Classic Cameras Friday! Asahi Pentax ME-F ~ 1981
No Place for hooligans!
Arabian Horses... without the Desert
Magic Place called Hope Hall Farm!
Hare Scramble Time... Teaser
One time is never good enough!
Bringing Film flavor to your digital workflow...
Seminole Faces
It's a Jeep Thing!
The wicked point of view of your super wide angle lens!
Back to Cars & Coffee...
Classics
Classic Cameras Friday! Olympus 35RC ~ 1970
... and a Happy Ending for the Sad Story!
... when Nature Calls!
Trying to score a Supermoon Field Goal
Going techy... tips for photographing the moon!
Classic Cameras Friday! Nikon Nikkormat FT - 1965
St. Petersburg FL, planning a return!
... at the Dali Museum for Art and Italian Superbikes
...just get it to the Green
... happiness not always prevail! 
...en la Bahia de Manzanillo!
Between rocks and trees.... time for Competition.Classic Cameras Friday! Topcon Auto 100 - 1964Welcome to the Dark Side...Using iPad for some bloggingClassic Cameras Friday! Revere Eye-Matic EE127 - 1959Walked the Red Carpet... At Mecum Auction, Kissimmee FLTime to Save my vacation time...From the last weekend, what a busy week uffff!, well, here is the last part of my weekend in Ocala, first stop of our tour (thanks to Karen for an amazing tour – Check FB Page here – ) this farm is called after his owner Hennessy Arabian Horses, a very nice place to spend the wekend for sure.
As part of the coverage of the SLKWorld meetup this time just horses, this beautiful animals took me away of the cars for a moment. Continue Reading
Past Saturday, after a short stop for some to do’s in the morning, traveled the the Ocala Area in Central Florida, was covering a meeting from riders of the SLKWorld.com Forum, after a few of talking we headed to the Horse Farms area, we stopped at two farms, the second one called Hope Hall Farm, I have to say, what a place, so peaceful yet full of great energy, hanoverian horses and great people, had a blast, look at this photo!
These amazing horses were in a demonstration when we arrived to the farm, the day was very hot, I was full geared, two cameras, in one the 70-200 VRII, but didn’t stop pressing the shutter, had a blast!!!, I did some flash portraits too with the cars, already sent to the guys from the SLKWorld Site. Continue Reading
Hope you super-enjoy your long Labor Day Weekend, well, I did something: like recharge my batteries, catch up with some photo work and digital darkroom and today a trip to Tarpon Springs, with my cousin’s family, after my last visit to Tarpon (check entry here), almost a year ago, I comeback to the Docks with a new eye.
The main purpose for this trip was to show my cousin a great greek community, my cousin’s wife love the place, we walked a lot, have to be fair with this, never visit that many places in the Sponge Docks like this time. Continue Reading
First of all Happy Monday 
, hehehe, classy day to suffer the weekend’s hangover, I have none, spent most of the days over Miami, working of course…
Well, couple of weeks ago I went to Reeves Motosports for some get together cars enthusiasts event, and thought, Why don’t use my super wide angle lens (Sigma 10-20mm f/4.5-5.6 HSM EX) just with my D700 FX camera? you know when you do this the FX sensor’s camera become a 6MP one, but hey, this is cool with me, love the results, take a look:
I don’t really care about the distortion, just another wicked point of view that make you see different, always love super wide angle lenses, next in my wish list is the AFS Nikkor 16mm Fish Eye lens, will post photos the moment I get them out of the camera. Continue Reading
..when nature calls, you answer, I have to say, what a wonderful weekend, Memorial Weekend. I spent the whole long weekend over Fisheating Creek Outpost, near to Okeechobee and Palmdale, a very good company from Miami, Juan Carlos Aguero (check his blog here), and Roberto Puertas ((FB Profile Here), now let me show you the map, and the amount of photos, thanks to LR 4 Map Module, I have to say, this time Adobe, you figured it out!!!!
Well have to say the weekend was perfect, hopefully no rain at all, now was very hot and soupy, the humidity was over the limits, but hey!, this is Florida, what are you waiting for…..
The Team, Juan Carlos and Roberto form Miami, myself from Tampa, very good team to embrace the weekend, take a look:
In this location the water level should around 4 feet, if you can see, there are not even a inch of it, so sad, we found the levels were sol low, that we have to camp one mile before our original destination, the Memorial Tree, this is so wrong usually you find this information over the Outpost website, but this time NONE, looks like somebody sip all the water. Continue Reading
Yesterday, hummm, what a day, a lot about this Supermoon, of course I don’t want to be alone at home watching Nat Geo Channel, so grabbed my gear and head out for photography. the Location, just a place close to home, over the neighbor city of St. Petersburg, when arriving to the place, just got amazed with the number of people were waiting for the Event!.
We waited for about 25 mins, and then the Moon, so majestic and red/orange over the horizon, I started shooting, the shootout lasted for around 2 hours, mosquitoes were killing me but after all, you just prevail there for a good photo.
I am very happy with this photo, the blue hour and the warm color of the Moon make the perfect combination, another point to mention, I did plan this shoot in advanced, deciding what location and knowing the time and azimuth where the moon going to rise. Continue Reading
One paragraph post!, just reminding myself I have to get back to St Pete for some photos!
Cesar Out!
Note: Photo taken with Nikon D300 using Sigma 70-200mm f/2.8 on Lexar Pro UDMA Digital Film
This past saturday, Euro Cycles of Tampa Bay unveiled another Italian Superbike, the Ducati Panigale 1199 S, great machine, named after the Panigale town near Bologna, they call it Motor Town.
