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Hello friends, how are you?

How are Christmas going?

I hope that both the Christmas Eve dinner

and the Christmas committee have gone as best

as possible.

Be careful with the prawns, that the devil

carries them.

Well, a couple of days ago a good

friend told me that, well, that he had

been liking, or that he quite liked, all

the content of Patreon and that he found

it very interesting, but he threw something at

me, or he put a but, and that

but was that, according to him, he did

not use a very, very interesting lighting in

my videos, because it seemed a little all

flat, I don't know, I mean, the lighting

so much flat.

I told him that in the next video

everything would change, just for him, and that,

well, what I told him, that the important

thing for me was the content, and well,

I tried to work it out with lighting,

that everything was correct, but I told him

to stop giving for the ass, right?

Well, having said all these little things and

all these jokes, well, we are going with

the last video of the year, and I

would like to dedicate this video a little

bit to do a little bit of balance.

Of course, I didn't want to talk, or

I didn't want to put a topic of

pure and hard photography today, because maybe they

are not dates either, maybe you are more

with yours, and maybe you will not see

this video until next year, right?

So, well, whatever it is, what I had

said first, that I hope that Christmas goes

as best as possible, and well, and wish

you again, well, a fabulous next year, right?

Or the best possible, or that it is

at least better than this year.

Of course, this year, if we start doing

balance, if we start doing balance, I could

say that it could be one of the

worst years in the history of wedding photographers,

perhaps, but of course, I don't want to

get here in a melodramatic plan, a sad

plan, or a plan, I don't know, how,

but I'm not going to go for that,

but I would like a little bit, well,

to tell you about the best things that

have happened to us this year.

It could be said that there are not

many, or there are not many compared to

those that we expected to happen to us,

because 2020 sounded very good, for this 2020

we had like 27 married weddings, or 28,

right now I don't know, that good number

of weddings for us, the couples we had

were quite good, or we thought they were

going to be quite good.

Of course, seen as it is, after what

has happened with all this, with the pandemic

of the balls, we thought they were great

couples, they are, or they were, or they

will be, who knows, but it is also

true that we have had some disillusionment with

some of them, because when all this shit

came, when the virus came, there were very,

very respectful couples in which they took care

of us, or they called us to say,

I don't know, guys, we want to postpone,

what dates do you have free for next

year?

Do you have, do you have, or I

mean, do you have, for example, so many

dates available, or I'm going to tell you

how you are going to try to fit,

just like there were, just like there were

couples who behaved great, there were couples who

did not behave so well, and what led

me to think sometimes that we have been

so aware of, or so attentive to, that

the couples were always fine with us, so

that we would realize that when the dates

do not come as God commands, when things

do not work well, there have been people

who have treated us, as you can imagine,

as possibly, because it has happened to you,

but hey, you see that I am messing

a lot already, you see that I have

not prepared anything, the truth is that I

have put myself in front of the camera

and I have not even prepared a dossier

or something in which I would come to

tell you with all the luxury of details,

everything, because I did not want it to

be a video like that, but that it

was a video that, what came out from

the heart, that went up and tried here

not to process much and to say it

out loud, I don't know, the mission of

this video is simply to transmit a little

bit, which is what we have lived, which

is what we have lived this year, this

2020, of course, let's go for the good,

and for the good or for the best,

in addition to, well, in the personal that

I have to recognize, which is the most

important thing, as it is obvious, it has

gone very well, that is, I remember that

in the month of February, because I told

Erika, I say, I go to Erika, I

say, it is possible that she does not

see Leo, our son, in the first part

of the year, right?

Because I say, because look that in April

I have to, that is, I have to

visit France, England, Brazil, from Brazil I go

with Colombia, and from Colombia to Ecuador, and

from Ecuador to Spain, then I have, like,

a wedding in London again, and it was

crazy, right?

I say, my mother, what a move, right?

