For one of my mappings, I chose to concentrate on two things--the views of and from the site and the sources of change that I observed while we biked around the port and walked up Montjuic. The mapping is structured around three bands of panoramic pictures which are (from the top down) the site taken from the bridge, the Mediterranean as taken from behind the site, and an aerial view of the site from the fortress atop Montjuic.
The thing I noticed immediately was the amount of commercial activity in the port, whether it be in terms of fishermen, cargo cranes and boxes, or cruise ships like the Sea Princess. The port has been an asset to Barcelona for 2000 years, and it only continues to grow, becoming the most important in the Mediterranean for cargo shipments and number one in Europe for cruse ships. With this abundance of economic activity, of course, comes an equal amount of human activity--port workers moving crates, cruise ship crews preparing for the next barrage of annoying tourists, old people sitting on rocks wearing highly inappropriate spandex one-sies. This juxtaposition of traffic is even more noticeable when viewed with the ocean as the backdrop. The shift of the tides serves as a reminder that the port activities are always changing, though with a routine.
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