Sol y Sombra

Picador

A picador pics a bull, Carazo (ganadería El Batan), for matador Christian Aparicio.

Photographed at the L.A. Cetto Vineyards in April, 2016.

Christian Aparicio

Matador Christian Aparicio awaits a bullfight a L.A. Cetto Vineyards.

Photographed on April 9, 2016.

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.)

 

Picadors

Picadors, at a bullfight at the bullring at the LA Cetto winery in April, 2016.

Pablo Hermoso de Mendoza

Though I have seen Pablo Hermoso perform ten times in plazas throughout Mexico, this photo of him warming up his horse at the LA Cetto winery in the Valle de Guadalupe is my favorite.

He owns at least thirty horses which he performs with, each specializes in either the opening of the corrida, the middle, or the end. I could not find a photo of this horse on his website, so I don't know its name.

Pablo's connection to his horses is essential to his success, and his pride in his horses is obvious.  He states on his website:

"Mi obra son los caballos que yo he fabricado, creado. Es mi mayor satisfacción."

"My work is the horses I have created, it is my greatest satisfaction."

Fermin Rivera

Fermin Rivera, at the LA Cetto bullring in 2008.

Fermin Rivera

Fermin Rivera, performing at the LA Cetto bullring in 2008.

Fermin performs today in Tijuana's Villa Charra.