Got over the Dali Museum before the event start, got a chance to take a bunch of photos before they cover the motorcycle:
Have to say, this time Ducati nailed, so phenomenal machine, what a piece of technology! Continue Reading
Being a little busy and away from writing, today want to share some photos from a beautiful city over Cuba called Manzanillo, this city is located over the east zone and has a nice Caribbean Sea view. 
Never been there before we spend a good day over together with my brother and sister in law. The city is very attractive, has to say it, for being a “inside” city is pretty good, for example in the city’s central park, this Glorieta is a mix of Arabic architecture with Spanish, is a very old city, around 140 year (check more information about the city over Wikipedia in this Link).
Well, this stop was after hours of driving from Santiago de Cuba, had been talking with my brother days before to stop for photos, meet the city and his church, we arrive around 11 AM, very good in time for lunch, then after a few hours of talking and talking, we hit the road, camera in hand, digital film and a big will for good photos.
A week ago I went to Hardrock Cycle Parck over Ocala, FL, Florida Trial Association had an event over and decide to covered it, together with Steve Loveridge spent a great day of competition.
Took my cousin with me, he never saw before this king of competition, so we had a great drive to the location, and found great people, this is Jeff from Buffalo, NY, Steve rival, very cool guy he is Noah dad, look at the photo in gallery below, running on GasGas a very hard opponent indeed.
When I was a kid, I did really enjoy the Star Wars movies, back in Cuba, with everything possible was out of reach, watching this movies was a blessing, the idea of Intergalactic Knights (Jedi) came over as a rocket hitting the target, Kaboom!!!!, with many hours of reading the legends of Richard The Lion Heart, Robin of Locksley, King Arthur and many others, the new saga and the science fiction characters were in our conversations after classes every day.
Now I understand you are there, reading this and asking: What is all about Jedi and Photography, well simple…. last Sunday went to Hardrock Cycle Park in Ocala,FL I was covering races from the Florida Trial Association, and guess what?… a group of HUMMERS were on the trail, showing their great off road capabilities.
Taking the lead was this amazing yet beautiful HUMVEE, a very well build diesel engine military grade truck, all in black like a Sith Lord telling the Apprentice what to do, and of course they were doing so, without hesitation.
What a day yesterday (Sat Jan 28, 2012)… after a painful one hour drive to Kissimmee FL, finally got to see the Mecum Auction in action!!!…
Covering this event was a real blessing, never saw before that many cars in my entire life, my Favorite 1967 GTO!, that’s a car!, I don’t know if I have to say more, but if you missed it, try to go next year is a very good experience.
Got my Media Pass through friend Drew (@Motozombie1), we were helping Motorama Guys (@BerryLowman) to cover the Auction, together with Mike form AtomicMotoX (@AtomicMotoX). After a few hours another group of friend join us and had a walk to the tents, hundred of cars, for sale, including boats, everything was in perfect harmony till the end of Sunday, when the auction move to another place.
The light inside was a little bit tricky, compensated white balance for tungsten, then shutting A, sometimes M, ISO at 800 trying to keep my shutter speed around 1/125s, aperture at f/4. After all this, of course I had to work the WB adjustments, the light was OK, but I think they setup that way for the TV cameras, either or I came back home with a nice repertoire, personalities including the Master Mind Dana Mecum and from Chasing Classic Cars Wayne Carini, photos in the gallery below.
Last weekend I was over Bushnell, FL covering the Dade Battlefield Reenactment for 2012, what a nice history class, knowing details of the live in the Peninsula back in the days was a bless. Never knew that the Seminole Tribe never signed a piece treaty with the White People, and the Word Seminole = Cimarrón, very good indeed!
Waited until 2PM to start shooting the actual battle, but first I did a walk around and grab some good photos of the participants, and see from Front Row how the old Floridians lived back in the 1800s.
During my shoot out over Sake Bomb Bike Show, had some time for some creative light, with the help of Mikey from LightenUpAndShoot.com, did a little strobist, nothing complicated, two lights through the difuser:
Very Happy with the results, this is a very short post, have a great night!
Cesar Out!
Note: Pictures taken with Nikon D700/AF-S 24-70mm f/2.8 ED, on Lexar Professional UDMA Digital Film, Phottix PPL-400 light setup.
Yesterday at Sake Bomb Bar in St. Pete together with Dime City Cycles, a super bike show with Cafe Racers and everything cool, pinups girls and many other amenities, went with friend Mikey from LightenUpAndShoot.com.
Classic Cameras Friday! Asahi Pentax ME-F ~ 1981No Place for hooligans!Arabian Horses... without the DesertMagic Place called Hope Hall Farm!Hare Scramble Time... TeaserOne time is never good enough!Bringing Film flavor to your digital workflow...Seminole FacesIt's a Jeep Thing!The wicked point of view of your super wide angle lens!Back to Cars & Coffee...ClassicsClassic Cameras Friday! Olympus 35RC ~ 1970... and a Happy Ending for the Sad Story!... when Nature Calls!Trying to score a Supermoon Field GoalGoing techy... tips for photographing the moon!Classic Cameras Friday! Nikon Nikkormat FT - 1965St. Petersburg FL, planning a return!... at the Dali Museum for Art and Italian Superbikes...just get it to the Green... happiness not always prevail! ...en la Bahia de Manzanillo!Between rocks and trees.... time for Competition.Classic Cameras Friday! Topcon Auto 100 - 1964Welcome to the Dark Side...Using iPad for some bloggingClassic Cameras Friday! Revere Eye-Matic EE127 - 1959Walked the Red Carpet... At Mecum Auction, Kissimmee FLTime to Save my vacation time...