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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Castell de Castellcir

About two weeks ago I went to an old castle ruins. And to experiment a little bit I decided to bring both my film and 1 digital camera, the little fuji X100 that was collecting dust at home.

Here are just a couple shots I took which were taken based on a project I'm now working on.

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all the photos were taken with a fuji x100 

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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.