There is a lot of sitting done in Madrid, and a fair bit of watching. The gent on the left was there when I set off to see a few galleries and have lunch, and he was still there when I came back 3 hours later. Even though beer is amazingly cheap in restaurants, there are those who still prefer to sit in the park with a tinny or two. Possibly because there are more suspicious types in the park to keep an eye on.
Over my past 5 years or so of trekking, I have struggled with a way to represent the look and feel of the surroundings and the journeys. In such extraordinary surroundings, it seemed perverse not to make a record of what I saw. But the result was often hundreds of images, many of only marginal…
Today’s photo: Boat and mill at Nalliers. An abandoned fishing boat tied up opposite the old mill in Nalliers, in the Vienne area of France. The river Gartempe cuts its way through some very attractive country, and it is studded with villages like Nalliers at it’s crossing points. Shot with my new Olympus E-M5 Mark…
Today’s picture. Taken at about 8:30am on Noordhoek beach before the arrival of many children. There are a few things restricting my shots currently. The wind is very strong at the moment, but the skies are clear. Sand blowing off the beach has a pretty abrasive effect on camera lenses, so its important to stay…
I have wanted to take this shot for a while after having noticed the effect a year or two ago. The viewpoint is from Kommetjie looking across the bay to Long Beach where the horses are exercised in the morning. I liked the idea of appearing to see the riders as though from a boat…
” Click photo to enlarge – back button to return. Taken on the shoreline facing Butterworth, in Penang. This was quite a tricky shot – the jetty was fantastically unstable, and behind me, at the end of the run, there was a rabid barking dog, which I later had to fend off with the tripod…
I am slowly grinding through my backlog of photographs for processing. I have now reached May 2015, and it is becoming clear to me that I need to return to the photo essay format.. Here is the first of these, this time from a series of street shots in the Malasana region of Madrid taken…
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