A mountain dream

As always, whenever I can, I love to get lost in the mountains and get out of the stressful city.

That time, after a few months of stress and nerves, has arrived. But this time I decided to bring a different kind of equipment with me, normally I would carry a 5kg bag with almost all my gear, 3 or 4 cameras with lenses accessories and so on. But I thought that this time I would like to enjoy as much as possible the experience instead of spending all the time and my strength thinking about the gear and the photos. So I just brought my GoPro and the little fuji X100.

So here is a different "style" of images (as the camera/lens used is very different to what I normally use) of this amazing 2 day adventure and about 30km with a 900m total elevation gain.

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All photos have been taken by me with a GoPro and a Fujifilm X100

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Suisse Express (BCN-Geneva-BCN in 36 hours)

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A week ago I got a call from a friend, apparently it was a normal conversation, but he said he had something to propose to me, (a crazy think I hoped, and so it was).

Let me paraphrase: Dude, you wanna come to Switzerland on Monday and come back the next day at night? To which I answered: Hell yeah!  But how are we gonna go there?  Then he answered: BY CAR!

How could I say no to such a cool plan?! So that's what we did, this Monday we met at 9 and started our express road trip to Geneva with 1548 km to cover ahead! 

But, a couple days before starting our journey, I had an inner dilema: Which camera should I bring? Should I go for 35mm? Medium Format? Slr? Rangefinder? And then I told to myself: Joan, you've been devoted to film photography since the start of the year, you haven't shot a digital camera since (almost) November of 2014, why don't you dust off your little digital travel companion for that occasion? And so I did, I dusted off my beloved Fuji X100 to document the whole experience. (Which after a long time of not using felt like shooting with a new camera and made me think about making a review of my experiences with it but that may come in another post).

Hopefully you can enjoy the photos as much as we enjoyed the trip, which was short but full of magnificent experiences.

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Siurana

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It's a blessing having met a person who shares my passion for getting lost and going to adventures. I want to take the most out of this time when I'm able to leave and make this little escapes on the weekends.

This time the chosen place was Siurana, a little town on the top of a mountain cliff located in the Priorat, a region of Catalonia.

This little town has barely 20 people living there and it's interesting not only for the majestic views of the valley and the lake but for its history, as it was one of the last redoubt places of the muslim domination in Catalonia.

I've got to admit that I felt really isolated and teleported to another time and place rather than being in the 21st century in Catalonia. The sensation of isolation and the immensity of the landscapes were a nice mixture of feelings and sensations.

Pau Vallvé

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I've been following him for quite a few years and still in all these years for some reason I never went to one of his concerts. This week, at last, coinciding with the presentation in Barcelona of his new album I finally attended one.

This album and concert are something special, he spent a whole year isolated to compose and record the album, somehow was something he needed, and he totally transmitted that to me.

I must say that I identify myself a lot with his music, I could say that many of his songs are the soundtrack of some events of my life so that makes a deep connection between the artist and the fan, in this case, me.

The photos in this post are just my fan photos, I just took the camera out when I felt like so, i don't pretend to sell anything, it's just that I enjoy his music so much that I feel I've got to share what he made me feel.

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Aquesta és pels dies bons! I per les nits memorables! Que res no hauria pogut ser millor que avui.

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Turó de L'home

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One more week our obsession for getting lost and rid of the stress and speed of the city made us look for another place (this time not too far from civilization) to spend the day and enjoy nature.

This time we went to a fairly known mountain in the nearness of Barcelona. It's funny how a little car ride can lead you to such beautiful landscapes and peacefulness.

Isolation was not on the list of things you can find there as it's pretty accessible, nonetheless it was beautiful and very enjoyable. Luckily we found the first snow traces and the weather was very forgiving. As it was very windy we had the luck of enjoying both sunny and cloudy weather which made a pretty interesting light and color mix.

And with this it's 2 posts in 2 weeks. Exam's time is up so I won't keep up with this pace, hopefully in two weeks I should be back on track, meanwhile enjoy the new blog with the other posts and the new website!

All photos have been taken with a fujifilm x100 camera.