Breathe
By Jimena Cardenas, Mexican photographer passionate about telling stories through her lens. Since she was a child she got involved in the media and followed her passion in a more dedicated way. For her, taking pictures is telling the truth, capturing a moment, making it infinite, reliving a reality to transmit and share it.
Four years ago I started in the world of photography; I mainly focus on nature themes: landscapes, birds and animals. I love adrenaline and enjoy the greatest pleasure that life can give us which is nature, a sunrise or a sunset.
I confess that these days that Popocatepetl was active I had one of the most shocking, fun and, at the same time, tiring experiences of my life. I had this thing called luck to be present at a natural spectacle.
After my photographs were published, I received an invitation to write about my experience of seeing this man active. I tell it here:
I arrived at the point at 6 pm and I got a storm; around 10 pm it fizzled out. That was an incredible experience: usually the weather in the mountains is unpredictable, although there are apps to give you an approximation of the weather, the reality is that in the mountains everything changes constantly; there were very cloudy moments and some more clear and around 2 am I was fortunate to experience the magic of an eruption and to see the lava from the volcano. From that moment on Popocatepetl was very active and I was able to capture with my camera the spectacle that night for those of us who were close by.
When one is in the mountain at that altitude "hits us", because they are very high levels to which we are not so used to and we get something called mountain sickness or altitude sickness, this time I was lucky that it did not happen to me although in other experiences if it has hit me.
What will help to summarize in this column is that to take these photographs you cannot sleep, since the best time to capture the lava is at night because the sensitivity of the cameras to capture the incandescence is nocturnal; that is why one must be attentive to every moment, like a hunter attentive to his prey, like a survivor of the shipwreck attentive to the slightest glimpse of the coast,
What we saw on that incredible night was to feel the Earth, the planet manifesting itself, giving of its existence and its great power.
It was the strongest cold experienced; the strongest show experienced, the most surreal night experienced.
Despite the spring, the frigid weather surprised us,
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