Phoneography Challenge: Night Photography
Alfama is one of Lisbon’s most antique and picturesque neighborhoods. It survived the earthquake and tsunami in 1755 and is characterized by narrow streets, cluttered housing and many tucked away […]
Category Archives: Lisbon
That Old World Feel – My front door
Textures, colors and details make Lisbon a wonderful city. Many of the building have their fronts covered with beautiful tile textures and the doors are intrinsically decorated with fine iron […]
Weekly Photo Challenge: Culture
Alfama, Lisbon’s oldest city quarters is colorfully decorated with paper flags and flowers by the residents for the Catholic “Festival of the Popular Saints” (St. Anthony of Lisbon, St. Peter […]
Travel theme: Light
Every once in a while, one should exercise “travelling” through ones own city as a tourist, I do this constantly! It helps me exercise attentiveness to my surroundings and it surprises me […]
Alfama 20:52pm
White & Blue
Relaxing…
iPhoneography Challenge: Portraits of Nature for Earth Day
Well, I’ll be pitching in today’s Earth Day Challenge with my selection of sky images taken with my iPhone.Theses were taken either at the early hours of the day or […]
Beyond
“THAT OLD WORLD FEEL”…practice is balance
Have you ever stopped to think that cobble stoned roads and sidewalks are manually placed stone by stone? Traditionally they are done so here in Portugal by “Calceteiros” (comes from calçadas = sidewalks). […]
iPhoneography Challenge: Black-and-White Photography
This is truly a great challenge for me since I’ve very sensitive to colors and had to go back and publish my iPhone pictures to a duotone version. I think […]
