Luis Pons

Dr. Luis Pons

Luis Pons, corresponding member of the Royal European Academy of Doctors (READ), shares with the academic community the photo galleries “The Visual Delight of Blossom Time in Aitona” and “The Flamingos of the Ebro Delta,” published respectively on 13 and 21 March in the “Readers’ Photos” section of the digital edition of “La Vanguardia.” In the first of them, the prolific photographer selects an image that sums up the spectacle of fruit trees in blossom at the beginning of spring. “The fields of fruit trees in the sunshine stretch out in all their order and colours, a true attraction of the Segrià,” Pons himself explains. In the second, he shows the life of wild fauna in the heart of nature. “I took this series of images in the former salt flats of La Tancada, near Trabucador beach. The younger specimens have grey plumage until they become adults, depending on their diet. It is usual for them to feed in the rice fields,” he notes.

The academic is one of the regular photographers in this section, where he has published various photographic series on diverse subjects that have been very well received by the newspaper’s readers. Among his latest galleries are “The Chupa Chups of the Collserola Tower”, “Images of the Sant Joan Bonfire Night”, “How Were the New Year Fireworks Seen in Barcelona?”, “Guide to Identifying the Birds of Diagonal Mar”, “When the Moon Grows beside Torre Glòries”, “The Creative Universe of Frida Kahlo, in Monochrome and in Colour”, “Are Pickpockets Reappearing in Barcelona?”, “Dragonflies Return to Barcelona”, “The Milky Way with Meteorites in Cerdanya”, “The Living Nativity Scene of Corbera”, and “The Colours of Autumn in Montseny”, one of whose images was selected as one of the best photos of last November.

He is also the author of the celebrated photo galleries with the moon as their main subject: “The Moon’s Daily Visit”, “The Crescent Moon Levitates among Wind Clouds”, “Discover the Language of the Moon”, “The New Moon Shines as Never Before in Barcelona”, “The Settings That Inspired Bécquer’s ‘Moonbeam’”, “The Buck Moon Settles over La Ràpita”, “Omega Effect of the Moon in the Ebro Delta”, and “The New Moon of Marrakesh”.

Luis Pons discovered photography in the 1980s, driven both by his interest in the chemical process involved in developing negatives in paper photography and by his closeness to the photography sections of the newspapers “El País” and “Avui,” where he worked as an executive, as he has explained to the academics who have followed his work closely over recent years. From there, he made the leap to digital photography.