He’s Got A Licence To Kill! Or Hare Today Gone Tomorrow.

I want those boots….

Not the wellies, don’t be silly!

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Nossa Senhora do Rosário, Olhão

f/4
1/3200 sec
ISO-200
focal length 24mm

Nossa Senhora do Rosário (Olhão, Portugal) was built in the 17th century. This is actually the rear of the church and in my opinion more interesting. The three arches that you see are secured with an iron grille which protects the chapel of Nossa Senhora dos Aflitos, where townswomen traditionally gathered to pray for their menfolk when there was a storm out at sea. Nowadays wax models of children and limbs sit amid candles as ex voto offerings for fertility and to cure ailments.

f/5.6
1/50 sec
ISO-160
focal length 34mm

f/5.6
1/50 sec
ISO-200
focal length 33mm

These photos all taken with Canon EOS Rebel T3i / 600D
EF-S 18-55 mm f/3.5-5.6 IS II

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Porta sessenta e quatro

Location: Olhão, Eastern Algarve, Portugal
Taken with a Samsung Galaxy Note GT – N7000

F-stop: f/2.6
Exp: 1/2077 sec.
ISO-100
Focal Length: 4mm
Max Aperture: 2.81

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Travel

A lot of the Blogs that I come across tend to be inward looking and all about the writer and without much reference to other people but today it’s all about somebody else.

In little under a week I shall be visiting a very dear friend that I first met thirty years ago. Rachel was with Gerry and I was living with his brother, Graham. Neither relationship was very long lived, just a few years (a little under three for my dalliance). Looking back with great fondness on those times I guess Rachel was the little sister I never had and I the elder ‘gay’ brother that she never had (her biological brother, Karl, is straight). We were often at each others homes and going out and getting drunk together, talking about art, boys, fashion and music and all the other stuff that interests you when you’re young. We both moved away from our home towns. Rachel from Lowestoft, famed for being the most easterly point on the English mainland and I from Norwich, famed for…well, actually I’m not sure, Colman’s mustard I guess. Rachel went to London Central St. Martins College and the Royal College of Art via Japan and Germany. I ended up in Brighton stuck at American Express as a very pressurised financial analyst and feeling rather miserable.
So fast forward to now and Rachel is in Portugal and doing a doctorate at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto while I’m still in dear old Blighty but looking forward to seeing her later this week at her home and printers studio in Olhão. Surrounded no doubt by sardines and sailors! Her specialisation is in Gyotaku printmaking with mainly marine life and has been exhibited internationally  many times. Click on her art below for more info:

I will be looking for typical Portuguese architecture, graffiti and anything that takes my fancy. There will no doubt be endless opportunities all along the Ria Formosa and the surrounding towns and villages so check back during the middle of March to see if I found anything to share.

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