Although I enjoy artistic expressions a lot, I think I'm not very good at creating them, that's why I mainly focus on admiring and analyzing art in general. I made these two photos on Bolívar Avenue in mid-2017, with a phone that had a 5 megapixels camera, I would have liked to have a higher quality camera at that moment, but if I had had it, maybe I would not have taken the risk of capturing the scene, I will explain why.

I have always been quite impressed by the streets and avenues that are lost on the horizon due to their extension, such as the Avenue des Champs Elysées in Paris or the intersection where is located the Obelisco de Buenos Aires, I have not yet been able to visit these places but I hope someday to be able to do it. The open spaces and the long lines have something that catch me and I still can’t decipher it, Edward Hopper in his painting reflects it very well.

At first I was a bit afraid to take my phone to capture the image (Caracas is possibly the most dangerous city in the world and robberies are very frequent) but I finally decided to do it, at that moment i didn’t consider any technical aspect to get a good photograph, I simply wanted to capture that long avenue surrounded by buildings. I didn’t want either to edit the image with a filter that could make it more captivating, I only was seeking to express the major possible naturalness.

There are very few cars, well yes, the crisis has drastically reduced the number of vehicles in the city. Our large avenues designed to receive a large number of vehicles seem to have been relegated as a mere ornament of the city with a purely decorative purpose.

From the point where I took the photo, there is a statue of our Liberator, Simón Bolívar, reminding us who owes the name of this avenue. Behind him is the Palace of Justice of Caracas, an imposing building with a beautiful facade on the outside, but that inside and its surroundings its structure is in decline.

I would have loved to take pictures from different angles and positions in the place that I was, but at that time it seemed a bit risky, the area is quite nice to look at and although chaos abounds in its surroundings it's still inspiring.

In this image of Wikipedia you can appreciate in detail the place from where I captured the images

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