Today some pictures taken in Bilbao during our trip on the last weekend. I think I got quite a lot of nice pictures, but judge for yourself.

All pictures taken with: Olympus Pen E-PL3 and Panasonic Lumix 20mm f/1.7 ASPH.

The poster said “Put yourself in his position” … The girls were shoving each other around, so probably following that advice.

Girls excited about the shop, boy not interested.

Oh yeah, sure, playing football in a crowded pedestrian zone is a fantastic idea. I love how some people just don’t acknowledge that they’re not alone in the world. One.

Two. Thanks for the nice picture, but still, muppets!

Totally agree with the poster in the upper left corner. Eat real food!

I was working the shot for a while until I got the right expression from the dog. Big plus also the umbrella on the left. A bit of patience tends to pay off.

They were very eager to drink, both were running to the drinking fountain like they were in a desert.

I waited until she turned around.

Nope, it wasn’t the wind going up her skirt, it stuck out of her coat like that.

We stumbled into an area with rather a lot of shady characters. He was one of them, here in front of an anarchist sign. At the street corner there was also a house with a CNT flag, which is one of the Spanish Anarchist organisations. If you’re interested, there is a rather long article about anarchism in Spain on wikipedia in English.

The area with the shady characters was rather dark too.

Not sure what’s so interesting about that wall.

Not the only punks we’ve seen, but these were eating ice cream!

It was Saturday night so the Casco Viejo was full of people. One.

Facepalm. Two.

Girls outside a bar texting.

The weather was “putrid” according to Ezequiel. The boy rather liked it. I really like that there was a water drop on the lens to underline the fact that it was raining.

Earlier that day in the afternoon. Women closing up the shop for siesta.

To know who the mother is you just have to pay attention to the shoes.

Keeping the city clean. They didn’t really succeed, there was lots of rubbish flying around.

I don’t like shoes either.

Find the pigeon.

Something rather odd was going on there. Where is the hand of the girl on the left?!

Guy with empty wine bottle … huh?

If that doll isn’t creepy then I don’t know what is …!

Next day. Children learn their facial expressions from each other apparently.

Don’t try attaching the leash to your belt with a bigger dog.

Interesting guy on the bike with dreadlocks. Haha, humans are such lemmings.

Make sure to look at the background as well.

Protective gestures.

It’s so funny that some people just don’t care how they look to others.

Don’t point your naked fingers at dressed people is something they tell children in Germany. Not in Spain obviously.

Big guy with little umbrella. Or the other way round?

That’s one way not to get bored while waiting for a red light to change.

When people annoy me on the streets I try to pretend that I’m in the zoo. In the Basque Country this is even easier because of all the fur coats.

 

Yesterday I edited a ton of pictures and I’m glad to say that I am finished with all the pictures from Bilbao. These are actually just half of them by the way so you’ll see more tomorrow. Now that that’s done and I’m up to date with my current pictures I can continue with editing some older stuff. I’ve made a little list and discovered that there are still pictures to come from Chemnitz, Berlin, Dresden and possibly Leipzig (it was dark and rainy, so I doubt there’s much to see). 18 days of digital pictures, 14 rolls of film to go. I hoped that I had managed to get through more of them by now, but it seems that there is still quite a bit of work to be done. One day I’ll hopefully be done with all this editing.

Yesterday I checked the tracking of my Yashica, since it should have arrived by now. Well, due to ebay being utterly confusing the seller sent it to Germany rather than to Spain and it will still take a while until it finally gets here. At the moment it is on the way back to France. Well, it’s going to be a well-travelled camera already when I get it. By now I have filters and a lens cap, so that’s a start, but of course the most important bit of gear is still missing. Can’t wait to play with it (and add more to my editing queue *sigh*).