pictures

i am taking pictures.

dj: "you don't like the music?"

(it is a fantastic Donato set.)

me: "are you kidding? i LOVE this set. but, i was turned down when i cabeceo'ed Kemor8a. so now i have to sit out."

dj: "oh ok. but Mu$hui told me that you take pictures when you don't like the music."

me: "ha ha ha!"

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less than two years ago, i gathered enough courage to take pictures. i was, forever, not sure that i could capture the beauty that surrounded me. in any case, i began with my crappy cellphone camera, then to a super-slim camera (to sooth my mid-life crisis), finally to a used DSLR. i had no idea (nor do i know much more now) what i was doing. there were all these technical sounding words that made no sense (yes i know i am an engineer and if the stereotype applied then i should be able to understand all this stuff but i don't so i must be a weird kind of engineer). all i know is that i see people, i hear the music, i move with them, and i push the button.

my friends like the pictures i share on FB. their happiness gives me tremendous joy. often i don't know the reasons behind their impressions. i don't even try to understand. it is enough that they allow me the freedom to capture these memories, and that they like my albums. i didn't know it at the beginning. but, now i think that, completely by accident, i have created a chronicle of the tango life in my community. even as i type these words, i cannot help but be giddy.