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The Scarlet Canopy
A flamboyant tree overlooking the Puerto Rican countryside becomes a meditation on family, inheritance, memory, and home.
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Photography Exhibition
Nature
Where light becomes the artist.
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Beyond the Horizon
A sweeping view of Puerto Rico's northern coast preserves a beautiful September day and the quiet anticipation of continuing west toward family in Aguada.
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Echoes of the Coast
An abandoned coastal home stands between tropical beauty and the patient force of the sea, becoming a meditation on memory, displacement, vulnerability, and everything once lived within its walls.
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Where the Ocean Speaks
A wave explodes against the rocky coast of Quebradillas, suspending an unrepeatable arrangement of spray, light, clouds, and sea for a fraction of a second.
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Life Inside the Caldera
Clouds descend across the steep walls of the Pululahua volcanic caldera in Ecuador while patches of sunlight reveal farms, roads, homes, and cultivated fields across the valley floor. The panoramic photograph contrasts the immense scale of the volcanic landscape with the quiet evidence of everyday human life continuing within it.
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Into Mindo
A wooden staircase climbs through dense tropical vegetation in Mindo, Ecuador, disappearing toward an opening just beyond view. Photographed on June 26, 2010, the image records an ordinary passage through the landscape while withholding its destination. The rails lead upward and the steps invite the eye to follow, but whatever waits at the top remains unseen.
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Standing Alone
A solitary tree stands beneath an expansive December sky near Killeen, Texas, its remaining red leaves contrasting with the winter landscape. Photographed on December 24, 2017, during a walk through the area, the scene reflects a recurring attraction to trees that stand apart from their surroundings. A curving path disappears beyond the tree, leaving its destination unseen—a quiet reminder that while the present may be known, what lies ahead remains beyond view.
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Because I Looked
While living in Mexico City, Francisco Colón stepped onto the balcony of his apartment with his camera on an otherwise ordinary day, looking for something to photograph without going anywhere at all. Among the familiar plants, a small cluster of white flowers—believed to be a white-flowering Pelargonium, commonly known as a geranium—emerged against the deep greens and shadows. Long leaves radiate outward behind the blossoms, naturally drawing the eye toward something that might otherwise have gone unnoticed. Because I Looked is a quiet study of observation—the discovery that inspiration does not always require a destination. Sometimes it is already there, waiting to be noticed.
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Through the Leaves
Photographed from the balcony of Francisco Colón's apartment in Mexico City, Through the Leaves finds a brilliant red geranium surrounded by layers of tropical foliage and the warm geometry of a wooden railing. Foreground leaves partially obscure the scene, creating the sensation of looking through the garden rather than simply observing it from outside. Made during an ordinary afternoon of photographing close to home, the image reflects how familiar surroundings can reveal unexpected compositions when given closer attention.
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Between the Passing
A solitary flamboyán blooms in a narrow strip of land in Lake Worth, Florida, positioned between the railroad tracks and busy Dixie Highway. Surrounded by utility lines, fencing, buildings, traffic, and the infrastructure of everyday movement, the tree remains still—a brilliant presence in a place designed largely for passing through.
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Where the Rainbow Began
A rainbow appears to rise from the chimney of Francisco Colón's home before crossing a sky of warm clouds and deepening blue. Colón saw the changing sky when he stepped outside, ran back in for his camera, and deliberately changed his position until the rainbow aligned with the chimney. The photograph records a brief display of light and the precise viewpoint he chose to give it form.
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Beyond the Mangroves
In Fort Lauderdale, a white walkway leads through an opening in the mangroves toward a small pavilion across still water. Francisco Colón made the photograph on April 23, 2015, during a short outing with his friend Sarah, while he was learning more about composition and editing. The trees, exposed roots, and reflections became part of his study of how to guide a viewer's eye through a scene.
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Where the Earth Opens
From within La Gruta, a restaurant built inside a natural volcanic cave near the pyramids of Teotihuacán, Francisco Colón looked upward toward an opening in the rock. A tree rises beyond the darkness, framed by rugged volcanic walls and warm amber light. The photograph holds two worlds together—the shelter and mystery of the earth below, and the living promise of light waiting beyond it.
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The Moon That Followed Us
Photographed handheld somewhere in Mexico, The Moon That Followed Us transforms a familiar celestial subject into a vessel for personal memory. As a child in Paterson, New Jersey, Francisco Colón ran with his brother and cousins believing the Moon was following them. Decades later, it became connected to Ana Gabriel's song Luna, a lost love, and the woman with whom he would eventually travel the world—the experiences that helped inspire Fronteras y Ecos. The surrounding darkness expresses distance and solitude, while the Moon remains a quiet companion across childhood, love, travel, and time.
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The Quiet Lookout
A squirrel pauses upright upon a broad tree branch in a park in Lake Worth, Florida, watching its surroundings with bright-eyed attention. The diagonal trunk leads toward the animal while an overhead branch forms a natural canopy, enclosing the moment within layers of softly rendered green foliage. Its alert posture and delicate expression transform an ordinary wildlife encounter into a quiet portrait of awareness, curiosity, and life within the trees.
