'WUARZ'

Diego Zárraga is my friend from Bilbao, he loves photography and he spends most of his free-time making pictures. Diego’s nickname is Wuarz and he signs his pictures with his nickname, as everyone knows him in Bilbao. He makes wonderful pictures and people who know him ask him for nice pictures or make him questions about photography.  As I have said before he loves photography, so I have made him an interview.

1. Hello Diego, how did you start with photography?

        Hello Maitane, I have always liked photography and since I was fourteen I asked for a nice camera to my father. The answer was absolutely no, what made him start making photos with a bad camera, but when he turned seventeen, in Christmas; his dad gave him a nice camera, the one that he liked.

Photography fascinates me and what I do is to try to connect with people through my pictures, I like to transmit people what do pictures transmit me.

2. Can you show us your three best pictures, please?
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   This picture is in the ‘Puerto Deportivo’ of ‘Las Arenas’, Basque Country. This place is so special for me because I have spent there most of my days with my friends, and also I love coming here to take pictures.
   
   
   
   
   B. This picture is a drop of water falling down, it makes me thing about the life, this pictures represents me the life, because the time a drop spends to fall down is like the time we spend on our life, it seems to be so long but it is an insignificantly moment, it goes faster than it comes.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   C.Those two pictures are the same one, but the one that modified tries to be Avatar, but it is me, these are some little things you can do with Photoshop.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
3. Which is your photography style?
   I am very impulsive, this means that I don’t have a specific style, I make one picture when I want and however I want to do it. I don’t prefer to take a picture of a person or of an animal, just what I like I capture it.
4. Which kind of jobs/ works have you made?
   I have worked for some friends who have asked me for some pictures for different reasons and I have also been working for a family to a girl’s baptism. But I pre
   
   fer to work for myself doing the pictures I like; in step of the ones that my boss tells me to do.
5. Which computer programme do you use?
   
   The one that I like the most is Photoshop CS5 but I also use Photoscape for little things.
   
6. A good photographer born or he makes himself being good?
   I think both are correct, I mean a nice photographer needs to be born good at it but it also needs to work on it.
   
7. To finish with the interview, do you think you will be a professional photographer?
   
   As a hobby yes, but no as a professional, I love photography but I want to make me other things with my life, and photography could always be a nice hobby.