Gabriel Robledo Photography Blog

French Saddle Horse by Gabriel Robledo

I’m still with Punta Indio’s inspiration. I think that the excitement of uploading a photo more frequently than usual (two per week approximately) is due to how much I wanted to go out of the city and take photos of something new.

To be honest, sometimes is complicated to find time to upload an image to Flickr and then create the post in the blog. It seems easy but I put lots of work into these things and I also try to take a good care of all the details. Besides the time this blog and Flickr takes, I have to add some extra hours to process the photo if necessary and also selecting the best shot, something that’s not very easy.

For the one who takes the photos it’s always difficult, because when it’s time to pick a winner, you take into account elements that others don’t know, like the time you spend choosing the right angle, choosing the best composition to be as good as possible, etc. And after all, a photo without any preparation or planning, completely spontaneous, can be more attractive and better. That’s why is important that other people see our work and give their opinion selecting the best shot in a set. Sometimes “the photo” is obvious and is very easily selected.

It took a while to choose the Goat with Fringe photo candidate from the set. I had a few shots of this animal, from different angles and with the goat looking at different points. When I chose the winner to upload, I wasn’t 100% sure. It was after how well received the photo was on Flickr that I realized this was the best, definitely. Beyond comments or views/visits to the image, I now know that this is the best from the set of my friend the Goat with Fringe.

Going back to this post’s photo, it’s clearly a horse (let me know if the breed is not correct!). The photo was taken around 1 p.m. on Saturday 23rd of August in Punta Indio. We got to this side of the town to meet its beaches. On the horse’s photo you can’t see the beach and the sea, but it was just about two blocks away from there.

Punta Indio's Beach by Gabriel Robledo

Next to this horse there were some little shops where a family was selling some handicrafts. They had about two or three stands and they offered all kinds of jams and liquors. Once we got into a stand, the lady who owned the place told us about the history of this place, its inhabitants and famous peace, which they want to keep untouched at all, neither by lots of new inhabitants or tourism. She also told us that that they didn’t want to asphalt the main route to the town so access to this place wouldn’t be easy.

After a long and amusing chat with the lady, my girlfriend and I decided to buy her something. For me the choice was easy: dulce de leche (it’s a very common “jam” in Argentina, it’s like peanut butter but sweeter, more info here).

Shops in Punta Indio by Gabriel Robledo

I say goodbye breaking the line’s record in a post!

And finally I have created a new category containing all the posts from Punta Indio here.

Gabriel