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Lens-Artists Challenge #343: Seen on my Last Outing

‘What happened on Your last outing?’ asks Ann-Christine from To See a World in a Grain of Sand, our host for this week’s Lens-Artists Challenge. ‘Did you meet a friend or … go shopping? What made you take out your camera?’ Well, we went out for lunch in the seaside town of Vagueira, so of course I took along a couple of cameras.

It all started the week before, actually, with a trip to the now famous seaside town of Nazaré. Until a few years ago, Nazaré was just a sleepy seaside town. Yes, it was popular in the summer. Everywhere is in Portugal, a country where one whole side, from north to south is beaches, but what really put Nazaré on the map was Garrett Macnamara. 

This big wave surfer ‘discovered’ that in the winter Nazaré delivered the ultimate in big waves. He even set a new world record here (since broken by German surfer Sebastian Steudtner, also at Nazaré), and now Nazaré is a mecca for all types of surfer. It’s also famous for the Forte de São Miguel Arcanjo, a small fort and lighthouse that sits at the tip of a promontory overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. With its distinctive tiny lighthouse, the lighthouse is now famous for photographs of big wave surfers behind it.

Anyhow, all of this has little to do with my last outing, apart from the fact that when we went to Nazaré, I took with me one of my favourite cameras, the Nintendo Gameboy, and a camera that I’ve had for a long time but never actually got around to using before, the Bencini Koroll 2 medium format half-frame camera. It turned out that I didn’t use the full roll of film in Nazaré, so I thought I would finish off the film in Vagueira. The Gameboy was still in the same bag, so I brought that along, too.

After a lovely lunch we went for a walk along the sea front. I decided that from the restaurant to the end of the beach I would used the Gameboy, and on our return journey would finish off the last few frames in the Bencini. Just for a change, I thought I would try some street funtography (Gameboy photographs are known as ‘funtographs’, because the Gameboy is fun, I guess). It’s not that easy getting good images when your camera has a resolution of 0.014MP and you’re dealing with four shades of grey, but it’s rewarding when it works.

We were also lucky enough to see a motorised  paraglider, who flew back and forth along the sea front. When we reached the Casablanca bar, at the top end of the Vagueira’s beach, I put away the Gameboy and brought out the Bencini Koroll 2. There were four frames left on the roll so I recorded some nearby buildings (previously posted on the Blog), and saved the last frame for the sculpture of a sardine on a fork in the towns main square.

And that was my last outing. Since then the weather has been dismal, though it’s a lovely sunny morning at the moment, so we’ve not been out since then. I do have plans for this week, mind. Perhaps for a future Challenge (😉).

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