My camera, my favorite piece of technology.

¡Hello everyone!

Today I'm going to talk to you about my favorite technological element, the one I love: My camera.

Me with my camera, took by a friend.

Photography has been one of my favorites hobbies since always. My love for it began when I recived my first camera at 14. In that time, I had one of those compact cameras -the classic little one that take digital photos- and take a lot of pictures of my school classmates. Always in a funny way, never seriously.

But that changed when I turn 21. That year, in my birthday, my parents (knowing my love for take pictures) bought me as a gift, a camera Canon and it was much more big than I was used to. Is a reflex semi-professional type and it's called reflex because it reflex the reality "imitating the human eye function", reason why in this camera you can also change the lents, is really cool. 

But! Let me tell you as an advice, the clue with this type of cameras is always used it in manual mode, because, even when there is a automatic way to use, you really learn to used it when control it by yourself.

The thing is that the same year when I started to use my new camera, I sign up in a photography course just to try... and that is when I find out a new way to look photography, not so much as a way to have fun and "take pictures just because", but a way of expression...

Someone says once that "it doesn't matter how good is your camera, if the photos you take did not express an idea or your heart, are worthless" (or something like that)

Since then, I'm constantly using it in a lot of events, whit my friends, my family (in fact, my family refers to me as the official photographer of he family haha), in journalism events for my career or when I just want to distract myself.

I learned to have a special connection with natural landscapes photos. It helped me to appreciate the beauty of nature in a more profound way and I believe that is a marvelous thing, cause, I found out that the most minimal thing that surround us can have an infinite beauty.

Anyways, I really love my camera, maybe it's not something indispensable in my life if tomorrow's break or something bad happens to it, but definitely makes my free time more happy and let me keep to myself the thing I want to remember for always.

Here are some of my pictures:  

    Amanda, my older niece.

Antonia, my younger niece.

I took this shoot with timer and the one with the light

 is one of my best girlfriends, Catalina.

Hope you enjoy it!

See ya later, alligator.

Journalism, the career of my dreams (or at least, that I hope...)

¡Hello everyone!

Today I'm going to tell you the reason why I chose to study journalism for my life career! 

But first, you have to know that before I got into journalism I was convinced that my dream job was to teach... I was three years studying to become a history teacher because when I was younger I loved history class very much, so once I left School -with the pressure of finding something to do with my life- history was the only thing that came into my mind like a future job...  

Sadly, years later I found out that I couldn't be more wrong about that choice because what I really want to be is very very far from that...

¿Why I chose to study journalism? I think I will have to thank music to answer that question... Since I was a young girl, I always loved to listen to music on the radio, and loved music magazines (especially 'Rolling Stone' magazine)... and that feeling made me wonder myself one day: "What would have happened if I had chosen to be a radio host, or a journalist in a music magazine... ¿Wouldn't that have been awesome?", and that question haunted me even more at the moment when I was unsure about my History career...

That's why, one day, after lots and lots of thinking about it, I took the big choice of leaving the teaching career and started a new path in journalism to become a radio host and keep working with something so beautiful in my life as music... 

Plus, I have even learned more aspects in journalism that I like very much! I think studying journalism is the best choice I could have taken so far...

Who knows? Maybe tomorrow I'll change my mind again... I hope not.

See ya later alligator! 

A little about myself

¡Hello, everyone!

My name is Alejandra Martínez Ugalde, i was born on may 25th of 1991 in Santiago, Chile. I live with my parents and my grandmother. I'm the second child, the youngest one, and my big sister's name is Carolina, she is a publicist and is the mother of my two beautiful nieces, Amanda (8) and Antonia (1).

I studied yeaaaaars ago, in a school named Colegio Liahona in El Bosque, and nowadays, I'm studying journalism at ICEI or "Instituto de Comunicación e Imagen". I'm in my third year and everything is going better than I expected, because what i've done until now has been really entertaining... For example, last year, I learned to be a radio host, and I knew since the first moment i had to do an assignament, that is was gonna be my future profession <3

This is not my first time studying at university, i studied History once, also at the Universidad de Chile, but, that didn't fulfill my expectations... but now, i'm really satisfied with what i'm doing! :)

One thing i love to do when i'm not reading or studying is drawing... Ever since I was a little girl, I really love to draw, it helps me a lot to distract myself and practice something different. Even when i don't have a unique way to sketch, i usually copy my favorite anime characters and try to make it more with a personal style... and yes, i'm an anime fan .///.

Another thing i usually do -and i love- is listening to music! 

I'm a big fan of English music, especially British. My favorite band since i was a child is The Beatles, i really love them and the way they grow up throughout the years musically, they are fantastic! I really like music from the sixties and seventies, contemporary bands such as like Rolling Stones or Led Zeppelin... But, also love bands that appear in the nineties, because the britpop era it's my favorite one! 

In fact, tonight i'm going to a concert of a band called Radiohead, one of my favorite nineties bands and I'm really, really excited!!! :D 

Well, that's a little about me! I hope you enjoy reading it...

See you later, alligator. 

This is one of my sketchs! Is a Sailor scout from 

Sailor Moon Series.

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