BlogHide Resteemsjuancar347 (72)in photography • 12 hours ago[ENG-SPN] All quiet on Brigadoon / Sin novedad en BrigadoonEven the great cinematographic classics, in films like 'Brigadoon', have always echoed those curious places, which, for some indeterminate reason, have made a pact with the stern Cronos and remain…juancar347 (72)in photography • yesterday[ENG-SPN] Places / LugaresThere are places, especially located on that marvelous and privileged Cantabrian Cornice, where the north wind inspires beautiful songs of deeds and epics, which speak of the nobility of a land…juancar347 (72)in photography • 2 days ago[ENG-SPN] Urban mirages / Espejismos urbanosThe historical case of Madrid continues to be that hermetic labyrinth, metaphorically and comparatively speaking, in which each sunrise brings with it the eternal struggle between light and…juancar347 (72)in photography • 3 days ago[ENG-SPN] A siren song: forgotten Romanesque hermitages / Un canto de sirena: ermitas románicas olvidadasIt is not strange and in fact, it is quite common to come across numinous hermitages of incalculable age, in most cases, which, outside the walls of towns and cities, constitute, using the metaphor…juancar347 (72)in photography • 5 days ago[ENG-SPN] Madrid: details in the Passage of Light / Madrid: detalles en el Pasaje de la LuzIn the same way, that it has always been said that the best fragrances are kept in small containers, it could also be thought that the details, even though they often go unnoticed due to their…juancar347 (72)in photography • 6 days ago[ENG-SPN] Time to love, time to live / Tiempo de amar, tiempo de vivirOne of the wisest books and by default, a jewel that should appear in every self-respecting library, as an immeasurable heritage of wisdom, regardless of our religious beliefs, without a doubt, is…juancar347 (72)in photography • 6 days ago[ENG-SPN] Let's say I ramble about Madrid / Pongamos que divago sobre MadridHe wakes up another day in the eternal Madrid: in that Madrid, that he follows in the footsteps of the smug Dorian Gray and that he is never satisfied contemplating his own portrait. The…juancar347 (72)in photography • 7 days ago[ENG-SPN] Portrait of an old monastery / Retrato de un viejo monasterioStill, a little more than a millennium after its first stone was laid, it continues to be a lighthouse of culture and devotion, which annually attracts a large number of pilgrims through the arduous…juancar347 (72)in photography • 8 days ago[ENG-SPN] The cheerful wives of the Romanesque / Las alegres comadres del RománicoFew are, in fact, the historians who dare to go beyond the typical topics of darkness and barbarism and give themselves over to a happy deliberation that the Middle Ages was also a time of light and…juancar347 (72)in photography • 10 days ago[ENG-SPN] Federico García LorcaHe died, when his star began to emerge in the poetic universe of a Spain that intended to return to the summits of Parnassus, as in that memorable Golden Age, which exalted true geniuses and figures…juancar347 (72)in photography • 10 days ago[ENG-SPN] Curiosities about the peacock / Curiosidades del pavo realMother Nature, eminently wise and not at all contemptuous of letting things happen to chance, endowed them with extraordinary beauty, but also punished them with a ghastly trill, which sometimes…juancar347 (72)in photography • 12 days ago[ENG-SPN] The 'cats' of Madrid / Los ‘gatos’ de MadridIf one goes up Prado street from Carrera de San Jerónimo towards Plaza de Santa Ana -turned, today, into the fiefdom where Madrid's begging meets, I want to assume, fair and square, that for the…juancar347 (72)in photography • 13 days ago[ENG-SPN] Surrealism of Opposites / Surrealismo de los opuestosLike the famous medieval mercenary Bertrand Du Guesclin, I neither remove nor appoint kings, but rather I serve my opinion and based on this, I can say that I was little or, rather, not at all…juancar347 (72)in photography • 13 days ago[ENG-SPN] A simple matter of perspective / Una sencilla cuestión de perspectivaImmense in the eternal debate about life and its complementarity, as Machado would say or life and its circumstance, as Ortega y Gasset would argue and argue, what is indisputable, after all, is…juancar347 (72)in photography • 14 days ago[ENG-SPN] The aerial magic of Madrid / La magia aérea de MadridI have always said, and I insist on it again, that Madrid is a city that you have to look at and, of course, get to know, from a wide range of angles and perspectives, to savor ad nauseam its…juancar347 (72)in photography • 15 days ago[ENG-SPN] An encounter with Monsieur Proust / Un encuentro con Monsieur ProustWe meet on Swam's Road, on a seemingly irrelevant day in mid-May. The first thing that struck me, and indeed surprised me, was the look of refined dandyism about him, where even his moustache…juancar347 (72)in photography • 16 days ago[ENG-SPN] The nursery / La GuarderíaLike the terrible drama of that song to despair and to the cruelest and most painful of mourning, embodied in works such as 'The Angelus', by Millet, cemeteries also keep dark secrets, whose vision…juancar347 (72)in photography • 17 days ago[ENG-SPN] The Lady of Elche on the Gran Vía / La Dama de Elche en la Gran VíaKnown worldwide, both for her hieratic beauty and for the enigmatic mystery that surrounds her, the Lady of Elche has been, since her chance discovery in 1897, an emblem of national pride…juancar347 (72)in photography • 19 days ago[ENG-SPN] Madrid: details in the Passage of Light / Madrid: detalles en el Pasaje de la LuzIn the same way, that it has always been said that the best fragrances are kept in small containers, it could also be thought that the details, even though they often go unnoticed due to their…juancar347 (72)in photography • 20 days ago[ENG-SPN] Spontaneity and beauty / Espontaneidad y bellezaThe big difference between them and us is that they always act without malice and in their enviable Adamic state, a simple fountain can serve as a little paradise, in which to frolic and get carried…
