Money is not the measure of art.

Dear Art Lovers,

A lucky man bought ten years ago for $45.00 in a garage sale in Fresno, California, 65 negative glass plates of Ansel Adams.

He spent the last ten years collecting expertise to be sure they were Ansel´s artwork. A few days ago he invited the press to show his discovery. Ansel´s heirs are envious of those plates worth $200 million, and trying to play down the discovery.

All of a sudden, the world is talking again of Ansel Adams. Is it the fabulous sum the motive of the renewed interest? Is people looking at those wonderful landscapes and seeing them through the filter of dollars only? Money is not the measure of art. At $45.00 they were awesome, too.

Ansel Adams had most of all a wonderful eye for composition. He could see what was unseen to others. But he is not the only one. There is photographic art after him. A work of art does not need to be expensive to be beautiful.

I invite you all to look around and see what is available by modern photographers. Buy for the beauty, not for the price. Eventually they may become worth millions in the future. But, for the time being, buy for the beauty, as real art lovers.

Best Regards, Cesar Barroso

A place to unwind – Greynolds Park.

Are you eager to get back to nature and take a break from the city push and shove?

The right place for you is Greynolds Park, between Miami Gardens Drive and Dixie Highway, near Aventura.

Just look at the lazy Oleta River and your troubles will be forgotten. You will be reminded that life is not a rat race.

Do you need a prod? Look at the photographs below.

Sunday Afternoon.

Working with the camera in a Sunday afternoon.

Imogen Cunningham, one of my inspirations.

I found this video in YouTube about one of the masters of photography of the last century, Imogen Cunningham.

Agaves and others.

I was taking a look at one of my archival boxes, and came across some negatives of agaves and other botanicals that you might like.

Agaves are one of my favorite themes for black and white.

Most of those pictures were taken in Rio de Janeiro and the surrounding Atlantic Forest.

This agave was caught right after the rain:

A family portrait:

A close-up of the above agave was one of my donations for the latest Bakehouse´s Lucky You 2:

The other donation was an orchid.

Here the framed “Orchid” with Nory Contractor, the charming girlfriend of Harvey Oxenberg, the President of the Board of Directors of the Bakehouse:

Just a classical composition:

Etlingera Elatior. Both the name and the flower are beautiful:

Two kids of a nearby slum passed by when I was photographing the Etlingera Elatior:

Dear art lover, save the date for “en:twined” – Friday, April 9, from 7-10pm at the Bakehouse Art Complex:

The Strangler Figs of Miami.

Their seeds are deposited by birds on other trees. They grow their roots downward and envelop the host tree while also growing upward to reach into the sunlight zone above the canopy. They are all over Miami, in parks and streets, in your backyard, and jumping walls, like this one in Coconut Grove:

These live in Coral Gables:

Sometimes their convoluted roots and trunks resemble bodies:

Will their love outlast this strangling fig at the Bayside Marketplace?

Crawling the walls near Vizcaya, this strangler fig resemble lions and lizards:

All the above pictures(with the exception of the last one) were taken with a large format 4″ X 5″ camera. Do you want to hang one of them on your wall?

A 11″ X 14″ gelatin silver print costs only $65.00 plus tax. Add a nice black frame and your total cost will be $100.00 plus tax.

Give me a call at (786) 797-6302, or email me at cesar@cesarsphotos.com, or come to my studio # 24 at the Bakehouse Art Complex to look at some more.