I’ve heard a lot about Porto including the Porto Photo Fest which I missed by just a few weeks when I was here this month. I was in town for something completely different, but I still brought my camera to capture a few street images before the start of my hike on the Portuguese Camino to Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Porto has plenty of old buildings, beautiful alleyways, cobblestone streets, and a commanding bridge that draws attention no matter what side of the river Douro you happen to be standing.
The next sequence of images was made from on top of the Ponte de Dom Luis I pictured in the photo above. Looking at the image below, could that be a fellow street photographer with a Fuji?
My camera has been idle for too many months due to other life distractions, and while it felt good to start shooting again, I could tell I had fallen out of practice. I did manage to catch a few shots, and while there were many areas where I wanted to park in good light, and wait for the right subject to walk in front of an inspiring background, the circumstances didn’t allow for that since my wife was walking in step with me. I was shooting on the fly and covering as much ground as possible while working through the remnants of jet lag.
Here are a few more images captured during my 9-mile stroll that included lots of hills on this day.
I hope to return here some day to attend the Porto Photo Fest, and also have enough time to at least fill an SD card.