Princess on the Porch

I searched for you but you were nowhere to be found
A coastal state and all I stood on was frozen ground
And now I found you, it's been three months to the day
Oh and baby it's so good to see you, how I missed your face

The bedroom light was on as you waltzed off thru the hall
My hands were shaking, it was like I never knew you at all
You move so slowly, with such eloquence and grace
Oh baby it's so good to see you, how I missed your face

Princess on the porch as I waited for the flood
Gave you all the love I could, I gave you all that I should
And now you tell me you are dying to be free
Oh baby it's so good to see you, why'd you have to leave?

I walked out to my car, in my pocket that's where I found the key
I turned around to see you staring right back at me
That's when I realized how you are and how we'll never be
Because baby, it's not you I was searching for, it's only me
Oh baby, it's not you I was searching for, it's only me

The Smooth Sounds of Josh Rouse

http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/album/Smooth+Sounds+of+Josh+Rouse+disc+2+Rarities+/146662

A Édouard Manet

"As ilusões - dizia-me o meu amigo - são talvez tão numerosas como as relações dos homens entre si, ou dos homens com as coisas. E quando a ilusão desaparece, quer dizer, quando vemos o ser ou o facto, tal como existe fora de nós, exprimentamos um sentimento bizarro, complicado em parte pela mágoa do fantasma desaparecido, em parte pela surpresa agradável diante da novidade, diante do facto real."

Le Spleen de Paris, Charles Baudelaire

Monstrinha

Estória do Gato e da Lua

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEzIPsKwTlw&feature=related

Pedro Serrazina, 1995

Sea

Ya estoy en la mitad de esta carretera,
tantas encrucijadas quedan detrás.

Ya está en el aire girando mi moneda,

y que sea lo que

sea

Todos los altibajos de la marea,

todos los sarampiones que ya pasé.

Yo llevo tu sonrisa como bandera,

y que sea lo que

sea

Jorge Drexler, Sea

www.youtube.com/watch?v=27Pjh-SQpks&feature=related

Road to Nowhere

Praia do Carvalhal, Outubro de 09

Bandeira Branca

Aldeias de Xisto, Serra da Lousã, Agosto 2009

Onde vemos as marcas dos Tempos

Cabo Espichel, Maio de 2008

Clima Açoreano

Ilha do Pico, Agosto 2008

The Raw Material of Photography

In some ways, photographers resemble musicians more than painters, sculptors, and other visual artists. This is because photographers, like musicians, are more interested in the manipulation of energy than that of matter.

Photography begins the moment light is emitted from a source. She is the manipulation of light. Whether the manipulations are physical, chemical, electrical, or electronic, they are all motivated by the same mission and guide by the same understanding of how light behaves.

The three most important qualities of any light source are its brightness, color and contrast. But the subject, not just the light, has a major influence on lighting. He can transmit, absorb,or reflect the light that strikes it.

Of the three ways the subject can affect the lighting, reflection is the most visible.

Light Science & Magic, an introduction to Photographic Lighting

Tartaruguinha de Cabo Verde

Ilha do Sal, Agosto 08