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Here are a few more views of the Gothic Quarter in Barcelona.


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One of my favorite areas in Barcelona was the Gothic Quarter. The Gothic Quarter is the oldest part of the city and was built on top of the ruins of the original Roman city in the area; in a lot of places, you can see the Roman ruins peeking out around the more modern city. Also I like the huge contrast between this district and the area just ( Read more... )

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At this point, I am jumping around with no rhyme or reason to these posts. I find that when I take photographs, I know instinctively which ones are going to be winners and which ones I will have to consider for quite some time, tweak, agonize over, and maybe eventually post. When I’m going through my photographs, I tend to jump first to the ones ( Read more... )

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Before the Busker Festival in Barcelona, there was another band that took advantage of the accumulating crowds. They played mostly latin/salsa kind of music and this guy in the crowd just starting busting a move in the middle of the band. They loved it and made space for him to so his thing to the music. It was pretty awesome.


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I interrupt the flow of photographs from my Spanish extravaganza to give you a live report of Hurricane Irene. After all of the weather reports, all of the evacuations, all of the panic and hysteria, this is what it looks like from my apartment:



Small body of water in my yard and some leaves and branches from the willowy tree. Basically, this is ( Read more... )

On August 7th, I ran into the 7th annual busker festival in Barcelona. The top 10 bands were performing along the beach in Barceloneta. The bands were really unique and interesting, and I had a fantastic time sitting around and watching them play. www.buskerfestivalbarcelona.org is the link that was on the posters, but it doesn’t seem to be ( Read more... )

For the majority of the time I was in Spain, I was staying outside of Barcelona, near Sabadell. It’s a beautiful area. The place I was staying had a large, back balcony that overlooked a beautiful hilly region. One day when I come home, there was a gorgeous sunset so I snapped a couple of photographs.


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