April 2012
20 posts
Static
I haven’t left then house since Friday. Well, I spend a lot of time in my garden but I haven’t really been outside of the house since, I’m still in my pyjamas.
I’m not complaining, I like spending time at home but in the past couple of years I’ve been more of an outdoors person. It’s just that I have nothing to do here in Portsmouth during the weekends....
Starry Starry Night (Night Walking II)
I just can’t get the song Vincent out of my head. I’ve recently started listening to Don McLean quite a lot and I’ve had the song in my head all day after watching this last night.
Although I didn’t do everything I planned to do today I did a little more than yesterday. I tried to fix the garden up a bit and finally fixed my room. Since I came back from Gibraltar...
Night Walking
Today I haven’t done everything that I hoped to do. I was planning to do a bit of gardening but the rain stopped me and when I sat down to read my parents called me on Skype so I didn’t manage to read either. What I did do was a little thing for the part of the Lighthouse Keeper zine that Zera and I are doing. It was something that I thought about yesterday and slept...
Venerdì
Tomorrow is Saturday. Just the idea of not having an alarm, not having a time to wake up, not having anything to do because as I said a while ago, ‘leave for tomorrow what you can do today’. I took this photo when James and Ale came over, we walked under the pier, it’s a great place. I might even go there tomorrow, try and snap more photos of the sea and relax. Perhaps take a...
Guides
No, not the girl guides, City Guides!
Some of you might be aware of The Lighthouse Keeper. It’s what has evolved from our idea of making a zine and it’s starting to look great.
I had this idea yesterday of doing City Guides after seeing Astrid’s Bergen Guide. I thought it would be a good idea seeing as everyone who is involved in The Lighthouse Keeper either lives or has...
Caricias
“Este mundo funcionaría mejor si hubiera más abrazos y caricias”
“This world would work better if there were more hugs and caresses”
- Albert Espinosa
As some of you might know I was reading “El Mundo Amarillo” by Albert Espinosa. I finished it today and although there’s a lot to take away from that book and a lot that’s inspired me the line...
Between Day & Night
When you take photos for a while you start to see things differently. You start to notice how you can use the available light during different times of the day to your advantage; and through this you choose your favourite. Or at least I know I have. For almost a year or two, as some of you might know, I have been a very big fan of the so called ‘blue hour’ or...
Stanchissimo
I left one southern coast for another, a sofa for a bed and the sun for the rain.
Sono stanchissimo, I need some rest.
P.S. I forgot to mention that I chose the angle as a tribute to this.
GIB ✈ LGW
The time has come. Easter’s over and I’m heading back to the UK tomorrow afternoon. It’s been a great break, I’ve had some great times with my friends it’s just a shame that most of them left a week ago. Anyway. It’s only a couple of months until we’re all together again.
It’s strange, I’ve spent the day on the sofa just relaxing and...
Coffee and Photos
Today I arranged to leave the house this afternoon, have some coffee with my friend Carolina and go pick up the suitcase full of old photos from my gran’s that I told you about a while ago.
So we checked out some photos, talked about how technology has changed, photography, books, magazines and religion. It’s always great to have a good conversation and I’m glad that all my...
Driving
I’m loving this little place. I took another photo in there, it’s beautiful but you have to wait for the right moment, know what I mean?
So today I went driving. After months of not driving (from about September 2011) I finally took my car out for a clean and a bit of a ride. I forgot how much I enjoy driving, what puts me down is the hassle of having to find a parking space and...
Whenever There Is (All Of) You
Firstly, the title is inspired by this. Koop have recently become one of my favourites, it’s unbelievable what they make with just samples and a singer. As for the photo was taken in Portsmouth a couple of months ago if not more. The building is Ravelin House, it’s a beautiful building owned by the university. And here’s something I’ve just re-heard and fallen in love...
Silence is Golden
I’ve really started to appreciate silence. In relationships with people it gets to a point where you don’t need to talk, you know what I mean? When you don’t know someone that well the silence tends to be awkward. You sit somewhere and someone needs to keep conversation going. But then once you know someone for a bit longer you don’t need to speak, you really learn to...
Quality of Life
The weekend has begun. Take it easy, have a few drinks and get fuzzy.
Life’s for living, chill out, enjoy the moments and make the most of your free time.
Leave for tomorrow what you can do today: the time has come to slow down, forget about work and watch clouds move across the sky.
Spend some time alone in silence or in a noisy pub with some friends.
Get positive. Engage in...
The Tourist
The last time I was a tourist was when I first moved to Granada over a year ago.
It’s a great feeling; if there’s one thing I really enjoy is to be alone in a city I don’t know with a camera. I could say I enjoy being lost.
It has definitely been far too long since I’ve been in a completely unknown environment and considering I do not have any plans to be a tourist...
Spreads
Ups and downs today. Got my Colors mag which was great, it means I have interesting reading for the next week or so. But then I got a bit frustrated trying to work out some things for the zine. All is good now, we had a small meeting and we’ve made a lot of organisational progress.
We decided (in a bit of a moment of craziness) to take on the challenge of trying out an A3 centre page...
The Belle Isle
The day before coming home Ale and James came to visit. It was a load of fun, we took some photos, discovered a crazy army surplus shop and had lunch at The Belle Isle where I had the Asian Beef Salad. I don’t think I can describe how good it was in words so I took a photo and you can judge for yourself.
So it’s almost half-way through my second week at home and although the first...
En Vacances
It’s been a week since I got back home and almost a week since I last posted on here so I thought I’d show you all some new photos; I have forgotten about work and I finally feel like I’m en vacances.
I got these back today and I am very happy with the result. I got two rolls developed today, the 10th from my Canon and the first from my Olympus OM40. I’m a bit bummed...
Old Photographs
Today I spent a good couple of hours looking through a small suitcase of old family photos at my granny’s house.
I sometimes feel like for some reason I don’t really know as much as I perhaps should know about my family so being able to look through all these photos (from the 1930s through to 1990s and 2000s) was a great way of learning something about some people and seeing them at...
The Longest Day
I’m back in Gibraltar. Every time I travel from the UK to Gibraltar it’s always the longest day. That’s because I usually get the very early morning flight so I can make the most of the rest of the day.
Today’s trip has been especially long. After waking up early every day for a few weeks I woke up early again yesterday to meet Ale and James. It was great, we went to...
