a Brno girl 18 - Alena

Simplicity is the key for my photos, one source of light, one reflector and good chemistry (relationship) between the model and me. She is Alena, a beautiful student of tourism. Enjoy them.

a Brno girl 17 - Marketa

One of the most interesting girls I have met is Marketa. I contacted her first for my series Intimacy, She works in a local art gallery and therefore she is surrounded by artworks so I decided to make a  bit of art with her and her name:

Minuscule stars have fallen from the promised sky when
A confused slave dared to ignore your dark eyes.
Red roses in your empty bed, wait for your pale skin every night.
Koliada, goddess from slavic lands, known is your grace and
Ephemeral your power, rise and call your knights
Times are changing and You must reign with an armed hand
Again this ancient land of lonely men and blue dawns.

                                                        Carlos Lopez, October 2011

a girl - Leah

I found these photos today checking my archive. The photos where taken in the Caribbean island of Grand Turks, back in 2007 when I used to work in cruise ships. Her name is Leah, a pretty Canadian woman who used to work in a sales position  and caught my attention and of course I did not lose time to ask her if could help me in build my portfolio. She was very kind to accept and for my surprise she was a great model who need little direction.
Nevertheless, no more words and enjoy them. 

National Geographic 10 top photos!

If you wanted to know what goes behind the cameras and the edition process of the greatest world photographers working for the best magazine, National Geographic? Well this short documentary is a must.
Guided by editor Chris Johns, you will know the story of each of these ten photos and why they are so special. Enjoy.

a Brno girl 16 - Sabina

Dobry den, (good morning, in czech) my fellow readers. After a hard Monday to start a nice week here you have Sabina:

   

  

You can see more photos of her in my collection of women/models from Brno in my website.

A Brno girl 15 - Mischelle

This oportunity is for Mischelle, one of the few girls I photographed that like metal music as much as me. She was great and had something different as she is not the typical model. Look at them and tell me if you don't agree with me.

at the end the one chosen for my series of portraits Intimacy is this.

Extras 014 - A Brno girl - Juliette

For those who wanted to know what are these "extras", well, there are the photos that did not pass the edition process for my protect Intimacy and as well photos that I made for them so they can have something "nicer" to share or to show to whoever they want to and not only my "conceptual" or serious portraits of them.

Now, because that project is finishing but I will still continue photographing women with other thematic and include some commercial work I made sometimes for some locals models I will change the title to this section to "a Brno girl" so it will be not only the girls that modeled for my project but my clients too.

In this opportunity is a Slovak girl, Juliette, who study here in Brno. Small and brunette different from the standart Czech girls (blond and tall) she was very versatile and despite the language barrier (she did not speak English) we could make some interesting images.

Enjoy them.

 

a poem - Hero

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I was born to be a God,

to equal my creator in his goodness and anger.

It was written I would be praised,

that I could play with the fate of the man

but

I was cursed to be their savior.

**

I am not a God,

just a human hero,
murdered by them and honored later by the same.
I am
an old statue of stone,

forgotten and broken.

Father,  forgive their ignorance.

                                                           © Carlos Lopez, July 2011

 

Extras 012 - Mikaela

Hello, now is the turn for Mikaela, a very beautiful and brave student from Brno.

a poem - In your eyes is the universe I need to live

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Now that I have seen your smile

I know I have found you.

I know that in your eyes is the universe I need to live,

that I can on them imagine new worlds of wild fantasies

and create new words of surreal meanings.

I know that in your lips

I can feel the passion of a deadly kiss.

 

**

Every day

I dream I touch your hand

and feel how your hair

moved by the wind, caress my scarred face.

Every day

I dream we kiss in the forest

under the golden sunlight of a spring morning

and at night

I recite my humble poetry to you

while the moonlight shine on your pale naked skin.

***

I know ancient Gods have put you in my path, 

and is my fate to love you,

to make your soul smile

when your eyes cry.

                                                                           Carlos Lopez, June 2011

Brno Festival of Masks 2011

As a tradition in Brno every year it is held a masquerade party in the main square. This year was the last event of the "Theatre of the world" and the theme was Shakespeare so many of the characteres are indeed representations of his plays.

Enjoy the photos: