Some days ago I wrote about the cold, frosty mornings of Trás-Os-Montes. Here the lens of my mate João Maia captured me in one of those mornings.
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Already back home from Trás-Os-Montes, almost for a week, it’s time to wrap it up for now with its most peaceful moments, and miles away from the activity on the festivities: the foggy, dreamy mornings! #portugal #trasosmontes #fujixt3#vsco
Nothing too fancy, just hanging out with some fellow Fuji (and not Fuji) shooters on a sunny winter day, kind of checking out my city again…
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
Unlike other festivities around winter solstice in the North Eastern corner of Portugal, that are fast-paced and a bit on the crazy side, things at Vila Chã are more on the cozy side, which doesn’t mean less fun! Even in a ice cold morning like the one today. #snapshot #portugal #festadavelhaedomenino #trasosmontes
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That time of the year again, looking back to the previous 365 days and doing that typical instagram top nine compilation! These were my nine most popular, not necessarily my favorites, but sum up pretty well what was my 2019: lots of Portugal and masks, some older stuff (specially the derelict houses of São Tomé) and some Iceland (clearly you liked it more that the USA). Curious to see what the next year’s picks will be. Hoping a great new 2020 to everyone!
The ice cold dawns in Trás-Os-Montes during winter, that covers everything white . #portugal #trasosmontes #fujixt3#vsco
Back to the Mirandese plateau, where the pauliteiros will roam the streets inviting the villagers to the party, dancing or praying at each house, and finishing at the church: the only time of the year they are allowed inside.#snapshot #portugal #trasosmontes #wintersolstice
Besides all the cult and the ritual, pagan or not, there’s one central thing that goes along hand in hand with all the food and drinking: fun! It was like that yesterday at Ousilhão, it was the same today at Grijó. #portugal #trasosmontes
Today was the day to return to Ousilhão, one of the villages in Northern Portugal where ancient masked traditions survived side by side with religious celebrations, and where beneath the fun and drinking there’s ritual more complex than it seems. #portugal #trasosmontes #wintersolstice #festasdesantoestevao
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Pessoal, com o upgrade para Fuji X-T3 vou libertar a Fuji X-T2 que me acompanha há alguns anos (tenho outras Fuji e estas duas são demasiado parecidas para ficar com ambas). Antes de a colocar nos canais do costume vou ver se alguém conhecido tem interesse em ficar com ela:- Fuji X-T2 Preta- Corpo apenas, sem objectiva- Em bom estado, apenas com ligeiros arranhões nos cantos- Com todos os acessórios de origem e caixa- Com protector já aplicado no LCDPara preço e mais informações enviar-me email para info@joaoalmeidaphotography.com . Dou preferência a entrega em mão, na grande Lisboa ou no limite noutro lugar caso possível. Quem tiver urgência até ao Natal: a partir do próximo fim-de-semana que até ao início de Janeiro vai ser difícil combinar uma entrega.
A month that as passed without taking that many photos, but in a week I’m going to head to the north of Portugal and a brand new camera was waiting on my cabinet without me having properly tested it, so I had to go out just to take some shots, regardless of the crappy day outside. #street #lisbon #portugal
Small joy of the day: that Rodenstock circular polarizer you thought you’d lost while taking those last elk shots before the very last rays of light went away a couple of months ago has been in a really, really hidden spot in your camera bag!
In the last few years I’ve been going again and again to the North of Portugal, so much that sometimes part of me is starting to feel I came from there. One of my main subjects has been the masked and other winter festivities, amazing pagan traditions that precede Christianity. And now I’m really happy, because what’s probably the most popular of those festivities has been included in UNESCO’s Intangible Heritage list: the Caretos de Podence!!!#portugal #trasosmontes #caretos #podence
Roughly year ago I was getting ready for my talk at National Geographic Exodus Aveiro Fest, one of my coolest experiences ever. This year I’m going back to be a “regular” attendee but I’m as stoked as always for an amazing and inspiring weekend!#ngeaf #ngexodusaveirofest #ngexodusaveirofest2019 www.instagram.com/p/Bq7WLFF… View this post on Instagram A post shared by João Pedro Almeida (@t3mujin) on Dec 3, 2018 at 5:43am PST
I’m really stoked about the National Geographic Exodus Aveiro Fest that is about to start, and where I’ll be heading to in a couple of hours, and most of the updates on Tireless Eye (the repository of the images that catch my eye) will be highly inspired by it #ngexodusaveirofest
The last month has been a bit on the slower side, with not that many photos taken as work (including photographic chores) has got in the way. So it was nice to finally go out with the usual suspects, my local crew of Fuji and other mirrorless shooters, and wander in Alfama, with its streets ever more crowded and the river that’s harder and harder to see from the streets. #street #lisbon #portugal #t3mujinpack
I’m not the most organized photographer, but in the last photo trips (and doesn’t need to be long ones) there are two habits I’ve been religiously maintaining:As soon as I return import the photos and run all my backup jobs, so that they’re safely stored,And don’t delete immediately the photos from my SD cards and travel backup storage (I usually keep two copies of the photos while on the road), not out lazyness but to have yet another backup in case the imports and culling go wrong, sometimes it remains there for weeks or even months. Today the later came to my rescue: somehow I deleted two days of Iceland photos, and that error already had propagated to my main backups. What could have been a disaster was just an annoyance of having to import those days again from the “original” storage devices, and eventually I’ll have to go through all those photos again.Moral of the story: backups do save your ass, and the more you have the merrier!
I was challenged to explain my Top 3 photos of 2019. You can check out the result on my Instagram Stories! www.instagram.com/t3mujin/
