Jos\u00e9 Luis Morales Mart\u00edn took this photo from his living room window on a hot September afternoon. Mart\u00edn, who lives in Las Rozas de Madrid, a short drive from the Spanish capital, had just finished his lunch when he heard noises from outside. In the communal courtyard below, two teenagers were playing basketball.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was amazed by the light and immediately went to get my phone to capture the scene,\u201d he says. \u201cThe geometry of the pavement pattern, the shadows of the building and the figures\u00a0playing with a basketball \u2026 I just waited for the magic to appear \u2013 and then it did.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mart\u00edn is an architect, leading projects in the commercial sector. \u201cThere\u2019s a clear relationship between architecture and photography,\u201d he says. \u201cFor me, architecture is an art form that evokes emotion in those who see it, inhabit it, or use it, in the same way that the photographer\u2019s eye attempts to convey a message, an emotion, or simply document what\u2019s happening around them. There are common elements such as light and shadow, composition, geometry, human presence and scale, which you must handle skilfully to achieve optimal results.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mart\u00edn estimates that he uses a\u00a0DSLR camera for about 50% of his photography work and takes the rest on his phone. \u201cNo matter what you use, even in the most ordinary places you can\u00a0find special moments to capture.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jos\u00e9 Luis Morales Mart\u00edn took this photo from his living room window on a hot September afternoon. Mart\u00edn,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-363403","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}