I'm back home for the holidays, visiting my family and friends. The latter is not always easy, since my family lives in Segovia and most of my friends in Madrid, 100km away. I took the bus to Madrid last Thursday afternoon hoping to meet a friend, but when I arrived I couldn't get in touch with her, so I took the chance to walk around Madrid and get some practice with the 50mm prime lens I got for christmas. I had never used a prime lens before, and I thought it would be harder to get what you want on the picture without a zoom, but i got used to it pretty fast. I guess that the fact that a 50mm gets more or less what you can see with your eyes in the picture helped a lot. That does not mean that the quality of my photos has gotten better, it just means that they contain exactly what I wanted to capture.
I spottet this protest against the plunge of Bankia's shares in Alcala at the center of Madrid. It's one of the few signs that make you notice that something's wrong in Spain. Which is something I really like about Spain: even though the situation is somewhat tough right now, the general feeling you get in the streets is that of a lively crowd.
Another thing I noticed is that the christmas decorations were simpler and there were fewer than in the past few years.
This, in my opinion, is a good thing. A few years back they started putting up lots of colors and weird "artsy" forms which didn't really have much to do with christmas decoration... Imagine the picture below, but with lots of different colors:
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