Finally, after been blogging for a while using the free service of Google called Blogger I decided to have my own official blog and hosted it in one of our servers. The name of the Blog “Salvador Alicea” (url: www.SalvadorAlicea.com ) will be the official site to publish news, updates and Photoshop® - photography tutorials. You are invited to become one of our regular readers. You may subscribe to our mailing list or use the RSS feed to have immediate access to what we published.

We post on our blog between four to five articles every month related to photography, photo business, tutorials and updates about our projects. Feel free to visit us and leave your feedback and comments.

Regards,
Salvador Alicea

Eleven hundreds and thirty two (1132) images were added to our on-line catalog this week.  Some are about;

• Water Pollution
• Comerio , Mayagüez , Cabo Rojo  Cities
• Fashion
• Extreme Sport  - Parachuting
• Cock Fight
• La Mina Waterfall
• Playa Colora , Fajardo City
• Cabo Rojo Lighthouse area
• Cabo Rojo Sunsets

"These photographs of the artist Salvador Alicea again challenge us, the audience, to witness a great photo gallery of his legacy to the Puerto Rico arts. Each image tells us about an intense sense of what it is inherently to Puerto Rican, to the humanly Caribbean . That way Alicea runs a pastoral sacral letter about the visual, a world slaughtered by wars, by hunger." "Alicea, our "Salvador" of the daguerreotype landscape, shakes in this world sadomasoquista inherited, and proposing a new review. Let's take a new look, making sacred the new image and to the sacrilege of those who do not love children or animals, or planetary flora. Ultimately, through their photos Alicea give us back the "locus amoenus." More or less, it is like saying, paradise."

Beatriz Mayte Santiago-Ibarra
Critic and Historian Of The Arts

"Salvador Alicea is an artist, photographer and visionary Puerto Rican, whose passion for the art of photography speaks for itself. Its lens collect the grandeur of creation hidden in the detail, which sometimes get lost in the rush of everyday life. Alicea stops, stops and points us toward mastery with the images that make Puerto Rico a point of contact with a dynamic universe that vibrates in harmony. His technical preparation and attention to detail of light, shadow and space facilitate the experience of the viewer. A journey through the lens of Salvador Alicea invites us to reflection, gratitude and celebration of our identity and cultural richness. "

Dianiluz Cora
Culture Director
Municipal Government Autonomous of Carolina

During December 2007 we have been working in some new images in our studio. This new images will be added to the catalog during the first quarter of 2008. Now in January we had added 155 new images to our catalog. Images related to sport, specifically golf related. In addition we added images of the San Juan Convention center; these ones are during night time. Besides we added images of some Puerto Rico landscapes.

As part of our effort to provide you the best and high quality images of Puerto Rico and to facilitate the acquisition of them we had re-designed our web site.  Now you can browse our gallery using keywords, location, description, categories, color or B&W, shapes and even type of license. 
Besides, we added royalty free license to our portfolio, giving you a new alternative for your needs and budget.  The web site includes a price calculator that will allow you to know the price of your selected image in real time.  You can create light box areas to keep in there your favorite images for future selection or even share them with friends and clients by email.

Join TODAY & WIN! Alicea's Sweepstakes

One lucky winner will receive a 12" X 18" signed image from the Salvador Alicea's Fine Art Collection.

Update: The winner was Jose Alvarado from Dorado Puerto Rico. José enjoy your art!.

Alicea's Photo gallery and Grupo Oceano Editorial worked together to provide the Puerto Rico students with a Puerto Rico Encyclopedia.  Now available in CD-ROM Format. 

Salvador Alicea artistic images were used to illustrate the "Encyclopedia Estudiantil y de Puerto Rico" produced by Grupo Oceano Editorial.  More than 350 images show the historical, cultural and natural resources of Puerto Rico.

Enciclopedia Estudiantil y de Puerto Rico, It is a great work from support to the study that counts on the main matters of the scholastic curriculum and all the subjects of Puerto Rico.

The work foments the active learning, thanks to the perfect didactic interrelation of the contents, the progressive development of the concepts, the great visual and graphical unfolding and the incorporation of exercises of self-evaluation and activities.

Wow! What a busy last several months - it seems like it's been non-stop, well, because it has been.
Laura and I hit the 2nd Photography Expo "El Encanto de mi Isla" starting on at the Universidad del Este, Carolina city several weeks of February and then were off to Arecibo and other country cities for a week of photography.

It’s good to be at office for a while and just catch my breath, and get this newsletter out to all our loyal readers. As soon as we returned from the island, I went on my way to Orlando for Photoshop World where I attended to Photoshop World, the best and largest Adobe® Photoshop® and photography training event of the world. I get to the island with a lot of enthusiasm and new learned things.

On April 1, 2008 I spend whole day learning to capture the moment by improving my on-location photography skills, including lighting, composition, and posing with David Ziser, an internationally-renowned wedding photographer who has shared his knowledge with tens of thousand's of photographers in five languages and in 14 countries worldwide.

Here some images I took during my Tuesday Master Class. On April 3, 2008 we attended to a practical training about location lighting using the Nikon Creative Lighting System (CLS). This was an amassing photography experience, learning photography lighting directly from Joe McNally, an internationally acclaimed American photographer and long-time photojournalist. From 1994 until 1998, he was LIFE magazine's staff photographer, the first one in 23 years.

On April 4, 2008 we spend the day with John Caponigro, Vicent Versace and Jay Maisel learning digital photography and its relation with light, color, gesture and fine art photography. 

At 9:43 PM Atlantic time of the 20th of February 2008 a total eclipse occurred. The partial eclipse begins as the Moon's eastern edge slowly moves into the Earth's umbra shadow. During the partial phases, it takes just over an hour for the Moon's orbital motion to carry it entirely within the Earth's dark umbra. The color and brightness of the totally eclipsed Moon can vary considerably from one eclipse to another. Dark eclipses are caused by volcanic gas and dust which filters and blocks much of the Sun's light from reaching the Moon. But since no major volcanic eruptions have taken place recently, the Moon will probably take on a vivid red or orange color during the total phase. After the total phase ends, it is once again followed by a partial eclipse as the Moon gradually leaves the umbra shadow. The total phase of a lunar eclipse is called totality. At this time, the Moon is completely immersed within the Earth's dark umbra shadow. During the February 20 eclipse totality will last just under 50 minutes.

You are invited to the great opening of the new and re-designed Aliceas Photo Gallery website. Our third website generation is a whopping 8,000 images and 48 pages. For a brand-new launch, were in unprecedented territory. And while its taken a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get it here, the look, feel and digital image content of the website are exactly what we had originally intended.