They are photos without a singular theme: sunsets, landscapes, skies, animals, flowers, monuments, temples, cities …

One of the purposes of this Photoblog is to improve my skills on  “digital photographic technique” both with the camera like with Photoshop. But, why to use a photoblog if there are places like Flickr or Picasa? Because I like “my way” of doing things. I like to control how the photos appears, how to expand them, I want to know how visitors arrive, where are they, the links around the photo… everything. Also, I would like to learn how search engines indexed and positioned images that has no text (only “title” and “alt” tags) and learn about plugins that improve the usability, layout … of a photoblog.

In this moment there are about 30 photos pushed. Here you have a sample of them:

This photoblog is powered by WordPress with a theme original from bueltge and some features from other themes (like the EXIF data table). I’m using two specific plugins: Expand Images to zoom the photos and WP-CopyRightPro as a first level of protection against copies.

All the photos (with a few exceptions) can be bought using Fotomoto site, printed over different kind of papers and sizes or downloaded and with different license types depending on the buyer purposes.

And that’s all, I invite you to visit and enjoy my photoblog and please, cosider to comment some of them.

Ildefonso Cerdà designed a structured city, embodied in the structure of the Eixample district in Barcelona, 150 years ago. Now we are invited to participate and to be present through our personal messages at Barcelona from within 150 years, Barcelona 2159.

These weeks we are going to write or create (who wish it) a message and our messages will be encapsulated. Within 150 years, “someone” will open the capsule and will find our thoughts on a world that we can hardly imagine, but we will try it.

We can leave our messages as we prefer: text, image or video. I’ve already done mine and you can see what I’ve left for the future following this link (spanish and catalan):

http://www.barcelona2159.org/index.php?id=2439

The translation would be something like:

What will be the streets of Barcelona in 150 years?
Streets clean and tidy, with no congestion nor noise, with sufficient moral climate to avoid having to fill them with warnings: do not litter, do not block, do not park here, do not run and do not bother others …
Streets perfectly adapted to the needs of all, no bumps or obstacles, with toilets, seats and where prevails nature and services for the citizens.

The text is limited to 800 characters so for me the hardest exercise has been synthesis. There is a lot of themes to choose for creating the message, but the organization of this activity facilitated a little bit this task by proposing us to focus on any of the 45 tracks that define the city.

Do you want to be in the future? Wait no more and join this proposal, leave your message and the people on the future will know what you expect in Barcelona2159.org