Walking in step down the street
Walking down the street
Starting today a series of photos devoted mainly to people who wander the cities, people who like to walk or environmentally it moves around town.
It’s a small homage to all who walk to be more agile, stronger and healthier although they are in cities full of cars.
Each monday i’ll publish a photo on this topic.
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espai [b]
100×100 Photo
Espai [b] is a contemporary art gallery founded in 2003 in the Gracia district, Barcelona, with the idea of promoting contemporary art in its various expressions, paying special attention to the work of new artists, alternating with artists with broad experience.
100×100 Photo
There are exhibitions of various disciplines such as painting, printmaking, sculpture, photography and installation, often incorporating new digital printing technologies for the reproduction of designers and illustrators work.
100×100 Photo
100×100 Photo
In fact, Espai [b] has two distinct areas:
- the first is for temporary exhibitions and
- the second, fully open to the public, displays some pieces by the gallery’s represented artists.
The gallery has participated in various international contemporary art fair.
100×100 Photo
100×100 Photo
From time to time, the gallery presents photographic exhibitions, framed on his label 100×100 Photo. This friday inaugurated a new edition with works by a group of young artists in the world of photography.
100×100 Photo
100×100 Photo
Alongside large-format works, displayed on the walls live digital displays that show all the works presented at the exhibition for each artist.
Mélanie Tribalet, photographer
Benet Solina, photographer and director
Jordi Comes, photographer, painter and director, Sonia Toneu, photographer
Directors welcomed us very kindly and showed us the organizative “secrets” of an event of this nature.
The ambiance of the gallery was very familiar. We were at home.
Large audience at the opening
Naturally all works are for sale in different formats and, as usual, at very reasonable prices.
Large audience attended the inauguration of the exhibition.
The host of the show was a success.
100×100 Photo
100×100 Photo
100×100 Photo
100×100 Photo
100×100 Photo
100×100 Photo
From 14 to 30. may 2015
100×100 Photo
It deserves a visit
100×100 Photo
100×100 Photo
contact:
Espai [b]
Espai [b], Carrer del Torrent de l’Olla 158 · 08012 · Barcelona. Catalonia, Spain,
Directors: Jordi Comes i Benet Solina.
T · +34 93 217 10 90 | info@espaib.com
Mon – Sat, 17h – 20:30h
Le Cucine Mandarosso
Le Cucine Mandarosso is a small and intimate Italian restaurant in Barcelona, that welcomes us in a homey, informal atmosphere decorated with personal style.
Among the daily specials are delicious pasta with different sauces as well as meat and fish options. Sunday afternoon offers typical Italian aperitif and live music.
Le Cucine Mandarosso
A daily menu for 11 euros includes: a first plate, drink, dessert and coffee.
Le Cucine Mandarosso
The treatment is pleasant and a friendly atmosphere surrounds us. It feels like home.
Le Cucine Mandarosso
Carrer de Verdaguer i Callís 4 (Near Palau de la Música)
08003 Barcelona
T 932 69 07 80
cucina@lecucinemandarosso.com
Photos with iPhone 6+
Walking down the street
Walking down the street
I have posted two different versions of each photo, the second is a monochrome HDR. Photos with high dynamic range give a different view of the same scene that sometimes makes them very interesting.
The images were taken in La Rambla. Barcelona
Walking down the street
Walking down the street
Roses
La Diada de Sant Jordi (Saint George’s Day), also known as El Dia de la Rosa (The Day of the Rose) or El Dia del Llibre (The Day of the Book) is a Catalan holiday held on 23 April, with similarities to Valentine’s Day and some unique twists that reflect the antiquity of the celebrations. The main event is the exchange of gifts between sweethearts, loved ones and colleagues. Historically, men gave women roses, and women gave men a book to celebrate the occasion — “a rose for love and a book forever.” In modern times, the mutual exchange of books is also customary. Roses have been associated with this day since medieval times, but the giving of books is a more recent tradition originating in 1923, when a bookseller started to promote the holiday as a way to commemorate the nearly simultaneous deaths of Miguel Cervantes and William Shakespeare on 23 April 1616. Barcelona is the publishing capital of both Catalan and Spanish languages and the combination of love and literacy was quickly adopted.
La Rambla. St. George’s Day
In Barcelona’s most visited street, La Rambla, and all over Catalonia, thousands of stands of roses and makeshift bookstalls are set up for the occasion. By the end of the day, some four million roses and 800,000 books will have been purchased. Most women will carry a rose in hand, and half of the total yearly book sales in Catalonia take place on this occasion.
