First off, Lisboa
In the past month or so, I have taken industrial amounts of photos. This is due to my recent trips to Portugal (right before the new year) and Bogotá (Colombia) immediately after.
I’ve had the chance to acquire a great DSLr for the first time, and this is the first set that sees the light of day from all that Trans-Atlantic/Trans-American traveling: Lisbon.
The idea behind the Portugal trip came after about an hour-long gTalk conversation with my good friend (and photographer extraordinaire) Willie Morris. We studied together in Torino (Italy) back in 2005 and we’ve been mates ever since. We thought about it, decided, looked for tickets and planned our arrival –everything in more or less that time frame.
The trip was indeed a refreshing experience for me. I recently completed my much anticipated M.S. in Human-Computer Interaction from Indiana University and I was ready for a break from it all… and what better way than to relive my days of being a student backpacking around Europe with someone who knows exactly how that feels like?
Willie did, in fact, keep a very comprehensive account of our entire trip and shared it all on his web site (I’m talking plenty of stories, photos and HD video about it all). You can head over to his blog and relieve it all again.
As I previously mentioned, Willie is rather knowledgeable in the world of (serious) photography. This is why I thought this would be an excellent opportunity to learn how to take decent photos with a proper DSLr camera from someone who already knows how to and does it very well. After all, having the chance to learn from someone directly is something I’ll always favour (over reading books or even watching instructional videos).
What you see here is the shortlist of the hundreds of photos I took in Lisbon alone. You can enjoy it by going through the embedded slide show –but I would recommend you experience it in full, directly via Flickr.
Soon, you will see the rest of the sets displayed here. I will try to speed up the rigorous selection process every photo has to through so they can be Flickrd up to the “series of tubes” before I depart to southern North American lands for Interaction 10.
I hope you enjoy taking a look at these photos (as well as the ones to come). I´ve certainly enjoyed capturing every single moment.