As I mentioned some time ago, something is dragging me towards the north. My daughter is starting university in Leeds, and in the past year or so I’ve been exploring cities up north. One I really like is Sheffield. I’ve spent some days there and the first thing I noticed is how hilly the city […]
Archival pigment based ink giclée print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag, Delicate surface, Matt, 308 gsm, Off white, Smooth texture. 1 inch border for easy framing.
Archival pigment based ink giclée print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag, Delicate surface, Matt, 308 gsm, Off white, Smooth texture. 1 inch border for easy framing.
Archival pigment based ink giclée print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag, Delicate surface, Matt, 308 gsm, Off white, Smooth texture. 1 inch border for easy framing.
This is another repeated trip. Years ago I went to Almeria, just as a way to escape from a very bad time in my life. I thought about spending a few days somewhere not too far, just to see how I would feel afterwards. I thought about going to a deserted area in the south […]
Here are some pictures I took in Madrid. On a sunny day we did a bit of tourism, even visited a hotel that had been long time closed and now had a nice rooftop bar with amazing views. To high for my liking though. This was the first trip abroad we managed to do after […]
This last summer some fortunate ones managed to visit some places abroad, perhaps came back home without bringing the virus with them (or passed to others elsewhere), others just stayed home. Or just went nearby, not too far away. That was my case. Instead of the usual trip to exotic places (say to Spain to […]
As it’s becoming traditional in this blog, half way through January looks like a nice time to talk about last year. It’s also my birthday soon, so it feels like a more natural end of year to me. I am still in London. A place that keeps giving me mixed feelings. I broke one of […]
Some months ago, just out of the blue, I took a flight to Copenhagen. The idea was to visit friends in Malmö and Stockholm. I had never been in Sweden. As a short summer break from the heat wave in London seemed like a perfectly good idea. Is funny how we accumulate stereotypes and preconceived […]
I always wanted to live in London. Almost since I remember. Life made me delay my decision about moving. After university in Madrid I started working in video games, I got married, we had a daughter. The idea of moving to UK, particularly London, was still there, but somehow it was not a priority. Some day […]
Here we are, end of March. And its freezing cold, at least from my point of view, in the UK. Yesterday I talked with my family in Spain and they said it was almost like summer. How I miss that. A moment ago I could see through the big windows in my small studio how it […]
Its been a while since my last post. Some recent personal events have made almost impossible for me to get time for my blog and keep it updated. Not even editing and processing pictures. I still have loads of pictures from other trips and places that, hopefully soon, will share here. In this “no time for […]
I’m back from my holidays. I’m also really busy these days, but I have time to share some pictures I did in the past two or three weeks with my new mobile. The image quality is not the same as the ones I take with my DSLR, but I reckon it is quite fun to use a […]
These days are hot here in UK. In a way, its different to what I’m used to in Madrid, where the weather is less humid. With just above 20ºC there is a quite summery sensation. More if it is a sunny day. Reach 30ºC and they call it heat wave. Ha!, in Madrid we usually […]
I did a quick trip this last weekend. I visited the Algarve, the south part of Portugal, an area I really love. These pictures are from some of the beaches I went to. The plan was drive to a place, lay on the sand, read a book, try to swim a bit in the chilly water […]
…in London’s British Museum. I took this picture a few years ago, in my first visit to London when I arrived here. No need to say much else about this place. It is just amazing. As are most of the museums I’ve visited in UK. Maybe because here museums are free, most of them. We […]
The day after my visit to Warwick Castle, we went to London Winter Fair, in Hyde Park. It was my first time coming to London in Christmas holidays. I usually go back to Spain to visit family and friends, but not this year. Someone told me about this popular fair in London. It seemed to […]
My three pictures for Weekly Photo Challenge: Horizon. The first one was taken from a car going to some place in Spain. I wasn’t driving. I used a high shutter speed and long focal lens. This might be the best one that came from that experiment. I liked the undulating horizon. The second one is […]
Today I’ll stay at home. No work today. I’m feeling sick, nothing serious, just a cold and a bit of fever, but I can’t stand fever… it makes me slow, and not happy. I just want to stare at my fireplace with a whisky at hand and rubbing my cat. Well, I don’t have fireplace […]
Possibly, the best beach I’ve ever been. And I’m not the only one who thinks that. Just search for this place on google, and you’ll see this beach appearing in all sort of rankings and lists. And still, it feels pretty isolated. There is just a tiny road that brings you there. And the food in the restaurants close by is […]
I really have enjoyed this trip to Spain. I think I’ve done something like 4000 Km in just three weeks. Cadiz, Albacete, Leon and Madrid have been the places I have visited. The white walls shown in the first picture are in Vejer de la Frontera. It is one of white towns in Cadiz and they are called […]
Taken a year ago, one of those rare days where the light is not just grey.Someone at work asked me today if I was thinking about leaving Cambridge some day. Apart from those adaptation issues I mentioned here, I don’t find a compelling reason to do so. Things in Spain are not going great this days. And I still feel passionate about some things here, […]
Yes, I have an imaginary friends. I must be going nuts or something, but that reality is becoming more and more obvious. I thought this things just happened when you a are a child. I see my daughter sometimes talking to people who is not there, as far as I know. They have different names, they tell her things, […]
For Weekly Photo Challenge: Pattern DLR is in London, outside Canary Warf underground station. I was there when I went to Greenwich. The banks and company buildings are a change to the usual architecture in the city. It doesn’t feel like London at all. Is more a modern financial district, as you can find in any other big city. R […]
Shops close their doors quite early in UK, compared to Spain. I remember my first days here, going out after work to see a shopping centre and finding it closed. And nobody on the streets. Weird… One of those nights I saw this store-front. The almost symmetrical display of colourful things grabbed my attention. The processing here was […]
…is mostly cloudy, always. Don’t underestimate the British weather. Even British people hate it. After a few years here I understand why they come to Spain for holidays or retirement. Why as soon there is a bit of sun, they all go outside to catch a bit of energy from our star. Winters are miserable, someone told me when I […]