Hello, black and white community.
I’m continuing to share photos from the Marina de Amador fishing event here in Panama. Even though everything revolves around the boats and the action on the docks, this time I chose to focus on what happens away from the center. The life around the event carries its own strength: spontaneous gestures, quick footsteps, distracted kids, harsh lights, brief conversations… small scenes that usually go unnoticed but also shape the identity of the place.
I worked with a Canon 5D Mark III and the 50mm f/1.8 set to f/2.8, a simple but very effective setup for this kind of photography. At f/2.8 the lens becomes sharper and easier to control; it gives me just enough subject separation without losing the context around them. The 5D’s full-frame sensor handles the event’s extreme contrast beautifully deep shadows under the tents, strong lights from food stands, and areas where illumination drops abruptly. That dynamic range lets me push the black and white confidently without sacrificing detail.
In this series I aimed to capture:
The human energy moving around the event.
contrast, using light to guide attention.
The small stories, the ones that complement what happens on the docks but rarely get told.
My intention is to show that the Marina doesn’t live only on the water; it also lives in the people around it. And sometimes, those secondary moments say more than any fishing scene ever could.
