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
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
