{"id":3346,"date":"2021-08-22T17:50:48","date_gmt":"2021-08-22T16:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/?page_id=3346"},"modified":"2021-08-22T19:16:26","modified_gmt":"2021-08-22T18:16:26","slug":"week-31-cycling-the-city-new-camera","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/?page_id=3346","title":{"rendered":"Week 31: cycling, the city, new camera"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first week of August was marked by the arrival of my new Fuji X-E3. I already have the X-E2 and an X-T2; but the latter is bigger and heavier than what I want to use for travelling, while the X-E2 has a sensor that is getting a bit long in the tooth. The X-E3 was a happy compromise, a modern sensor in a body with a form factor similar to the X-E2. So some of the pictures this week are effectively my test images, taken during a walk in the centre of Alicante.<\/p>\n

31_1<\/strong>
\nBut I start with some cycling pictures, from a ride on the mountainbike on the V\u00c3\u00ada Verde. To get there, I rode through the village of Verdeg\u00c3\u00a1s and stopped for a brief break there. I was amused by this grandly named “social centre of Verdeg\u00c3\u00a1s” which apparently consists of two public toilets and not much else:
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31_2<\/strong>
\nStill, lofty sentiments apparently exist in Verdeg\u00c3\u00a1s (“struggle or die”):
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31_3<\/strong>
\nThe initial few km of the V\u00c3\u00ada Verde run through agricultural areas near Agost, such as this field of green onions:
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31_4<\/strong>
\nFurther up, the views get more majestic:
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31_5<\/strong>
\nTwo cyclists on the adjacent paved road, looking as if they are floating amid the bushes:
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31_6<\/strong>
\nA more accurate view of their route; I, on the other hand, did not have to deal with this uphill, since I was on a former railroad track and so there was a tunnel for me to ride through:
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31_7<\/strong>
\nIn the afternoon, as we often do on Sundays, we got together with Eliot and Assumpta for lunch, this time at their place. They live in a townhouse, so their garden is microscopic (which would be fine for me, since I hate gardening). Eliot showed me some of his more useful plants, including one yielding very spicy peppers:
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31_8<\/strong>
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31_9<\/strong>
\nThen Eliot got down to the business of searing flesh, something he does truly expertly:
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31_10<\/strong>
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31_11<\/strong>
\nAs usual, Balu followed the proceedings with great interest:
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31_12<\/strong>
\nOn Tuesday, my new Fuji X-E3 arrived at the office. After making the required adjustments (disabling the touchscreen and other silly features), I set about testing it. At home, my mother’s magic cactus provided a first test subject, having gone crazy with five flowers:
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31_13<\/strong>
\nThe next day, I did some more testing. I stopped in the centre on my way home from work and went for a walk, starting on Plaza Monta\u00c3\u00b1eta, site of various government buildings and this nice little fountain:
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31_14<\/strong>
\nI hung around the fountain a bit, photographing some of the people who stopped by:
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31_15<\/strong>
\nFierce little dog:
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31_16<\/strong>
\nStaying with the canine theme, a conversation while walking the dog:
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31_17<\/strong>
\nThere is a buste of some great man on Plaza Monta\u00c3\u00b1eta. The pigeons show no respect:
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31_18<\/strong>
\nI moved on to the Esplanada de Espa\u00c3\u00b1a, the main seafront promenade. It is usually full of tourists in August, but not this year; there are some, but mainly people from Madrid, and a few foreigners who have vacation homes here. Still, this street painter was setting up shop for the evening:
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31_19<\/strong>
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31_20<\/strong>
\nAnd this vendor of fake sunglasses was hungrily eyeing the few prospects passing by:
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31_21<\/strong>
\nBut this part of life on the Esplanada was the same as always, senior citizens congregating on the wooden chairs once the afternoon heat has abated somewhat:
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31_22<\/strong>
\nOn Saturday afternoon I went to the beach with my wife. I don’t do it often, as I dislike both sand and water, but sometimes I make an exception. I usually take a book, a couple of beers, and the same little Panasonic GM5 camera that I use when cycling. This time, I noticed the two women in burkinis with their children:
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31_23<\/strong>
\nNeedless to say, their husbands were swimming around in regular swimming trunks like all other men:
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I finish with some pictures from my Rolleiflex. They were not taken during this week, but I got four rolls of film back from the lab and scanned them during the week.<\/p>\n

First, a couple of portraits of my Dutch colleague Caroline that some viewers have already seen elsewhere, on Ilford Delta 100 film:<\/p>\n

31_24<\/strong>
\nMasked:
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31_25<\/strong>
\nUnmasked:
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31_26<\/strong>
\nAn attempt at street photography with the Rolleiflex, on Ilford SFX film. A couple on a bench on Plaza Seneca:
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31_27<\/strong>
\nA churro cook outside the Corte Ingl\u00c3\u00a9s department store, taking a break. He noticed my Rolleiflex and we chatted about it a bit before he posed for me (Ilford Delta 100):
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And that was the end of the week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first week of August was marked by the arrival of my new Fuji X-E3. I already have the X-E2 and an X-T2; but the latter is bigger and heavier than what I want to use for travelling, while the X-E2 has a sensor that is getting a bit long in the tooth. The X-E3 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3141,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3346"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3346"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3351,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3346\/revisions\/3351"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}