Looking up in Barcelona

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La Sagrada Familia





















Catedral de la Santa Creu i Santa Eulàlia












Barcelona Central Post Office

[Ohiogal]

1. Stunningly beautiful!

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6. I was on sensory overload by the time we left Spain.

Beautiful, beautiful country and people.

[CTyankee]

13. Me, too! Fabulous place, fabulous food, fabulous art.

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14. And you gave me some good advice and encouragement before we left, CTyankee.

We had a really fantastic experience on our trip. Barcelona has been on my wife’s bucket list for many years, and it didn’t disappoint.

And I took your advice and took my dslr. I was very paranoid about pickpockets/theft before we left, but I needn’t have been. In fact, if I left the camera back in the room for any reason it was because we were going to walk a lot that day and the camera is a 4 1/2 pound weight around my neck (and I didn’t feel like hauling the camera pack around)🙂. The cellphone camera was fine on a few days.

We want to return to Spain in a couple of years, and do some more exploring. We try to take a big trip every year, and this was the best from the last five years or so.

[CTyankee]

15. I'm sorry but what is "dslr"?

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16. Digital single-lens reflex camera.

I should have capitalized it.

[CTyankee]

17. I think you have the wrong person...

I know nothing about cameras...

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18. You advised me about some places to go while there.

I don't think we talked about anything camera-wise, other than simple precautions when walking about. It's been quite awhile ago, as I'd been planning that trip off and on for about a year.

[CTyankee]

19. Ah, mystery solved!

Yes, I heartily recommended stuff to see/do in Spain. The Pyrenees just about undid me it was so laden with historical significance and downright lovely. And the ART!!! And the food, and the wine...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Wow, such beauty! Magnificent photos, my dear Adsos Letter!

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7. Thanks, Peggy.

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3. Holy cow! Those are magic!

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8. So much to see there is magical.

I think it would be difficult to take a bad photo in any of these places.

[Solly Mack]

4. Majestic. Festive. Beautiful.

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9. Both cathedrals were challenging.

I'm trying to do more on the Manual setting but I ended up falling back on Aperture Priority much of the time, and using exposure compensation adjustments. All of those lighting types and directions and angles.

Wish I had done better correcting for distortion in post, as well.

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5. Love the nature church

Would love to see more religion in tune with the natural world 🌎

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10. Seeing La Sagrada Familia was on my wife's bucket list.

Since the first time she saw photos of Gaudi's architecture. He was really into incorporating Nature in many of his works.

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11. What time of day were you in La Sagrada Familia?

I was there at the end of July. Horribly hot. Taxis on strike. Took the metro from my hotel. Struggling with my bad leg. My best shots are close-ups of some of the lower windows on the east side incorporating the iron railings taken late afternoon. The light was a real challenge.

It really is an amazing structure.

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12. We entered between 9:45-10:00am according to the ticket.

I think we stayed about 90 minutes. My wife did the Nativity tower thing.

We were there mid-September. Not too hot (low to-mid-80's). A couple of the days were pretty humid compared to Northern California.

The lighting was difficult, and I had issues with white balance. I also wish I had done better correcting distortion in Lightroom because I ended up with a weird twist in some of the images in both OP's.

It is amazing. Afterward we went to the Catedral de la Santa Creu i Santa Eulàlia. What a difference.