Port de Barcelona & Torre Telefónica

There are so many photo opportunities in Barcelona, especially when the sun in shining, and so it's going to be impossible for me to post every picture, but here are a few of my favourites. I had taken my red lens filter with me but not used it yet with my digital SLR so when I got up to the top of the Castell de Montjuic and saw the view across the Port de Barcelona I decided to experiment and switched my camera to black and white mode and attached the red filter to bring out the contrast in the clouds and the sky. Shooting this scene in b&w has softened the harsh industrial landscape and with the sun in the shot this really is a beautiful landscape.

Rather than walking all the way back down the hill I got the cable car instead as the sun was beginning to go down and was able to take several photographs on the way. I was thrilled to get stunning views across to the Montjuic Communications Tower (Torre Telefónica built for the 1992 Olympic games) which you can see clearly here with the beautiful sky behind and distant mountains looking misty way off in the distance at the Western edge of the city.

Origami Animals (Barcelona)

I was in Barcelona last week for a short city break and whilst there I came across these amazing origami creatures in the windows of a bar near the centre. The sun gone down and the bar was in a lane so it was quite dark but they were lit and there was a bit of street lighting, so I whacked the ISO up to 1600 and held as still as I could and hoped for the best. It was a weird and wonderful sight, I had to get some snaps of it, there were hundreds of them in about five different windows, these are the best though.