone that my future was to be a priest... Nothing could be further from the truth, since I ended up studying systems engineering!... But that's how kids are, they make up these things and then change their minds... Although this love for foggy streets hasn't changed for me at 55 years old...

Algunas veces me distra铆a tanto deambulando en la niebla cundo iba a la escuela que, a煤n habiendo salido temprano de casa, igual llegaba a tarde a clases. Entonces mi maestra (recuerdo con especial cari帽o a una llamada "Dora") me reprend铆a y yo, con las pesta帽as y cejas repletas de gotas de roc铆o, le contestaba: Disc煤lpeme por favor "Mae" (un cari帽oso diminutivo de maestra) pero me distraje mucho mirando las calles con niebla. Entonces ella sonre铆a un poco y contestaba cosas como: Oh Jes煤s Armando, t煤 como que va a ser poeta o pintor cuando crezcas, porque tienes cada cosa... Y sonre铆a ante esas palabra de mi maestra y le contestaba: 隆No maestra, yo quiero es ser cura! 馃榿 porque hasta mis doce o 13 a帽os, me la viv铆a diciendo a todos que mi futuro era ser cura... 隆Nada m谩s lejano de lo sucedido en realidad, pues termin茅 estudiando ingenier铆a sistemas!... Pero as铆 son los ni帽os, inventan esas cosas y luego cambian... Aunque esto de amar las calles con neblina, s铆 que sigue sin cambiar en m铆 a mis 55 a帽os cumplidos...

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Thank you very much for your visit and appreciation!

隆Muchas gracias por pasar y apreciar!

ADDITIONAL TECHNICAL NOTE: Photographs captured with my Nikon D7000 DSLR camera in RAW format, then processed in Adobe Camera RAW for adjustments regarding light, sharpening, contrast and depth... They were then exported to JGP format on which minor modifications such as straightening and adding watermarks were carried out using PhotoScape v3.7

NOTA T脡CNICA ADICIONAL: Fotografias capturadas con mi c谩mara DSLR Nikon D7000 en formato RAW, procesadas posteriormente en Adobe Camera RAW para ajustes relativos a luz, afilado, contraste y profundidad... Luego fueron exportadas a formato JGP sobre el cual se llevaron a cabo modificaciones menores como enderezado y agregado de marcas de agua usando PhotoScape v3.7


"We make photographs to understand what our lives mean to ourselves." - Ralph Hattersley.

"Hacemos fotograf铆as para comprender lo que nuestras vidas significan para nosotros mismos." - Ralph Hattersley.

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Camera: Nikon D7000
Lens: Sigma 18-200mm f3.5-6.3 II DC OS HSM
Lens: Tokina ATX-PRO 100mm f/2.8 d MACRO
Lens: AF-S DX NIKKOR 55-300mm f/4.5-5.6G ED VR
Lens: AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G VR
Lens: Nikon AF Nikkor 50 mm f/1.8d FX
Lens:AF-S DX NIKKOR 35mm f/1.8G

C谩mara: Nikon D7000
Lente: Sigma 18-200mm f3.5-6.3 II DC OS HSM
Lente: Tokina ATX-PRO 100mm f/2.8 d MACRO
Lente: AF-S DX NIKKOR 55-300mm f/4.5-5.6G ED VR
Lente: AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G VR
Lente: Nikon AF Nikkor 50 mm f/1.8d FX
Lente: AF-S DX NIKKOR 35mm f/1.8G


Montalb谩n, Carabobo, Venezuela.

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