A Few Mountainside Photographs

I realised the other day I have so many photographs I never really bothered to share with Hive, mostly since back then we didn't really have communities or these great front-end platforms like Liketu focused around photography. Perhaps I did share one or two photographs as part of some unrelated post. I came to the realisation that my rambling posts could just use my own photography as the header image instead of hunting for some other image I didn't even own.

I took these mountainside images over the city of Barcelona in Spain, I believe in 2019. I used a Sony A7 2 with a Sony FE 85mm F1.8, even then it failed to really capture much of the city. I remember watching the sunset over the city from the mountain, the lights slowly turning on one by one and the reds, greens, and orange tones starting to come out in the slowly encompassing darkness. I had never been in such a location before, so the experience was quite new to me. I wanted to go back one day, though I'm not sure if I will.

You can see the gradual darkness creeping on in during the photography session, with the last photograph being a little experiment into long exposures. Shooting the buses and cars that drove by going into La Rambla through a long, wide stretch of road that went from the mountainside down into the city. I liked how well connected things seemed when in the city, but that mountainside view showed the city as something else. Small, quiet, and very dense in terms of buildings. Old and new, though many of those newer buildings standing out and seeming strange, like the odd one out that didn't really belong despite its attempts to fit in with the dated, smaller buildings.

This verticality that gave a beautiful viewpoint of the city made me realise how flat most of my own country is, especially where the density of people typically is. I imagined myself living there and being able to watch such views of sunsets often, how peaceful it would be to sit there and watch as night fell and casually walk back down to my home. Compared to the open, flat fields of southern England. I wondered whether those down in the city took these views for granted, perhaps used to them by now. Perhaps those open flat fields far from beaches, mountains, and humid nights would be more appealing.

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