my Photo Trail - My journey into Photography: April 2006

A view over the ocean

This was taken a few years ago.
It was taken in Aveiro the day I bought my first Digicam. It was a Minolta DiMAGE F100.

After Sunset

Sines a few minutes after sunset as viewed from the eyes of Vasco da Gama's statue. (ok... a little to the right from its eyes)

Sines is a city 150 km south from Lisbon known for being the birth place of Vasco da Gama the first person to sail directly from Europe to India.

This was taken a few months ago in "Semana do Caloiro 2005 - Viseu".

The band Blasted Mechanism is famous for its Bambuleco (an instrument created by Valdjiu - one of the band's founder) and they're use of didgeridoo.
They are also known for they're world music influences.

They are labeled by Universal Music Portugal

Head on to Blasted Mechanism's website and discover the world of Blasted Mechanism

Gigapixel photo

Just came across this site about the "Gigapxl Project"

From the website:

Defining the upper limits of large-format photography, digital scanning and image processing, custom-built Gigapxl™ cameras capture images with unprecedented resolution.

It would take a video wall of 10,000 television screens or 600 prints from a professional digital SLR camera to capture as much information as that contained in a single Gigapxl™ exposure.
(...)
A longer term goal is to create for future generations a world-wide archive of vanishing cultural and archaeological sites.

The photos are exposed in a 9" x 18" film latter digitally scanned.
There are no plans commercially sell the gigapxl camera

You can reach the site here or view more samples of the photos here

Boundaries of Photo journalism?

The website Ground Zero Fargo claims to be a photo journalism website reporting on "abortion holocaust". They take pictures of an abortion clinic they call a "place where innocent people are killed en masse by determined terrorists", they're staff and they're clients.

Is this photo journalism or fanaticism and invasion of privacy disguised as photo journalism ?

The site can be found here

Stock Photography

A new stock photography website is about to launch (summer) and it offers a 50% commission to photographers.

The name of the site is Our Stock Works and you can find it here

Another stork

Can't resist posting another stork viewed from the middle of the road. Didn't had much time as cars were passing all the time.

I miss my vacation

I miss some of the few good things in life that's still free. Sun, beach and sand.
It's time to go back to studies.

This is only a memory now

14 April

I wish I could afford a DSLR like Nikon d50 or Canon 350D. I know they are not the best choice, but in no way I could break even investing in a "real" pro DSLR with amateur work.
It's time to start saving for a cheap one :)

All this pictures were taken with a Fujifilm s5500

Man's best friend (after beer)