Juan Santana Photography

Juan

You have an excellent collection of great pictures in your portfolio. Keep up the great work! JR

Hola Juan. Me alegra que te guste una de mis fotos. Respondiendo a tu pregunta, la gente vive en esas casas, no es una inundacion. Las calles son canales, y el mercado se rrecorre en barca. De paso, decirte que la serie de los edificios de colores esta muy bien. Un saludo. Guillermo

Juan - wonderful portfolio. You really have an eye for the fun side of life. Thanks for sharing.

Juan, Thank you for your comment on this photo. I enjoyed visiting your diverse & colorful portfolio; I particularly like many of your landscapes and portraits. Hope to see more from you soon. Regards, Rebekah B.

Thanks Juan for the kind comments on my pic. I really appreciate comments from someone with so much talent.

Mandy

gracias por tu comentario es gratifigante y me ayuda a seguir, que visiteis mi galeria. me gusta mucho el colorido de tus fotos. por cierto yo tambien tengo una les paul std.

Thanks for commenting on my portfolio! You're right, I love birds and sunsets!

I took a journey through your portfolio and it's wonderful. Your colors are rich and your subjects are powerful. I will be back for another look soon.

deb

Thanks for your comment on my photo your portfolio its interesting and big regads Jorge Luis

With a name like Juan...you can't wrong! right? Hey great images you have going on here...yes...to have fun and make images that show that fun...must be fun! The gente around you...you respect...they you. The children lucky to have you in their lives...Musician as well...eyes and ears...two of the best arts I can think of! Juan Santana---Juan de Santa Anna....has to be a connection there...some where...paz...sigue tomando los photos! el otro...Juan

Nice portfolio ur a great photographer on this earth carry on

Hi Juan. Great photos with your own style... Congratulatins ;-)

I thanks everyone for all beautiful comments and rating on my pictures and portfolios. I have a great respect and admiration for all professional photographers on PN.

About me all I can say the I'd made tons of money in the past with my guitar, making plenty of money with my Real Estate profession but photography is my baby, it's so incredible how we can stop time to bring us later incredible joy and nostalgic moment. I consider myself a fun photographer as someone describe me "One who take picture of the good side of life" It's my hobby who thanks to all comments had made me improve as well as all of you a lot. As you notice below, a message was disapprove by me, because the person left me a big picture of himself advertising some website)

Thanks again,

Juan Santana

Juan, you have a wonderful and diverse portfolio with very beautiful and happy images. It was a pleasure viewing it and I will come back again soon. ;)

Hi Juan,

Some amazing colors in your portfolio. You have a great eye.

I like your two wood art!

Thanks for your comment on my picture Juan. You have a lot of different nice pictures about several escenes of life. Congrats and greetings from Mexico.

I love your an excellent collection of great pictures in your portfolio. Thanks for sharing. Stan

You've always had the most exhilarating shots which confuses me why you think having your photos on here makes you any better. You've always been great, only difference now is that everyone can see it. ;]

Juan, tanks for your comments, what about you work? I think is a very good work, your variety is bigger I like me the Shakira photos, but the landscapes and outdoors are great photos.

Regards from Mexico

Guillermo

muchas gracias juan por tus comentarios. por supuesto que me acuerdo de ti, me han gustado mucho tus fotos de edificios, vaya pasada de colores, y por supuesto las de la les paul. espero seguir en contacto ya que compartimos varias aficiones. un saludo desde corella - navarra (pamplona)

I viewed your portfolio and am delighted by the magnificent and colorful shots. By the way, I like your crop on my ' the hand and the flame '. The smartest move that didn't cross my mind was to boost the flame. Thanks very much for the nice manipulation. It has enhanced the appearance of the flame terrifically. I look forward to your comments on the rest of the shots in my portfolio. My gratitude.

Juan, I was a professional for 50 years and your work is of the highest calibre,however, do not get bogged down on sentimental photographs of children. You have a great eye for colour(see your buildings). Concentrate on this area and try to perfect it..SMILE.. John Warren

Juan, you have many unusual and interesting photos in your gallery here. Many of them show a great deal of joy and happiness. Thank you for sharing some of yours here. Cheers.

