The Chair-O-Planes at sunset beside the Yellow Steeple at the Trim Balloon Fiesta.

Telefonica tower at the Olympic Stadium, Barcelona.

Hotel rooftop. Barcelona.

The balloon fiesta continues today until Monday. Tomorrow promises to be the best day weather wise and display wise. Drop over to Trim, the kids will love it!

The Trim Balloon Fiesta starts today. Lets hope the weather keeps up and everybody has a ball!!

Winter in Barcelona.

Rooftop swimmers in Barcelona.

At last Spring is squeezing its way in. This was taken in Wilhemsdorf, Southern Germany last week.

Latex @ Laytown.

White Strand, Cahersiveen. Saturated!

White Strand, Cahersiveen.

Patrick’s Day, Trim, 2010.

An old one I found while roothing around this evening. The three weeks are booked for July and it can’t come quickly enough!!

This is what the inside of a can of Guinness really looks like.

I know I said that the last one would be the last one but I didn’t know then that there would be more blown up this morning did I? Distortion thanks to the lovely Sigma 12mm.

The last balloon shot until the big event at Easter.

Sonic being deflated after the press shoot on Friday morning.

On the Easter weekend Trim is hosting a balloon fiesta with all the weirdest shaped balloons in the universe coming to participate. Could be worth a gander!!

The iconic image I have from the 1992 Summer Olympic games in Barcelona is the view over the city from the diving arena. It has to be one of the most unique locations since the ancient games in Greece. The stadium is now locked and chained and a little run down. Kind of sad actually. I couldn’t get the shot I wanted with the diving board but I think this reflects its past glory and its present isolation.

Port Vell, at the end of La Rambla de la Mer. Barcelona.

Follow on from my last post. Phil peruses the “interesting” bio of Rodney before we ventured into the exhibition.

The Museu D’art Contemporani De Barcelona had a show by Rodney Graham. It confused me no end. But at the very end it had some of his abstract paintings which were absolutely beautiful. Both Phil and myself stood for a long time soaking up the shapes and colours. No photography allowed as you can see!

Taking the madras for a strolll along the Boyne in Trim.

I can’t think of anything profound to say about this. Sorry.

The only credit I can take for this is pressing the shutter. I was trying out the Canon 50mm 1.4 lens and Vlastimil came up with the idea of holding his glasses in front of his eye. It was late and we had had a good few pints at that stage!! No photoshoppery involved apart from a bit of cross-processing.

La Boqueria Market, Barcelona.

Montjuic, Barcalona.

Discuss. 35/100 Taken at the Museum of Modern Art, Barcelona.

Reminds me of something that J. D. Salinger said, “Just because I’m so horribly conditioned to accept everybody else’s values, and just because I like applause and people to rave about me, doesn’t make it right. I’m ashamed of it. I’m sick of it. I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I’m sick of myself and everybody else that wants to make some kind of a splash.”

The last of the snow shots for now. I’m just back from Barcelona so will have a few from there soon.

Reliving our youth before heading to the Dara O’Briain show last night (thanks Dónall and Kate!), Phil and myself went back to our old haunt, Captain America’s, on Grafton Street. It has played a big part in our lives. From the 70’s through to bringing our young kids there, they playing with the colouring pages and finished them off by filling in their names and dates of birth on the bottom. To their amazement and joy the Captain’s birthday cards duly arrived. They are all grown up and it is now one of their favourite places when they are in Dublin.

We were also treated to free (we did run down and shove a fiver in his hat) entertainment on the street below. A special day all round!