Hi there!
Geez, it has been some time since I last showed up on the blog. In fact, I have been unconnected for a month from all social media, sites,internet and my blog. Contrary to what you might believe, this apparent “lack of movement” in fact is due to the biggest peak of activity I have had in my business in the last years, in terms of projects I am working on. New ebooks, new photo trips, new workshops, new blog, new website, new communication tools, and most of all, a whole range of new photographs are in the pipeline from my last travels in Norway, Finland and Scotland. I am already counting the days till all that is going to be released, so stay tuned since more news will be coming soon progressively…
Otherwise, I am very glad to let you know I have become regular columnist in the electronic version of the Spanish Photography magazine “Arte Fotográfico“. This electronic magazine, which is distributed for free every 4 months, is the sister publication of the printed magazine with the same name. Arte Fotográfico is the oldest and one of the most acknowledged publications in Spain devoted to Photography, in all its sorts and fields but mainly focused on artistic and professional photography. Every 4 months, I will be the author of one of its sections, called “Luz Natural” (Natural light), where one of my photographs and the story which lies behind will be unveiled.
You can find here the last number of the magazine. On this issue, one of the new photographs which will be released in the new website soon…offered by the Gods of Valhalla.
Spanish only!
Take care you all and great light to you! ;-)
Rafael Rojas secondary blog 
Well I understood the bits that looked like Italian. But I liked the photo. You don’t see too many people turn their aurora shots black and white – a striking image.
Hi KK :) Well, I guess from your immersions in the italian and french lands Spanish might become easier to you every time ;-)!
Yes, I know auroras in B&W are not very conventional…but to tell you the truth, I never liked that green of them!
Therefore, there is something I have always tried to avoid with the aurora images…to create wow images where just the phenomenon is providing the whole impact of it. Very often, it is easy to photograph a striking subject or light phenomenon, or simply just something that the camera shows that we cannot see and allow it alone to “make” the photograph… But I always think that if the concept, composition and the mystery is lacking, the photographer has failed. For this photograph, getting rid of the color in this aurora highlighted what I was looking for: the pure graphics of its pattern and most of all the visual relationship between the mountains and the northern lights. I saw them like northern Smoke from northern granite volcanos…with the connection between the main “limbs” of aurora with the mountain peaks, or like the spirits of the Valhalla trying to reach out their limbs towards the land. Seconds before an incredible show took place above me and in another direction, but the trick was to have this composition set, waiting for the northern lights to enter the scene. Kind of wildlife photography applied to the landscape! Sometimes it works, sometimes not. But chasing the auroras around is the best recipe to come home with tens of images where, in the end, we will “only” have a photograph of the northern lights?
Take care and great light to you KK! ;-)
rafa
Congrats on all your achievements so far, Rafa! More is on the way, I’m sure. Can’t wait to see the new website and images. This one is magical!
Thanks so much Dorin! :) It is coming, it is coming…how many hours have I been chained to the computer already?? hmmm…2’000 and counting…:) I can tell you that a nice series of Lofoten photographs in black and white is coming in the new website! ;-) More in 3 weeks!
Felicidades Rafael,
Estaré atento a esas historias que hay detrás de cada foto y que generalmente son lo mejor de ella.
Hola Daniel! Cierto es que en ocasiones resulta muy interesante conocer de la mano del fotógrafo sus pensamientos y motivaciones a la hora de realizar una imagen. Es lo que me doy cuenta me gusta bastante hacer…diseccionar no el cómo, sino el porqué, de algunas de mis mejores fotografías. Como verás en la nueva página web y en esos e-books que verán la luz en muy poco tiempo, existe una buena simbiosis entre imagen y palabra…siempre que una no eclipse a la otra!
Un saludo y un placer verte por aquí!