The Barcelona beachfront is a photographer’s garden o’ unearthly earthly delights–or so thinks I. From the hump and castle of Montjuic and the main commercial port area, through the Vila Olímpica/Port Olímpic tourist zone, to the giant solar panel at the Museu Blau, there is plenty to explore–waves, “rompeolas” and “espigones“, graffiti par excellence, varied architecture, shadows, sand, fishermen, surfers, sunbathers, and of course always the sea…
This morning’s exploration took me to a section of the beach that has yet to be cleaned up and developed, essentially straight out and slightly north from the Selva de Mar Metro stop on Line 4 (yellow). The area borders Parc del Forum.
A few days before, I had discovered a couple of unofficial “fisherman gates” in the fencing that would let me in to my objective.
Here are some images from today’s morning light show:
This is a protected area of the sea often used by snorkelers. Venus watches over the twilight and the coming dawn. A long shutter speed smooths the surface of the water…
As the day brightens with the approach of the sun, one small sample of patriotic graffiti stands out…
A nuclear sunrise on a peaceful Mediterranean sea…
This is one of my favorite graffitis in the area–the “Old Man and the Sea”, I call it. For this image, I used a 9-stop neutral density filter and kept the shutter open for something like 25-30 seconds to calm the wave action on the blocks…
Yes, good times were had by all…by me, by the three fishermen on the espigón, and by the two snorkelers under the water or around the corner out there somewhere. This is another image in which I used the 9-stop ND filter to smooth the water…
