We took around 500 pictures on our trip but you’ll be happy to hear I’m not posting them all. We took two cameras, a point-and-shoot digital and our SLR. We’ve got in the neighborhood of 300 digital photos and we burned six rolls of film that were either 24 or 36 exposures. We need to get those rolls developed and put on CD before I want to choose the winners and post them in some semblance of order.
My guess is that the SLR took the better pictures. We’ve got a great wide-angle that gets so much more in than the p-and-s, although in tight quarters the wide-angle does tend to round the corners a bit. The major drawback to the digital is that the viewfinder doesn’t match with the eyepiece, meaning you’re never 100% sure what the framed shot will end up looking like as the viewfinder is virtually worthless in bright conditions. Yes, the end pics can be cropped accordingly in Photoshop, but the SLR is so much more versatile. I really had fun taking pictures this trip so I hope some of them turn out well.
Here are five pics out of the initial batch of digitals that caught my eye as having turned out nicely. Click on the images below to get a bigger picture. I’ll keep you guessing on their context…
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You MUST write a story based on the third photo! Man, what a great shot. Creepy…
How did the Great Wall of China find its way to Portugal?
I won’t really keep you guessing. The third one is from the “Capela dos Ossos” (Chapel of Bones) in Évora. The story goes that some monks decided the elite citizens in Évora were getting too big for their britches and needed to be reminded of their own mortality, so they exhumed bones from the local graveyards and used them to build the chapel. I took a bunch of pictures here but this one was probably the best of the bunch. The walls were about a femur deep and I’m not kidding.
You know Charles, that’s exactly what it looks like. I was trying desperately to come up with something clever to say in response but I couldn’t. Sorry to disappoint.
I did read Kafka’s excellent story The Great Wall of China on the plane ride home, if that counts.
Beautiful photos! We’ll have to talk about cameras before our next trip. Sounds like you’re the expert. Love the 4th photo – kind of reminds me of some of the views we had from San Gimignano, Italy. Very pretty. I like the ones of you and Amy too. That’s a great shot of the bakery – have seen photos just like that in Conde Nast from time to time!
Picture four was taken from the walls of a ruined Moorish castle in Sintra, which is right outside Lisbon. The bald guy in the picture is actually not me; Amy is scared of heights and refuses to walk the narrow ramparts, much less pose for or take pictures. That’s the Atlantic Ocean in the background.
The geometrically straight window frame amidst the random curved edges of the bones looks so out of place… (grin)
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