In other words, what a story, of course,

in the end everything has fallen by its

own weight, and it is not bad that

it does not come for good, and what

thanks to that, well, we have been able

to enjoy, or I have been able to

enjoy, of Erika and my son, which surely

until these dates I would almost not have

been able to enjoy them, and I would

have lost, well, like part of a year

of my family life.

It is true that speaking of my family

life, in the last five years I have

practically lost, well, I have lost, I have

not lived 100% what was my family

life, nor my family life, nor my life

with friends, right?

Because, I mean, this profession has demanded, and

I have wanted, of course, it has demanded

from me to travel, to move, to be

on stage, to be constantly at weddings, back

to the stages, back to weddings, and I

have consciously sacrificed all that time to be

with mine, I speak of mine, of my

friends, who are not wedding photographers, far from

it, and my direct family, right?

I had sacrificed that, and I always said,

fuck, Erika, I say, we need a year,

a year, a sabbatical year for us, fuck,

but not like that, fuck, not like that,

fuck, I would have wanted a year that

we would have worked more, but of course,

as my mother said, man proposes and God

disposes, and another thing that my mother says,

there is nothing wrong with a hundred years

lasting, with which we hope that next year

will be good, but well, summarizing and returning

again to the good things, the best of

all, and already fleeing from the personal, let's

go to the professional, has been the community

of photographers, that is, starting with you, for

all those who extract there on Patreon, well,

for your support, and well, sorry, thank you

for your support, a hundred times more, that

is, my gratitude to all of you is

huge, because, well, thanks to Patreon, you have

made me, or you have made me feel

active, I feel useful, and when I say

that I feel useful myself, that is, to

myself, it is because I have already told

you, that is, I have been for years

that I have not stopped, boom, boom, boom,

boom, boom, and because I am also like

that, I am a very active person, very,

very nervous, and that needs war, that is,

it needs movement, and it is what they

have taught me almost at home, that I

was a useful person, that is, a productive

person, and that thanks to Patreon, I think

I have felt like such, because in fact,

that is, if there had not been Patreon,

I don't know what the hell we would

have done, because of 27 married 28 hired,

we have photographed 4, if it had not

been for Patreon, believe me, it would have

been complicated, and I say Patreon because you

already know that, well, and many of you

may have seen me in some conference, in

some workshop, of course, I was used to,

or I thought that I was used to

speaking in front of the crowd, which I

think I was, and in the last conferences

of the last two years, I was happy

with the results that I was getting, but

of course, when I got on Patreon, with

a camera, in front of me, without people,

without anyone, when I got on Patreon, it

was horrible, I mean, believe me that the

first videos had to be repeated three, four

times, because I did not know how to

get in front of a camera, how to

react, of course, I did not feel people

laughing, or crying, or applauding, no, I did

not know, except for the feedback of your

comments, if the posts were liking, or because

sometimes a colleague wrote to me on Facebook,

on Instagram, and he told me, hey man,

I love Patreon, bam, bam, bam, I mean,

thanks to that, that's why I tell you

that Patreon has helped us, not only to

be active, but for example, in my case,

it has even helped me to learn Premiere,

it was something that for me was horrible,

it was unthinkable, I already with my Lightroom,

with my Bridge, with my Photoshop, I had

enough, that for me was too much, and

suddenly, how, I mean, Premiere now, well, we

are going to start with what Premiere is,

also, well, within my English, well, some challenges,

and well, I had to, I had to

jump the damn barrier, and expose myself, right?

With my English, which has been recorded, and

that every time a British, or someone who

speaks perfect English enters there, they will say,

my goodness, the fucking Spanish, how does he

speak bad English?

But hey, I think photography helps, and photography

is a universal language, and that always, well,

thanks to that, I save, in quotes, the

dishes, or the dishes, and in quotes, well,

people will laugh at my shitty English, but

on the other hand, they will say, well,

but what counts, at least, for photography, well,

it's fine, right?

