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Here is a collection of photographs that I am fond of. No pretensions or anything, -'photoshopping' for example- (although I have to admit to a little fiddling around the edges, here and there) but it is stuff I like and so have hung on to, long lost in the memory of my computer.

Whilst preparing them I was reading an review of the new Nikon Z9, which spent a lot of time talking about 'sharpness' and 'focus' and I would like to add my grain of sand. It seems to me the primary object of a photograph is to be viewed. Depending on the media and size (assuming, of course, the original focus was good) it will look sharp - at least in one point - or not. Here you will see, on the one hand, pictures that hang on my wall at 50 x 60 cm size, and pictures ripped from 1970's extrachrome 35mm slides. By sizing I have tried to dissimulate the differences. After all is said and done, the picture speaks to you, or not. You are the judge.

A couple of things of interest: The above photo won a prize from CaixaBank, and there is one photograph here taken on my camera, but not by me. It was shot by a clown (de verdad) in Stuttgart, Germany in 1994.