The Kiss

“I have found men who didn't know how to kiss. I've always found time to teach them.”

(Mae West)

Street Shadows

"The photographer is an armed version of the solitary walker - stalking, cruising the urban inferno,

the voyeuristic stroller who discovers the city as a landscape of  extremes"

(Susan Sontag)

The Question

“It's a fact—everyone is ignorant in some way or another. Ignorance is our deepest secret.”

(Vera Nazarian)

There is so much we don’t understand

“There is so much we don’t understand. And so much unhappiness comes because of that.”

(Alice Walker) 

Thoughts

“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”

(Marcus Aurelius) 

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Do que é que estás à espera?

“Are you ready?" Klaus asked finally.

"No," Sunny answered.

"Me neither," Violet said, "but if we wait until we're ready we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives, Let's go."

(Lemony Snicket - The Ersatz Elevator)

The passage of Time

“Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. 

Our inner lives are eternal, which is to say that our spirits remain as youthful and vigorous as when we were in full bloom. 

Think of love as a state of grace, not the means to anything, but the alpha and omega. An end in itself.”

(Gabriel Garcia Márquez) 

Get drunk

“One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.”

(Charles Baudelaire)

Smoker

Red

Arrow

The Green Wall

Patterns

Reading the light

Two for the road

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow

Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead

Walk beside me… just be my friend”

(Albert Camus)

Let the sunshine in

“Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.”

(Helen Keller)

Francisco

Retrato de rua feito à porta de um restaurante o que proporcionou o fundo escuro. O restaurante é o novo "Fruta da Casa" em Caldas da Raínha e o retratado é o seu cozinheiro Francisco.

Street portrait done at the door of a restaurant which provided the dark background. The restaurant is " Fruta da Casa" in Caldas da Rainha and the portrayed is Francisco the cook.

Out There

“Sometimes the wrong train can take us to the right place”

(Paulo Coelho)

Thinking Man

“Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?”

(Sigmund Freud)

Ellegance

“Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?”

(Yves Saint-Laurent)

The story of a red umbrella

Travessa Cova da Onça. Caldas da Rainha.

Três razões fizeram esta foto nascer: O vermelho do chapéu contrastando com o amarelo e a nesga de azul (as 3 cores primárias), as linhas de fuga acabando precisamente nos cantos do enquadramento e o rosto do manequim (the last but not the least) em 1º plano através da montra e que adiciona uma ponta de enigma (fundamental) - como se nos quisesse dizer algo. Talvez uma história sobre um guarda-chuva vermelho.

Three reasons to make this photo: a red umbrella contrasting with yellow and a patch of blue (the 3 primary colors), the lines ending precisely on the frame corners and (the last but not least) a mannequin face on foreground through the shop window that adds enigma - as if he wanted to say something to us. Maybe a story about a red umbrella. 

Another rainy day VI

Another rainy day V

Another rainy day IV