Album Madrid from Andy Rodker

Jardin del Principe de Anglona. HANWE everyone!

nobody@ipernity.com (Andy Rodker) — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 20:26:30 +0000

An oldie for sure but I didn't have time to investigate my new cameraphone further today.

Happy bollard

nobody@ipernity.com (Andy Rodker) — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 22:05:07 +0000

This won my 'Best-dressed Bollard of the Year Award' back in 2018. I passed by it again yesterday but it wasn't quite up to scratch so I post another of the shots I took back then, simply because I like it!
I'LL BE OFF-LINE FOR A FEW DAYS WHILE MY LAPTOP IS IN DRY DOCK FOR ESSENTIAL REPAIRS. CAPACITY ISSUES TOO (PHOTOS!)
I HOPE TO BE BACK IN THE LAND OF THE LIVING THIS COMING WEDNESDAY..

Torre Picasso.

nobody@ipernity.com (Andy Rodker) — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 21:28:43 +0000

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Once the tallest building in Spain (between 1988 and 2007, when the four towers were nearing completion). I'm fond of it. I probably took more classes here than in any one other building in my teaching career in Madrid.

Update on the stadium. HANWE Everyone!

nobody@ipernity.com (Andy Rodker) — Fri, 26 May 2023 20:12:55 +0000

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I've missed a lot and I don't think I like it much compared to the old iconic stadium! I'll probably post one more when completed and leave it at that!

The Faro of Madrid and The Museum of the Americas. HFF everyone!

nobody@ipernity.com (Andy Rodker) — Thu, 11 May 2023 18:34:20 +0000

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A walk between medical appointments and I suddenly realised it was Thursday and time to think about finding an HFF shot! This walkway is sited on an old tramway, the tracks still appear here and there.

Another HFF and in the nick of time!

nobody@ipernity.com (Andy Rodker) — Sat, 06 May 2023 22:58:04 +0000

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Uploaded at 23:59!!! Here it is at the very last second on Friday!
It's a name I always forget but some luminaries are buried here. I'll add the appropriate info in a day or so; tomorrow I return to Madrid.
Here we are, 3 days later: Panteon des Hombres Illustres. (Near Atocha).
Jan 2020. Different times. We hadn't really heard of Covid 19 back then although now it's known that the laboratory leakage had already occured at the Wuhan institute back in August 2019 (and apparently another strain also leaked from there a few weeks later - and nothing whatsoever to do with a wet-fish market).

Downtown Madrid

nobody@ipernity.com (Andy Rodker) — Sat, 29 Apr 2023 23:08:33 +0000

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I just liked the contrast between the trees and the (almost) modern buildings (which always lean like this ... don't they?).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xl2bvKPOIO4&t=764s Janis Joplin at her best, or close to it.

HFF! (Yes there is one!)

nobody@ipernity.com (Andy Rodker) — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 00:14:28 +0000

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The new(ish - 2014) metro station Paco de Lucía, named in honour of the great flamenco guitarist. I posted this on Pano but not here - I think not anyway. The artists are Okuda San Miguel and Rosh333.
I have posted a music link below. Entre Dos Aguas, a very famous song, at least in Spain. There is a frame in the vid that is the template for Paco's portrait here.
Worth a listen;
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oyhlad64-s&list=RDEMYNquyZQPgZzsix5KOOjUWA&start_radio=1&rv=0vq3qZwaXrw

A view from a former Madrid flat

nobody@ipernity.com (Andy Rodker) — Mon, 20 Feb 2023 00:19:02 +0000

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In the flat owned by the lady born in St Day, Cornwall. Some wag on Panoramio said I only took this pic because of the pretty girl on the balcony opposite. In fact I didn't see her until he pointed her out!
I'm not sure quite why I like this. Something to do with a pleasing, if not classical, composition I suppose (certainly not because of said pretty girl!)

Sunrise over Hortaleza Madrid.

nobody@ipernity.com (Andy Rodker) — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 00:10:06 +0000

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I never posted this and I wonder why. Maybe because it's not as spectacular as some of the other sunrises I captured from this high rise flat I lived in in 2012 / 13. But I like those cloud formations. And I just noticed - 10 years ago! ...and it seems like yesterday!

