at the sunset... (III)

Fishing the sunset... (or maybe not) (III)
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at the sunset... (II)

Fishing the sunset... (II)
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Window

Behind the scene...
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"Old Friends"

"Old friends, old friends,
Sat on their parkbench like bookends
A newspaper blown through the grass
Falls on the round toes
of the high shoes of the old friends

Old friends, winter companions, the old men
Lost in their overcoats, waiting for the sun
The sounds of the city sifting through trees
Settles like dust on the shoulders of the old friends

Can you imagine us years from today,
Sharing a parkbench quietly
How terribly strange to be seventy

Old friends, memory brushes the same years,
Silently sharing the same fears..." Simon&Garfunkel
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"estacaria"

"abandonware"
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O Rochedo II

The Rock II
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O Rochedo

The rock...
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Fernão Capelo Gaivota III

..."Natural Selection" made by Darwin...
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Fernão Capelo Gaivota II

"Aqui será a areia fina...a falésia...onde, entre voos, poisarei para descansar e meditar, depois voltar a voar entre o azul do mar e o azul do céu." Richard Bach
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Fernão Capelo Gaivota I

"Mas lá ao fundo, sozinho, longe do barco e da costa, Fernão Capelo Gaivota treinava. A trinta metros da superfície azul brilhante, baixou os seus pés com membranas, levantou o bico e tentou a todo custo manter suas asas numa dolorosa curva. A curva fazia com que voasse devagar, e então sua velocidade diminuiu até que o vento não fosse mais que um ligeiro sopro, e o oceano como que tivesse parado, abaixo dele. Cerrou os olhos para se concentrar melhor, susteve a respiração e forçou ... só ... mais ... um ... centímetro ... de ... curva ... Mas as penas levantaram-se em turbilhão, atrapalhou-se e caiu." Richard Bach
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at the sunset...

Fishing the sunset...
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Alone...

Solitude or Contemplation?
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Bridge

"Bridge Over (un)Troubled Water" - Alentejo
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Is this the place?

"I walked across an empty land
I knew the pathway like the back of my hand
I felt the earth beneath my feet
Sat by the river and it made me complete
Oh simple thing where have you gone
I'm getting old and I need something to rely on
So tell me when you're gonna let me in
I'm getting tired and I need somewhere to begin

I came across a fallen tree
I felt the branches. Are they looking at me?
Is this the place we used to love?
Is this the place that I've been dreaming of?"

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Journey

The beginning of a journey of a lifetime!

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Restolho

"É preciso ser trigo, depois ser restolho... Há que penar para aprender a viver"! (Mafalda Veiga in "O Restolho")

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Paliçada

wood path

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solitude

... alone looking towards the infinite...
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25 Abril

25th Aptil bridge "by night"...
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Lisbon sky

Sky scratch...
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Stairs

Stairway to heaven...
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Anoitecer

A primeira fotografia a cores deste blog! Queria que fosse especial... um anoitecer no Alentejo, captando todo o encanto do dia que terminava! Espero que gostem!

The 1st full colour photo of this blog! The end of an amazing and unforgettable day in Alentejo! Hope you like...
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Yellow

Termas do Vimeiro ao entardecer...
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Morning Fog

Ponte 25 de Abril, Lisboa
25th April bridge, Lisbon
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Night Rock

Fotografia nocturna na Praia de Santa Cruz.
Night shot of the Santa Cruz beach rock!
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VeRtIgO

"I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before." Robert Mapplethorpe
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Pair

"I think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable." Richard Avedon
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Universiade de Évora

"A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there - even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity." Robert Doisneau
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Serpa

"The goal is not to change your subjects, but for the subject to change the photographer." Author Unknown
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trilhos

"A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into." Ansel Adams
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True or False... Optical Illusion

CCB, Belém, Lisboa
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One Way

Belém, Lisboa
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Oriente

"L’appareil photographique est pour moi un carnet de croquis, l’instrument de l’intuition et de la spontanéité, le maître de l’instant qui, en termes visuels, questionne et décide à la fois. (...) Photographier, c’est dans un même instant et en une fraction de seconde reconnaître un fait et l’organisation rigoureuse de formes perçues visuellement qui expriment et signifient ce fait.C’est mettre sur la même ligne de mire la tête, l’œil et le cœur. C’est une façon de vivre." Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Sta. Cruz

"Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter." Ansel Adams
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Porto by Nigth...

"There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer." Ansel Adams
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Coffee for two!

"I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!" Ansel Adams
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Janela V

Janelas no "Pueblo Español", Barcelona.
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Janela IV

Vitral da Sé de Évora
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Janela III

Janela no Mosteiro de Tibães (III)
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Janela II

Janela no Mosteiro de Tibães (II)
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Janela I

Janela no Mosteiro de Tibães. A primeira de uma série de janelas a P&B...
(C)REF 2005

Porta

Portal da Sé de Évora
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