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Pensamento do dia!
My problem with camera wrist straps: I’m always loosing them… Bear in mind that all my straps have quick releases.
I might need to include some spares when I buy the next one.
Ainda a propósito destas sensações que o Ricardo Costa fala: há dias alguém que certamente se achava “imigrante de bem” dizia-me que Portugal tinha de pôr ordem na imigração por não tinha gostado de ver homens de turbante… …e africanos também…
Domingo a terminar em “beleza”, o mote foi a manifestação de hoje no Brasil. Uma conversa acesa com alguém a tender para o bolsominion, mas que mora cá, sobre a imigração em Portugal. A conversa teve direito aos chavões comuns, desde “eu não sou racista, mas…” a “eu até tenho um amigo preto”, mas há uma frase que me ficou na memória:
“Só uma revolução, só uma pessoa com muita firmeza para melhorar isso.”
Qual é este fascínio de muita gente numa figura messiânica, num salvador para resolver os nossos problems? Não é necessariamente um problema de esquerda ou direita, nem de se uma pessoa é religiosa ou não (se bem que neste caso…), que hoje em dia encontrarmos dogmas em tantos lados, mas faz-me pensar que é por isto que ainda vamos tendo ditadores e que não podemos baixar a guarda…
It’s 2024 and the people who run giveaways on Instagram seem to have trouble in finding format different than:
All giveaways are like this, every single one of them…
“It turns us into the worst version of ourselves while convincing us that we’re at our best."
Despite travelling I’ve started to grow a kind of love/hate relationship with it, and this article kind hits the nail on many of my dilemmas. At some point I thought that travel makes us more tolerant, by having a wider perspective and experience other realities, and while that’s not wrong it isn’t as straightforward as I once believed. Often is more self-centred that people like to say (and I’m including myself in it…), both for the one who travelled or those back home: the questions usually are more in the “what have you done?” than the “what’s it like?”, and I don’t really like love talking about myself.
Random shots from last week, lingering in my camera roll
The two kinds of roads you get at Trás-Os-Montes.
É quase 2024 e ainda continua a haver gente a dizer que Sistelo é o “Tibete português”…
Always having a camera nearby
Sunday mornings where it would felt much better to stay in bed, but glad I didn’t! Hiking at Tapada de Mafra, my mate Bruno’s idea.
Monday morning commute
In the latest video of Framelines (https://youtu.be/Sd41x2vp0fM), Josh Edgoose goes on a small tangent from the main topic: lenses should use the full-frame equivalent focal length, not the real focal length.
Why should the full-frame equivalent be the base reference? I understand the conventions and all that, but feels weird to put a focal that’s not the actual focal length, and, more important, it gives the sense that full-frame somehow is the “right one”, and the others orbit around it, which for me isn’t the case (all sensor sizes have their place, from tiny smartphone sensors to large format).
If it’s to get an universal measurement, then I’d rather jump head first to thinking in lenses in terms of field of view angle, and not focal length, something I’d loved lens makers displayed more prominently.
…aaaaaand one more trip around the sun…
Not leaving home today!
Manhã pelas ruas de Almada, atrás de algumas das fotos da exposição organizada pela Narrativa a comemorar os 50 anos de elevação à cidade.
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E hoje houve mais um pouco de Rebecca Gaal, depois do Exodus Aveiro Fest no fim de semana hoje foi na Narrativa.
Kinda bummed, but not really surprised, that Instagram is phasing out Guides. It was a neat and different way to showcase work, that sadly never took off. Maybe because the Force is strong in the Scroll of Doom.
On fear and travel.
It’s funny how often the questions towards a traveler are kind of projection of the doubts and fears of a non traveler: “Where you scared?”, “Was it dangerous?”, “Don’t you think you can have an accident?”, “What if?”, etc.
This is neither good or bad, or it might be, depending on who’s asking. But there are much interesting answers when the question is realigned to things that were actually found, more than the things that could have happened.
The kickoff message of this year’s #exodusaveirofest. It’s going to be a good weekend!
