Colored pencils
A colored pencil, coloured pencil or pencil crayon is an art medium constructed of a narrow, pigmented core encased in a wooden cylindrical case. Unlike graphite and charcoal pencils, colored pencils’ cores are wax-based and contain varying proportions of pigments, additives, and binding agents. Oil-based, water-soluble and mechanical colored pencils are also manufactured.
The use of wax-based mediums in crayons is well-documented and can be traced back to the Greek Golden Age. Wax-based materials have appealed to artists for centuries due to their resistance to decay, the vividness and brilliance of their colors, and their unique rendering qualities. Although colored pencils had been used for “checking and marking” for decades prior, it was not until the early 20th century that artist-quality colored pencils were produced. Manufacturers that began producing artist-grade colored pencils included Faber-Castell and Caran d’Ache in 1924.
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Reflected palms
As you can guess, these reflected palm trees belong to a golf course. It is located in the area of Murcia (Spain).
I don’t play golf, and I don’t like the amount of water wasted on maintenance, but the course was beautiful. I liked those palms reflected on water and the green color.
Reflected palms
Maria Sharapova
Today begins the second week in Wimbledon 2015, the most important tournament in the world tennis. I want to pay my tribute to one of my favorite players: Maria Sharapova
Maria Sharapova
Maria Yuryevna Sharapova: born 19 April 1987, is a Russian professional tennis player, who is ranked world No. 4 by the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA). A United States resident since 1994, Sharapova has competed on the WTA tour since 2001.
She has been ranked world No. 1 in singles by the WTA on five separate occasions, for a total of 21 weeks. She is one of ten women, and the lone Russian, to hold the career Grand Slam and is an Olympic medalist, having earned silver for Russia in women’s singles at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
Maria Sharapova
Maria Sharapova
Maria Sharapova
Sharapova became the world No. 1 for the first time on August 22, 2005 at the age of 18, and last held the ranking for the fifth time for four weeks from June 11, 2012 to July 8, 2012. Her 35 singles titles and five Grand Slam titles — two at the French Open and one each at the Australian Open, Wimbledon and the US Open — rank third amongst active players, behind Serena and Venus Williams. She won the year-ending WTA Finals in her debut in 2004. She has also won three doubles titles.
Maria Sharapova
Maria Sharapova
Despite an injury-prone career, Sharapova has achieved a rare level of longevity in the women’s game. She has won at least one singles title a year from 2003 until 2015, a streak only bested by Steffi Graf,Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert. Several tennis pundits and former players have called Sharapova one of tennis’s best competitors.
Maria Sharapova
Maria Sharapova
Maria Sharapova
More info: Wikipedia
Beech forest (Barcelona)
This beech forest, not far from Barcelona, is called in catalan the “Fageda d’en Jordà”. It is an exceptional beech forest that grows on a flat and sits on a lava flow from the volcano Croscat.
Is a Natural Park of the Garrotxa Volcanic Zone.
I have another beautiful post from the same forest here.
Door. Carmona. Seville
Norm’s Thursday Doors Challenge.
Here is my entry for Norm’s Thursday Doors Challenge. Thanks Norm again for hosting this challenge.
This door was photographed in a little beautiful town called Carmona, a little beautiful town it lies 33 km north-east of Seville (Spain).
Carmona is built on a ridge overlooking the central plain of Andalusia; to the north is the Sierra Morena. The city is known for its thriving trade in wine, olive oil, grain and cattle, and holds an annual fair in April.
Sunset
Follow the light
If you are looking for the heaven
and you lose the way,
if the darkness is around you
and you think you’re lost,
follow the light.
The light will show you the way.
bCL Photography 2015
American Flamingo
American Flamingo
The American flamingo is a large species of flamingo closely related to the greater flamingo and Chilean flamingo. It has also been known as the Caribbean flamingo.
American Flamingo
This flamingo lives on the coast, salt marshes and lagoons in the islands of the Bahamas, Cuba, Haiti and the Dominican Republic and the Galapagos, as well as in Central America and the north of South America.
