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The other day, I headed straight to Sants Estacio to make my way to Badalona. It’s a municipality just North-East of Barcelona, check out the map below for the exact location. Once I had arrived, my initial intention was to just walk straight up north into the large green area. I was going to take …
Over time I’ve constantly sought new goals, trying new things and rarely succeeding in any of them. It’s the expectation that if you want something bad enough, you’ll get it in an instant. Though that’s not the case. They say if you want it bad enough, you’ll find a way. Otherwise, you’ll find an excuse …
This post is about a monastery, the monastery of Pedralbes or as the locals know it, those that know of its existence that is, Monestir de Pedralbes. I found out about this place through my trusty navigator, Google Maps. It’s a useful tool when you know you want to explore somewhere new in your area …
Ever since re-watching episodes of Friends and seeing that one episode where Joey tells the story of how he was backpacking through Western Europe and hiking up Mount Tibidabo, it was a sort of reminder of how close I am to such amazing feats, that I must take advantage of. Where is it? Assuming my …
Spanish class reflection will not be about reviewing how the class was taught or if it necessarily improved my ability in Spanish. This article is about what else I learnt about how to learn and what it made me realise about life tasks in general. There are so many ways to learn something, from immersion …
When you’ve lived in a foreign country for more than nine months and still aren’t semi-conversational in the language, it’s probably time to start taking classes. I have tried to learn Spanish by myself through using Babbel, Duolingo, many other apps, general self-study and multiple other methods, except one, sitting in a classroom with others …
With the theatrical demeanour that Burlesque brings, when Robyn invited me to come along and photograph her class, I was certainly intrigued and it wasn’t an event I had photographed before, although I have shot dancers, concerts, festivals and nightclubs so it fitted the general description of techniques required! For the photos download or for …
My first photo shoot in Barcelona was with the lovely Valeria, although there was a slight barrier of language. My grasp on Spanish at the time was near to terrible so the ability to communicate poses and positions was down to Google translate and a whole lot of hand gestures. Despite the struggle, it paid …
Photographing people isn’t always easy and straight forward, there’s a base technique and then there’s adaptation to the individual. It’s what I’ve been working on lately, the adapting. So with a mix between a general portrait session and a few dancer profile shots, we headed into the streets and managed to capture a few decent …