Thank you Juan for your kind comments on my gallery. I really enjoyed you photos especially the landscapes and building. You really do a beautiful job.

I espseially love your photos of the guitars. I have one that I did with a little photo shop. Take a look.

Very nice portfolio

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Wow, great portfolio! I love your style.

Thanks for looking at my Picassa site! I use it because my quota for photos is pretty low here on PN -- which is making me take a more critical look at my photos to decide which ones I really want to post here.

Thanks for your comments on my portfolios, you have an unique style which I been trying to copy. Keep up the great work. Merry Christmas

Exelent pictures..good job.

Thank you for your critiques and ratings through out the year. Happy New Year and all the best, take care.

Hi, my best wishes for you in 2007 and tons of 7/7 for your work, thaks for sharing. Best Regards Guillermo

Glad to see someone with a silly bone that is not afraid to share it! I LOVE your humor side and then I love your serious pictures also! You have a great eye and some great pictures. I also love your slow speed night shots (but that is because I love to do those myself). I look forward to your next adventure in the humor stuff. Thanks for keeping it "Light" here at photo.net. I have tried myself since I have been on. LOVE IT! ~ micki

Hello Juan, Just looked at several of your photo's. I like the beach/sea-photo's, also some of your people-photo's and of course the pets! You have something with buildings too, and know how to take interesting photo's of them. I like the spontanity in your pictures.(Thanks for answering; Santana used to be one of my favourite groups when i was younger, i had some of the records. I use to play classical guitar and violin, and just love music,one of my biggest hobby! Keep on playing the guitar, if you have such musical talents like you have. Greetings from Holland to you and your family; Ellen.)

Hello Juan: I have seen your impressive Portfolio and it is I magnify, the light, the color, the beauties in the composition and the variopinto of the images of technical excellent quality, thing that is always of thanking, makes it with a lot of frequency, I get lost this way for secret landscapes, still lives and other types of works that siempren helps you to continue learning, Thank you once but to share your beautiful images with the rest of P.N. With the question on the River Tint: It is a river that he/she is already born that that color, like in good he/she came I Tint. their beauty has been declared "Landscape of great Beauty By the beautiful corners that you encuenrtran in the one. Tambie to tell you that it is in this River I Tint Where N.A.S.A. he/she makes their experiments in the "Project Mars", and today work with them, a Book will come out to the light made by my, and the scientific texts by the Director of the Project. I believe that inside a couple of months it will be in the bookstores, Good without but a great happiness to be able to see your works and as always... Thank you for your attention in my pictures, cordial greetings Juan

Thanks to all and Julio, will be looking forward to your book, please keep me inform.

hello juan, incredible portfolio you have !!! amazing amount of good photos !!! all my best from nassau, bahamas.. ~trish~

Bravo!

very rich portfolio just like yourself mate..joke! i love it...blew my mind away

Nice portfolio Juan, I like your landscapes the best though and thanks for you comment and rating on my photo

You complain about the 3/3 raters - there is a rater on PN that is indiscrimately throwing around 1/1 and 2/2!!! She gave out more than 65 of them in one day! And PN does nothing about this. Her name is Alexandra Malia and even though I have asked for an explanation of her 3/3 rate on my photo - she refuses. There are several of us looking at other sites now. I know you are a great crusader about these 3/3 raters and many on PN are grateful for people like you.

Jan, we should all go to her site and give back to her own medicine to her picture 1/1 and 2/2 and she'll get the message.

But actually I did. I had given her a 6/6 on one of her flowers so I went back and changed it to a 3/3. I think she is being a childish little mealy minded nobody that obviously thinks she is God's gift to photography - otherwise why would she be so mean spirited as to put down everybody else's images in such a horrible and insulting way? 65 in one day! And those weren't even 3/3's! They were only 1's and 2's! Can you imagine such an awful person. What a world we live in. I sure do like your new stuff!( I think my favorites are still your daughters wedding - what a bunch of lovely lovely images those are! what a beautiful girl)

Jan, I checked her portfolio and is nothing so great to give anybody 3/3 or less without explanation. My next 3/3 joke is dedicated to her. Congrat and thanks for letting me know.

