Last week I accompanied a couple of friends to Lisbon for a long weekend of wandering, food, sight-seeing, a lot of walking and the odd bit of photography.
You can see the full gallery here, but here are some images that I am particularly pleased with.
The intent was to do more of a street photography type of thing, which is a discipline I am not particularly comfortable with and am in need of some practice, and some of the results of that endeavour can be found below and in the gallery linked above.
Lisbon is a great city to meander and people watch and take photos of, and I didn’t have the opportunity to explore as fully as I would have liked. It’s a good thing I am heading back there in a few months, so I can just take photos to my own rhythm.
This is one from about 6 or 7 that I took of this woman sitting at this monument. I leaned into the fact that there were crowds and managed to capture this image, with her gaze seemingly connected directly to the lens through the milling mess of people.
I played about both with colour and black and white versions of the above image and this is the one I settled on. I just like the seaside feel of it, and the unbalancedness of it works for me.
In the first two of the above images I was trying to get a sense of the city itself, with people for scale. Lisbon is a weirdly tight city, in places, with narrow lanes and stairways, meandering all over the place, up and down and around and around.