Anuar Patjane Floriuk Photographer

He was born in Mexico, in Tehuacán Puebla, and he is anthropologist and photographer. Anuar doesn't remember when he started to take photos, he says that he has always had a special affinition towards cameras.
He thinks that the creativity has no limits. He wants to show the creativity of the reality: the diffrent and real stories and emotions which we don't see, the creativity of the nature that escapes of our view. So in his photos he tries to catch up strong emotions and shocking situations that we usually don't see. Of course, that's just a part of his work, he tries to capture the beauty too, he has photos of a lot of landscapes for example.

"I believe the best thing we can do as photographers is to give the world the tools to create some meaning and help ourselves and others observe the different perspectives of what we usually take for granted." by Anuar Patjane Floriuk

As you can see, this one is not really colorful. By the way, Anuar's photographs are usually black and white.
This photo has won two important awards. It is striking, dramatic and unusual. Dramatic because it's spectacular, and unusual because it's rare to see a whale and a little whale surrounded by people and with this light. It is spontaneous, the photographer didn't plan it, and it is powerful: having a look at the image we can imagine the power of the whale. It makes me think about how small are we and about how vulnerable are we if we are alone in the nature.

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This is a simple picture, and it's simplicity makes it beautiful. It gives a calm feeling, this place is far away from everywhere, far away from the problems: the perfect example of a peaceful photograph. It is the calm before or after the storm, it gives me the same feeling.

The guitar and me

I started to play the guitar more than two years ago, when I was 13. I had a guitar tutorial book, and it interested me. We had an old guitar at home, so I tried to play. But I had to give up, it was too hard and I realized that  with only the book I could not learn.

But I am lucky: my mother has always paid special attention to what us, her sons, wanted and dreamed to do. She asked me if I wanted to do some guitar lessons to have a base. Of course, I said yes.

I started to go to private lessons every Saturday in my town, and I did it for two months. My teacher was a young man. He was really nice and friendly, but in the lessons I didn’t feel well at all, because when I was 13 I was quite shy. In those two months I learned the bases, some chords and a bit of guitar writing. The lessons were only one day a week, but I practiced all week long at home. I have to say that I found it a little boring and repetitive. Naturally, I could play the most basic things.

When I stopped to go to the lessons, I kept playing about only 3 times a week, it’s about one hour and a half per week. This is not enough if you want to learn to play. I searched some songs, but I could play only the more simple of them.

Slowly, I improved. I realized it when I played easily a song that at the beginning I found impossible to play. I found it easy! I was pretty surprised and happy. Was in that moment when I started to enjoy the guitar.

About five months later, I needed more lessons to jump into another step of my learning, so I went again with my guitar teacher, but this time I went 4 times only. In those four lessons I learned a lot, because I played every day at home and I was motivated.

After that, I kept playing a couple of months on my own, but then I stopped. I returned to play mid year later, and I stopped again… I repeated those intervals until the start of last summer. In this year, more or less, that I was playing and stopping playing I got better, but slowly.

Last summer I practiced a lot, and because of that I improved so much. The guitar started to be, and it still is, an addiction. Maybe you know “Tears in Heaven” by Eric Clapton, or “Let her go”, by Passenger. I learned both this summer, and more.

Nowadays, I love the guitar and it relaxes me. When I learn a new song, it makes me glad. If I think about my beginnings, I realize:“Yes, it’s real, it is me who is playing now!” This is moving. But the guitar brings me a problem, too: it fights with my homework, but the duty goes first, unfortunately for the guitar.

My New Year'sResolutions

The past year, 2015, has been a good year for me, a really good year. But actually in some aspects it hasn't been good. I am thinking in studies, for example, or my lazy dynamic, and more.

In 2016 I have to improve in a lot of things that I know they will make me feel better.

1. First of all, I will be more strict and stronger with my own decisions and promises. In my opinion, this is totally necessary if you want to go into the right way.
2. Another of my objectives is to become more comprensive with the others. I am comprensive with the others, but not eneough yet.
3. I will go more often to the mountains, into a forest or just in the Nature, lonely and share it with someone too.
4. I will learn to NOT WASTE TIME (if you don't understand it: I hate to waste time, and it happens to me too much often) .

Just four points. But If I am able to accomplish those four resolutions, I will be proud, and ready to jump up into 2017.

Daisy

She is Daisy (it's better avoid call her "it", she could find it offensive), one of my two cats. She (remember:  "she", not "it") isn't like a daisy, she doesn't look like a daisy, but this name is perfect for her. She is a really special cat, because of her personality. If you say her something that can offend her, like "You are ugly", she just goes away, but not before look badly to you, and if you have passed the line, it's better that you remain away of its claw range. But if you are nice and respectuous with her, she is the best cat you can have. She is pretty lovely!

And, of course, she is an interesting cat. I wish she can talk with me.

Is my dream possible?

My dream is work in scientifical research, specifically in physical or astrophysical research. I know this is so difficult, I need to work hard and have a good level to achieve it. There are many students who want to do this, so this adds competitiveness,  and that means more difficulty (for it isn't enough hard yet).

It’s laborious, but I think I can accomplish it, because I love it and I enjoy working on it. 

To achieve this dream, I have to work a lot and get good base studies, then I have to continue and enter at the university and keep doing the same (study, work hard, etc.), and after the four or five years doing this process, I would have done a degree. Then, beeing lucky, I will get a job.

Orphan

Trailer of the film

 

 

The plot: A pair (Kate and John) are waiting for their third child, but he dies when he is yet intro the body of Kate. Kate starts to have nightmares and problems, and the pair decide to adopt a child. When they go to the orphanage they meet a little, sweet and innocent girl, Esther. The pair adopt him, and the problems begin not far from here. Of course, Kate and John are the last ones to realize that Esther is not what she seems.
Why I don't like it: I don't like it. First, because I don't like the horror films, and then because The Orphan is a kind of horror movie that isn't frightening to me. Esther has a problem, but she is controllable, a person with a singular problem, but nothing supernatural, what really terrify me.

COMIC RELIEF

• What is the comic relief?
• Comic relief is the inclusion of a humorous character, scene, or witty dialogue in an otherwise serious work, often to relieve tension.

•  Why is it often used in horror films?
• Relieve the tension.
•  Do you remember laughing in horror films? Can you think of an example?
• No, but i haven't seen much horror films, I don't like them. In The Sleepy Hollow I laughed, but I am not sure to considerate it a horror film.

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