Carrer Carolines

Two pictures taken on the night of 17 November along Carrer Carolines, one where it joins Carrer Aulèstia i Pijoan, and the other round the corner on to Carrer Gran de Gràcia. The wall graffiti had disappeared next time I passed this way.

La Rotonda, Passeig de Sant Gervasi

Modernista hotel at the junction of Passeig de Sant Gervasi with Avinguda del Tibidabo. From this source I learn that it was built in 1918 by Adolfo Ruiz i Casamitjana as the Hotel Metropolitan, soon became the Hotel La Rotonda, and more recently the Hospital Sant Gervasi. At the end of November 2008 when these photographs were taken it was under reconstruction by hoteliers Núñez i Navarro. I returned to this place a few times, first drawn by the plane tree whose animated shadow fell on the ochre walls and mirrored reflection on silvered windows below, and the fox (?) on the flight of stairs that has been walled off.

Farewell Barcelona

A reveure, Barcelona, and your conical Christmas trees powered by sunlight and pedals.

Back home in England I shall return to images found over this autumn, turn them over and about, assemble a few for inspection here.

For now this obliging window reflection, in which things are all pressing up to the picture plane.

(Plaça Espanya, Barcelona, 6 December 2008.)

Redirections

For more about the birds of the title given to this blog see this site. When leaving their nest they do not fly but fall sufficiently far to gain the necessary speed for flight.

This blog is a primarily a place to hang pictures in virtual space to see how they look after some time has passed, so that things might be forgotten yet not be lost. It is also to have a record of encounters with other people’s work - pictorial, with words, around images - to make it easier to return to these past places.