A3 (c. 16"x12") print on:
Permajet Gold Silk (£26)
Innova Soft-textured matt (£24)
Madrid seems to be full of impromptu street performances of one kind or another. My
previous visit to Madrid had been in the early seventies, a few years before the death of the
dictator Franco, and Madrid struck me then as being an unfriendly, austere city with little but
the Prado to recommend it. That was a long time ago, and since then Spain, despite crippling
social and economic problems, has flowered as a tourist destination with excellent transport
links. Who would have thought of Bilbao, a stinking, ugly fishing port in the 1970s, as the
venue for a world-renowned Gehry art gallery? So Spain has been transformed since the
Franco years and the good-natured, vibrant, artistic qualities of its people once more evident
everywhere you go.
These two guitarists held a large crowd in a street market spellbound for an hour or more
and I was gradually able to work my way forward to take a picture. To eliminate the crowd, I
kept the composition tightly to the hands and guitars, and the strong sepia toning and added
grain seemed to be natural for the image.
Madrid seems to be full of impromptu street performances of one kind or another. My previous
visit to Madrid had been in the early seventies, a few years before the death of the dictator
Franco, and Madrid struck me then as being an unfriendly, austere city with little but the Prado
to recommend it. That was a long time ago, and since then Spain, despite crippling social and
economic problems, has flowered as a tourist destination with excellent transport links. Who
would have thought of Bilbao, a stinking, ugly fishing port in the 1970s, as the venue for a
world-renowned Gehry art gallery? So Spain has been transformed since the Franco years and
the good-natured, vibrant, artistic qualities of its people once more evident everywhere you go.
These two guitarists held a large crowd in a street market spellbound for an hour or more and
I was gradually able to work my way forward to take a picture. To eliminate the crowd, I kept
the composition tightly to the hands and guitars, and the strong sepia toning and added grain
seemed to be natural for the image.
A3 (c. 16"x12") print on:
Permajet Gold Silk (£26)
Innova Soft-textured matt (£24)