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An own picture of the famous floating torii gate at Itsukushima Shrine located in Hiroshima Prefacture that belongs to Shintoism (神道 or kami-no-michi), the indigenous spirituality of Japanese people.

Odaiba Island

A night view of Tokyo captured from Odaiba (お台場), the famous shopping man made district in the bay of the city. An absolute must-see.

Asakusa Kannon Temple

An own HDR of Sensōji (浅草寺), a famous Buddhist temple located in Asakusa, one of the most important districts of Tokyo.

New CD Cover

Covers of new album of my band "La Mano Inocente" (The Innocent Hand) courtesy of www.joanbatet.com

Beach of the Chatedrals

The Beach of the Chatedrals (in Spanish La playa de Las Catedrales, or As Catedrais oficially in Galician) is the touristic name of the Praia de Augas Santas located near Ribadeao on the Galician coast. It's so famous because of its cliffs that you may walk on only when low tide.
An HDR capture by Raquel Sabarich.

Sonorous Stones

A family of stones which give out some kind of sea sounds located on the outskirts of A Coruña (Galicia, northwestern Spain). At the back of the picture you can see the famous Tower of Hercules, an ancient Roman lighthouse (almost 1900 years old), the only one still operative in the whole world.

New Band Logo

I've been working in a new logo of my rock band "La Mano Inocente" (The Innocent Hand). Actually there are many websites where you have some easy tools to create logos. However, I prefer to create them on my own. Maybe looks more like a logo of an electronic band but I like it anyway. You can visit our website on myspace http://www.myspace.com/manoinocente

Mad Cow

This is not an artistic picture but it must be showed to the world. Finally I discovered what Mad Cows Disease means. I found that cow crashed into a building at Interlaken (Switzerland).
Cows can fly dudes!

The Shining

An old hotel in Nice (Côte d'Azur, France) inspired me to take this picture of my girlfriend simulating the famous twins scene of Stanley Kubrick's movie "The Shining".

French Thinkers

Visiting Nice (France), a wonderful city located in Côte d'Azur, I found those interesting human figures that get illuminated on night. Surprisingly there's one of these figures also in my in-laws city (Reus, Spain). Actually I don't know what is the meaning of them and why they are in both places. So, let's do a brain training and think about it. If somebody knows, please tell me. I'm too lazy.

Skateboarding in Barcelona

One of the multiple ways to travel through Barcelona is by using a skateboard. I used to do it when I was a teenager and when the popularity of skateboarding was on top in early 90's. Now most of people of my generation prefer to use the subway (where you usually go standing too).
An own photography taken on MACBA's square.

Summer of 69

Long time without new material. Inspiration came finally and here it goes a picture of a summer scene on the catalan coast in Sant Pol de Mar (Maresme). The boats, the beach, the kid running and the retro ambient (although it was taken on summer 2009) make this one of my favourite pictures I've posted here. Enjoy!

Livin' on two wheels

Barcelona's lifestyle and the way of moving all around the city. That's it. Most of people prefer to rent a bicycle by Bicing service, recently installed in our city. Some people like this girl (that looks like Linda Hamilton's character Sarah Connor, isn't it?) prefer to travel with their own bike.
Hey this is just one of one billion bicycles world wide.
One billion people can't be wrong. Give up your car!
By the way, great capture Raquel ;)

Oldest Living Tree

This is probably the oldest living tree in the village I was born, near Barcelona. It's located in a little forest that belongs to the Serra of Collserola. When I was a child I remember to play in that place and twenty years later (a few days ago) I went there again and captured this photograph.

Flower Power

Today: A hippie slogan to show that winter is not as bas as we may think. Winter sun light is the best to capture pictures like this one by Raquel Sabarich.

Sea Calls

Since I am resting in bed with fever and flu I can't stop thinking in those days with sun, sea, and bikinis. So this is (not a very good) HDR of the village of Sant Pol de Mar and its train station in the catalan coast (Maresme). It's one of the most peaceful places I know to enjoy a good holidays in summer but, I don't know why, most of tourists prefer the nearest village, Calella.

A Day at the Races

An experience you must live. This is a photograph of the race uniforms used in the Barcelona's Indoor Karting. Drive, sweat and enjoy. Don't you love the smell of fuel?

The Drugs Don't Work

My last post in 2008 could be an advertisement against drugs (some party tomorrow, huh?) because this picture reflects perfectly a drunk man's vision. How can I know it? ;)

Nature Power

Sometimes we don't appreciate how powerful nature is. This picture shows a little bit of it.
I have to admit that I don't like to take photographs of the sea in winter (so lonely isn't it?). Photograph taken in Sitges (Barcelona).

House Of Horror

Just modyfing a few colours we can get a scary picture...well, with a little bit of imagination of course. Picture taken on a Blumberg's old train trip (south Germany).