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Week 28 (2025) – Changed Website and New About Me – San Diego Date Day – Tijuana Adventure Newsletters
I changed my website. I changed my attitude. How does it look? Let me know. The start of July was slow. Well… it started with a great tour that paid me double, but then it slowed down. It was my girlfriend’s birthday, and I did nothing but make sure she was happy. And then I…
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Week 26 (2025) – Mom’s Birthday/Girlfriend’s Birthday – Halfway Through the Year – Ensenada Adventure Tours Text
It doesn’t feel like a Tuesday. It doesn’t feel like July already. It’s halfway through the year. It’s my girlfriend’s birthday. It will be our 2 year anniversary soon. Wild. She’s doing a baby shower style birthday (the day after) for her and her friends. They going to drink pink things and paint pink things.…
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Week 24 + 25 (2025) – Book Fair Closing – Wu Clan Ensenada and TJ Tour Adventure – Tijuana No! Live (concert photography)
Welp… I did it again. I got way too busy and I couldn’t blog last week. I had a tour early on Tuesday with a lovely couple with Disney tattoos. We weren’t suppose to drink. The husband had a tattoo appointment at 5 pm and you are not supposed to drink before getting a tattoo.…
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Week 21 + 22 (2025) – Weird Shit Happens – So Much Content, So Much Work, So Many Tours – Ensenasty Adventure
Oooeee. I’m tired like a forty year old man. I had two tours in a row. They were both great clients like always. Yesterday’s tour was a couple from Riverside that are into Real Estate. We walked a lot. It was great, I love walking this city even though it’s not the most beautiful place…
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Week 8 (2025) – Tijuana Party Tours and Deep Tissue Massage – Ensenada Beer Fest Package Tour!
It’s the end of February 2025. End of the short month that felt kind of long. Not that many tours but the month got rescued by a couple of tours by the end. I don’t have a tour this weekend. I got an email yesterday asking for a tour for today (very short noticed). I…
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Week 5 (2025) – Slow February Start – Selling Gear, Going to Ensenada
It’s hard to write when there isn’t much to write about. It’s not Monday. It’s Tuesday already. And I got nothing. I don’t have a tour this weekend (as of now). I have to create my own jobs. Ensenada Adventure: creating content for that soon. I have a lot of work. But it’s all tedious…
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Week 2 (2025) – Of Sadness and Love -Ensenada Adventure Business Venture
I feel empty. Sort of incomplete. Like I lost a limb. An extension of myself. My girlfriend broke up with me. Or I broke up with her. I asked her if she wanted to be my girlfriend for 2025. Not beyond that. Another year. The first one went fast. I love being with her. She…
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April 2024: Great March, Could be Greater – Recognized Much and Merch – Bye Donatella!
I was walking in downtown Tijuana yesterday with my girlfriend when from behind me I heard: “Oh! It’s Matingas!” I turned around after hearing my name. It was an older gentleman I didn’t recognize. He identified himself as knowing me from Instagram, then it clicked. He had a group of people behind him. He was…
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Print Giveaway – Rock Cover, Rock Show – Ensenada Aches
Owwww. Fuck. This the third morning I woke up to a sharp pain in my stomach. I want to puke. There’s nothing to vomit. I’ve been sick since Saturday night… It’s Wednesday morning. The pain renders me useless for periods of time. I don’t know how women do it. It’s just a stomach ache. I…
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Nothing in September, but Love – Looking for Gigs to End the Year – Ensenada Plan 2023
I haven’t touched my cameras all of September… It’s already September 12th but the days have disappeared between heat, rain with heat, Labor Day long weekend, being with my girlfriend, and no gigs. August was great. There were a ton of gigs. It started with a tour, followed by some food photography in Rosarito, then…
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Playa Cocodrilo: Camping Adventure – Empty September – Social Media Blockade
I have 0 gigs for September. September already starts tomorrow. I need to book photoshoots, tours, or write articles to be published. Or I’ll starve. I need to write. So write I will. My editor asked me to write about stuff. It’s stuff that I already wrote in my blog. I feel more flexible in…
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Tijuana Friday Drama – Media Salivates at Disaster – Bye Tj, Me Voy!
