Monthly Archives: February 2016

Our Walk through Barcelona’s Eixample District, Part Two

Posted on February 29, 2016 by crowcanyonjournal

It was fifty years after Ildefons Cerda laid our his 520-block grid for the new Eixample district and the rich people of Barcelona decided to build their mansions on Passeig de Gracia, once a lonely road that ran from the … Continue reading →

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Our Walk through Barcelona’s Eixample District, Part One

Posted on February 28, 2016 by crowcanyonjournal

It was the middle of the 19th century and Barcelona couldn’t breathe. The city got so big and so crowded and the people got so sick that the Queen in Madrid finally gave them permission to tear down the city’s … Continue reading →

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MM 2-46: Barcelona Metro

Posted on February 23, 2016 by crowcanyonjournal

One day during our visit to Barcelona last Fall we walked to the Metro Station below Placa de Catalunya to take the L7 to Tibidabo. We only had to wait a few minutes for our train which was enough time … Continue reading →

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Hiking on Montserrat

Posted on February 20, 2016 by crowcanyonjournal

It wasn’t much of a walk — 40 minutes, mostly uphill, and then 20 minutes back, mostly downhill. But my hike from the monastery to St Michael’s Cross was the highlight of the four hours we spent on Montserrat last … Continue reading →

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MM 2-45: A High Key Look at Barcelona

Posted on February 16, 2016 by crowcanyonjournal

For this week’s Monochrome Madness Challenge I decided to experiment with the High Key 2 Preset (# 8) of the Nik Silver Efex Pro 2 plug-in to Adobe Lightroom.  I took this photo the day last October when we toured … Continue reading →

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More on the Monastery at Montserrat

Posted on February 15, 2016 by crowcanyonjournal

We spent four hours visiting the monastery at Montserrat one day during our week-long stay in Barcelona last October. In my previous posting (see here) I concentrated on the photos I took  of the Black Madonna and the Boys’ Choir … Continue reading →

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The Black Madonna of Montserrat

Posted on February 12, 2016 by crowcanyonjournal

Her official name is Mare de Deu de Montserrat (Mother of God of Montserrat) but most Catalans call her “La Moreneta (the little dark-skinned one)” and Pope Leo XIII appointed her the patron saint of Catalonia in 1881. Most tourists … Continue reading →

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MM 2-43 Curves in Monochrome

Posted on February 2, 2016 by crowcanyonjournal

I went all the way back to January of last year to find my monochrome photo for this month’s theme of Curves. We spent a few hours during our trip to Hawaii that month visiting the Honolulu Museum of Art … Continue reading →

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