n the past days I shared with you on #Hive another post with street photos showing dogs. But my photographic archives contain so many pictures where these adorable animals appear, that I think that one of these days fleas will start jumping off my monitor screen when I check them 😂... So today I have the pleasure of sharing a new photographic series with this theme for you... Please continue ahead in this post and enjoy my little visual stories made with my beloved stray dogs...

y most recent archives are reverberating with street photography very suitable for B&W processing, so this selection of images which I share with you today in #Hive are very recent. In fact, all these photos were taken in this month of April which is not over yet... I invite you to continue ahead in this publication and enjoy a new visual exploration of the streets of my town Montalbán (Venezuela) through the lens of my camera...

he sky covered with low clouds at dawn, a faint mist strolling through the streets, the soft light of the sun which is barely visible in the horizon... That's how the streets of my town were when I went out to walk them today at 6:30 AM with my camera hanging around my neck and eager to take pictures to go back home and process them today... I don't know why, but from time to time I just wish with that stuck in my head, not wanting to browse my archives but to have same day photos to process... So I invite you to follow on ahead in this post and enjoy my street photos for you today on #Hive...

f you come to my town and see a guy with a camera photographing dogs and talking to them in the streets, then it's for sure that guy is me... Here in Montalbán (Venezuela) dogs are a part of the streetscape... My father used to say: “In this town we have more dogs than people” and that's still the way it is today... In addition, there is a deep relationship between dogs and neighbors, with almost all of these animals being sort of community pets. It is not strange to see in the entrances of the garages and backyards of the town, containers with food and water for the dogs, neither are missing those that in spite of being during the day in the streets, sleeping in the backyards of the houses or even inside them. Throughout my life here, I have seen people bathing stray dogs, supplying medicine and serving as babysitters when new puppies are born... It's a strange fact, but “Montalbán is impossible to understand without its dogs”...

ver the years I have learned to “read the weather in my town” and today at 4:00 AM when I woke up and peeked my head out of my bedroom window, I immediately realized that this would be a good morning for street photography, as there was a light mist on the streets but the air felt static and slightly warm, which here is a typical harbinger of a cloudy dawn but without rains... And so I ended up heading for the streets right after feeding my pets and leaving coffee ready for my wife and daughter who were still sleeping... I took my old 100mm fixed lens (a macro and portrait lens, which I also use for street photography when I want to use wide apertures and take advantage of the low light in the morning)... I wandered the streets freely as usual, until I reached an area east of town where my friend Elio's blacksmith shop is located, known by many as “Elio the Blacksmith” or also “Elio the Vespa”, the first nickname for the occupation he does obviously, and the second nickname because years ago he had several “Vespa” brand scooters 🛵... And that is the context of this little story which I share with you today on #Hive... I invite you then to continue on this post and enjoy my passage today in the blacksmith shop of my friend Elio... 😃📷

he weather here is still rainy, so I'm having the best time I can sitting in front of my PC going through my recent RAW files and selecting photos for processing and converting them to black and white. Sometimes I tend to think to myself and tell myself that I could do this forever... I mean wander the streets of my town and then come here to my little studio, put everything I record in black and white and have these images to share with you here on #Hive... I really feel lucky to be able to do this and it makes me think about the potential that the #web3 and ecosystems like ours have for creators like us... So, please go ahead and enjoy my photos for you today!...