In Venezuela, there is a tradition called the Christmas dinner, which is usually organized by the employees of a company, although in this case, it was a lunch, hahaha. The "dinner" was organized by my closest friends, who own several stores, and since we are all friends, we joined in one single celebration.
The place they chose for the celebration was an outdoor restaurant; it had a very beautiful Christmas decoration:
El lugar que escogieron para la celebracion fue un restaurante al aire libre, tenia una decoracion navideña muy linda:
Something very cool about this place is that it also has many animals that are already used to humans and are friendly, you can touch all of them!
Algo muy cool de este lugar es que tambien tiene muchos animales que ya estan acostumbrados a los humanos y son amigables, los puedes tocar a todos!
I was there with many of my friends, and obviously, I photographed all of them!
Estuve allí con muchos de mis amigos y obviamente los fotografié a todos!
Usually, I don't appear in the photographs because I am the one taking them, but on this occasion, a friend who already knows how to use cameras had attended, so I asked him to take a couple of photographs of me, first with my girlfriend:
Usualmente yo no salgo en las fotos porque soy yo quien las toma pero en esta ocasion habia asistido un amigo que ya sabe usar camaras asi que le pedí que me tomara un par de fotos, primero con mi novia:
And then some photographs of me alone:
Y luego unas fotos yo solo:
Time passed, and night fell. To my surprise, yesterday was also the day of the candle lighting tradition, and the restaurant had organized an event around it. In a few minutes, they handed out candles to everyone present, and people lit their little candles, making a wish or giving thanks for something that happened to them this year!
Pasó el rato y se hizo de noche, para mi sorpresa, ayer tambien era el dia de la tradicion del encendido de vela y el restaurante habia organizado un evento en torno a eso, en pocos minutos repartieron velas a todos los presentes y las personas encendieron su velita pidiendo un deseo o agradeciendo por algo que les haya pasado en este año!
It was a moment that felt very beautiful and special:
Fue un momento que se sintió muy bonito y especial.
I took all the photographs with my Canon R8 camera, a 24-105mm f/4 lens, and only natural light.
This was a very beautiful day where I had a great time with my friends, and I hope you liked the photographs as much as I did!
Todas las fotos las tomé con mi camara Canon R8, un lente 24-105mm 4/f y solo luz natural.
Este fue un dia muy bonito en el que la pasé muy bien con mis amigos y espero que a ustedes les hayan gustado las fotos tanto como a mi!