Read what this Rat-er write to me andlets see what you think: Paweł & Grażyna Hachaj, February 24, 2007; 08:25 A.M.

Mr. Juan, don't you suppose that a 3/3 rating given to this very picture is a joke by itself?...

We are grateful for every rating given to our own photos, even anonymous 3/3, even invisible 1/1. We do not deny other people to do what they want as long as it is within the rules. We rate other photos (mostly anonymously) from 1/1 to 7/7, of course 3/3 happens too. We could feel outraged by your treating everyone who gives anonymous 3/3 as a mindless fool - but we are not outraged, we treat it all from a distance. It's all about fun, why to be angry? But if receiving anonymous ratings upsets you we promise to try to never give you any anonymous rating. But this won't help you much we are afraid.

By the way, if someone does not like to receive anonymous rating, he could use "critique only" option when submitting the picture to the critique forums. Oh, yeah, but it blocks all the possible 7/7-s too! Is they one of them?

Hi Guys. Interesting dicussions about 3/3 etc. Why do you give it so much of your time and energy. The more you react to these ratings the greater the satisfaction, Secondly do not return evil for evil. Two wrongs don't make it right. Treat someone with kindness even if they don't, eventually they will respond to YOUR KINDNESS in the appropiate manner. There are a lot of people out there that are hurting. The only way they know how to deal with it is to hurt others. Lets show a little tolerance and compassion. Roy

You are right about it but how can you show tolerance and compassion to and invisible force. I don't want to put a disclamer in every of my picture saying: Mr. 3/3er be nice to me, I love you.

Or they do this rating on purpuse or they are member of PN just like other fellow sugested

I once saw an image i admired, and wanted to see the artist's member page to view other images. This person is one of the top rated artists in a catagory, very accopmplished and much praised, with member page visits in the tens of thousands. To my astonishment the vast majority of ratings given by this person were 1's, almost nothing else. I was troubled by this, I think constructive criticism is essential for growth, but was this artist helping others improve by giving out the lowest rating possible to everyone? I made a comment on the portfolio that it seemed he didn't think much of other people's work and he not only scrubbed my comment but proceeded to give out about 40 high scores in two days. It is often said to be kids or jealous underachievers doing hit jobs here but not always, seems to me there are multiple incentives.

Juan, I like how you express yourself and i like controversy, keep up the creativity. Feel free to scrub this off your page, i didn't know where else to say it for now.

Hi Juan. I, and a lot of others I think, is glad that someone start the dicussion about the 3/3 raters. I dont think it is worth the time to try to get revenge or something like that. The big problem, I think, is that the pictures are placed on the "Top photos" list acording to there rating. The reason to be on Photo.net fore many people is to see other photographers pictures, learn from the discusion and get comments about our own. The problem with the 3/3 raters means, that a lot of very good pictures is placed so low on the list, that they never get the atention they should. I think that the people that administrates Photo.net should reconice, that this is a threat to the hole idea of Photo.net. As far as I know there is a limit how many 6s and 7s you can give in one day. There should be a limit on 1s, 2s and 3s to. Re.Lars

I know this isn't quite as bad as all 3/3's but check out Lisa Dobbs, you will get a kick out of the ratings from this member!

BTW Nice portfolio!

Ken.

Hola Juan.

Tienes una galeria rebosante de creatividad, he pasado un rato estupendo navegando por ella. Desconocia que tenias una seccion dedicada a los del 3/3, te juro que hacia mucho que no me reia tanto, gracias por estos momentos.

Enhorabuena, un saludo.

Very beautiful and rich portofolio with a variety of excellent compositions. Excellent work. Congrats !

... eclectic, original & fine portfolio... Hi

...Rycho.

