Category Archives: Travel Photography

Introducing my new photo blog

Greetings all – If you follow me on social networks, then you probably already know the news. I recently launched my new photo blog – It was about time that I revamped my online presence, and creating a self-branded photography based blog was part of my revamp strategy.

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Romana and I will keep posting about our travel related stuff here, but only when there’s something worth sharing. On the other hand, all the photography related content will, from now on, be published on the new blog only. Read More

The Portuguese Travel Cookbook

I haven’t made a post in the last couple of months. Part of the reason is that I got increasingly bored with normal blog themes as platforms for visual storytelling (if you follow my blog you know I mostly post photo series). But recently I came across Exposure and loved it. So, because it was about time I posted some updates about my latest work I created a free Exposure account and made a photo series there, rather than on this blog.
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São João’s night: Getting hammered in a partying Porto

Although the main reason for my recent trip to Porto was my Tascas project – a documentary photography project about traditional taverns in Portugal – I happened to plan things in order for me to be able to stay until after São João’s night.

São João is part of the so called Santos Populares (=Popular Saints) along with Santo Antonio and São Pedro. The Popular Saints are celebrated in June, more or less everywhere in the country, with festivals, fairs, cultural and folklore events, and parades. Read More

Good Friday in Braga, Portugal, in B/W squares

As I said in my previous post I spent Maundy Thursday and Good Friday in Braga to photograph some of the celebrations which took place as part of the Semana Santa (Easter Week).

Good Friday celebrations include a big mass followed by a procession held within the Cathedral (Sé de Braga) in the afternoon, and the Procissão do Enterro do Senhor at night. The common theme is the commemoration of the entombment of Jesus and the atmosphere is, expectedly, sad and mournful.

When I got back home from the procession I was a bit frustrated cause I thought I wasn’t able to bag any decent photo, so I downloaded the memory card on my laptop and let the files rest for a while. When I got back to them yesterday I was surprised that I actually quite liked some of the images, so I started editing them in Lightroom. Read More