Roses
Books. St. George’s Day
The sardana, the national dance of Catalonia, is performed throughout the day in the Plaça Sant Jaume in Barcelona. Many book stores and cafes host readings by authors (including 24-hour marathon readings of different classics of Catalan literature or Spanish literature). Street performers and musicians in public squares add to the day’s atmosphere.
Bookstore. La Rambla. St. George’s Day
Bookstore. La Rambla. St. George’s Day
Women with her Rose
23 April is also one of only three days a year when the Palau de la Generalitat, Barcelona’s principal government building, is open to the public. The interior is decorated with roses to honour Saint George.
Bringing the rose to his girl
A girl with her rose
A bookseller advising customers
23 April is also one of only three days a year when the Palau de la Generalitat, Barcelona’s principal government building, is open to the public. The interior is decorated with roses to honour Saint George.
More info: Wikipedia
Rose
Tricycle
This afternoon, walking around my city I have come across this tricycle used to carry passengers on a for hire basis. It is an ecological system to explore the city. I thought it would be good idea to share.
This is the Second Post of the Five Photos, Five Stories Challenge.
Tricycle
A tricycle, often abbreviated to trike, is a three-wheeled passenger vehicle, usually carrying a single rider.
Human-powered trikes are powered by pedals or hand cranks. There are also motorized tricycles.
In the developing world, particularly Africa and Asia, tricycles tend to be used for commercial purposes: such as “pedicabs” for transport passengers, and freight trikes for making deliveries. In the West adult-sized tricycles are used primarily for recreation, shopping, and exercise.
The cycle rickshaw is a small-scale local means of transport; it is also known by a variety of other names such as bike taxi, velotaxi, pedicab, bikecab, cyclo, beca, becak, trisikad, or trishaw.
As opposed to rickshaws pulled by a person on foot, cycle rickshaws are human-powered by pedaling. Another type of rickshaw is the auto rickshaw.
They are a type of tricycle designed to carry passengers on a for hire basis. Cycle rickshaws are widely used in major cities around the world, but most commonly in cities of South, Southeast and East Asia.
More info: Wikipedia
Tricycle
Penguin
Penguin Humboldt
Penguin Humboldt
Penguins are a group of aquatic, flightless birds, that is, they have lost the ability to fly but have adapted to marine life thanks to their dense plumage and fin-like wings, which make them fantastic swimmers. They feed on fish, crustaceans and squid.
Penguin Humboldt
Penguin
Penguins
All the species live in the southern hemisphere and are characteristic sight in the cold Antarctic regions, although the Humboldt penguin lives further north on the coasts of Chile and Peru, in the area of the Humboldt current. The Humboldt Current is a cold, low-salinity ocean current that flows north along the west coast of South America from the southern tip of Chile to northern Peru.
More info in Wikipedia.
Penguin swimming
The Penguin
I am a bird you know quite well,
All dressed in black and white.
And even though I do have wings
They’re not designed for flight.
I waddle, waddle, waddle,
On my funny little feet.
Across the icy snow I go
To find a fishy treat!
Penguin swimming
Penguin
I know a bird
That cannot fly:
Penguin is its name.
It cannot fly,
But it can swim
With speed that wins it fame!
I know a bird
That lives on ice
And waddles by the sea.
It looks so cute
In its black-and-white suit,
As handsome as can be!
Penguin
First Post of the Five Photos, Five Stories Challenge, invited by my friend Berryduchess from berryduchess.com. As I said her, I’m not good at writing but I’ll make an effort to not detract her confidence.
Sorry for my english, I’m neither good at it.
Poems for kids from teachingfirst.net
Penguin
Penguin
roses
Spring flowers
flowers
I’ve selected these roses photographed yesterday afternoon for this Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Close Ups.
PHOTO CHALLENGE Blur
This biker appeared before me yesterday afternoon and decided to shot photograph for this photo challenge.
Castelldefels beach. Kite-surf
Playing sports on the Castelldefels beach at 20 km from Barcelona in Catalonia. Young sporters doing Kite Surf.
Images edited with Adobe Lightroom 5 and OnOne software.
Castelldefels beach. Kite-surf
Castelldefels beach. Kite-surf
Castelldefels beach. Kite-surf
Vulture
This is the largest bird of prey found and the most common carrion-eater in the woods of the Mediterranean area. Unlike other species of vulture, it does not nest in cliffs but in the tops of trees.
It ranges from the centre and south-east of the Iberian peninsula, Mallorca, to eastern Europe and Central Asia.
Near threatened specie.
Vulture
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