Holiday ending in Peniche, a photo from Leiria, North

Photographer's Note

Holiday ends in Peniche town, a fishing port and surfing spot of the Oeste coast of Portugal.

For some health reasons preventing me to travel further away this year, I found myself spending 3 weeks in Spain and Portugal. I reluctantly went, head down, I probably needed to be carried like a child for my first european summer holidays ever.
So I stood for 3 weeks in the sun, doing nothing almost, rubbing shoulders against the whole of northern Europe coming to get a suntan... and here now comes the spectrum of a long dark autumn and winter.

Definitely, Europe is not a holiday place for me.
How I wish I were yet in february, packing my case for a long haul remote destination in the sun.

kensimage, Prisley, luisafonso, bnallama has marked this note useful

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RGatward (20086) 2008-08-24 9:57

Hi Luko, I hope recover in time to take off somewhere in the winter, though Portugal seems like a pretty nice compromise. I like a lot of elements about this image, the arrangement of people, the attractive wall windows and doors, and the traffic sign. Though I find the shadow a bit sitracting, was there a time whe the whole wall was lit?

kensimage (8563) 2008-08-24 10:01

Outstanding use of light and shadow, Luko. The "arrow of fate" in the middle carries us right from the light to the darkness. Beautiful colors, too. It doesn't look like you were suffering so terribly being in Peniche. There's always your camera, or a good book. Regards, Ken.

naxius (16685) 2008-08-24 10:02

hehe, mais c'est le retour de vacances pour tout le monde alors!
Comment vas-tu cher ami? Ca fait un moment que nous nous sommes crois廥!

Par ici la rentr嶪 semble dire ton panneau! et oui, c'est la rentr嶪 et je crois que je suis comme la femme en noir, j'y vais � reculons!

Une photo d'atmosph鋨e je dirais

a+
Alex

ben4321 (9875) 2008-08-24 10:19

That area of shade on the right isn't doing it for me, although the jagged diagonal transition between light and shade is interesting. Maybe shifting the framing to the left a bit to include the balcony railings would have been an idea...
I like how you placed the passers-by at the bottom of the V though, and the way the direction arrow is on the light/shade transition.

Cheers,
Ben

brevbrev14 (140) 2008-08-24 11:35

ciao Luko, i like a lot the light on the people and the diagonal line of the image
...a different image by you...i am courious about your European images! :))
ciao!
Valeria

sacavem (18620) 2008-08-24 15:05

Ol� Luko,

Excellent shot of this nice light , with lovely colours and perfect clarity.Beautiful contrast.
Belle composition,
Bravo et belle journ嶪
Filipe

markoci (3933) 2008-08-25 2:42

feel your pain (broken clavicle preventing me from travelling this year) hope you're doing better. portugal should be a nice place to visit, "saving" europe for my retirement age though. going there in august though (or anywhere in europe)... what were you thinking?

nice shadow play, well arranged. i like the diagonal... the arrow makes the shot.. works for me well. good metering too... perhaps a few more pixels on top to include that third circle...

Prisley (1485) 2008-08-25 6:10

Welcome back!
Bon, apparemment ni content de tes vacances ni de ton retour...tu vas finir par obternir le surnom d' enfant gate! ;)
J'ai comme le sentiment que tes photos vont avoir pour dominante les contrastes et l'ironie. A voir si je me trompe.
Si je n'aime pas du tout cette image (peut etre pour les mauvaises ondes qu'elle degage), que je trouve morne et sans veritable sujet, j'apprecie bien sur la note qui lui colle au corps en lui donnant un interet dans l'illustration (d'ou le light green). Peut etre un peu dur comme commentaire pour une rentree de vacances, mais apres tout tu vas pas me faire deprime avec tes idees noires...alors qu'ici il fait encore 30 degre avec un soleil radieux et que rentree rime avec moins de touristes sur les plages, sur les terrasses, etc... non non non et non tu n'arriveras pas a me faire tomber dans la deprime post rentree :p
Pris.

robiuk (10807) 2008-08-25 14:41

Hi Luko,
I like geometrics in this frame as it just kicks you in the
eye as soon as you open the thumbnail. Moreover, the people's
moving from light to shadow works as a metphor for your
saying "... and here now comes the spectrum of a long
dark autumn and winter."
... wonder what I'm gonna make of Portugal next month...
Cheers,
Robi
PS. Hope you feel better...

vapours (8264) 2008-08-26 16:19

Although I won't say its your most stunning piece of work, it still does stand out for me, particularly that golden colour enhanced by the sunset. I enjoy the shadow which does link well with your note.

luisafonso (862) 2008-08-27 7:19

So you did came to Portugal... I though you had gave up since I didn't receive any more emails from you. I would like to have shared a bottle of wine with you... Well, maybe next time.
Nice photo, nothing really special, but that blue arrow works really well in the centre. And the way it's pointing to the dark side shows a lot of your mood after these European vacations. Hope the Portuguese have take good care of you and your family (although in August it's very difficult to find any Portuguese warmth near the ocean...).

delnaja (2056) 2008-08-28 4:37

une bonne utlisation de la lumi鋨e tout d'abord qui permet de couper la photo en deux univers en quelque sorte. La fleche sur ces parties, bleue, pour bien trancher avec la couleur du mur. Plutot bien vu malgr� que ces vacances n'en furent pas � tes yeux...

nicoz (1979) 2008-08-29 1:01

Salut Luko,
J'esp鋨e que tu vas d嶴� mieux et que tu r廥erves d嶴� tes billets pour Dh毾� en f憝rier ;-)
La photo n'est sans doute pas la plus extraordinaire que tu aies post嶪, mais elle s'accorde bien avec la note. La t皻e baiss嶪, le sens unique vers l'ombre etc...
Pour y 皻re all� un paquet de fois, le Portugal est sympa hors saison, et Peniche on a vu pire pour le surf (supertubos), m瘱e si 蓷 pue la sardine moisie! Il y en a une qui devait 皻re contente ;-)