Sol y Sombra

Joselito Adame

Joselito Adame, at Plaza Mexico, photographed on November 10 of this year.

Joselito Adame

Joselito Adame capes the bull, Venadito, (Bernaldo de Quirós), in Plaza Mexico, on November 10 of this year.

Capote Earrings

A lovely girl displays her capote (bullfight cape) earrings.

Photographed at Plaza Mexico on November 10 of this year.

Arturo Macias

Arturo Macias holds a rose thrown by a fan after his faena with his first bull of the afternoon.

Photographed at Tijuana's Plaza Monumental on August 11, 2013.

Juan José Padilla

Juan José Padilla prepares to place banderillas.

Photographed on September 4, 2016 at the memorable corrida in homage of deceased matador Victor Barrio.

El Payo

Octavio García, "El Payo," performing at Tijuana's Plaza Monumental on August 12, 2012.

Francisco Rivera "Paquirri"

Spanish matador Paquirri passes a 530 kilogram bull from the ganadería Antonio Bañuelos.

Photographed on September 2, 2016 in Palencia, Spain.

Picador

A very abstract shadow of a picador and his horse.

Photographed at the LA Cetto winery bullring on October 8, 2008.

The look of this photo (and others like it) is partly made in the camera (a long exposure) and partly in Photoshop (various techniques to accentuate edges, etc.)

 

El Calita

Ernesto Javier "El Calita" attracts the attention of his first bull, "Don Alberto" (ganadería El Vergel), during the bullfight on August 11, 2019, in Tijuana's Caliente bullring.

El Calita

Ernesto Javier "El Calita" gestures towards his first bull, "Don Alberto" (ganadería El Vergel), during the bullfight on August 11, 2019, in Tijuana's Caliente bullring.

 

El Calita

Ernesto Javier, "El Calita" warms up with his capote prior to the bullfight in Tijuana on August 11, 2019.

El Calita

The bull Don Alberto (ganadería Xajay) follows the muleta of Ernesto Javier, "El Calita" at Tijuana's Caliente bullring.

Photographed on August 11 of this year.

Jerónimo

The matador Jerónimo looks out onto Tijuana's Caliente bullring. Photographed on August 11 of this year.

Abstract

The bull Cerati (ganadería Xajay), charges the muleta of Fermín Rivera.

Photographed in Tijuana's Caliente bullring on August 11, 2019.

Chaquetillas

Souvenir chaquetillas, outside the bullring in Tlaxcala, Mexico. Photographed on November 19, 2016.

Rafa Serna

Spanish matador Rafa Serna took his alternativa in 2017. I saw him perform twice as a novillero in 2016, once in Ronda, Spain, and once in Tlaxcala, Mexico.

Here he awaits the entrance of the matadors in Tlaxcala, during the bullfight of November 20, 2016, at the Plaza de Toros Jorge Aguilar Ranchero.

Octavio Garcia, El Payo

El Payo, photographed in Guadalajara's Plaza Nuevo Progreso, on February 17 of this year.

Federico Pizarro

Another photo of Federico Pizarro, photographed on April 12, 2015. I was pleased that the Aficionados de los Angeles used this photo on the back cover of their most recent newsletter, which commemorated his recent retirement.

Federico Pizarro

Federic Pizarro recently retired from the bullring.

Here he passes a bull from the ganadería Pozo Hondo at Tijuana's Plaza Monumental, on April 12, 2015.

Sebastián Castella

Sebastián Castella, performing at the Corrida Goyesca in Tijuana's Caliente bullring on May 6, 2018.

Pase Ud.

The entrance to a bullfight-themed bar in Xico, Veracruz, photographed in July 2017.

Please come in!

Taquilla

An abstract photograph formed by the ticket windows (taquilla) and three posters advertising the bullfight (featuring Jose Mauricio).

Photographed on August 9, 2008, in Tecate, Baja California.

Toro in Motion

The same bull as in the previous post, following the capote of José Mauricio. Photographed in Mexicali on October 14, 2007.

Toro

A handsome bull from the ganadería San Pablo awaits matador José Mauricio. Photographed in Mexicali on October 14, 2007.

Ronda

Groundskeepers rake the sand in the lovely bullring in Ronda, Spain. Photographed on September 11, 2016.