And I was talking about all of you,

about what you have, well, supported me, that

that is, well, I will thank you, well,

all my life, and more in the times

that run, but I also have, well, to

thank, well, the rest of the community, and

the rest of the photographers' community, and I

am talking about all photographers in general, right?

That they are no longer part of Patreon,

but of the community as such, of the

times that I have picked up the phone,

that I have tried to call, that I

have contacted other workshops that I had in

Colombia, for example, in England too, in which,

in which the workshop has been postponed, and

that all students, or the vast majority, 99

% have reacted with, come on, with an

incredible right hand, and with which I have

to thank.

Of course, if, I mean, they were workshops

that I had confirmed that could have been

canceled, and that continue forward, and that, imagine

the gratitude, or what I am going to

do in all those workshops, because those people

deserve the best of me, and that, well,

surely, well, they are going to have it,

right?

So, again, if any of you who are

part of one of those, of one of

those workshops, well, thank you very much, right?

You see that I am not trying to

talk about bad things, because, I mean, everyone

has been affected by this, everyone has caught

this virus upside down, right?

Because, in my career, as I had always

thought, okay, Víctor, if you keep working hard,

if you keep being a good professional, if

you interact with your partners in the same

way that you have done so far, if

you keep giving workshops as you are giving

them, in which you do not keep anything,

and in which you try to transmit everything

you can, if I was doing all that,

I thought, I will not miss work, almost

certainly, right?

Unless something very serious happens, I say, but

I do keep working like this, and if

I keep being a good professional, nothing is

going to happen.

Of course not, but if a virus came,

I was going to take everything apart.

Nobody counted on this, you understand me?

I mean, it has caught all of us,

you and me.

Sometimes, when I give a one-to-one,

people think, or there are people who think

that I have the magic wand.

Gentlemen, I hide to meow like all of

you.

I have the same problems as all of

you, the same doubts as all of you.

If I tell you that in June I

applied for a job as a gardener in

the area where I live, in the end

I did not dedicate myself, but I got

to ask for a job, so that you

can see that I have the same insecurities

as all of you, and if you ask

me for next year, well, I don't know.

Parts of the weddings that I had or

that we had with Erika in the first

semester, a few of them, a few of

them have moved to the second semester of

next year.

We are talking that we do not know

when, with total certainty, when we are going

to start.

It will depend on the vaccines and it

will depend on society itself.

If we continue to behave like sheep, God

will see what happens.

Well, 2021, well, what I would like, what

I would like, is what I am going

to ask Santa Claus, or what I have

asked Santa Claus, is that he brings us

weddings to all, that he brings us jobs

to all.

Possibly we will have to continue working with

masks and with stories, but I would like

those four weddings that we have had this

year to become at least one more.

It is true that we have been hiring

some new weddings, the ones we still had

postponed.

I don't want to remember the ones that

have been canceled, I think there have been

five out there that have already disappeared.

But hey, I mean, thinking about the positive,

thinking about next year, I am aware that

it is more than likely that we may

not photograph all the weddings that we have,

that we have hired, because, as I tell

you, let's see what happens in the first

semester of the year, but I hope that

it is almost certain that it will be

better than this year and little by little

we will start to get our heads up,

to do little things.

And I need it, well, like all of

you, not only to have weddings, but we

were in a very sweet moment, in which

our creativity was emerging, it was still going

up and like, boom, this has not been

like a break, it has not been like

a stop, too severe, in which it has

annoyed us, that continuity so good that we

really had.

But hey, one can no longer be hurt,

because more than we have been hurt or

frustrated, or I already speak of myself, because

it is true that Erika has always been

behind me to tell me, well, Víctor, let's

go there, let's go there, because there have

been times when I have come down, and

that I have come down, especially in the

months of April, in which every Monday was

hell, every Monday there were three or four

postponed weddings.

Well, imagine, right?

But what am I going to tell you?

Surely it has happened to you too, right?

That is why I think that we are

already enjoying battles and we are already prepared,

I think, for everything that comes in reality,

right?

So, that in 2021 we are prepared for

whatever it is and nothing more.

