Mind and Matter

Fageda al Puigsacalm

2011-06-17T18:15:00.001+02:00

The Bookstore

2011-04-20T01:25:00.002+02:00

18th Century Snow Storm

2011-04-13T19:55:00.001+02:00

Meditating

2011-04-13T19:52:00.001+02:00

Flying free

2011-04-13T19:48:00.001+02:00

Lonely Boat

2011-04-13T19:45:00.000+02:00

Flying over the water

2011-04-13T19:44:00.000+02:00

Seeing the Light

2011-01-25T01:06:00.001+01:00

Green Day

2011-01-13T17:23:00.002+01:00

La Plaça del Rei

2011-01-12T23:52:00.000+01:00

Montserrat from the Air

2010-12-12T20:47:00.000+01:00

Picture taken in an Air France flight from Barcelona to Dubai, via Paris.

Barcelona's Graffitis

2010-11-28T21:57:00.002+01:00

Ljubljana's Urban Cars

2010-09-13T12:41:00.003+02:00

Jour de Marché

2010-03-04T23:56:00.004+01:00

Entre Métro Dupleix et Métro La Motte-Picquet, le marché du dimanche. J'habitais à côté, dans une petite résidence universitaire.

Drops

2010-02-14T02:32:00.000+01:00

Joy

2009-12-03T19:24:00.002+01:00

Port de Mahdia

2009-09-29T11:45:00.003+02:00

Bien que l'on ne puisse pas le voir dans cette perspective, ce port est artificiel, creusé dans la roche. À vue d'oiseau, c'est un rectangle qui fait deux cent mètres par cinquante. Dans un des coins, une ouverture permet que les bateaux entrent. Et dans un autre coin, un canal bien plus petit permet la circulation de l'eau. Et tout ça... fait par les Romains, il y a deux mille ans.

Snow Valley

2009-09-28T15:30:00.005+02:00

Marché de Nice

2009-09-11T15:18:00.001+02:00

The Old Man and the Sea

2009-09-04T19:20:00.003+02:00

Sa barbe, son bonnet de laine, la fumée de sa pipe, la mer plate, la bouée de secours... Et ce regard plein d'histoire. C'est le vrai pêcheur.

The Man, the Swordfish and the Mobylette

2009-09-03T16:32:00.004+02:00

The Guardian

2009-08-31T12:33:00.002+02:00

Fisherman's Friend

2009-08-28T00:23:00.006+02:00

Springtime

2009-05-26T03:40:00.001+02:00

Snow Tree

2009-05-26T03:39:00.001+02:00

The flowers and the Bicycle

2009-05-15T02:15:00.001+02:00

Observing

2009-05-15T02:14:00.003+02:00

The Wall

2009-04-30T01:28:00.002+02:00

Structural Labyrinth

2009-04-30T01:24:00.003+02:00

Sky Rocket

2009-04-30T01:23:00.002+02:00

New York Sunset

2009-04-30T01:19:00.000+02:00

Tradition & Modernity

2009-04-30T01:07:00.004+02:00

Spring Leaves & Flowers

2009-04-30T01:02:00.000+02:00

Winter Sun

2009-04-30T01:01:00.001+02:00

Let there be light

2009-04-30T00:59:00.000+02:00

Rascafría

2009-03-12T12:44:00.001+01:00

Sisters

2009-03-12T12:30:00.002+01:00

Hair Brush

2009-02-24T18:31:00.000+01:00

Cuando haces una foto

2009-02-24T18:01:00.001+01:00

I published a text about photography in my other blog, here. It's in Spanish, though. But at least you can see my camera!

Labyrinth

2009-02-20T13:25:00.001+01:00

Dragonfly

2009-02-20T13:23:00.002+01:00

Mountain Dolphin

2009-02-20T13:20:00.003+01:00

This is a natural cavity in the rocks. You find it after walking and walking some kilometers in the mountains, following the path of a river. But you need to turn yourself and look backwards if you want to see it. Like most things in life, actually.

