Out in the street yesterday with my Olympus and a fast telephoto lens. Like so many cities in Europe, it’s hard to see evidence of the recession in Madrid. Much more obvious in London in fact. This area of Fuencaral/Malasana has many flourishing speciality shops. I don’t recall whether this one was for dogs or humans, or both. The dog seemed happy enough though.
The scene on Noordhoek Beach 20 minutes after sunset, looking away from the sea. No good sunset last night but a nice view back to the village. The lights on the right hand side are 6km away, at the other end of Long Beach, or which Noordhoek beach is the North western part. A…
Just beyond these rocks is where the Noordhoek surfers go – it was pretty wild the other night – too dangerous for surfing, and too dark. But I couldn’t help but be impressed by the power of the waves. Capturing them is always an experiment in time. A very long exposure (like my favorite 4…
The fashion dummies just can’t make their minds up. Shot in Salamanca, Madrid on my way to El Corte Ingles (the Spanish Harrods, and meaning “the English cut”) for lunch. This is the swish Madrid equivalent of Knightsbridge, or Mayfair, although nicer ( and at the moment, warmer). ←PreviousI’m watching you while he’s watching me.NextThe…
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…
“A vacation is an occasional pleasure but a Ducatos is always a smoke”. A rough smoke, agreed, but at least it’s handy. Taken outside CentroCentro, Madrid, with credit to Rudyard Kipling for his (no longer PC) original line. ←PreviousThe nightmare of the FBTsNextThe Madrid path to perfection→
Little bit of street now. As I write, I’m sitting outside Lola’s cafe on the corner of Buiten and Long streets, finishing a rather nice salad nicoise. Or rather what fashionistas call salad nicoise. A real salad nicoise has more salad than tuna, and the tuna is cooked and shredded on top of mesclun ,…
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