It is the only flamingo which naturally inhabits North America.
It differs from the common and Chilean flamingos in that it has bright red plumage.
American Flamingo
Although its numbers are still quite large -there are about 80-90.000 remaining- they are gradually decreasing due to the constant destruction of their environment (like many other species).
American Flamingo
The American flamingo is a tall, pink bird that stands on one leg. It is a homeothermic endotherm; an animal that keeps a consistent temperature that is regulated within its body.
Adult American flamingos are smaller on average than greater flamingos but are the largest flamingos in the Americas. They measure from 120 to 145 cm (47 to 57 in) tall. The males weigh an average of 2.8 kg (6.2 lb), while females average 2.2 kg (4.9 lb).
More info: Wikipedia
American Flamingo
Castelldefels beach
Weekly Photo Challenge: Muse
What subject keeps me coming back? There are several places I come back again and again looking for inspiration. One of them is the beach where I live, Castelldefels.
Castelldefels is a municipality in the province of Barcelona in Catalonia, noth-east of Spain. Its population is 63.255 (2014). It is located about 20 km (12 mi) southwest of Barcelona. The town is famous for its long beach (more than 5 km).
Castelldefels beach
I love the sunrise and sunset moments, and some days I need to go to enjoy of this beach. I always do some interesting photo.
I’ve posted this same beach two times: Sports on the beach. Kite-surf and Sunset in Castelldefels.
Castelldefels beach
The Championships, Wimbledon
Wimbledon: The Championships
The Championships, Wimbledon or simply Wimbledon, is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, and widely considered the most prestigious. It has been held at the All England Club in Wimbledon, London since 1877. It is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments (Majors), the others being the Australian Open, the French Open (Roland Garros) and the US Open. Since the Australian Open shifted to hard court in 1988, Wimbledon is the only Major still played on grass, the game’s original surface, which gave the game its original name of “lawn tennis”.
These photographs show a crowd of people every year go to see this event.
The Championships, Wimbledon
Everything is now ready to start today the 129th edition of the championship.
The Championships, Wimbledon
Williams Sisters
Wimbledon Championships
Today I will enter into the world of tennis taking advantage we are about to start the Wimbledon tennis tournament 2015.
These two pictures are a bit different from the photos that usually do athletes.
In the first we see the Williams sisters in a break of a doubles match. In the second we see the sisters in action. Serena hits a ball at high speed, under the watchful eye of her sister Venus.
Williams Sisters
The 2015 Wimbledon Championships is a tennis tournament which will take place at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom, from 29 June to 12 July 2015.
They will be the 129th edition of the championships, the 48th in the Open Era and the third Grand Slam tournament of the year, played on grass courts and part of the ATP World Tour, the WTA Tour, the ITF Junior Tour and the NEC Tour. They were organised by the All England Lawn Tennis Club and the International Tennis Federation.
Sewing Machine
Machinery (4)
Like almost every Friday, we return to the machinery.
Again revisiting a subject of which I spoke, the Sewing Machine.
I have nothing to do with sewing machines, as some have suggested, but I was lucky to visit a museum about the history of the textile industry in the last century and I could take some pictures 🙂
Sewing Machine
Rupit. Barcelona. Catalonia
Norm’s Thursday Doors Challenge.
Here is my entry for Norm’s Thursday Doors Challenge. Thanks Norm for hosting this challenge.
This door is located in an amazing place, especially for a city dweller like me, on this small town near Barcelona called Rupit, we have previously visited on April and May .
You can find this door on the outskirts of this besutiful village. More than the door itself, which is really lovely is the atmosphere.
“Rupit is a piece of the world, plunged in the heart of beech Collsacabra… The seventeenth century Catalan is all heroic and sentimental Catalonia, is the flower of our songs and silver tunic of our legends. And the village of Rupit is this, a piece alive and hiding from the seventeenth-century Catalan (…)”
Josep Maria de Sagarra (1894-1961)
Rupit. Barcelona. Catalonia
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