While we were in out hotel room in Barcelona last weekend, I noticed this scene through a gap in the curtains. I liked the contrast of light and shade, and the golden and blue colours of the scene outside.
Meanwhile, back at home after Christmas day, we’ve had misty conditions the past couple of days, so I’ve managed to get out and shoot a couple of rolls of Tri-X through my Yashica Mat 124G. I might get the opportunity to develop them over the next few days before I post my annual favourite photos post (and I don’t yet have any film photos for this month).
As much as I like to look at street photography, I don’t tend to take too many street shots myself. This one turned out quite well though, I think. I like the colours.
My wife and I spent the weekend just gone in Barcelona to visit the Christmas markets and just wander round the city. It’s the first time I’ve traveled overseas so close to Christmas and I was a little concerned that we might get caught up in a mass of travelers going home for Christmas, but everything went very smoothly and, while Barcelona was pretty busy, the travel was not.
We had a very nice time just wandering about the place, not doing anything in particular other than visiting shops and markets and eating nice food. We visited the Sagrada Familia as there was another Christmas market there, and I did consider going inside the cathedral, but I would have needed needed to book tickets in advance and there were none available to buy on the day as it was fully booked. My wife isn’t particularly interested in visiting cathedrals anyway, and I would have felt a little guilty if I was dragging her around the place while I took photos and admired the architecture, so I wasn’t too concerned about missing the opportunity. Maybe I’ll get another chance one day.
I shot a roll of colour 35mm film while there, but it will be after Christmas before that gets developed, but took some more photos with my Ricoh GRIII, including the one posted here today, so will share some of those once I’ve gone through them all.
This large star can be found in Plaça Sant Jaume in Barcelona, Spain. It is titled Origen and was created by Xevi Bayona and Àlex Posada. It projects light from the points of the star onto the facades of the buildings in the plaza.
The view down the River Great Ouse to where it empties into The Wash. I wonder how many of those special, extra-tall electricity pylons there are around the country? I’ve only ever seen them where they span rivers, like in this case.
I’ve been studying for a technical qualification for the past few months (an IT networking qualification that I need to achieve to progress some other training) and today was my exam. I was pretty nervous about it – I don’t do any practical hands-on networking stuff, so everything is theoretical to me and probably harder to memorise as a result. The exam had a few scenario-type questions that I struggled with and I was pretty certain that I was going to fail, so it was with a big sense of relief when I found out that I’d passed. I’m even more happy that I don’t need to keep up my revision over the Christmas break. 🙂
The photos today are all of the Custom House in King’s Lynn, a charming building that I’ve already posted a medium-format shot of on the blog here. It’s one of those structures that begs to be photographed, and you can see below that I certainly obliged.