Thanks Juan for your comment on my last orchid posting. Your portifolio is really beautiful. I enjoyed all your photos, the colors, but specially the buildings, home and bridges. Congratulations.

Great collection of fine and fun images. Enjoy visitiing. Hope to see more of your work. Xiang Gao

Wonderful portfolio! I love your use of color and humor. Keep shooting! amy

You have a great, very interesting and beautiful portfolio!

and thanks for your comment on my work:)

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Oh, my dear Juan,

I wanted to tell you,to say a word about those 3/3 raters, but it seems that your thread or your section was deleted by PN Team! sorry for that!

But I have to tell you that I have loocked at your portofolio and I must say that you have a lot of various type, colors and all kinds of photography and that you deserve all the rating you will receive and you are receiving and already receved, just like Me, cause NOW I see more clearly with those 3/3 that I have received during all previous year, and now I am proud to say that they have helped me to improve and become a more serious professional photographer WHO KnowS HER place in this enormous, wide and deep Internet Photography!

And again, EveryOne, all Hu-Wo_MAN on our Mother Earht HAS the Right to have another Opinion, and TASTE!!

That is the point in this life in 21st Century - We are all DIFFERENT, but We are ALL HUMANs -

Thank you dear Juan :) and go for IT!

Sincerely, Biliana

You have some excellent shots, and a great sense of humor in many of your shots! Thanks for sharing:)

Thanking everyone for all your comments on my portfolio, really apreciated.

Juan

I tried to see this http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00KMur but I couldnt find it may be was deleted thanks for your comment on my photo have a nice day Jorge Luis

This thread was a very hot potato, this is why they deleted

Your portfolio is quite surreal. Very nice.

I like the composition and colors of your images,Juan. Best regards.

Juan, your portifolio is magnifico, spetacular. Buildings, bridges, landscapes, portraits, everything is wonderful. Now I would like to see you posting some flowers with your new 105mm. Congratulations and thanks for your comments on my portifolio. Regards, Chico.

Yes francisco, I'm going tomorrow I'm going to the Bronx Botanical Garden to star taking Flowe"s pictures with this great lens. Thanks

I agree with you about 3/3, if you are going to give a 3/3 you should give a reason as to why. I even think that should go for 4's also. Tonight some one gave me a 6/3 but would not say why.

Your NYC shots bring back the first half of my life. Great portfolio. Bruce

Juan, I like your idea about the rating system.

They should do something soon, maybe we should write to PN about it.

Your portfolio is great. You are a real photographer! You try every kind of picture and you succed. Bravo and thank you for your comments on my pictures. Yves

Fantastic and artistic folder, very nice Juan. I like the Buildings especially but there are many interesting and lively shots in here. Thank you for sharing.

very interesting work!

Thanks Juan for your comments on my portifolio. Your portifolio is excellent. Beautiful weeding and family photos. I would like to see more of your macro photography of flowers with your new 105mm. I enjoy orchids photos as you could see on my portifolio and I could see a Phalaenopsis in yours. Beautiful photo. Regards, Chico.

A great art gallery ... a big heart! Congratulations.Salud e mucha vida... Armando.

You have a wonderful eye, and capture some stunning pictures. You are an inspiration, and this on the back of musicianship, and a REAL job!!

Much thanks to you for your comments on my photos, I'm honoured!

Finally, pass on my BEST regards to Shakira!

All the very best to you, and yours, Juan, with much gratitude!

Shaun Dicker

It is a true taste to observe a work so defined, professional and creative. Portafolio is extraordinary and contains images that can be true documents. Mainly an excellent technique without leaving of side the artistic subject is perceived. The subjects are varied and we can be left to lengths minutes observing the photographies of this wonderful photographer. Let us follow the track a great artist with a as perceivable photographic eye as the fine one to sound of a bat. Congratulations and best regards. Thanks for your comments on my Portfolio Juan.

