Fotosentidos

Category: 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 …

  • End of Year 2002, Welcome 2003!

    End of Year 2002, Welcome 2003!

    I was browsing my photos looking for some fireworks photos when I fall in the end of year 2002.

    Nothing better, to end this year 2015 than to remember the first end of the year, accompanied by a digital camera.

    Retreat 13 years brought me to the image how much the world has changed…

    Some changes are visible, others not so much…

    I spent the end of 2002 between “my” island of Porto Santo and Madeira.

    Porto Santo seemed summer except on the number of tourists. The weather was magnificent and allowed us to do some sightseeing by Pico Castelo, Moledo, Pico Ruivo beyond the chance to enjoy the beach and the sea.

    There was still no golf, tennis, “Pestanas”. There was a lot of green and very little cement.

    Also not yet we thought about “Docas” but already the “Lobo Marinho” circulated between the islands.

    I think that it was in 2002 that this boat started to make service between islands. If it was not, was for sure our first run on the 29th December 2002 on the trip to Funchal, where we celebrated the New Year 2003.

    We rented a car, as we always did, and this time they gave us a cabriolet. How wonderful!

    In Funchal was summer too and nothing better than enjoying the good weather, driving a convertible! Only that, we forgot to read the instructions book and, as soon as we left Funchal and we started to go up to the mountain to Eira do Serrado, the drizzle and the cold began to invade the “inside” of the car and the roof didn’t want to go up…

    Still, it was a nice journey. Yet there was no tunnel to Curral das Freiras and we only “visited” this village eyeing from the top of Eira do Serrado.

    The year 2002 ended in the company of friends watching the famous fire fireworks from one of the balconies of the Hotel Casino today Pestana Casino Park.

    Not only watching! Also making some experiences with my HP in what were the first, more or less successful, night shots.

    Good Year 2003! Or better…

    EXCELLENT YEAR 2016!

  • 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

  • Azores Islands – Corvo

    Azores Islands – Corvo

    And it is from the small Corvo Island that I start the photo tour by our Azores Archipelago.

    Corvo is the smallest island of the Azores Islands with about 6.2 km long by about 4.0 Km of maximum width.

    Its oval and elongated surface according to a north-south direction occupies an area of about 17,0 km2  and, together with the Flores Island forms the Western Group of the archipelago.

    Inhabited by about 430 people, the main points, not to be missed, apart from Corvo Village, is the Caldeirão, the crater of an extinct volcano, with its ponds and bogs where they come graze some   bovine cattle enjoying the peace these landscapes provide.

    In the village, the beautiful Church of Our Lady of Miracles and the group of mills along the airport are two of the point also to visit along with the Corvo’s Interpretation Center.

    It has a small bathing area with a fine sandy beach surrounded by black and jagged volcanic rocks.

    Take a look in fotosentidos gallery about Corvo

    Knowing more about Corvo Island

  • 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.

  • So the story begins

    So the story begins

    So begins the story and thus began the love for photography.

    This was the first digital photos taken in Porto Santo in March 2002 with a super modern Sony camcorder that has also took great pictures 640 x 480.

     

    Porto Santo 02 2002-03-30 14-45-18So the fun begun…