quarta-feira, 30 de abril de 2025

Yellow House

Casa Amarela. As sombras das árvores alongam-se no fim da tarde e rodeiam uma casa amarela com cortinados vermelhos nas janelas. Por detrás da casa os enormes pavilhões parecem ser uma estrutura apropriada para uma das aventuras de Harry Potter. Há uma pequena fada vestida de corderosa e violeta que está se refugiando na casa. Ao lado direito há uma silhueta e as rodas de uma bicileta. No meio do escuro a casa parece ter as paredes glowing como se tivesse luz própria. O ambiente é mágico e subtil. Como nos contos de fadas.

domingo, 27 de abril de 2025

Dresses 1

Dresses 2

People dressed alike catch the eye of those taking photos on the street. This was the case yesterday. I took these 2 photos in Caldas da Rainha Park, Portugal. But I have a question. Which is the best and why. Photo 1 is more complex and has the added value of the boy's gaze in the foreground. This gave more three-dimensionality to the image and introduced another important element to the narrative. Photo 2 has a nice Chiaroscuro, is more dynamic with people's movements and has a cool message on the guy's white shirt on the left: "Good Ways to start a weekend". Can you help with your opinion? Thank you.

sexta-feira, 25 de abril de 2025

A Parallel Universe

Sometimes taking a picture is about seeing what you hadn't seen before. Discover the Beauty that always returns with the light. The colors that emerge from the shadows. Small details that transport me to a parallel universe of emotions.

domingo, 6 de abril de 2025

Enigma

Sometimes we can't resist recording poetic moments that come to us unexpectedly and fascinate us. I travel through this image to the ruins of an ancient temple recently discovered in the delta region of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in present-day southern Iraq – where the ancient Sumerians lived. Accompanied by a local guide, I escape the sweltering heat and enter what remains of a multi-storey ziggurat from the end of the third millennium BC, atop an artificial hill, where the Sumerians believed it was possible to communicate with the gods. It is a ziggurat that includes another ziggurat inside and, in the latter, a hidden passage is discovered that gives us access to a vaulted chamber where golden dust hovers in the atmosphere illuminated through a hole in the dome through which some rays of sunlight radiate. A hand tries to push aside a kind of veil that envelops the space. The transparency of the fabric allows you to see the red of flowers inside. Someone had been there recently and had also left an intense aroma of amber and resins. The veil includes characters that are only visible when enlarged and with a certain incidence of light. They do not correspond to any known writing. The guide believes this is something that predates cuneiform writing. Perhaps conveying an important message to a future civilization. A riddle to be solved and perhaps a new adventure. A new beginning when everything seemed to have already been said.

sábado, 15 de março de 2025

Enigma III

Yesterday I found an interesting spot and light and waited for people to pass through the illuminated areas hoping that the right actors would appear. Among the various photos I took, I selected these 3 that suggest some mystery or story within the image. Which one is your favorite?

Enigma II

There is an ancient painted face that watches and spies. There is a woman in the foreground who walks by brandishing a smartphone as if it were a weapon while, in the background, an old man with a cane walk in the twilight of life. A story within the image and perhaps a metaphor about Life.

Enigma

There is someone running away knowingly trying to hide from the eyes that spy on him through a face in the darkness.

quinta-feira, 6 de fevereiro de 2025

A Engrenagem / The Cog

Soul vs Machine. In a world where machines are becoming more intelligent and autonomous, what does it mean to be truly human?