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30th Anniversary of the Twinning between Marchena and the French city of Châteaudun

The streets and the entrance to the Coullaut Valera Museum are adorned with French and Spanish flags to welcome the mayor and other members of the municipal council of the French city of Châteaudun, who are visiting these days to celebrate the 30th anniversary of their twinning with Marchena.

UPDATE: Full coverage of the commemorative event by RTVMarchena, concluding with a particularly intriguing montage.

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18 September, 2023

23:55

If the plan doesn’t work, change the plan, but never the goal

Now that the second video of the Marchena 2023 fair is almost ready to publish, I would like to clarify some things.

The first thing is that I am not going to publish the photos here on the website until I have published the third video on YouTube, so as not to “spoil” any surprises ahead of time.

The second thing is that I do all of this by myself. I don’t have any team of people by my side, no assistants or anything. And I do everything with a very small budget. My camera is a Canon DSLR, yes, but a very cheap, beginner’s model. If it looks so good and so professional it is because I know how to get the most out of it due to my many years of experience taking photos. However, I only started making videos a year ago, during Easter 2022. Many problems with my videos are due to my lack of experience and others are due to using a cheap camera. Problems with focus, with sometimes everything looking TOO close, and above all, problems with STABILIZATION, or rather, the lack of it. Because my camera does not have a stabilizer, and I have to use an option in the video editor on the computer to stabilize by software, but it is super slow and makes a lot of mistakes, it makes strange movements, as you can see in the videos. To avoid having this problem I need a 4,000 euro camera (Canon R5), which would also solve the problems of blurring and everything being seen too close.

Another thing is that the videos take me forever to make. Apart from the fact that it is a laborious job in itself, the computer takes a long time processing. And between the analysis of the stabilization, the export, the reconversion to 4K, and the upload to YouTube, hours and hours are spent. I have a 2011 Mac Mini that is already asking for retirement.

Since I have to add a photo to the publication, I’m posting a preview of one of the photos from the fair. The one on the right is my cousin Teresa.

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24 December, 2022

20:30

Happy Christmas…….

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11 October, 2022

21:47

This year Miss Universe Spain

The current Miss Universe Spain is Andrea Valero, from Galicia. The contest was set in Saint Augustine square in Los Realejos, Tenerife (Spain) the 30th of July, 2025.

Previous Miss Universe Spain

Miss Universe Spain 2024 was Michelle Jiménez, from Balearic Islands.

Miss Universe Spain 2023 was Athenea Pérez Nsué, the first black Miss Spain, daughter of an immigrant single mother.

Miss Universe Spain 2022: Alicia Faubel, from the Valencian Community, is the Spanish representative who participated in the Miss Universe edition that was held on January 14, 2023 in New Orleans, United States.

Miss Universe Spain 2021: Sarah Loinaz was the chosen one. Daughter of a Moroccan mother and a Basque father.

Miss Universe Spain 2020: Andrea Martinez, from León. She participated in the contest held in Hollywood Florida (the other Hollywood), United States.

(This entry has been edited as it received many international visits from people looking to find out who the current Miss Universe Spain was, but it contained outdated information.)