Teleférico. HANWE everybody!

nobody@ipernity.com (Andy Rodker) — Sat, 04 Feb 2023 01:30:39 +0000

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View from a cabin above the Casa Del Campo (former royal hunting park, now open to all). Madrid on the skyline. I used to use this a fair bit but Marta suffers from vertigo so I was always on my tod here!
Sight and Sound: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvhFbQvK-GM
despite the asinine presenter, the pair (Tom Jones and Janis Joplin) mesh together brilliantly!

HFF everyone!

nobody@ipernity.com (Andy Rodker) — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 00:55:01 +0000

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Looking north over Madrid from a hotel roof terrace on the Gran Via. (A cousin of Marta's was staying here and invited us for cocktails). It wasn't a bad sky that evening either!
Sight and Sound. A Janis classic (I can never have enough of Janis Joplin) www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-irXmqIzGA

HANWE everyone! A Madrid parish church.

nobody@ipernity.com (Andy Rodker) — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 23:33:29 +0000

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Parroquia del Santisimo Cristo de la Victoria.
I had no idea when I took this shot that in only a few days time I would be back in Cornwall where I still am!
I like this church and small, unpretentious and pleasing little square.
However, I screw my nose up at that 'no dogs' sign! How absurd and vindictive even!

Rose garden, El Retiro

nobody@ipernity.com (Andy Rodker) — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 02:27:09 +0000

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Rosa Daniel Gelin. Out of season but I thought a cheerful shot might help dispel some wintry blues!

HFF!

nobody@ipernity.com (Andy Rodker) — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 00:43:38 +0000

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From a few years ago and not uploaded previously. The Four Towers peer above this waste ground, fence and good street art. Re-discovered the shot on a hunt for a fence!

HFF, everyone and a temporary change of scene!

nobody@ipernity.com (Andy Rodker) — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 23:53:58 +0000

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Plaza de Colón (Columbus), Madrid

HFF everyone!

nobody@ipernity.com (Andy Rodker) — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 21:19:31 +0000

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One of the last photos I took before my back went and I didn't take any more new photos for some time. I had an operation for 4 fractured vertebrae (apparently caused by long term cortisone treatment as part of my chemotherapy). Then immediately after suffered a detached retina so another operation, then quickly after that, covid in a big way (5 months in hospital including 2 months in an induced coma).
Funny how these things pan out; on the day I took this photo, I'd walked 30,000 paces and felt really really good! Hubris or what?
A song I've always liked and a band who always inspired.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnH_zwVmiuE

Torres Kio and the hypodermic needle, Plaza de Castilla, Madrid

nobody@ipernity.com (Andy Rodker) — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 21:34:39 +0000

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Another missed bus (by seconds and a two hour wait), so another photo opportunity. The golden needle like structure was added to this site just before I came to live and work here. It doesn't seem to be liked much; hence the nickname you see in my title! (La Aguja hipodérmica in Spanish).
I think the heat of the day comes through in this shot!

One of the two Torres Kio, Madrid (Torre Kio Este).

nobody@ipernity.com (Andy Rodker) — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 11:56:08 +0000

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Revolutionary for the early 1990s, these leaning towers were a noted landmark and perhaps still are, even if the nearby Cuatro Torres now steal their limelight.
The main bus terminal for buses to the north lies underground here on many levels. I just missed my bus by seconds so had two hours to wait for the next one (a much reduced summer 'service'!). With time to kill I went for a walk and took this shot on a whim.
This wikipedia entry may be of interest; es-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Puerta_de_Europa?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc

Olive tree, Paeque de Bravo Murillo, Madrid

nobody@ipernity.com (Andy Rodker) — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 07:22:55 +0000

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I used to live near here and it seemed then that it took the local authorities at least 10 years to turn this narrow strip of land between Calle Bravo Murillo and the water works grounds of Canal Isabel II into a pleasant park. But I had reason to go past here yesterday and found that it had at long last opened.