Thanks everyone, Every day in every way, we all get better and better here at Photo.net

Hey Juan You have a wonderful portfolio that oozes creativity I like your work !!

greetings Pat

I really really really really like your portfolio!

my friend you are the artist, I am just a photographer

thank you for your comments.... you have a grand collection here! all your pictures are so rich in all aspects... bravo!

Juan, your portfolio is amazing. You should have your own book of pictures. Beautiful, vivid and very original work.

You are definetly one of the outstanding photographer for me. You have excellent fotographas except I did nt like the some which something like imagination or fakes...

Thanks your comment on my portfolio, one of the great thing Of digital photography is that It give you the ability to feel like a Rembrandt or Magritte or any famous painter. it's great to manipulate the pixel and invent something out of nothing that have been in your mind, just using all photographs Try it.. one day you'll like it.

Thanks,

I find your work very inspiring; through it I'm learning of new enticing ways of managing and incorporating saturated colors into my pictures. It?s an absolute pleasure to view your collection, specially your "Buildings, Homes and Bridges" folder. Thank you!

Over all, I should point several comments about this great Portfolio : There is very amazing job about imagination There is nice innovation There is so intelligent point of view. There is excellent compositions. I m sure you will improve much better images day by day. Congratulations and go a head.

A very colorfull , different and amazing portfolio.

excellent portfolio, congrats..:)

Juan, Thought I would return, glad i did, My, you have moved on, Your'Magritte' work certainly stops the traffic. I tried it many years ago and failed miserably. I was lucky to see and photograph many of his originals for a Pan Book on his work in thee 70's and still remain fascinated by his inventiveness,I'm glad to see some of it rubbed off on you.............John

Thanks John, coming from such great artist as you, it honor me. Thanks, thanks thanks

Jaun, In the early 70's a friend of mine David Larkin decided to publish a series of 'Art' books for the UK publisher Pan Books. I was the photographer who was engaged to photograph the art/work.....Two books in that series were; one of Escher and the other of Magritte. I was lucky enough to photograph most of the originals of both artist's work and I can assure you the originals are breathtaking. It was a long time ago but maybe, an odd copy might be found on Amazon. They contained some of the best work of both artists. David Larkin was the Editor. John

John, you are the luckiest photographer doing what you did. I never saw the originals, just in books, I was just searching Amazon to see if I can get it with no avail. If you can find a place were they sell it let me know but you'll have to sign it for me. if ever you need any of my picture for publication, I'll do it for crediting my name. In my musician time, I played opening act to Artist such as: Tina Turner, Santana, R.E.O. Speewagon, Joe Walsh and many other, I'm telling you this because some people will say WOW man! but to me is nothing now just Like you doing those great work and many other in photography which sound so simple but to me is fantastic! and all I can say to you is...

Congrats!

sir i agree u r a great photographer, but anything looks good or bad for me i will tell straight forward to them,just only thats happened about ur portfolio,if my comment hurts ur heart then i am really very very sorry,please,and please visit my portfolio at ur free time,i will wait for ur comments about my portfolio bye sir.

sir please comment me how is this

Ciao Juan, you have a great portfolio, by looking at your pictures I see you are a man of strong personality and very honest, I mean you refuse compromise, your message is clear with a lot of good sense of humor. In my opinion phtography in general is a trick, nothing to do with reality, perhaps even life is a trick made by our brain. Ciao Juan, wish you all the best. Francesco

thank you for the informations about lenses, I appriciate. By the way, your english is super and clear, Ciao Francesco

Mr. Suresh, I left on your portfolio IMHO what I think of these 2 pictures.

In America there's a saying that go like this "Stick and Stone can break my bones but word will never hurt me" Mr. Suresh, you did not hurt me and you don't have to say sorry also. I just want you to know that I had learned a lot here in PN just getting constructive criticism from master, like Ben G. Julio C. Patrick D and many other master in here. I have in my portfolio a gallery dedicated to 3/3 raters who I consider frustrated photographer when they rated without commenting of why they give this low rate when other have rated 6/6 or 7/7.

You can't tell a Engineer how to build a bridge unless you are better than him.

