Wordless Wednesday: Barcelona Siesta

Posted on September 6, 2017 by ShakespearesGal

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Container of Containers

Posted on July 19, 2014 by ShakespearesGal

Weekly Photo Challenge: Containers

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A colourful candy boutique in beautiful Barcelona ~ an enticing container of containers.

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Sweet treats in pretty packages stacked in pleasant displays lure us in to sample the decadent delights.

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Something special for your funny Valentine?

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Even simple plastic wrap gives an impression of towering gold.

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Needless to say, we did not leave empty handed. 😉

Thanks for visiting …

Dorothy

©Dorothy Chiotti … Aimwell CreativeWorks 2014

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The Greener Bench

Spice.Light | photography

Maverick Mist

Serendipity

Across the Bored

Illumination … Sagrada Familia, Barcelona

Posted on May 28, 2014 by ShakespearesGal

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This is my entry for Leanne Cole’s Monochrome Madness Week 13.

One of my favourite activities when travelling in Europe is to visit the great cathedrals and other beautiful places of worship ~ the Sagrada Famlia nestled in the heart of Barcelona among them.

Originally designed by famed Catalonian architect, Antoni Gaudi, and with construction beginning in 1882, this amazing edifice is slated for completion around 2026.

Though the interior is not yet finished, for a fee tourists are able to go inside and see the miracle unfold. The Sagrada Familia is an expiatory project which is to say the building of it is completely funded by private donations and the millions of visitors who flock to see it every year.

I featured several images from my visit some time ago in a weekly photo challenge. This is one of my favourites.

The Sagrada Familia is well worth some of your time if you’re ever in beautiful Barcelona.

Thanks for visiting,

Dorothy

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The Streets of Barcelona

Posted on March 29, 2014 by ShakespearesGal

Weekly Photo Challenge: Street Life

When I read about this challenge my mind immediately drifted to perhaps one of the most photographable cities I’ve visited … Barcelona.

Herewith a few scenes of street life in one of my favourite cities.

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Thanks for visiting …

Dorothy 🙂

©Dorothy Chiotti, Aimwell CreativeWorks 2o14

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Thoughts from Finchley

Travel Words

@vannilla

Stained Glass Reflected … Sagrada Familia, Barcelona

Posted on March 22, 2014 by ShakespearesGal

Weekly Photo Challenge: Reflections

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This is my second contribution this week.

I simply could not resist including this colourful image of stained glass reflected in plexi-glass inside the Sagrada Familia.

Love it!

Thank you for visiting,

Dorothy 🙂

©Dorothy Chiotti, Aimwell CreativeWorks 2014

One Conversation; Two Perspectives

Posted on March 8, 2014 by ShakespearesGal

Weekly Photo Challenge: Perspective

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Two people engage in conversation at the Museo Nacional d’Art de Catalunya.

Beautiful Barcelona is the backdrop.

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The same conversation; a different perspective.

Can you see them?

Can you spot me?

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Thanks for visiting.

Dorothy 🙂

©Dorothy Chiotti, Aimwell CreativeWorks 2014

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Travels and Trifles

The Numpty with a Camera and a Laptop

de Wets Wild

Searching for Music

Posted on November 6, 2013 by ShakespearesGal

Daily Prompt: Searching

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I’ve been searching for the music in answer to this week’s writing challenge: Moved by Music.

Stay tuned to my blog In So Many Words to see how music has moved me. Likely to be posted later today.

Here’s a brief excerpt:

I don’t understand the science behind it. All I know is that the music (as well as books, movies, etc.) we absorb lives in us forever. It’s a powerful emotive force that can build up or, tear down. Like all living things it has its good, bad and ugly. This is why I am so careful about what I tune into. These vibrations colour my life forever.

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Image: the pipe organ of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona.

Okay, I just googled that link … 😉 …

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Thanks for visiting …

Dorothy 🙂

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©Dorothy Chiotti, Aimwell CreativeWorks 2013

Other Searches

Weekly Photo Challenge: Sea … Moments at Port Olimpic, Barcelona, Spain

Posted on August 31, 2013 by ShakespearesGal

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The Sea.

The body aqua.

Tranquil and menacing in one breath.

Being in the moment,

By the water,

The lesson of the ages.

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This week’s photo challenge asks us for impressions of the sea.

My image selection is from time spent early last year by the Mediterranean Sea at Port Olympic in Barcelona.

Enjoy!

Thanks for visiting …

Dorothy 🙂

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Wrygrass

cyclocross2012

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Colour … Barcelona, Spain

Posted on April 6, 2013 by ShakespearesGal

This week’s photo challenge asks us to brighten our world with colour.

To me this bridge of time linking winter and spring is the dreariest of the year.

While we wait for the grass to turn green and the flowers to poke their noses through the still frozen ground, the world about me is cast in a pall of grey. So, I welcome this opportunity to inject a little colour into my world, and yours, courtesy of time spent in colourful Barcelona early last year.