Before the 1992 Olympic Games, I think its safe to say that Barcelona’s beaches were bordering on disgusting…places you didn’t really want to go to hang out let alone swim with floating flotsam and the funky fish, unless you were a junkie.
Some things actually do change for the better…
This is definitely one of my favorite things to photograph in Casa Batlló and I keep aiming the camera at it every time I go. The lines and forms are exceptional and the color very warm and soothing…
They actually might finish it! The work continues at a rapid pace and 2026 appears to be the current goal–a mere 144 years after the first stone was laid.
Barcelona, by the sea.
Here are a few recent images of activity at the port. I love it when the sky cooperates with tumultuous clouds.
To get these on-the-water perspectives…
What an interesting find…these two couples, within a few hundred yards of each other along the Barcelona beach front…
That is what photography really is–painting with light.
So, here is a fun idea for painting and playing with whatever pattern of lights–in this case, candles–you might find while out and about…
Sometimes it is revealing to just concentrate on the details, rather than trying to “get it all in”.
Do images of the details say more about the whole than would a more traditional photograph of the entirety of the whole…?
Thousands were out demonstrating today all around Spain. Barcelona’s Plaça Catalunya was packed.
And…
How do you make unique images of a subject that has already been photographed literally (and I literally mean “literally”!) millions of times?
To be original, or not to be–that is the question…
The many, many vía ferratas here in Europe (300+, according to one source) come in all levels of difficulty, from introductory routes suitable for those who have never climbed more than a paint ladder, to more advanced lines that require some specific vía ferrata/climbing skills…