I can take any criticism with the only different that when anyone is commenting on my picture for good or bad, I usually visit his or her portfolio to see how good he or she is and if is better than me, then I'll use it to learn if it's worse than me then I will complain. (Remember what I said about the Engineer) I don't Give 3/3 to nobody because to everyone, his picture is a masterpiece but I can leave a little comment about improving such picture.

I hope you get my drift.

Thank you Francesco for your fine comment.

dear Juan

a great portfolio. pictures tell you silently the multiple of art that is within you - art and music. i wish i could have that too. i sent photo of your guitar to my son who went to see the strato concert in london. he is going to freak out at the eric clapton strato you have.

once again best wishes from india!

rajen

thank tou for visiting my block and as wellas giving a suggetion to me,sir today i saw your nude photography in thatblock i got one doubt thats the guiter photo is it photoshop work,please replay me sir,bye

Juan you have some fantastic colors in your portfolio.Magnificent photographs!

I love the colours...excellent portfolio, thanks for sharing all those wonderful photos,

Sheila

thanks for visiting my portfolio,your is very interesting,amazing,very diferent.You are also very good in photoshop.Congrats.DF

Excellent portfolio, it's hard to choose a favourite one... Great work, congratulations!!

Thanks for the note you left abour my comment in your image of the 3/3 raters. I am sure that you used the analogic as a language sarcastic tool pointed to the 3/3 raters or just I like to call them the anonimous raters because for me the problem is the same with 3/3 or 7/7 if anonimous. We all like to have feedback abour our work and learn with that beacuse there are no masters around even if some do think so and it's quite important when that feedback is given that we know whio is doing it, what kind of photographic background the person has because analogic or digital, photography is only one only the tools are different. I also started with photography when I was 15 years old with my father's exakta and Nikon F and developed my films in the dark room. Now I almost do it with digital reflex camera just because it's faster and cheaper to do it but I still use, not now that is broken, my analogic camera.

You do have a creative and artistic way of doing the images and it's good that you assume the photoshop and manipulation in this way of artistic expression and this is really honest from you as others just clean the photo, adding, cloning etc...and don't assume what they are doing. Anyway, congrats for your work. my very best regards.

Great shots! I really like the digital manipulation images. Very creative!

Hello Friend!

Well here it is another year is passing away and we are coming into the holidays. I think time starts to go faster as we get older, it was just yesterday I wished my friends Happy Holidays and here it is again the end of a year. The holiday lights are starting to be put on some of the trees here in Dallas, we were out last night and some were lighting the trees. I wish for you all a holiday season with family and friends, after all is said and done all we have is each other.

I want all of you to know just what your comments and ratings on my work means to me, your words are my motivation, my drive to discover, to learn this art that we all love, thank you for taking time and thank you for caring about my works. At the same time thank you for letting us see your world, our lives are so much the same, we all care about our families and friends and we all share the same things, maybe someday our photos will help make for a lasting world peace. May you and your family be blessed this season.

Happy Holidays and Happy Shooting

Ken

Thanks for your great comment and Merry Christmas to you too.

Another year is near its end and a new one waits just around the corner, the holidays are here, and I wish you and your dear ones, a very joyful season. I also wan to express my deepest gratitude for your thought on my pictures, they mean a lot to me. At the same time, thank you for sharing your vision of the world with us, though we may live in different places and even come from different cultures, we share a passion towards this wonderful hobby?. Happy Holidays and Happy Shooting!!!

GOD JUL og GODT NYTT AAR! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your family! Hope to see many photos from you in 2008 :-)

que tal juan saludos desde espa�a te agradezco tu felicitacion espero seguir manteniendo tu amistad mery cristmas. sorry for my english.

beauiful collection.... love the wedding..... and manipulations

beautiful portfolio.........................wonderful.................i saw all of your`s.....regards(((bobby)))*

Very nice work Juan. Love the other way you play your LP. I never thought about playing mine quite like that. Your portfolio is very creative and fun. Thanks for sharing.

George