Will you love me in December as you do in May?
― Jack Kerouac
Mayday en Calvarassa de Arriba
Salamanca
escribiendo en las nubes
Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky
― Khalil Gibran
dame
nubes
dame
cielos
dame
libertad
1/1000s f/5.6 ISO 64
1/640s f/5.6 ISO 64
1/500s f/5.6 ISO 64
1/800s f/5.6 ISO 64
*Images made, handheld, with Nikon D850 and AF-2 Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8E VR lens*
de toros, caballos y amigos
I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it
― William Shakespeare
*Images made with Nikon D850 and AF-S Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8E VR lens, all hand held in low light, many from the trailer of a moving tractor*
shades of salamanca
It comes to this: like all of us who have not yet died of plague he fully realizes that his freedom and his life may be snatched from him at any …
dante
‘..through me you go into a city of weeping
through me you go into eternal pain
through me you go amongst the lost people’
― dante alighieri, the inferno
The images which follow were made in, of all places, a convent.
The ‘Convento de las Duenas’, tucked away in a quiet corner of Salamanca.
One can only imagine what passed through the minds, and souls, of those who walked these cloisters, once upon a time.
A different world.
Or is it?
Perhaps not so much.
*all images made with fujifilm x100f with fixed 23mm (35mm full frame equivalent) lens, tweaked in lightroom cc with fujifilm acros filter added in post*
Unfinished business
“The bulls are my best friends.”
I translated to Brett.
“You kill your friends?” she asked.
“Always,” he said in English, and laughed. “So they don’t kill me.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
Graffiti emblazoned remains of a disused bull-fighting arena nestle uncomfortably behind bars amidst an affluent ‘urbanización’. Eerie silence shrouds the abandoned amphitheatre. Distant echoes linger amidst the litter strewn pens. Serried rows of cold concrete stand in witness to battle and blood.
A stone’s throw away children laugh in a newly completed park. Football pitches and gym equipment laid out amidst newly planted trees serve a different purpose to this stone enclosed ring.
Unfinished business.
Images made with Fujifilm X100F with fixed 23mm (35mm FF equivalent) and processed in Lightroom and Analog Efex Pro 2.
toros
Every man’s life ends the same way.
It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another
– Ernest Hemingway
With thanks to Felix and Mamen, and our fellow guests, for a beautiful evening full of light, good food and wine, and the opportunity to photographs the bulls on a glorious late summer evening.
Gracias a Felix y Mamen, y a nuestros compañeros invitados, por una hermosa noche llena de luz, buena comida y vino, y la oportunidad de fotografiar a los toros en una gloriosa tarde de verano.
*All images made with Nikon D700 with Nikkor 200-500mm f/5.6 lens*
isla de soto
our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty”
― albert einstein
misty ambiguity
twist
reedy
exhausted
haven
hoopoe, youpoe, weallpoe
crossed
fallen
if you’ve got it, flaunt it
nesting
setting goals
black redstart
bs
who am i?
la españa vacía
only the sunset knows my blind desire for the fleeting
only the moon understands the beauty of love
when held by a hand like the aura of nostalgia
Inspirado en parte por la españa vacía, el libro escrito por sergio del molino
cerrada
mordaz
vacía
retorcido
camino
bloqueado
ironía
mordido
presionado
acerbo
después
abatimiento
refugio
desolado
centinela
*imágenes realizadas con olympus om10, objetivo de 135mm f/3.5, película de blanco y negro de ilford, sin editar*
salamancastreets 