Music is definitely my greatest passion. But now I have another one: photography. I got so used to carry my Canon with me to everywhere I go, that I feel some kind of strange when I leave it at home. And a day without a photo isn’t a good day. I’m always aware for a nice moment to photograph. I love to register all those nice moments like everyone laughing at a joke while having a drink on cafe, or a birthday party with my friends. However, sometimes I like to register my own point of view of something. This was one of that moments, where I was at Velha-a-Branca having a drink with my friends and I was delighted with this scenario: the old door painted red, the awry stairs and the rain outside. So, time to pick up the camera!
Oh.. the title. It is a joke about “Velha-a-Branca”.
monthly archives: January 2010
old lady-the white one
gottlieb
This is Amadeu, my friend and tennis coach. He is really nice because he is always happy with the world around him (despite not being smiling on the photo, believe me!!) and he can make me laugh, even at bad days.
squares
This is just my first try on architectural photography. Let’s see how it goes…
And yes… I’m officially in love with b&w.
knowledge
This is a sample of my library. We have the house so full of books that now we’re using the space above the doors with shelfs. If I read 2 books a week for my entire life starting now, it will not be enough to read all the books here, so… Unfortunately, I don’t read that much but i love to have them!
The story of this photo: I got very mad after taking this photo! It was taken to a dpreview challenge called “knowledge”, but i’ve take it two minutes (!!) after the challenge has ended! grrrr…. but i like the photo, so there it is.
3 olhares de arquitectura
This is part of an exhibition of Miguel Louro, a friend of mine that really love photography! It is so nice to ear him talking about his photos and his machines. And I really love his photos! About his architectural photos, I like the way he contrasts the old and the new, the city people and the buildings, and the perspective of the skyscrapers! I’ve chose this one because the strangeness of the building and the rock wall.
His photos were in exhibition on December 2009 at the café "A Brasileira", Braga.
This photo is from the Fred and Ginger building (aka The Dancing Building) at Prague.
impossible perspective
Mário while visiting the Miguel Louro’s exhibition at "A Brasileira" (history explained on the previous photo). All the exposed photos were amazing, but I really enjoy the way how Mário, with his nice serious expression, composes with this two on the background!
To be honest, it was taken really fast (almost like a point & shoot) and it is one of my favorite photos ever.
kiwi
Paulinha is always trying to escape from my photos, so it becomes a very hard task to photograph her. I don’t know why (hum… maybe I do :p), this time, it was really easy to shoot her :)
Why “kiwi”? Because she will live up side down for the next 4 years (!), doing her PhD in New Zealand and that’s the nickname for people from there.
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