"Another gray and wet day. I was really looking forward to spring in this part of the world and photograph the life that flows through the streets under good weather conditions. On a day like this few people go out to enjoy a walk in the rain .

The humidity penetrated to the bone, but I couldn't take it anymore locked up working and editing photographs for hours to deliver the orders on time.

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I took my small camera, the umbrella, I wrapped myself enough and went out to breathe fresh air and capture the images that the rain was offering me. The gray days, lacking a color palette, also offer images that capture my attention. I shoot lonely streets worthy of a black and white according to the day. Low contrast bucolic scenes.

 

I get excited.

 

A short time ago, I had heard a photojournalist, now recognized for her long career but long forgotten, say that a photographer shoots with his/her heart. And a friend ended the sentence with "... and they point to the emotions."

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How difficult it is to frame in a little space all these emotions that a scene provokes in you and, sometimes, I wonder if I am really capable of reproducing that  reality on a flat surface. And that thought that I had read, long ago, by Escher "wonder is the salt of the earth" also came to mind.

 

And so, absorbed in my thoughts and emotions, I realized that my feet were on the edge of a puddle. When I looked down, I saw myself reflected in a mirror of water which  image is broken by the waves that the raindrops produce when they fall. And Escher came back to my mind with his work entitled "The Three Worlds." And I wanted, for a moment, to jump into one of those worlds in which my silhouette covered with an umbrella was outlined".