Now.

New Song: "From Pole to Pole"

It's a bit rough over the edges, but I don't mind... (sorry!)

We're all a bit martians

"I'm gonna have to science the shit out of this."

"Everyday I go out and look at the vast horizons, just because I can."

"If you solve enough problems you get to come home."

("The Martian")

2h ago

(Blurring effects courtesy of light diffraction.)

(The clouds had a busy day today.)

(Testing...)

New Song

Soundcloud's player is nice, but Soundcloud sucks: 1) it only allows uploading a few songs for free; 2) I had to erase songs that were online to be able to upload new ones, erasing listener's comments; 3) even after doing that, with sufficient space for new songs, upload was not working. So, I will probably dump Soundcloud.

Soundclick is a great site to leave songs: very open, it has accepted hundreds of songs without complaining. I am grateful to them. Unfortunately the player did not seem to work very smoothly...

So, I will probably start using Tradiio's player (but will continue using and recommending Soundclick!):



P.S. - The song title was chosen a long time ago: it does not pretend to reflect any thoughts related to the current political situation in Portugal... :)

(notice the little one...)

New Song

"Jump!"

(Alentejo, Portugal)

Apparently my 16 megapixel camera can take approximately

2.162563053434715687268732027209466088186203 × 10^115595518

different photos.

Who do I thank for this?

(Porto, Portugal)

(Porto, Portugal)

(In Pico island, looking at S. Jorge island, ~50 km in length. Go ahead, click on it and zoom in...)

New Song

To live in Heaven

(Ilha do Pico, Azores)

(Azores, Portugal)

New Song

(Oh and there was this one, too.)

2 new songs

(Well, actually they are not new songs... They were lying there on the disk and last year I thought they were not ready for publication. Since meanwhile my standards have fallen, now they are!)

(Figueira da Foz, Portugal)

(Figueira da Foz, Portugal.
No PhotoShop added: the mouth of the Mondego river is
between the 4 people and the lighthouse.)

End of holidays.

The next few months I will be very busy @ work. So, using the programming feature of Blogger I posted a few months of photos in advance. This blog will thus continue, even if this humble blogger is struck by lightning, unless meanwhile the world (or Blogger) ends.

For the moment I resisted the temptation of writing a post to our fellows of the next millenium.

(Porto, Portugal)

New Song

(Related: Beauty and Atrocity in Glen Coe)

New Song

Around the volcano

Around the Caldeira at Faial Island, Azores.
With the volcano's caldera on one side (photos above) and sea, volcanos and islands on the other (below), it is a perfect and easy hike at ~1000m altitude.

"The Blue Island", they call it, due to the flowers ("hortensias").

Series of volcanic cones. The last one, partly seen on the right, is from the 1957-58 eruptions (Vulcão dos Capelinhos) and formed new land.