El Oso y el Madroño, the bear reaching up into a strawberry tree, is the statue everyone in Madrid uses as a meeting point. In this vertical frame it stands mid-picture on its granite plinth, with the curved façades of Puerta del Sol and a Tío Pepe sign behind it. In the near foreground a photographer in a camo cap works from a tripod with her back to the camera, and a woman in … [Read more...] about Photographing Puerta del Sol in Madrid: The Bear Statue, the Crowds and Hard Low Sun