Sunday, July 22, 2007

Made in Portugal, part 6 (The view down the other valley)

This other view is from behind the villa and looking westward. These pictures are mainly taken as the sun was setting, with the first image illustrating the scene during daylight.


Chilrão, 09/06/2007 (1055)


Chilrão, 08/06/2007


Chilrão, 03/06/2007


Chilrão, 04/06/2007


Chilrão, 06/06/2007

One night that I took pictures of this view, I got three mosquito bites on my legs. Oh! the price of creativity...

Made in Portugal, part 5 (The view down the valley)

You wait ages for a new blog, and then two come along at once...

Tonight, I'm going to share with you some landscape pictures. Rather than being a selection of different Algarve views, each blog is dedicated to a seperate view at different times of the day; the first one is based on the view looking roughly south from beyond the pool back down the road towards Nave and Caldas de Monchique (the photos are also presented chronologically).

I've been planning to do these blogs for a while, but had trouble editing them, (plus free time seems to be even more of a sparse commodity than ever). However, I feel it's appropriate to do blogs of photos based around a single theme with obituaries for Bernd Becher appearing in newspapers this week, click here to read the Guardian one.

The work he produced with his wife Hilla inspired me whilst studying photography at university in Nottingham; it's simple, sparse and repetitious, but their attention to detail is second to none, he also tutored two of my favourite photographers, Andreas Gursky and Thomas Struth, at the art college in Dusseldorf.

Bernd Becher, 1931-2007.


Chilrão, 07/06/2007


Chilrão, 07/06/2007


Chilrão, 08/06/2007


Chilrão, 06/06/2007


Chilrão, 08/06/2007

Monday, July 02, 2007

Made in Portugal, part 4 (The pool)

One of the major attractions of the villa was its swimming pool; great to jump in when the heat got too much, wonderful to sit by and watch the swallows attempt to catch insects from the surface...


Chilrão, 09/06/2007

This is on the last morning, the only time it rained on our week.


Chilrão, 02/06/2007

Taken during my first dip in the pool and the inspiration for the title of this series.


Chilrão, 03/06/2007

Air bubbles round my ankle, producing a strange affect...


Chilrão, 03/06/2007


Chilrão, 03/06/2007

Night landscape looking south (I believe), the camera was perched on the poolside and I held my breath to avoid camera shake.