Atocha Station
It’s likely I’ll write about Spain for the next issue of
Shadow and Light. It is not a given at this point and I have almost two weeks
to get it together. Why hurry when you can get the adrenalin rush that comes
with a deadline tomorrow.
School children at La Reina Sofia Museum
2014 was a major travel year for the Immels. We spent a month
in Andalusia in the spring, a month in the south of France in the fall and I
revisited Spain after the French sojourn because Peggy scrubbed all my Spain
photographs while we were in Madrid when the screen on my laptop was disturbing
her sleep.
Walk on By. 
The one euro lunch. 
My local in Madrid.
The gist of the tale is that she bid me adieu in Marseille,
and I flew to Madrid to retrace my steps and replace the lost images as best I
could. I enjoyed a modicum of success at best. But I gave it a shot and saw the
important locales a second time and added two, Girona and Malaga.
I travelled by train except from Malaga to Gaucin where we’d
spent a month in the spring. Trains in Europe are superb and driving in cities
is, simply put, stupid. So, I rode the train from Madrid to Barcelona in
2-1/2 hours, had a beer and sandwich along the way, napped a bit and arrived in
the center of Barcelona fresh a daisy. In the spring we drove it in 5-1/2
hours, played hell finding our hotel and slept for 12 hours.
As much as I wanted to replicate the shots from trip one, it
was not to be, as in impossible. I knew it but had to try. I remembered
specific images from trip one and tried to find the exact location at the right
time of day but four months later everything was different. The light, the
people and the magic.
Today are a few from Madrid, the first stop on my second Spanish
merry-go-round. I liked Madrid even more the second time and would return in a
heartbeat. These are mostly street shots even though Madrid is an architecturally
handsome city. In the upcoming article that may change. Barcelona, Malaga, Girona,
Sevilla, Gaucin and Cordoba may be part of my Spanish journal. I ’ll know when
I begin piecing it together.
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1 comment:
I have always loved your photograph now called “Walk On By” because it tells so many stories open to many interpretations. But "My Local in Madrid” is also interesting because of the different reactions to you by the women and men. Your street photography is grand. Glad you are doing at article on it for Shadow and Light!
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