Running for a Coke

2009-02-20T13:17:00.000+01:00

Fauna ibérica - La Gavina

2009-02-20T02:03:00.005+01:00

Urban Disorder - Mediterranean Balconies

2009-02-20T02:01:00.011+01:00

Sábanas, alfombras, mesas, tendederos, persianas, flores, hasta incluso un papá Noel al que se le fue la hora. Y la bombona de butano. Esto es el Mediterráneo. Sólo le falta el mar. Bueno, es lo que está enfrente.

Urban Order - Central Burocracy

2009-02-04T02:29:00.003+01:00

Railway

2009-01-13T02:33:00.000+01:00

Sunset Boulevard (1)

2009-01-11T22:49:00.002+01:00

Blanqueta

2009-01-11T22:23:00.006+01:00

Era el día que cayó esa nevada tan grande... No es que al gatito le apeteciera quedarse en las ramas pelándose de frío, sino que debajo del árbol acechaba un perro. Hay prioridades en la vida.

Fly

2009-01-11T22:22:00.004+01:00

Skating Barcelona

2008-11-19T20:42:00.005+01:00

Pilgrims

2008-11-19T19:27:00.003+01:00

Windows' Vista

2008-11-13T15:43:00.003+01:00

Air Engine

2008-11-13T05:06:00.004+01:00

Stalagtites

2008-11-13T05:00:00.003+01:00

Fauna Ibérica - La oruga

2008-11-07T00:40:00.003+01:00

The End of the World - Finisterre

2008-11-07T00:14:00.005+01:00

And then, the day came when the Romans could not step forward anymore. There was no more land to conquer, it was the end of the world. Finis Terrae.

Jungle Crash

2008-10-03T20:02:00.006+02:00

This is a real airplane fuselage. It ended here after failing to land in Kathmandu's airport: Kathmandu is in the middle of a valley, surrounded by the tallest mountains on Earth, no need to explain why it was not the easiest landing place ever.

Nowadays, Nepali Army has a camp near this plane, and they use those rests to train the soldiers how to act in emergency situations such as hijackings.

La caída

2008-09-21T02:05:00.033+02:00

Sorry! El texto que antes publiqué aquí lo podéis encontrar el otro blog, AQUÍ.

Remolino

2008-09-21T01:50:00.001+02:00

Humidity

2008-09-19T21:32:00.007+02:00

Un musgo es de Montserrat, el otro de La Granja de San Ildefonso (Segovia)

Crisis, subprimes, y otras historias

2008-09-19T13:27:00.017+02:00

Sorry! El texto que antes publiqué aquí lo podéis encontrar el otro blog, AQUÍ.

Fauna Ibérica - Lizard

2008-08-29T00:12:00.000+02:00

Fauna Ibérica - Marieta

2008-08-28T21:00:00.001+02:00

Fauna Ibérica - Friendly Butterfly

2008-07-29T20:04:00.005+02:00

La Moreneta

2008-07-08T22:48:00.002+02:00

More Sunset

2008-07-05T02:06:00.000+02:00

Sunset

2008-07-04T19:56:00.000+02:00

Waiting, Leaving and Arriving

2008-04-24T07:35:00.001+02:00

Always

2008-04-20T21:54:00.000+02:00

Control

2008-04-08T05:13:00.002+02:00

Happy Feet

2008-03-26T04:23:00.002+01:00

Bamboo

2008-03-25T07:24:00.000+01:00

Perfume

2008-03-24T03:07:00.000+01:00

Green living

2008-03-23T05:11:00.000+01:00

Water Source

2008-03-08T20:11:00.002+01:00

Station Wagen

2008-03-08T05:14:00.001+01:00

Those cars were parked on the street. But they are so clean. But they are so perfectly placed. It's all so ordered. It's German.

This reminds me of this TV commercial we had in Europe after VolksWagen bought Seat. After the scenes showing you the car, or the story, there is always a final second where the name of the company is the only thing you can see, and the slogan. In this case it was "Pasión española. Tecnología alemana". I thougth it was nice, but some Spaniards got hurt by it. No wonder why.

Air particles

2008-03-06T03:36:00.002+01:00

Hand-in-Hand

2008-03-01T05:27:00.002+01:00

Okay, so those hands are not real. I mean, of course they are real, but they are not alive. It's not a painting, it's a sculpture. It's a detail of "Ugolino and his sons" sculpture, by Jean Baptiste Carpeux, 1857. I really find it astonishing.

