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Looking back at my favourite beachscapes

Lens-Artists Challenge: Egídio sets up the challege “Can you select only a few of your best landscape photographs?” – read more here.

For this challenge I dug up my all-time favourite beachscapes.

Praia de Mira (Portugal) – 2007 – I remember the day I took this picture. We were lost on a beachside road that seemed to end abruptly, so we decided to just go for a walk on the sand instead. Every time I look at it, I can almost smell the sea.

Brighton Beach (UK) – 2010 – I woke up one day to quite a lot of snow at the front door. What would you do if that happened to you? I grabbed my camera and hit the streets of Brighton. It was the first time I saw snow all the way to the sea. The snow was still, in most cases, fluffy white…

Praia do Rosa (Brazil) – 2009 – I took these pictures during a surf holiday in Praia do Rosa, south of Brazil. I was experimenting a lot with film photography and panorama montages – also posted here: Weekend plans and panoramic views

Lens-artists challenge # 340 – Portraits

It is this first time I am participating in the Lens-artists challenge. This week’s challenge is by Ritva Sillanmäki Photography. I highly recommend giving it a read. Her post guides you through tips you might find useful when taking portraits.

I have been taking portraits for a while now, and I enjoy the process. I feel more at ease asking friends and family to be in front of the camera, so my main subjects are familiar to me. I feel this allows me to capture more relaxed moments or to easily direct them to pose.

This week’s challenge inspired me to have a second look at some of my favourite portraits of people and animals. I look forward to seeing your interpretation of this challenge.

My top favourite portrait is this photo of “branquita”, our family dog, that sadly has already passed away.

This was taken with a manual Pentax film camera. I love the graininess of the film and how her nose is in focus, but what really captivates me is her eyes.

Ritva emphasizes the importance of focusing in the eyes, and in this next portrait, I find the eyes incredibly expressive. Although they are not fully in focus, they are the first thing I see.

Self-portrait: playing with natural light.

It took several attempts to take this photo. This was some years ago. At the time I was not really happy with the results. Maybe a common problem with self-portrait. At least for me it is. I appreciate it now, I like the way the natural light is reflecting on the skin.

I also like these side view portraits capturing those sweet relaxing moments.

Photography page

It has been a while since I have updated my photography page.

I am finding it hard to choose which photos to share and how best to display them.

It is a work in progress! I would like to share the different types of media, such as film photography, digital photography, polaroid, lomography. I would also like to share different subject matter.

I would love to hear your thoughts and experience on this. Shall I limit the amount of images? shall I divide it by different pages?

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These are my latest upload to the page, these photos were taken some time ago. I normally pass under this bridge on my daily walks. I love the way the light reflects on it and how the mist in the morning makes it disappear.

Midweek inspiration

“Vivian Dorothy Maier (February 1, 1926 – April 21, 2009) was an American street photographer. Maier worked for about forty years as a nanny, mostly in Chicago pursuing photography during her spare time. She took more than 150,000 photographs during her lifetime […] During her lifetime, Maier’s photographs were unknown and unpublished; many of her negatives were never printed. […]” (Wikipedia)