Let's give this a whirl, shall we?

Here are the guidelines: You select one of your own photos to post that in some way utilizes the topic. Use the topic as a concrete prompt, or find a novel approach. Each person, just one post/photo per thread topic, (or two if you must)please. Photos should be resized to be no wider than 600 pixels. Too-large photos slow down the loading of the thread, and will be deleted. Read about how to post a photo in a thread, here. If you have an idea for a photo hunt topic, contact one of the Mods to offer the suggestion instead of beginning another thread.

Posting photos in the thread gives your permission for SlowTrav to eventually move the photos over to Photohunt albums in the Slow Photos site.

The prompt for the first Spain/Portugal photohunt is "Stone"

You're encouraged to describe your photo--where you shot it, details of what you were doing or what was going on, etc.

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Originally posted by Shannon:
Each person, just one post/photo per thread topic, (or two if you must)please.

There's a little leprechaun inside me that tried to do just that - even knowing I might be chastised - but I managed to upload only one (we can see the other one in testing post here:

This photo is of the Church of Santiago (late romanesque style) in the beautiful city of Coimbra

I wish I knew the name of this ruined castle, where we stopped to have a picnic en route from Cervera di Pisuerga in the foothills of the Pico de Europas to the Rioja. It was a beautiful place for a picnic, hidden off a two-lane road.

Here's a great view looking down on El Tajo Gorge and (not the new) but the old Bridge in Ronda Spain. On the upper right hand side you can enter La Casa del Rey Moro where you can walk down this old mine to the bottom of the gorge for a closer view of the Rio Guadalevin.

Wow, just wanted to drop in to say that I'm enjoying these photos very much. Looking forward to more. Thanks for starting this, Shannon.

Ditto what Terry said. I'm going to update the home page on www.slowtrav.com now.

Here is a photo of an arrow under water.
Nothing in that; maybe..... but it was taken at Portomarin, Galicia which is along the Camino de Santiago. On the top right you can see a base of the main road bridge. When the water in the dammed river is lower you can walk along one of the older bridges. This is where the arrow lays.

The spectacular coastline at Cap de Creus, where the Pyrenees spill into the sea. March 2009.

Thank you everyone for posting these great photos! Michael, how was your trip? Inquiring minds want to know... post a thread with some details or a trip report if you've got time.

Shame on me Shannon !

I'll post a new thread over the next few days.
It was an outstanding trip and our entire family enthusiastically awaits a return to Spain.

Michael

Margaret took this photo of one of the covered streets in Monells, Alt Emporda. It was a fine, peaceful, warm, March morning, devoid of tourists, save ourselves. We had a liesurely cafe solo while we read the paper in the town square

These are the wonderful tree-like, angled stone pillars in Gaudi's Park Guell in Barcelona.

A stone wall at Montserrat near Barcelona.

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A cemetary near Sintra in a storm

Cemetary in storm

Here is a beautiful rock formation at Monserrat, taken on a clear beautiful day last February.

Can we have a new task please? I did not like my photo in this one and I know I can do better with another subject.

See--- I know I can do better.

This is a photo of a part of a doorway to one of the oldest buildings in this area. It said to date back to the 9th century. Note the rather crude carvings of the men and animals.

The building is Santo Estevo de Atán

Detail from the Nativity sculpture on Sagrada Familia, Barcelona.

The fantastic limestone rock formation of the El Torcal National Park near Antequera, Andalucia. Nothing quite prepares you for the scale of this place.

Stunning!

Michael

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Originally posted by anamazinghotel:
The fantastic limestone rock formation of the El Torcal National Park near Antequera, Andalucia. Nothing quite prepares you for the scale of this place.

Stunning!

Michael

Now that is impressive. If you look carefully there is a person standing in the space with no rocks, which is slightly to the left of centre. This gives you some scale of the gorge.

Carmo Convent in Lisbon.

The Gothic convent was ravaged in the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake, and now what remains are the ruins of the Gothic church.

When I visited the Priorat wine region this fall, I captured this shot of this stone archway in the courtyard of the Monastery of Santa Maria d'Escaladei, with a view of the limestone cliffs of the Montsant Mountains peeking thru.