Here’s some of the interesting stuff for this week: The most photogenic festivals in the world | Pixiq Start to plan your trips!! Nikon will announce three more DSLR cameras in 2012 | Nikon Rumors Place your bets! the end … Continue reading
Who steals your photos?!
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Having your photos exposed on online galleries is a great way to improve yourself as a photographer, for having your work visible and available to other people’s critique, for refining your aesthetics by analyzing and criticizing other people’s work and … Continue reading
Alentejo Winterscapes
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Each season has its own unique features and I love the capture the different moods of them all, either soft golden afternoon autumn light or stormy, cloudy winter days. One of my “photo fetiches” is capturing dramatic and rugged coastlines, … Continue reading
Daxlore Salukis
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On a slightly different note, shooting dogs! Me and my friend Ricardo Oliveira had been thinking this for some time but only now we had the opportunity to take his award winning Saluki dogs for some photos. The plan was … Continue reading
Project 366
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2012 has started (almost a month ago, I know) and with a new year there’s new, interesting projects. Some are still incubating in my mind or are being planned as I a write this (more on this in the near … Continue reading
Mingalaba!
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Apparently it makes little sense to end my Myanmar posts with the Burmese word for hello, it makes more sense to close the series with the memories that will last longer. Not the temples or monasteries, not the rural landscapes … Continue reading
Buddhism and pagodas
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Although you can easily find Hindu temples or Muslim mosques the religion drives that part of Asia is Buddhism, being the chosen faith of nearly 90% of the Burmese people. And you can find it everywhere: from majestic temples, Buddha statues and … Continue reading
My handpicked photos of 2011
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New year, new photos, new projects. Time also to put the past year in perspective, and with that in mind comes the obvious compilation of my 2011 work, in my case this ain’t exactly a “best of” or a “personal … Continue reading
Just kids!
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As the posting schedule of my Burma photos was approaching the Christmas season it started to become obvious in my head that I had to do a children’s post for Christmas day! One of the best things of leaving the “western world” … Continue reading
Rural life
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Despite having large cities like Yangon or Mandalay, Myanmar still is a very rural country where half of it’s population works on agriculture or fishing. So it’s no wonder that even in the most visited places people still managed to do their … Continue reading
Kaizen!
I’m not a full time photographer (yet…), on regular workdays I’m an IT consultant and one of my favorite buzzwords has to be kaizen, a japanese term that roughly means constant improvement. My plan for my site, and this blog, … Continue reading
Lisbon streetshooting
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What have I been doing lately? Besides processing a large batch of Myanmar photos, being part of global change protests or just going back to the countryside? Not much, just the return to the routine, to everyday’s life. But meanwhile I … Continue reading