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Tag: Portugal

  • Walking in Cascais

    Walking in Cascais

    And today was another day of Photographic Tertulia, a cold day full of sun and very well spent in excellent company.
    Today the meeting was set for the Boca do Inferno in Cascais and then we started the route and enjoy a radiant sun that helped to warm up the day.
    Walking by the sea, talking and taking pictures we arrived at Santa Marta Lighthouse.
    After we went to the “Ex-libris” of Cascais, the Conde Castro Guimarães Museum .
    Despite being almost lunchtime still we managed to make a quick visit.
    After lunch, a good fish, we take up walking through the streets of Cascais until the bay, through some of the beaches and busiest streets, visiting some of the beautiful corners of the village.
    The sun was about to go to sleep and the chill came remembering it was time to return.
    Still had time to photograph an artist who appeared on front of us and, what movie star, made some poses for us: Jonathan Livingston Seagull, himself!
    We were waiting for the next get-together that will be by night …

  • Lisbon by night in Christmas time

    Lisbon by night in Christmas time

    Saturday was a day of night photography.

    Lisbon this time of year is filled with light and colour and people.

    Lisbon is beautiful dressed for Christmas!

    On the Arc of Augusta Street there are light projections to enchant children and grown up. Even with rain, nobody moves!

    On every street there are the Christmas lights and buildings, shops, restaurants, shining in various colours.

    There is the Christmas tree in Rossio with stars and lights and crowd, difficult to approach. Children run to see Santa Claus and take a picture with him ensuring that they behaved very well during the year.

    Lower down, in the Municipio Square, a Christmas market makes the joy of children running to leave a little letter in Santa’s post box and queuing to enter the house of Christmas.

    The entire square is lit with tiny white lights, pretending that we are surrounded by snow like the North Pole.

    Through the open windows of the Câmara House it is possible to see a little of the coffered ceilings and we wish to go to take a peek, but we cannot!

    It was nice to walk through Lisbon at night, see the other side of the river shining adorned by the 25th of April Bridge and Christ the King embracing Lisbon.

    This gallery is the result of ramble through Lisbon. Enjoy

  • Walking through Ajuda neighborhood

    Walking through Ajuda neighborhood

    Yesterday was a special day!

    It was the first day of photographic tour of APE’s photo amateurs tertulia who I proudly belong.
    We were walking arroun Ajuda neighborhood and down then to Belém to see and photograph the sunset.
    The day was wonderful full of light and cloudless, good for shooting inside the city and play with the shadows in the streets and alleys.
    Browsing through all the photos that we did and published yesterday I felt again what is photography for me and, in reality, is nothing more than a sharing of feelings, sensations, visions of the world around us.
    The different way each one looks around us, the special time conected to each click and the sharing all of this, are for me the best of photography.
    When all this can be experienced together by those who have the same passion for photography, then it becomes something very special.
    It happened yesterday.
    Every one for himself and all together we did a single day, and we can not find two views of the same place, there are small things, different details, landscapes, portraits, however we spent all by the same places and look at the same sites but … each one saw what he wanted to see.
    The technique … it’s just a bit of all this because if one does not look at first, not first observe not want to see behind the camera the unimportant detail, the technique does not serve anything.
    And the camera can be the best in the world but if we do not feel what we photographed so does not worth anything or for nothing.

    Thank you for yesterday’s day and here is a little of this tour.