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Breaking Morning
The first light of morning breaks through a turbulent bank of clouds above the Atlantic Ocean at Lake Worth Beach, Florida. Rays of sunlight spread toward the horizon while the final stars of night remain faintly visible overhead. Below, the ocean remains largely within shadow, revealing a subtle trail of light across the moving waves.
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What Stood in the Way
A large yacht rests at the marina in West Palm Beach beneath an expansive early-morning sky filled with violet clouds and breaking light. Although the vessel dominates the foreground, it was not the reason for the photograph. The real attraction was the atmosphere behind it—the changing sky, the color, and the first light of morning. What Stood in the Way explores the contrast between something built to impress and a natural spectacle unfolding beyond it.
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Witness to Morning
Two figures stand near the shoreline as morning breaks over the Atlantic, dwarfed by a vast sky filled with glowing orange clouds and cool blue light. Their small presence gives scale to the scene and transforms the sunrise from a landscape into a shared human moment. Witness to Morning reflects on the quiet experience of standing still while the day begins around us.
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Where Morning Finds the Shore
Two shorebirds stand in the wet sand as the rising sun breaks through a low band of clouds over the Atlantic. Golden light stretches across the water and reflects along the shoreline, while darker clouds frame the scene above. The photograph moves almost continuously from wet sand to incoming waves, ocean, horizon, clouds, and sky. The birds provide small points of life within the larger coastal landscape, their presence bringing a sense of movement and play to an otherwise quiet morning.
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For As Long As It Carries Me
A lone surfer walks the shoreline beneath a broad morning sky, carrying a board toward the Atlantic as light spreads across the water. The image becomes a meditation on movement, timing, and presence—not on finding the perfect wave, but on recognizing the value of the one that arrives. Some experiences are not meant to last forever. Their meaning comes from being fully present for however long they carry us.
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The Quiet Introduction
The Quiet Introduction captures a chestnut horse encountered during a walk in Killeen, Texas, on December 24, 2017. Standing quietly in its pasture near the home of Francisco Colón's former wife, the horse turned its attention toward the photographer, creating a brief moment of recognition between them. Its steady gaze, falling blond mane, and the softly rendered fence and trees transform an unplanned encounter into a quiet study of presence and connection.
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Where Darkness Becomes Light
Where Darkness Becomes Light explores the gradual passage between night and day along the ocean's edge. From the nearly black foreground, detail slowly emerges across the wet sand before reaching the reflected sunlight, ocean, and illuminated horizon, while a massive cloud layer still carries the darkness above. Inspired by Francisco Colón's lifelong fascination with the boundary between the illuminated and unilluminated Earth, the photograph reflects on a distinction that appears simple from a distance but becomes far more complicated when experienced: darkness does not simply end where light begins.
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Because They Flew By
On the morning of July 25, 2016, Francisco Colón was preparing for a video shoot with his friend Melina as the sun began to rise. Photographing birds had never been part of the plan. When two birds unexpectedly crossed the open sky above the ocean, he simply raised the camera and made the photograph. Because They Flew By preserves an unplanned moment—the kind of photograph that exists not because it was sought, but because the photographer happened to be looking when it appeared.
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The Reach of the Light
The Reach of the Light looks across the mountains surrounding Granada, Spain, as the rising sun begins its passage through the valley. From the shadowed foreground, whitewashed walls descend toward the landscape while a solitary streetlamp stands silhouetted near the emerging light. Beyond it, the mountains unfold in layers. Sunlight crosses the first ridge, reaches through the valley, and catches the slopes beyond, tracing portions of the landscape while neighboring areas remain in shadow. The contrast reveals the shape of the terrain not all at once, but gradually, according to where the morning light has reached. The photograph exists in that brief interval when darkness has not completely surrendered and daylight has not yet claimed the entire landscape. Trees, streets, and portions of the mountains remain in shadow while bands of warm illumination travel across the distance. The Reach of the Light is less about sunrise itself than about its movement—the extraordinary distance light can travel, and the way even a small portion of it can begin to transform everything it touches.
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Beyond the Next Step
Beyond the Next Step follows a quiet stone stairway climbing through the wooded landscape surrounding the Alhambra in Granada, Spain. Cobblestone steps rise between old stone walls and dense vegetation, while traditional lamps mark the path as it gradually disappears into the trees. The walk toward the Alhambra is part of the experience of reaching it. As the path climbs, the sounds of the city begin to recede. Trees surround the walkway, sunlight filters intermittently through the canopy, and somewhere beyond what can be seen, the sound of running water accompanies the ascent. What I remember most about this walk was its stillness. There was no need to hurry toward the palace. The stones beneath my feet, the changing light, the vegetation, and the sound of water just beyond view made the journey itself part of what I had come to experience. The Alhambra waits somewhere ahead, but it does not need to appear in the photograph. For a moment, there is only the path—and whatever waits beyond the next step.
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