Fieldnotes

Lazy Sunday at one of Lisbon’s trendy spots, making the best use of the lovely December end of day light. And with it came that great of feeling more “at home” with new gear: finally I’m starting get the best of my Fuji XF 23mm f2, and this feels even better than buying and unboxing it!

Now t3mujinpack is on GitHubOne of the things that drove me to start t3mujinpack was the open-source approach of doing things by yourself, whenever there’s no valid or suitable solution. But until now, and despite that it wasn’t released a long time ago, it wasn’t really open-source, as it was being maintained by myself in a private repository.Well, all that has changed, as it’s available as a GitHub repository, which means now is free like “free as in speech” besides the “free as in beer”.“But what does this mean to me?”If you registered and downloaded the current version, and prefer to have the stable releases then nothing has changed: the releases will be available regularly, and delivered in your inbox if registered the newsletter.If you like to be on the cutting edge then this might be for you, as the it will always contain the latest, but often unfinished, updates of the presets, like the ongoing work for version 0.2. And you may even contribute with your changes.It will also make easier submitting bugs or suggesting new presets or enhancements.Follow it on GitHub

Short days, dark days, rainy days. Autumn has hit this city with a smell of winter. I love to photograph rainy days, stormy days bring even more challenges, but in the end this last weekend wasn’t the time to face the elements, I can still think of my soaking boots from my “wet hike” in the Alvão mountains last month. Now it’s time to look for familiar places and get the past work done, CCB is one of mine, and in between keep shooting for the sake of sharpening the saw and becoming more acquainted to my still recent Fuji XF 23mm f2.

Not the ideal of light conditions to photograph a place like the Lakes of Covadonga, but overwhelming nevertheless. Here my mate João stopped for a minute enjoying the scenery. 

I have a thing for weird, abandoned or just out of place football fields, and last month in the North of Portugal and Spain I added quite a few to my collection. #portugal #trasosmontes #androidonly #ligadosultimos #vscocam

A big, yellow quince somehow found his way into my cellar #portugal #beirabaixa #vscocam

Pumpkin season #portugal #beirabaixa #androidonly #vscocam

One of the shots from my street walk in Sintra, going for a calm day getting to know my new “street wide” lens. Only when I arrived I realized for how long I haven’t been there…(check this and more from this day at www.flickr.com/photos/t3… All processed with my darktable styles Fuji Pro 400H, Fuji Pro 800Z and Kodak Ektachrome 100 VS presets)

Saturdays with an early October mood than still felt like Summer #latesummer #street #lisbon #shadow #window #portugal(Processed with my darktable styles, Kodak Portra 160 preset)

Testimg my new tool in its natural environment: the Fuji XF 23mm f2! #street #fujifilm_xseries #fujixt10 #XF23mmF2 #vscocam #sintra #portugal

This must be karma playing is ways on me… Last week I hit the road to go north to Trás-Os-Montes, probably my favorite region of Portugal. I wasn’t at all the initial plan, at one point my thoughts were on the Portuguese Camino de Santiago, but some doubts on my overall fitness for a week of walking put that for a while. It was a big surprise when I realized the village I stayed for some days is also part of the Camino, not in the Portuguese path but as a variation that crosses the northeastern corner of Portugal of the long Via de La Plata. Now that I’m already at home I’m thinking karma was saying I shouldn’t to forget this.

The kind of thing you find when you go off the beaten track #montesinho #trasosmontes #portugal #androidonly #vscocam

One of those magical moments: a charming village scene, a breathtaking valley and a griffon vulture nest, all without even moving my feet away! #spain #bulnes #picosdeeuropa