Category Archives: Snapshots

Film Look in a Digital World.

Posted on August 7, 2012 by Nestor Ruiz

Since the invention of photography we had been able to view and appreciate the images on paper. This process was the combination of a negative film converted into positive medium (paper). I learned to work on a dark room and… Continue reading ⟩⟩

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Valeria, our sweet Quinceañera.

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Nestor Ruiz

We’ve been very busy this past few weeks, a lot of weddings, images to edit and wedding books to design, but on sunday February 26 we took a time off to photograph a beautiful Quinceañera, niece of the mother… Continue reading ⟩⟩

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Back to film…

Posted on November 8, 2011 by Nestor Ruiz

I thought that I never was going to shoot film again. The digital age had been a fierce storm of gadgets and camera equipment getting better every time. Recently I read a newspaper article about the magic of photography, the… Continue reading ⟩⟩

Posted in B & W, Film camera, History, Hobby, Slide Film, Snapshots, Weddings | Tagged Black & White, Canon, Canonet QL 17, color saturation, feelings, Film Camera, Slide Film, snapshots, Street Photography, Weddings | 2 Comments

Garita del Diablo (Devil sentinel point)

Posted on August 26, 2011 by Nestor Ruiz

Everyone who visited Puerto Rico or know about Puerto Rico, had seen this enigmatic emblem left here by our Spanish ancestors. We have 3 forts that have this points, El Morro, San Cristobal and other one that the name escape… Continue reading ⟩⟩

Posted in blog, El Morro, Garita, History, Nature, Puerto Rico, Snapshots, Street, Vacations | Tagged color saturation, El Morro, garita, Landscapes, Nikon, Slide Film, snapshots, spanish, Street Photography, Vacations & travel | Leave a comment

Mi Abuela (my grandmother).

Posted on July 6, 2011 by Nestor Ruiz

I do make a living on the wedding photography industry, but for me photography is a way to express myself, vision, art, joy, passion and other things. I do other kind of photography, that is for myself, the one that… Continue reading ⟩⟩

Posted in B & W, Black & White, Family, grandmother, Love, Snapshots | Tagged Black & White, family, feelings, joy, life, love, sadness, snapshots | 4 Comments

Hacienda Siesta Alegre.

Posted on June 18, 2011 by Nestor Ruiz

Recently I visited Hacienda Siesta Alegre in Rio Grande to do some scouting of the location, before to do a wedding event that is going to take place there in January. Miriam and Israel (bride and groom) were very excited… Continue reading ⟩⟩

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Rain Drops…

Posted on May 13, 2011 by Nestor Ruiz

Since we got rain today, I found this pic in my archives, the image was took with a Minolta Dimage A1 Digital Camera. This camera was one of my first digital, since I was a Minolta shooter back in the… Continue reading ⟩⟩

Posted in Hobby, Macro, Minolta, Nature, Snapshots | Tagged color saturation, macro, Minolta, nature, snapshots, water drops | 1 Comment

Caliente Cab NYC

Posted on April 20, 2011 by Nestor Ruiz

This is a place that I encounter in a various blogs around the web. The most recent was in a blog that was talking about the french fries that are made on the corner of where I took the image,… Continue reading ⟩⟩

Posted in FotoMoto, Prints, Slide Film, Snapshots, Street, Vacations | Tagged 7th AVE, Alienskin Exposure 3, color saturation, filter, life, New York, Slide Film, Street Photography, Vacations & travel | Leave a comment

Wine & Romance at the beach…

Posted on April 15, 2011 by Nestor Ruiz

Great company, good wine and romance…..

Posted in Couples, Nature, Snapshots | Tagged Black & White, couples, feelings, nature, Slide Film, Vacations & travel | Leave a comment

Marlene & David

Posted on March 31, 2011 by Nestor Ruiz

What a couple. Marlene & David are getting married this summer. She wanted to have an engagement session on the beach. We went to Costa Caribe Golf Resort, this is the same place where they’re going to get married. We… Continue reading ⟩⟩

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Elizabeth & Robert and Diana & Javier.

Posted on February 6, 2011 by Nestor Ruiz

We ended the 2010 working and started the 2011 same as well. Elizabeth & Robert decided for a small wedding as Diana & Javier. Both were very distant from each other. One took place in Ponce and the other took… Continue reading ⟩⟩

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Playing some hoop!!!

Posted on July 22, 2010 by Nestor Ruiz

One day I was waiting in a parking lot near a basketball court, there was this lonely kid throwing some ball, ALONE. That is one of the problems of our island, there are many places to play some hoop, but… Continue reading ⟩⟩

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