Tijuana drama. Bye Tijuana. I’m leaving you. That’s what I keep saying. At least I bought my ticket to Mexico City. But that’s late in November. And it’s for a good friend’s wedding. This is my chance to take killer photos and make my wedding photography business grow. Also, a great chance to see all…
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July 2022: Puppy Studio Cover – Thinking of Her – Food Influencer Gone Wrong
I’m happy but also feeling sad. I got sunshine but also debt in a bag. More gigs coming my way, more expenses to spend. It’s coming on. Everything seems to be going great for me. It’s so good, that I got that feeling of impostor syndrome. I work at a taco truck serving and sometimes…
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Drinking Beer with Don Cornelio for a Tv Show – Moving to Ensenada – Birthday Fun and TikTok
My birthday was great. It continued for days, basically until yesterday (a whole week later). Tony Tee got me tickets to go see Toros. He said it was my birthday present. He would have done it regardless of my birthday or not. Going to Toros with Tony is a blast. This time, Joe and Mayda…
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Romantic Ensenada Getaway – Cover Shoots, Tons of Shoots – New Website (Still Under Construction)
I did an awesome tennis photo shoot yesterday with a tennis professional and professor. My friend Yesenia took some of me playing tennis as she fervently gazed at the tennis pro. Here are some shots she took of me on my main Instagram: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Matingas (@matingas_) The…
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Second Cover: Ensenada Seafood and Beer Paradise – Procrastination Station – March Booking, Let’s GO!
It’s Monday. And like Garfield. I fucking hate Mondays. It’s gloomy out. It’s gloomy in. Though I look gloomy days. Sunset looks really promising. It’s a fucking shitty Monday. “It just sounds like you are procrastinating a lot.” That’s what my therapist told me. Sounds so obvious. I couldn’t figure it out. I’m fighting depression.…
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Busy November, Nothing December – Bilingual Wedding Photographer Booking 2022 – Beer Cover and Top 10 Beers
I have nothing to do. So I’m cleaning my apartment. I wish I was on Ritalin for it. It helps a lot. It’s rainy as fuck out. My street is a shit river of sewer and rainwater like it always is when Tijuana gets like this. Not a little creek. Like a fucking river. I…
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Thunderstorm in Tijuana – Ensenada Trip – Taco Truck Cashier Person
So many days of nothing. Very few days with everything. That seems to be my days. In the next few days, I have a lot. Tomorrow, I work as a taco truck cashier man. It’s easy money. People tip a lot because it’s San Diego. And they feel bad for me because they think it’s…
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Ensenada Adventure: Finding Vicmar the Shipwreck – DotA All the Time – Kim Shantal and Fame
It feels like all I do is play DotA and nothing else. But I saw the last blog and it reminded me that I did a shit ton that week. And looking back… I did a shit ton last week as well. I wish I made money doing all I did… but it was an…
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June 2018: Only One Cover – World Cup Zombified – Last Tijuana Adventure (Tour Hiatus)
I just want to watch the World Cup and for the year to end. That’s what I keep telling everyone and myself. And since the World Cup started two weeks ago, I’ve been watching almost every single game. Missed the 3 a.m. game because fuck that. Missed the one before the Mexico vs Germany game…
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April: Busy Month – Tons of Photography – Ensenada Wedding – Bachelor Tour
April was an incredibly busy month. And a very good one as well. I haven’t taken these many pictures since the ole’ paparazzi days. And only one cover picture… This one: That was on April 2nd. Where I also took some other pictures for the magazine, but the cover was something else. I also took…
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Ensenada Adventure – New Baby! – And More Lightworks!
Shit! Just got back from Ensenada a couple hours ago. I thought I had a tour today. So I bucket showered in a rush and was about to go out when my client said “uhh… I think we didn’t communicate right, the tour is tomorrow.” Dumbass me. So I have time to rest. Tomorrow I…
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Lightworks is Here! – My Back is Bruised & Destroyed – Coffee and Whiskey
Lightworks, aka, Erik Trejo, aka one of the few people that can make me dance is here from Austin. He has a show in Ensenada. Then one in San Diego. Then one in Tijuana. I would go to all three, but I have a tour tomorrow. And I am going to the one to Ensenada.…
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