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Photo Forum / General Photo Topics / Australian Photography / May 2008Streetlife in Portugal
What you could find around the streets on an average day: http://photos-of-portugal.com/ Comments welcome.  SignatureFocus > What you could find around the streets on an average day: > > http://photos-of-portugal.com/ > > Comments welcome. I don't see streetlife.................I see empty streets Bert. The tower on picture 1 is not straight. The rest off the picture's have poor composition. Nothing but snapshots Bert. Sorry. -- www.dicasa.nl >> What you could find around the streets on an average day: >> [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > >I don't see streetlife.................I see empty streets Bert. While this is a comment posted only because of personal animosity between the two, it is true that the portfolio would be more interesting if people were included in the shots. Without people, the scenes are rather sterile. SignatureTony Cooper - Orlando, Florida > While this is a comment posted only because of personal animosity > between the two, it is true that the portfolio would be more > interesting if people were included in the shots. Without people, the > scenes are rather sterile. I think there's room in the world for pictures both with and without people. The abandoned house and old wall both suggest the saudade, or sorrow (roughly translated) in the Portuguese spirit. The Mediterranean colors are captured well and the old wall has nice composition. SignatureJohn Rethorst jrethorst at post dot com >> While this is a comment posted only because of personal animosity >> between the two, it is true that the portfolio would be more [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >translated) in the Portuguese spirit. The Mediterranean colors are captured well >and the old wall has nice composition. I agree, and I should have written "some of the shots". Some variety. SignatureTony Cooper - Orlando, Florida On Sun, 11 May 2008 11:35:54 +0200, "Dicasa Photography" <Photography@dicasa.nl> wrote: >"Focus" <focus@home.pt> schreef in bericht >news:j_GdnQo2X5BvJ7vVnZ2dnUVZ8qLinZ2d@novis.pt... [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > >I don't see streetlife.................I see empty streets Bert. Maybe that IS an average day in Portugal :-) MrT. > On Sun, 11 May 2008 11:35:54 +0200, "Dicasa Photography" > <Photography@dicasa.nl> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Maybe that IS an average day in Portugal :-) LOL, matter of fact, you're right! It was around noon and the Portuguese are well known for their "sacred" lunch. Much stores close from 1:00-2:30 PM and, except for rush hour in the cities, the streets are empty. It wasn't that I told everyone to get out of my picture ;-) SignatureFocus > What you could find around the streets on an average day: > > http://photos-of-portugal.com/ > > Comments welcome. Once again you have made me want to visit Portugal. A question: the cacus that we call prickly pear in the US, except most of ours are covered with large thorns surrounded at their bases with very tiny thorns. Do the Portuguese use their pads in cooking, as they do in Mexico? The pads as prepared for cooking are called nopalitos, or sometimes nopales, and one use is to cut them into small pieces and put them in scrambled eggs. Talk about high-fiber diet! Incidentally, those very small thorns are difficult to remove when preparing the nopalitos. Allen >> What you could find around the streets on an average day: >> [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > to remove when preparing the nopalitos. > Allen Thanks Allen. I really don't know if the cactus here grow wild or only by planting them. These I found on the road side, but they could have been planted. I'm not sure if these can be eaten. I'll have to ask my wife, she's quite a cook and knows a lot about food stuff. I didn't find it in ingredients of restaurants, but who knows? In general there are just a few Portuguese dishes I really like: bacalhau com nates (cod with cream sauce, made in the oven), feijoada (little like chili) and my favorite: frango churrasqueiro (chicken from a special rotating Portuguese BBQ) with piri piri sauce, which is any kind of red pepper. Dried, sauce or other liquid. I loved visiting Mexico in the past. Food was great! SignatureFocus >"Allen" <allen@nothere.net> wrote in message >> A question: the cacus >> that we call prickly pear in the US, >I really don't know if the cactus here grow wild or only by planting them. >These I found on the road side, but they could have been planted. Cacti are native to the new world only. jue >> "Allen" <allen@nothere.net> wrote in message >>> A question: the cacus [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Cacti are native to the new world only. Peppers are a new world crop: > feijoada (little like > chili) and my favorite: frango churrasqueiro (chicken from a special > rotating Portuguese BBQ) with piri piri sauce, which is any kind of red > pepper. Dried, sauce or other liquid. SignaturePaul Furman www.edgehill.net www.baynatives.com all google groups messages filtered due to spam >> "Allen" <allen@nothere.net> wrote in message >>> A question: the cacus [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Cacti are native to the new world only. The prickly pear - dozens of species, but indica is the edible one - was broguht to the Med hundreds of years ago. It is planted as a hedge as well as a crop, and the Canaries, Malta, Morocco, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece and most islands have it in abundance. I knew it was edible even as a 15-year-old RAF school cadet being sent on a march across Gozo. We were instructed not to buy any drink, or eat anything. Of course I bought Coca Cola from a house on the way, and I picked and ate ripe prickly pear - or over-ripe prickly pear. I was on report on arrival at the camp because the old woman selling the coke had been briefed to describe every cadet stopping to buy, and out of action for the entire day afterwards because of the prickly pear - but they do taste good! On topic - I carried an Olympus Pen D2 loaded with Pan F, and my record was redeemed by filing a set of shots of the trip with the school. But I was also removed from that school at the same time and never returned. The pix of Portugal are just what they should be. I find the abandoned houses interesting as I'd rather like to rescue one. David > What you could find around the streets on an average day: > > http://photos-of-portugal.com/ > > Comments welcome. I agree with other comments that the streets are rather empty, but it is still nice to see Portugal through your eyes this way. The bell tower reminds of a similar bell tower that I used to see frequently in Vigan in the Philippines. The fine webs probably are tent caterpillars, by the way. They are a very destructive pest. They live in the tents by day. By night they crawl out and begin to eat until they have eaten every leaf on the tree and most of its neighbors. You could straighten up that bell tower in Photoshop, I suppose. Some of the streets appear to be lined with old Roman brick walls that have since been partially covered with concrete. SignatureWaddling Eagle World Famous Flight Instructor |
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