Barba Salgada Photography

22/05/2021

From the series “Dawn Patrol” (this time without waves)
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27/04/2021

Dawnpatrol... surfing at dawn it’s always a mixed feelings between getting up early, still dark outside and dress the wetsuit in the freezing morning and surfing almost alone and enjoy the unique colors or the sunrise in the ocean, which has no price. Believe me.
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In the end you get what you payed for and it’s almost always the best way to start any day, let alone a working day.
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25/04/2021

Senhor da Pedra
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22/04/2021

Secret... 😅
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13/04/2021

Pipeline dos Pobres
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11/04/2021

Collect moments, not things

🇬🇧Happiness is neither an immutable nor a monolithic state. It is a set of micro-states whose associated physiological reactions are manifested in our body in the form of discharges of molecules in our brain such as serotonin, dopamine and oxytocin. We are able to reach these states in the smallest pleasures of life, or in the most transcendental experiences. In reality, the old cliché that happiness is not in the destination, but in the journey, is just an allegory about what I mentioned before and that makes perfect sense.

Surfing has been an inexhaustible source of mental balance and motivation since I was 17 years old. Unfortunately for the last 5 or 6 years I walked away from it completely, unmotivated, unwilling. Fortunately, in September 2019 I decided to change course, lost 17kgs, started climbing and trail running. A fractured ankle last December, had the power to make me start surfing again, as the first sport I felt safe doing after the injury. Two surf sessions, 17kgs lighter and a handful of waves, were enough for the stoke to comeback. And how I missed thinking about surfing ... day and night. How I missed to be able to get up at 7 am knowing that I will catch some waves with just my friends and maybe 2 or 3 early risers, and have as a bonus, in the absence of wind, the contemplation of a velvety sea without the edge of crispness except for the perfect swell lines entering each set, with the first rays of morning sun turning the water into liquid gold. I no longer remembered how surfing was a source of micro-states of happiness that allowed me to face everyday life with another smile.�� @ Praia de Carcavelos

26/02/2021

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Legende esta imagem!

📷 Barba Salgada Photography
Câmara: Canon EOS 6D Mark II + Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS II USM
Definições: f/4, 15 seg, ISO 1250, 24mm

30/01/2021

The waving plains of Alentejo under the Milky Way

“Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.”
Stephen Hawking

Have you ever looked directly to a black hole? You are seeing one right now, looking to the center of the Milky Way in the Sagittarius constellation (please check my last MW post to find Sagittarius) lies Sagittarius A, the massive black hole that keeps our galaxy together. You don’t really see it directly, but you see it’s influence: the 400 billion star cluster we call Milky Way. 🌌

11/11/2020

🇵🇹No ponto mais alto de Portugal Continental, numa amena noite de Agosto, a época da "caça" à Via Láctea vai chegando ao fim. O plano da Via Láctea já está bastante inclinado praticamente na vertical, e o centro da mesma já bastante próximo do horizonte. O conjunto composto pelo complexo de nebuloso de Rho Ophiuchi e a supergigante vermelha Antares na constelação de Escorpião, uma das regiões mais interessantes na periferia do plano central da Via Láctea, já nem são visíveis, estando abaixo do horizonte.
A elevada altitude é sempre vantajosa para astrofotografia para uma maior nitidez e detalhe, ainda assim, algumas nuvens dispersas deram o ar da sua graça.
Esta era uma foto que tinha idealizada há já dois ou três anos, e 2020 foi o ano.

🇬🇧At the highest point of mainland Portugal, on a mild August night, the Milky Way "hunting" season is coming to an end. The Milky Way disk plane is already quite inclined almost vertically, and the center of the Milky Way is already quite close to the horizon. The set consisting of the Rho Ophiuchi nebula complex and the red supergiant Antares in the constellation of Scorpio, one of the most interesting regions on the periphery of the central plane of the Milky Way, are no longer even visible, being below the horizon.
The high altitude is always advantageous for astro shots for greater clarity and detail, even so, some scattered clouds appeared.
This was a photo I had idealized two or three years ago, and 2020 was the year.

09/11/2020

🇵🇹Mágicas tardes de outono! 🍁🍂
🇬🇧Magical autumn afternoons by the sea.🍁🍂

25/10/2020

🇵🇹 Manhãs mágicas: Nascer do sol no Castelo de Valongo, algures em Agosto.

🇬🇧Magical mornings: Sunrise at Valongo Castle, sometime in August.

12/10/2020

🇵🇹Fotos da nossa última caminhada pela Serra da Gardunha, desta vez até ao icónico Castelo Velho e Cabeço do Galo, onde ainda não tinhamos estado, muito menos fazendo o percurso a pé. Recentemente instalado, o Baloiço do Castelo Velho tornou-se atração turistica bastante "instagramável" (à imagem do famoso Baloiço de Trevim, na Serra da Lousã) e com uma vista fabulosa sobre a raia beirã. O acesso por veiculo automóvel é possível, mas não aconselhado; de resto a caminhada vale bem a pena, até porque só assim se conseguem encontrar verdadeiros tesouros naturais e históricos ao longo do caminho.

🇬🇧Photos of our last hike through the Serra da Gardunha, this time to the iconic Castelo Velho and Cabeço do Galo, where we had not yet been, much less hiking. Recently installed, the Baloiço do Castelo Velho has become a very "instagramable" tourist attraction (similar to the famous Baloiço de Trevim, in the Serra da Lousã) and with a fabulous view over the Beira Baixa plains until the Spanish border. Access by car is possible, but not advised; otherwise the walk is well worth it, because only then can you find true natural and historical treasures along the way.