Barcelona & Mataro Spain 2022
Photographers Holiday
It’s no secret the last few months have been incredibly busy work-wise, and I consider myself very fortunate.
We’ve had a holiday in Barcelona booked since July 2020, due to covid it was rescheduled, and rescheduled, and rescheduled!
As a family, for the last few years we have been doing a city break for the first part of the holiday, then a beach for part two. This year we did Barcelona for 4 nights, then Mataro for 4 nights. To be honest, we could have done Barcelona for 8 nights and still had loads to see and do, it’s an amazing city.. with a beach!
We did a few touristy things, saw the sights and found some nice local places to eat.
Being a keen runner, I had to get a run in whilst in Barcelona, and it’s aneven 1200m from the top of La Rambla to the beach. From there I ran mainly across the seafront, and then took a leisurely walk back to the hotel.
Here are a few photos from Barcelona. The last two photos were taken on my big Sony Camera, yes I did take it on a family holiday!!
Did I use it very often? not really. Will I take it again next year? probably not.
All of the other photos were taken on my iPhone 12, which is being upgraded later in the year to the Pro Max version, with the better camera system.
I’m not just a photographer by title, I actually love taking photos, especially of my daughter growing up, so having a great camera around has been brilliant. But the iPhone has a really good camera!
After a 40 minute buss ride, we arrived in Mataro, a small port town just up from Barcelona. This was to be the relaxing beach part of the holiday, and it certainly was.
It’s pretty fair to say there is not much to do there, we walked into town a few times, checked out Central Park, but mainly stayed near our hotel at the port. There were plenty of restaurants around, and the hotel had a great pool with my daughter Callie enjoyed pretty much every day. I also got a run in, but it was a difficult one being 30 Deg C!
Here are a few photos from Mataro.
On the last night we stayed out a little later for sunset. One of my favourite shots to do when I was a wedding photographer was a sunset shot using an off camera flash to light the couple. I have various small flash units that I use when I do on location headshots, so I packed the smallest one and a pop up beauty dish. You can see the results in the last shot above. This is the only thing I can’t replicate with an iPhone.
Overall a really good holiday, but maybe the last one where I take a proper camera!