Spain

One Frame 010: 3 Red Dots

The vernacular railway trip up the mountains to reach the Benedictine Monk Retreat at Montserrat in Barcelona, Spain is a spectacular journey. The cable car is another option but I would recommend going up by vernacular and coming back on the cable car. After reaching the top, the air is clear and the views are spectacular. There is also a peaceful quiet only interrupted by the church bells every so often.

I noticed these three red dots on the window before heading downstairs to the exhibition and decided to wait to see if someone would walk into the frame. I had imagined a single person or possibly a couple but a few seconds later these three people walked past and I captured this picture. I shot 6 more after this one but there was no point, I already had the shot I needed. Time plays tricks on you and I had it in my mind that this was the last picture of the sequence rather than the first.

See more pictures of Montserrat HERE

SHOT WITH FUJIFILM X100T & WCL-X100 CONVERSION LENS (28MM FULL FRAME EQUIVALENT)

One Frame 002: TV Guys

While walking through some narrow alley-ways in Barcelona, I came to a point where I could either turn left or right. But the light coming in from above, paired with the graffiti on the shutter in front of me was interesting. So I waited for someone interesting to pass through the viewfinder of my X-Pro2. A few people moved in and out of the frame, including girls that couldn’t make up their mind which way to go, or couples out for a stroll. But if you wait long enough something interesting will happen.

Suddenly these two guys walked through the frame carrying a large TV and I knew at that moment that I had the frame I had been waiting for. It didn’t occur to me until much later that there is a great shot by Magnum photographer Abbas in his ‘Return To Mexico’ book that has a similar picture. Now I couldn’t have predicted these guys would walk into my frame, so no copying occurred. Abbas has the best shot of course as it has a better TV and the dog is the icing on the cake. But I do like my Barcelona shot too.

SHOT WITH FUJIFILM X-PRO2 & 35/2

Fuji In-Camera Miniatures : Montserrat, Spain

All of these pictures are straight out of camera JPEG's from the X-Pro2 using the Toy Camera feature. I don't dip into these filters much, but the Toy Camera one is definitely my favourite and I think it does a pretty good job of a tilt shift effect!