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I just came back from a 12 day vacation on Toronto, Canada with lots of pictures.

I am uploading them gradually, you can follow the uploads in my Toronto set in flickr.

This weekend in a moment of inspiration Anna and I took a wonderful photo session.

This is one of my best works as a photographer and probably some of the best pictures featuring Anna, even though Anna’s pictures always looks good.

You can check the pictures at flickr by clicking on the pictures on this post.

Check all publihed pictures featuring her on my flickr.

Let me know what you think about the pictures!

These days, everyone and his brother are building blogs and sites and publishing photographies online. Publishing content, both graphic and writen is at reach of virtually anyone.

People now have better ways to show their work without the “patronage” of an employer. Even good ways to promote their work in order to get a first job in the first place.

If you compare with, say, 15 years ago, when news were printed and pictures appeared only in books and magazines you’ll see that today anyone can be a photographer, designer or a journalist-a-like. Not necessarily a good one, though.

In this article, I will give some hints for people that aspire to sucessful publish pictures online for a big audience.

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Submissions are open to JPG Magazine, I’ve submitted one picture on each theme.

Please check my pictures, and if you like it, I’ll be glad to receive votes.

My submissions:
Tourist theme
Intimate theme
Embrace the blur theme

Check also Anna’s submissions:
Tourist theme
Intimate theme
Embrace the blur theme

Have fun

A couple of weeks ago, Anna and I were in Buenos Aires and I took some pictures that look like a band cover art of us and Pablo, one of my Friends from Argentina.

I would like to know what name you would give to the band depicted. Also, I would like to know what kind of music do you think this band would play, in which language(s), etc.

Please leave your oppinions on comments here at this post on the blog, or on flickr, on any of the photos of the fictional band.

See pictures of the fictional band here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/guioconnor/tags/fictionalband/

We’ve been to Buenos Aires, Argentina last week for a vacation. The city is beautiful (though I knew the city and lived there for some years, I haven’t been there for 8 years), the food is great.I am putting pictures of the trip on my flickr account at http://www.flickr.com/photos/guioconnor/

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Have fun!

I am very much fond of rainy urban days and evenings [and even nights] which is rare to have at south east Brazil because of the tropical weather.

But this weekend we went to São Paulo to watch Franz Ferdinand and we stayed at Anna’s brother apartament.

Luiz’s apartament is located at Higienópolis, one of the nicest neighborhods in São Paulo and his apartament has a beautiful view to Mackenzie University and São Paulo’s skyline.

To complete the perfect urban scene eventually a light rain started to fall while we were waiting for the time to go. I’m so lucky I had my camera with me.

Unhappily, I didn’t wanted to take the risk of getting my camera to the concert.

What I find amazing in toy photography is how much you can express with characters that, ultimately, are not alive.

One of the things I like best in toy photography is that you can be sure that whatever you see it’s only in your mind. Well the Aesthetics is great too.

Saturday Anna and I went to Renato’s house for a Toy Hot Rod photography session.

Renato is a matchbox cars collector, and a very good one. Not only he has a few handreds of them, but they are also classified by style.

Renato is not quite a fan of driving himself, but he enjoyes cars aesthetics, so he says: “Why would I need an expensive collection of real cars, when the toys have the same look.” And With some help of pictures, he can really make a few millionaire collectors envy.

Funny as it sounds, in the verge to complete 30 years, I can say that saturday I went to my friend’s house to play with his matchbox cars.