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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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.

Lost in Paradise

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We decided we needed to leave everything behind, leave and get lost in the mountains. Little did we know that we would find a way to paradise..

The weather couldn't have been better, it was a cold, cloudy and rainy day. I guess those were some of the key elements that helped us find the path to that parallel dimension that led us to paradise.

It was like being in a dream. In fact it was better. I don't think my mind couldn't have dreamt such a wonderful moment.

We were alone in the middle of the mountains far from the civilization, far from people... There was only silence, broken by the raindrops falling to the water and the ground.

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