The story itself is quite sad. Those hands belong to a son who is grabbing his father's legs... in hell. It's taken from Dante's Inferno book: Inferno is worse than you think, it is a place where this father is jailed with his sons, and they are all left there, they know they will die from starvation. You should see the angst face of the father... The children know they are going to die, so they ask they father not to hesitate to eat their bodies so at least he can survive.

Cap the Creus

2008-03-01T05:06:00.005+01:00

You already saw a similar one (click HERE).
But now you see the sea, the Mediterranean. The Mare Nostrum.
And at the rear plan, the Pyrenees, the chain of Mountains dividing the Iberian Penninsula from France.

I rather like this combination of possibilities.

Fog News

2008-02-27T07:54:00.006+01:00

The picture is of my walking home. I was coming back after a visit to the Lycée Français de New York (LFNY). It was quite a feeling, since I spent all my childhood in the Lycée Français de Barcelona (LFB), my hometown. There are obviously so many similarities, that you cannot go out without remembrances.

Impressionism

2008-02-27T07:39:00.006+01:00

I also enjoyed those ones... It is amazing how beautiful those paintings can be when you have them in front of your nose. The first picture is "Le pont d'Argenteuil", by Gustave Caillebotte. The second and third picture are from Vincent Van Gogh: Wheat field with Cypresses and Women Picking Olives, both from 1889-1890.

More Metropolitan

2008-02-24T07:51:00.005+01:00

More works form the Museum. This is called "Spectrum", by Ellsworth Kelly.

Break Time

2008-02-23T09:04:00.001+01:00

There's also Modern art at the Metropolitan. It needs more reflection.

Metropolitan

2008-02-23T08:50:00.008+01:00

I just came back from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and I am still under the effects of the shock. It was simply amazing, unbelivable. This museum is certainly one of the best I have ever visited, or, at least, let's say that they have a lot of stuff, and of everything. Everyone can find some kind of happiness there... Waw, I simply look forward to next Friday to go there again.
I posted some of the paintings I liked the most... Forget about pictures today, just see the works of those artists. And if you can, go to the Metropolitan!

The paintings are, from lef to right, up to down:
1. Arabs crossing the Desert. Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1870
2. Jerusalem from the environs. Charles Théodore, 1881.
3. The Eruption of Vesuvius. Jean Christian Dahl, 1824.
4. The weeders. Jules Breton, 1868.

SkyLine

2008-02-23T05:54:00.004+01:00

Roots

2008-02-19T04:02:00.000+01:00

Step by Step

2008-02-17T03:57:00.001+01:00

Waves

2008-02-16T07:04:00.005+01:00

Colored Tree

2008-02-14T06:03:00.002+01:00

Cold Metal, Warm Color

2008-02-14T04:11:00.001+01:00

I know you've seen this before, but I keep liking it. No more, promised! The architect is called Frank Gehry, he also did the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao.

Frozen Levitation

2008-02-14T04:00:00.001+01:00

Beauty & Beast

2008-02-14T03:50:00.000+01:00

1 picture, 1000 words

2008-02-14T03:38:00.006+01:00

You're right, I never introduced this blog. But as some of you have asked me to, and I guess you are right, a little presentation cannot hurt.

Basically, these pictures are pictures of normal things. No Eiffel Tower, no Statute of Liberty. Well, okay, I must admit that some famous monuments or places have already been featured here, and moght be shown again. Never say never. However, my focus is trying to capture everyday life, everylife things. There is not only the picture, though. Many of those pictures cannot live without its title: I sometimes need words to revitalize the image. Like now.

Please, don't look further than that. Some of the pictures might have nothing special - but still, this is not about efficiency, it's just about a hobby and a feeling. Don't wonder "why", but rather "why not".

Let's see how it goes!

Aquarelle

2008-02-13T06:52:00.002+01:00

Memorial

2008-02-12T05:28:00.002+01:00

Lost and Translation

2008-02-10T02:58:00.000+01:00

Conquest of the West

2008-02-08T02:51:00.000+01:00

The Sky's Castle

2008-02-06T08:12:00.001+01:00

For those who have seen Miyazaki's movie...

Sightseeing Skyscraping

2008-02-05T04:22:00.000+01:00