Tag: Glen Fisher Photography
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Ronda – Scenes in Black & White
As with the other pueblos blancos we visited, Ronda, with its cobbled narrow streets, its whitewashed walls, its tiled roofs, its plazas and churches, its sun-soaked vistas, lends itself both to colour photography and to black and white. Partly it’s a matter of taste and preference; more importantly, it’s a choice of expression. These images, […]
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Colour interpretations – Plaza de Toros, Ronda
Following on from my previous post, here are two colour interpretations of the Plaza de Toros in Ronda. In contrast with the drama and rawness of the black and white image, I’ve softened the tones, and emphasised the pillars and the curve and flow of the structure to give a different sense of the enclosure […]
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Plaza de Toros, Ronda (compare and contrast)
I wrote in an earlier post that the decision to present an image in colour or in black-and-white was partly, perhaps, a matter of taste and preference, but more profoundly, a question of interpretation. Here are two otherwise identical images of the Plaza de Toros – the bull-ring – in Ronda, which illustrate the point. […]
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Pied Avocet, Marievale
I like the harmony and balance, the silent concentration, in these photographs of pied avocets with their swooping bills wading in the waters at the Marievale Bird Sanctuary. Time for a break, I thought, in the Spanish series…
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Real Alcazar – Arches, Tiles, Ceilings
The delicacy of the decoration at the Real Alcazar in Sevilla is a breath of poetry, the colours of god….
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Zahara de la Sierra – Castles in the Sky
Between Sevilla and Ronda lies the Parque Natural Sierra de Grazalema, a rugged, mountainous country of dramatic views and towering skies, where pueblos blancos – the white villages – cling to the rock. This is Zahara de la Sierra, where we stopped for lunch.
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Three views of Sevilla
Three views of Sevilla, from the La Giralda bell-tower: the Cathedral, the bull-ring, the Real (Royal) Alcazar.
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Hands, feet and faces
Rob is in Toronto, squaring up to face the damage to our house from the recent ice-storm; I leave tonight for London, to spend a weekend with Jonathan and Hayley and the impish Gabriel, before heading down to Kent to spend Monday night with Mike Hanson. Tuesday, I fly out from Heathrow to join Rob […]
The View From Here 