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Alicate Beach. Another one from the “Marbella Collection”. Marbella 2021.
Marbella is well known through the world as a luxury holiday destination in the “Costa del Sol” in the South of Spain. From 7 to 8 figures Villas, Ferrari, Porsche, RR, Hermés, Louis Vuitton and Rolex in gold with gold overload in option as well as paying 3,000 Euros/Dollars for a bottle of Möet & Chandon in a disco at night. Plenty of beautiful young and not so young girls available. You name it. Soon you start to ask yourself, as Henry-Cartier Bresson once did: “where the money came from”?
I’m not interested in that vision of Marbella. With my Leica I’m much more intrigued in how the authentic people from Marbella lives. And when we speak about living in Marbella we should observe how people behaves in the beaches. The true treasure of Marbella is neither on champagne nor in fine dresses. The jewel of Marbella is the sun itself. The authentic people from Marbella knows it perfectly well. They know people come and go and they know too the sun is the only thing that remains.
My “Marbella Collection” tries to gather the ambiance in the beach. I usually arrive with my Leica inside a discrete black bag. No space for more than an M body and a 50mm Summicron with a 10 stops neutral density filter. I take seat below my sun-umbrella everyday day and the Leica goes out the bag to see light. In less than five minutes I take three or four shots, no more. No need for being in a hurry. Everything is calm as are the tiny waves from the Alboran’s Sea. I take the pictures and then the Leica goes inside the black sand-proof bag. Next comes the solar protection cream and the sunbath. The Leica knows that she can rest until next morning.
Alicate Beach. Another one from the “Marbella Collection”. Marbella 2021.
Marbella is well known through the world as a luxury holiday destination in the “Costa del Sol” in the South of Spain. From 7 to 8 figures Villas, Ferrari, Porsche, RR, Hermés, Louis Vuitton and Rolex in gold with gold overload in option as well as paying 3,000 Euros/Dollars for a bottle of Möet & Chandon in a disco at night. Plenty of beautiful young and not so young girls available. You name it. Soon you start to ask yourself, as Henry-Cartier Bresson once did: “where the money came from”?
I’m not interested in that vision of Marbella. With my Leica I’m much more intrigued in how the authentic people from Marbella lives. And when we speak about living in Marbella we should observe how people behaves in the beaches. The true treasure of Marbella is neither on champagne nor in fine dresses. The jewel of Marbella is the sun itself. The authentic people from Marbella knows it perfectly well. They know people come and go and they know too the sun is the only thing that remains.
My “Marbella Collection” tries to gather the ambiance in the beach. I usually arrive with my Leica inside a discrete black bag. No space for more than an M body and a 50mm Summicron with a 10 stops neutral density filter. I take seat below my sun-umbrella everyday day and the Leica goes out the bag to see light. In less than five minutes I take three or four shots, no more. No need for being in a hurry. Everything is calm as are the tiny waves from the Alboran’s Sea. I take the pictures and then the Leica goes inside the black sand-proof bag. Next comes the solar protection cream and the sunbath. The Leica knows that she can rest until next morning.