South Southwest...

I had to go to Lisbon, and I had a few hours to spare. What to do ?
I grab my camera and I took a few shots.
I hope you like it...



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Orlando

All my friends know that photography is my favourite way to spend some time.
As I am starting to learn and I am at the very beginning of this adventure that is photography, sometime ago I decided to save some money and buy an inexpensive digital gear, keeping my old lenses from my analog gear.

The day I become a good photographer I will buy a proper camera, with one or two decent lenses.

But I keep wondering what would be like to shoot with this.


This costs as much as my car...
It is also a lot faster then my car!!! So it is a dream. Maybe one day...


And although I'm perfectly aware that the camera doesn't make the photographer, I keep wondering... and I felt I had to do something.

There! It is done! I shot my own camera and now I don't feel so bad... They are almost similar, don't you think?


This is my reality. I'm happy with it. And I'm also learning a lot with it.

For now, this will do. Maybe one day...


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Orlando

A few days ago I was talking with a friend about photography.
At a certain point, my friend told me that our cameras lie. We look for the beautiful, and we don't see what's wrong. Well, he's right. Bot not totally. Sure, we look for the beautiful. But we see what's wrong. And I care. We care.

This is one of my favourite spots. How I see it. And how other people see it.














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Orlando

A few days ago, in a comment to a beautiful post made by Follherbe, I told her something like "there is no such thing as bad weather". We've been having here a bit of rain. And wind. So, do I have the guts to take my camera into this bad weather ? Well, I got out. And these are just a few of the shots I took, it's a sample of the day. Tell me if it is worth to go into the rain and wind. I'm expecting your comments. Please, be gentle... The show is about to begin. We're waiting... Catching the wave Getting up Riding the wave Falling Gone Looking for waves Waves are getting stronger One last ride I've had enough Tomorrow is another day I'll be seeing you ! Orlando

Mud. Mud everywhere.


What the heck am I doing here, I wonder ? And the smell, can you imagine ?





The tide it's changing, and if I don't want to get my feet wet I better hurry, because I'm far away from my car, and the river rises in no time.





It seems I have a natural talent to scare away all animals I could possible want to photograph. But... this little fellow didn't fly away ! Either it's very brave, or totally deaf !!!





And these two ? I think they are just ignoring me... Hmmm...





Well, the sun is setting already. No luck today, not a decent photo was taken. Another day will come... I better go home !




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Orlando

Hi!

Today I have no photos. I have a thought!
For me, photography is about feelings. Feelings concerning what we see, either good or bad, and that we try to share.
I would like to share this with you.
First, I saw the movie. I was amazed and fell in love with the story. Then, I got the music. Absolutely brilliant ! An now, this !

It's one of the best live concerts ever recorded. Look it up !
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Orlando

For a number of reasons, I decided to change my camera.
I had to sell my D40, before I buy another camera. As my D40 was in mint condition, it was really easy to sell it. So, yesterday was my last day with my D40...

I decided to take a walk by the river. It was a way to say goodbye to a good friend. After all, we had fun together, for many hours, many days.

The first thing that caught my attention was this buoy, with such vibrant red.


I saw Gamas, Cabrais, Magalhães... Will they ever give "New Worlds to the World", as their ancestors did ?


We're tired of descovering New Worlds; let's rest a while...


In the city, the last rays of sun were shinning...


Hurry, the night is coming !


The church bell started to sound. For whom the bell tolls ?


Finally, the last sunbeam over water...

It was a nice goodbye, don't you think ?

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Orlando

Fridays are tough days, for me. I would love to get out of work earlier and start the weekend, but... no chance !

Now that I said it, you may wonder what my feet in the sand have to do with work, or with being Friday... Well, this photo was taken yesterday. It was Friday !

I can imagine that right now you are saying something like "yeah, no doubt, beautiful landscape: two shoes, half-legs and a lot of sand..." .

I'm very happy with this photo for three reasons:
#1 (and most important...) - I was able to hide my belly and see my feet;
#2 - I'm on the beach;
#3 - It wasn't a dark night yet...


For me, getting out of the city is like... reset and recharge.

I'm on the beach, I have my camera with me... and I forgot the tripod. Again ! What can I do with such low light levels ? I was shooting with speeds of 1/20 ! Most of the photos are shaken. Blurry. A mess !

But I got this...

Reset.
The wind blows cold, but it feels good.

I shoot again.

Recharge!

I think I need to polish my shoes...

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Orlando

October 17 th. Some days are like this. You look at the sky and say: "Hmmmm... it's going to rain... Better stay at home!". But that can be boring...

Well, usually, when I get bored, it's time to go out with my camera. And I did. I challenged a friend to come along, knowing that he had a DSLR and used it as a point-and-shoot camera. He might learn something. He came.


A storm was approaching our destination. "Probably we don't have time to shoot", I said. "Those clouds are getting here, fast. We better watch out... we are far away from the car !"



I managed to take a few shots, while talking about apertures, speed, depth of field, overexposure, underexposure... and that most of the time Manual Mode produces better results than Auto Mode.


The dark clouds weren't any closer. We were getting our time, after all. We kept shooting. No wind, so we were able to catch amazing reflections.



It seemed that made sense what I was talking about. My friend started to take time and shoot in Manual Mode, taking care with aperture and speed. Low Speed ? Use tripod !



And the storm never came. I managed to get a few decent shots. But, most of all, I learned thar Stormy Weather can be excellent. And this one ended up on my 365 Album.




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Orlando