On The Go
Quick picks and previews, taken with the phone or processed with the phone, usually while travelling but also random moments from everyday routine.
“Alminhas.Small shrine where people can stop briefly to leave a prayer and sometimes a small coin for the souls of those who have already gone. Usually placed by a road or pathway, sometimes in a settlement or at a crossroads, but often in the middle of an empty stretch of country road, or at the top of a hill or mountain. It is also frequent to find a burning candle or lamp, or even other offerings like flowers.”This one fits perfectly the definition: standing at the top of a hill, in the middle of nowhere, by a crossroad, like so many others in the region,and feeling particularly eerie today with the thick fog that today covered one of my backyard photography spots. I didn’t say a prayer or leave a coin, but being November 1st I did save a thought for the dead… #beirabaixa #portugal #fujixt3 #snapseed
When you go out after work and your homies are shooting some hoops…#fujixe2 #fuji_xseries #street #lisbon #portugal #snapseed
The seasons of the year aren’t defined by a day someone has marked in a calendar but by the cycles of nature, and that’s something that a pandemic won’t change. In this atypical year my summer was spent on and off my retreat in Central Portugal, a season that starts when I’m able to pick cherries from the trees (that were fully ripe in late May when I left Lisbon after two months of confinement) and ends when the last grapes are picked from the vineyards. Which was this weekend… #portugal #beirabaixa #fujifilm_xseries #vindima
With confinement old routines were replaced with new ones, streets almost unknown to me became familiar and favorite spots kind of abandoned. Today, while running by the river at dusk, it was clear to me that was the second option.
Out of nowhere Covid-19 changed everything, in a matter of days we went from looking at something that was distant to being in total lockdown (which I am right now). One first day of lockdown for many, and almost as fast as the virus rushed in, within a few hours some WhatsApp chats had turned into a collective instagram account. The goal: document the everyday life under the Covid-19 pandemic, where I’m proud to be among many talented photojournalists in this photo diary. Follow us there!! And I’ll also be posting these shots in my Instagram Stories, check the #everydaycovid Highlight. instagram.com/everydayc…
This one almost went unnoticed: Sean Tucker, an inspiring photographer and the creator of one my favorite photography YouTube channels, was in town and setting up photowalk but the instagram algorithm kindly hid it from me. Kudos to my mate João for the heads up!Photowalks are rarely a time for great photos, but always a perfect to hang out with some fellow photographers and get new ideas, specially if someone talented like Sean is coming along. In the end end being a really nice and sunny Saturday morning, and in between all that we may get out a few nice shots out of the memory cards! #street #lisbon #Portugal #fuji_xseries #vsco
All the winter festivities in Northeast Portugal have in common warm welcome so common in this part of the country, but each have their own thing, their own vibe. Some are more fast paced than others, some don’t even have masks. At Vila Boa one of the most distinctive features has to be how things are build around bonfires: gathering hay and wood to build them, lighting them, jumping over them… #onthego #portugal #trasosmontes #vilaboa #entrudo #entrudochocalheiro #caretos #fujifilm_xseries #vsco
Back from Northern Portugal, a drive that’s getting more and more familiar to me, and from a place that I’ve been coming back in the last few years by Shrove Tuesday. Back to the masks running through the streets, back to the warmth of the open wine cellars, back to the bonfires waiting for the brave to jump over them (but more on than later…). #onthego #portugal #trasosmontes #vilaboa #entrudo #entrudochocalheiro #caretos
One of the nice perks of hanging out with my local group of Fuji-shooters is that some times we happen to have the local reps with us, that bring some shiny gear for us to play around, just like this past weekend where we went out to our lovely Alentejo region and I got to play a bit with the new X100V. All photos are JPEGs from the camera using Classic Negative film simulation.#portugal #alentejo #fujifilm #x100v #fujifilmxpt #fujixfocus
The festivities related with the winter solstice run from mid December to mid January, with three peaks: Christmas, New Year’s Day and Three Kings Day. Salsas is probably the largest of the Three Kings Day festivities, where the local “caretos” are joined several masked people from the northernwestern corner of the Iberian Peninsula, and where everybody finally gathers around the burning “Old Year”. This massive bonfire feels like a perfect spot to end this “winter solstice season”. #snapshot #portugal #trasosmontes #wintersolstice #festadosreis #mask #fujixt3 #vsco
