Prowling my world, camera in hand

8 June 2015

Week 25: our backyard and the Champions League final

Filed under: — Administrator @ 07:01

A quiet week, with lots of time spent in a major conference on counterfeit cosmetics organised by our office together with Europol. The week ended with the major event on the football calendar, the final of the Champions League between Juventus and Barcelona.

A note on the equipment used: I am conducting a bit of an experiment, shooting only with my “pocket” cameras for a couple of weeks, either the Ricoh GR or the Panasonic LX-100. Twenty of the 25 pictures in this week’s blog were taken with the LX-100, the rest with the GR.

25_1
Sometimes it is not even necessary to leave home. Here are a couple of views of the sunset on my kitchen terrace:
R001469

25_2
1000643

25_3
Our magic cactus has exploded this spring. It gave us the first quadruple bloom just a couple of weeks ago, and this week it came back with FIVE flowers. Sunday afternoon:
R001466

25_4
A closer view, still Sunday afternoon:
1000625

25_5
Monday morning:
1000627

25_6
Tuesday morning:
1000634

25_7
Wednesday morning:
1000638

25_8
One of my orange golf course cats; this is probably the best portrait I have taken of him to date:
1000636

25_9
I spent much of Monday and Tuesday in the conference room at the office. Here is my Danish colleague Erling making a presentation on business models used in IPR infringement:
R001483

25_10
Our house photographer Pierre lining up around 100 people for a group photo:
R001485

25_11
The view from business. A representative of P&G’s Brand Protection Group speaks:
R001488

25_12
On Tuesday night, we had dinner at a local restaurant called La Maestral. No pictures from the restaurant itself but there is an interesting mirror outside:
1000640

25_13
Morning light on Avenida Vicente Ramos:
1000644

25_14
Morning light on Avenida Vicente Ramos; a different view:
1000651

25_15
A grab shot from the centre of Alicante. I wonder if the owner of the bike is an aficionado of Jack Kerouac’s books:
1000649

25_16
A grab shot while cycling (I had stopped to pee). Our arid landscape:
1000667

25_17
On Saturday morning I took a walk through our Mercado Central:
1000661

25_18
As usual, the fish section provided the best photo opportunities. No shrink wrap here:
1000663

25_19
Saturday evening the Champions League final was played in Berlin, matching Juventus from Italy and Barcelona, considered the best team in the world right now. This little boy is ready:
1000654

25_20
We went to watch the game with some friends. The host Cani (in red pants) is a Real Madrid supporter, but he still wanted Barcelona to win. Fernando is a Barcelona supporter, so he was of course more involved. At this point Barcelona is sitting on an early 1-0 lead and everyone is calm:
1000672

25_21
Now Juventus have equalised and the game is more even. The blood pressure is rising:
1000674

25_22
Even more agitated, although at this point Barcelona has re-taken the lead at 2-1:
1000675

25_23
The game is over, Barcelona has won 3-1, and Fernando is satisfied:
1000677

25_24
Cani travels to China on business from time to time and has some souvenir coasters with a picture of Chairman Mao and some text which I obviously cannot read. I found it deliciously ironic that the founder of Communist China now is used as a commercial product:
1000670

25_25
Cani’s dog did not support either Juventus or Barcelona. He was happy when the game was over and he was no longer startled by periodic yelling:
1000680

No Comments »

No comments yet.

RSS feed for comments on this post.

Leave a comment

Powered by WordPress