Author Archives: Paulo Almeida


BLACK & WHITE SUNDAY: CEILING

Paula at Lost in Translation presented us a challenge: the theme for this photo challenge in black and white is “ceiling”

This photo was taken at the Palácio da Bolsa (Stock Exchange Palace) is a historical building in Porto, Portugal. The palace was built in the 19th century by the city’s Commercial Association (Associação Comercial) in Neoclassical style. It is located in the Infante D. Henrique Square in the historical centre of Porto, designated World Heritage Site by UNESCO. (Wikipedia)

The Arab Room holds the highest prominence of all the rooms of the palace due, as the name implies, to nineteenth-century gold-stucco stuccoes with Arabic characters that fill the walls and ceiling of the room.

 

Arab Room’s Ceiling



Weekly Photo Challenge – Structure

Category : WPC

The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of August 30, 2017.

This photo was taken on April 18, 2016 in Paris, under the Eiffel Tower. The structures of Tower also represents the magic of light.

 

Eiffel Tower


Weekly Photo Challenge – Corner

Category : WPC

The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of August 23, 2017.

The shop was on a corner, hence the name. Today, the Corner boasts six stores in Palma de Mallorca’s fashionable centre, the biggest brands (Barbajada, Dolce & Gabbana, Faliero Sarti, Fendi, Denim, Saint Laurent and others)

Corner (Palma de Mallorca, Spain)


BLACK & WHITE SUNDAY: TRACES OF THE PAST Y3-08

Paula at Lost in Translation presented us a challenge: This month you are invited to post in black and white anything that you see as belonging to the past (near or far), pretty or not so pretty.

Today I had the good fortune to go and visit the mystical caves of St. Beatus, next to the Thun’s lake (Switzerland) into the very heart of the mountain along over a kilometre of well-lit walkways, and discover stalactites and stalagmites that have been formed by nature over millions of years and I was taken this picture with my Android.

St. Beatus’ Caves


THURSDAY’S SPECIAL: WINDOWS

Paula’s Thursday’s Special theme for this week is “Windows.”

This is a different Portuguese Window, was taken at Monsarraz.

Thursday’s Special


Weekly Photo Challenge – Shiny

The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of August 16, 2017.

I love sunset and this one was taken at Costa da Caparica (Portugal), there are no words to describe this wonderful sunset, just sit and dream ..

Ooh, Shiny!


Weekly Photo Challenge – Elemental

The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of August 09, 2017.

This photo was taken in Gurten Park, with a fantastic landscape of Bern (Switzerland).


Elemental


Weekly Photo Challenge – Textures

The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of August 02, 2017.

The day before yesterday I went to Papiliorama, (Kerzers – Switzerland)  where there are over 60 butterfly species from all over the world flutter around in this colourful tropical environment, and I was able to catch (android) this butterfly with this phenomenal texture.


Textures