European Summer

Barcelona, Korcula, Dubrovnik, & London · Summer 2025 · 35mm Film & Digital

Two weeks, three countries, three cameras, ten rolls of film, and a load of friends.

Barcelona

We kicked off our trip with a week in Barcelona, one of my favorite cities in the world.

Most of the week would be spent at Primavera Sound, the festival, but we had a day or two free on either end to eat, drink, and explore.

After a not-so sleepy red-eye flight, we landed in with time to kill before the festival kicked off.

Curly-haired person in an unbuttoned striped shirt laughs against a clear blue sky, wind blowing his hair. — San Sebastian Beach

Two men in matching white painter's clothes talk on a stone street beneath signs reading Museo Picasso and Placeta de Montcada.

We spent a lazy day wandering the gothic quarter and soaking in culture.

Dappled tree-branch shadows fall across sunlit ornamental floral-patterned stone paving tiles.

Crowd surfer in blue jeans passes overhead through a sea of raised hands at a packed concert.

Person in sunglasses points at their cheek beside a laughing woman in sunglasses and a blue bandana, backlit indoors.

I shot the festival with the Olympus Infinity Stylus on Kodak Gold 200. There were a few winners from the roll by mainly pictures of my mates and me "off de la piss" (as they say in Spain).

Wet Leg on day one of the festival

Croatia

Licking our wounds after the festival, we flew to Croatia to relax and dry out for a few days.

Aerial view of a deep blue bay meeting turquoise shallows along a forested coastline dotted with red-roofed villages and yachts. — Above Dubrovnik

Brass barometer and porthole in a wood-paneled boat cabin, with red flowers, oranges, and a small trinket box below.

Overhead view of bare feet and clasped hands on a sunlit yacht's teak deck, coiled ropes nearby and a beer can.

Once in Korcula, we spent a memorable few hours on a gorgeous WWII era boat, swimming, sunbathing, and drinking the local liqueur, travarica.

Sailboats and motorboats moored in a marina at golden hour, framed by a sunlit palm frond and distant hills. — Lumbarda Marina

Stone waterfront village with terracotta-roofed houses and moored boats along calm water, mountains rising behind at dusk.

The bow of a small wooden rowboat numbered "No 169" rests on still water, its dark reflection mirrored below.

The local cats were all very friendly.

Sunlit stone chapel with a terracotta roof and bell tower stands above a small hillside cemetery of weathered gravestones near the sea.

Hands hold a wooden board loaded with cured meats, cheese, olives, grapes, cucumber, tomatoes, crackers, and dip on a stone ledge.

A woman in a red gingham bikini sits on a stone dock ladder, facing a moored sailboat on calm turquoise water.

A person with long blond hair and tattooed arms sits on a park bench in golden light, gazing off to the side among trees.

A white passenger boat named "Martini" motors toward camera past a hillside coastal village with a church bell tower.

A woman in a black swimsuit dives head-first off a stone pier into calm sea water beneath a cloudy sky and green hills.

A dark blue passenger boat moored beside a stone pier with a metal ladder into calm harbor water, wooded coastline behind.

The evening sun shining on this ladder and the water rendered gorgeously on film. I took the same image at 85mm and 40mm. This is the latter, though I'm still not sure which I prefer.

Two stainless steel pool ladder rails curve over the edge of a stone pier into clear turquoise sea, hills in the distance.

After a few days, we bid a sad farewell to quiet Korcula and took the ferry to Dubrovnik for one night.

At Buza Bar, which spills out of the walled city with areas to jump into the stunning azure sea, I took some of my favorite photos from the entire trip.

A woman in a black swimsuit leaps feet-first off a pale cliff into deep blue sea water below.

Three swimmers in turquoise sea water near rocks, with two kayaks and paddlers in the background beyond a buoy line.

I snapped these two on the Fuji x100 VI, which was a lot of fun when I wanted to be a bit more liberal on the shutter.

Woman in a bikini wrapped in a red-and-white checked towel pours drink from a bottle into her open mouth, sea behind her. — Long-arming was in full swing

We worked up the courage to jump off the higher of the two cliffs (only after Michelle did it first, of course).

Silhouetted figure leaping from a rocky cliff platform into open air, birds scattered across the sky, a tall ship visible far below.

A woman in a black bikini dives head-first through the air toward the sea near a large dark rock, a distant boat on the horizon.

London

We jetted over to London for two final nights of the trip.

Unfortunately, by this point Festival Flu had caught up with most of our group. I managed to shoot a roll but didn't have so many winners.

Thanks everyone who was a part of such a memorable trip.

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