And above all, for 2021 we will continue

to work on Patreon, we will continue to

give our best at all this.

The truth is that when the idea of

​​Patreon came out, or when it was finished

configuring everything, it was in a workshop that

we had in February in Morocco, specifically in

the Nomad Workshop.

Possibly some of you who are part of

Patreon, well, because you were in the Nomad

Workshop, right?

And I remember that I shared, well, Chabola

or Casita in the desert with Pablo Laguía,

Serafín Castillo, Cayuela, Santiago Cayuela, sorry, and Don

Castro, okay?

Mr. Castro from Mexico, sorry.

And I remember, right?

How all of them told me, man, how

can you not be part of Patreon?

I mean, with the amount of knowledge you

have, with the amount of information you have

in your head, with the amount of tips

you can give, how can you not be

part of it, right?

And the truth is that I told them,

fuck, we have already been like four or

five months with our heads turned, with several

issues there, but we were not clear.

They were the ones who came out, or

the ones who pushed me to move forward.

And the truth is that the idea of

​​Patreon for us, or the issues that we

wanted to bring out, or that we wanted

to show you, were not quite the issues

that we have brought out this year, because

for us Patreon, or what we wanted, was

to try to transmit what goes through our

heads in each or in many of the

weddings.

Or in some of the moments when we

are bright and we capture some of those

photos that break legs, right?

Of course, the initial idea was that, not

only would we put the typical GoPro on

top of our camera, but also the mission

was to hire several weddings, a team of

videographers who would record us from the preparatory

to the dance, and who would record us

perfectly with everything, with the audio, with ...

Come on, fucking great, right?

The thing that has been impossible, right?

Because we have hardly had weddings, and the

few that we have had, we have had

our heads on so many fronts, on so

many different things, that it was not the

time, perhaps, to put a GoPro on top

of the camera, because we did not even

think so much about that, but we thought,

first, about doing a good job, and second,

about not getting infected, right?

Because we had to work with masks and

all these things, right?

That is why 2021 on Patreon, well, we

would like it to be a year as

interesting as possible for you and for us

too, okay?

Because I have to be a bit selfish,

and it is not only for you, but

it is also for us, and let's enjoy

what we are all doing, right?

So 2021 on Patreon, well, I would like

one that we share, or that we could

record more times at real weddings, so that

you like it even more, and the second

is that we are going to try to

interact much more with you.

I am going to try to use you,

steal you, well, steal you, use your photos

to continue working.

As you have seen a little bit in

the previous chapter, well, the next one, or

the next ones, I want you to have,

well, that style, right?

And I don't know little else to tell

you more, right?

I mean, I'm going to try to keep

the bad things, because the only thing I've

talked about has been bad, it has been

about some couples, who are not a few,

who have taken our hair, but there have

been bad things, but hey, it's not about

opening the shit drawer either, right?

And well, what Erika did, she says, we

could have done worse, man.

We are alive, we continue to work with

what is ours, we continue to dream, let's

go for it.

So that's what 2021 is about, right?

To squeeze the fist again, bite hard again,

squeeze the teeth with rage and move on,

which is what we are all going to

have to do, right?

So little else, friends.

Surely, well, I left something, because I have

not written the chuleta in front of me

in which I can see a little for

some topics or such, that is, I have

said it out loud, everything that has come

out of my heart a little bit.

I don't know if I have said it

right, if I have left something as I

tell you, I don't know.

So, well, this has been until today, this

has been Patreon, this has been or these

have been us, we have not tried to

put a mask on in front of us

to speak in all the chapters, you have

not seen perhaps the most human side or

the side, sometimes, well, more crazy ours, so

I hope you have had a good time,

so our greatest gratitude.

See you very soon, see you in the

first week of the year with another super

interesting chapter, sorry.

And nothing else, thank you again, we wish

you the best for next year, both Erika

and I, and Leo, and see you in

Boditas and see you around here.

Take care and be good, bastards.

Bye!