[Leica] IMG: a day in Madrid

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

Nice set.

Cheers
Jayanand

On Sun, Aug 7, 2022 at 10:46 PM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote:

> My daughter came home from 2 weeks in the US on Friday morning, so I had
> to go to Madrid to pick her up. I drove to the capital Thursday morning,
> very early, to visit as many photo exhibitions as I could manage. The
> PhotoEspaña festival is huge, and to really see it all, you need at least a
> week. I had just one day, but I think I used it wisely. I visited 7
> exhibitions, and I also explored some neighbourhoods with which I was not
> familiar, including the somewhat gritty Puente de Vallecas neighbourhood
> where I had booked my hotel for the night, and the centre of Madrid’s LGBT
> life, Chueca, where I went to have dinner at a Japanese-European fusion
> restaurant called Sr. Ito (well, at in least in Spanish the name is
> amusing, as it is pronounced señorito).
>
> I arrived at my hotel around 11 a.m. on Thursday and spent the rest of the
> day walking around the city, a bit challenging in 40C weather (104F for you
> imperials). But cold drinks are widely available, we are not exactly
> talking the Sahara here. And on Friday morning I had time for a quick visit
> to the wonderful Retiro park before heading to the airport to meet Monica.
>
> A relatively small gallery is here:
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> http://www.frozenlight.eu/madrid_aug2022/index.html <
> http://www.frozenlight.eu/madrid_aug2022/index.html>
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> It is a bit different from my usual city galleries, as there are more
> people pictures than usual.
>
> As always, comments and critique are welcome and appreciated.
>
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
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