photography

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

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.

Anticipated Nostalgia

or the concept of mental time travel….

I recently come across an article that explores the concept of mental time travel, where you can have anticipated nostalgia. Cheung (2023) describes anticipated nostalgia as “linked to stronger appreciation of the present and efforts to savor current events for future recollections by engaging in activities that help to preserve their memories (e.g., taking photographs, purchasing items with nostalgic potential)”.

Is it strange the idea of mentally travel to the future to look back to the past? I understand it as an exercise in creating memories. We hold on to the special moments so we can look back at them in the future.

Although, I sometimes like to think of myself as a free and detached person. In reality I also hold on to special objects, books, and even clothing that have special meaning to me… It turns out I am quite nostalgic!

Daily writing prompt
What makes you feel nostalgic?
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