Barcelona, from the very fist day I got on that bus from the airport that was taking me to my new home for the next 11 weeks I knew I was going to love Barcelona. The architecture, the people, the music, the passion, the warmth, the weather, the creativity, the culture, the food, the soccer, the dancing, and more than anything the way this is a city design specifically for its citizens and visitors to enjoy, are some of the many things that have made me fall in love with and are going to make me miss Barcelona.

Computational Photography is a class that took something I loved and turned it into a challenge. I have always loved photography but I never experienced it with programming. This class gave me the chance to learn programming in a completely new environment and way. It was a perfect balance between learning to take new interesting pictures, while being in one of the best cities in the world and taking them and editing them with coding. I personally did not know anything about programming and have never really been interested since I am an architecture major, but there is no better way of learning it than the way we did this summer.

This image I selected is part of a “David Hockney” project we had to do over one of our free breaks. David Hockney is a famous pop artist that use to work frequently with collages of image to compose a bigger image. The professor gave us the chance to do this project during our week of travel because we had the opportunity to make our collage based on famous and amazing cities in Europe. In my case I chose Venice. The interesting thing about this picture is that this assignment was originally set to be one single place compiled of many images of that same place. I on the other hand decided to play and twist the rules a little bit and decided to take completely different pictures of different places in Venice and created my own plaza/canal on Venice. I selected this image because I really enjoyed going through my trip?s pictures and thinking how I could put them together in order to achieve the result I wanted. I was really satisfied with the result because if I hadn’t told anyone that all the pictures are from a different place in Venice they would have never known. It was like my own little secret and before doing the assignment I researched David Hockney and got inspired and motivated to challenge myself and try to be as creative as possible to try to learn what being “Hockney” could feel like...