Night Dreams
“Whispers of Eternity” – Adraga Beach, Portugal – Jorge Maia – Featured Photographer
Do you feel like this could be another planet? Some alien world that we have never seen before? Well as Jorge points out below, the beach at night is a completely different place void of most people. So this image reminds us to check out familiar places at different times of day when photographing to get an entirely different perspective on them. So please read the photo account below and then check out the wonderful portfolio of Jorge Maia. His concept of art mixed with photography is breathtaking in many of his images.
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Enter Jorge:
This image was taken on the Portuguese beach Adraga, being part of the Natural Park of Sintra-Cascais, near Lisbon. It’s one of my new ongoing projects called “Night Dreams”, where I explore the wonders of the night by the sea, away from day crowds, a real moment to relax and let ourselves be driven by the magnitude and beauty of the night sky in conjugation with the natural beach landscape.
This is a composition of two exposures, one for the sky and one for the land. I did this because I wanted to preserve the sharpness and detail of the foreground and especially the smoothness of the water. If I used the exposure of the sky for the entire image, it would result in a great deal of noise and loss of definition.
Camera: Canon EOS Mark II
Lens: Canon EOS 24-70mm f/2.8L USM
Exposure for the sky: f/4 25sec.
Exposure for the land: f/11 90sec.
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As I look into this one I feel that the sky, water, rocks and ALL blend in like they are ONE! ONENESS is what I feel here and SILENCE and MYSTERY!
Absolutely beautiful!!
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Breathtaking!
very nice photo, it does looks surreal, not here on earth. but a place to wander in and explore. it that a rock or a creature? hum yes truly dreamscape. nice very!
Another unbelievable shot…
veru nice pic and interesting composition.-
I love this photo – opens up the Universe to me. Thanks!
just the kind of dream I’d like to have – rocks … or whales?
Interesting photo.
“love” button!
So otherworldly, it almost makes me believe in fairies and ghosts!
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So beautiful! This makes us want to howl!
Bella and DiDi
Absolutely Beautiful! God’s creation continually amazes me!
Outstanding. Such a surreal scene.
Surreal. Stunning.
Another amazing photograph!! Wow.
Looks like we’re on another planet. Very nice.
Wow. Beautiful!
Beautiful photograph.
Awesome photo. Really great job.
The stars remind me of being in the Big Horn Mountains of Wyoming at night, where there’s no artificial light and the stars are amazing! Beautiful.
Beautiful! The first thing that jumped out at me was the rock formation in the foreground. It reminded me of the ‘face’ on Mars. Thanks for the photos.
awesome…
Lovely! Where do you start to take a photo like that?
Beautiful …! so many magical places I want to visit
I feel like swimming away
Stunningly beautiful!
Wow! Fantastical mythic magic.
one awesome photo
That could be a painting!
Love it!
Wow!
Mesmerizing! Wish I could be there!
Superb, etherial work! Thank you for sharing this.
It’s got a ‘Titanic’ thing going on, just in time for the Anniversary. Ooh, just got a chill.
Thanks for sharing such a peaceful and contemplative picture. Love it!
wonderful
Magical!
Like a dream!
Your photos are so good that you find they are almost hard to believe they are real!
I love that this phoo reminds us to view our everyday surrounds in a different light when we can. Otherwise we might be facing something spectacular everyday without ever knowing it…
Awesome photo! Thank you for sharing
Once upon a dream on a starry night
The land of God arose from the sea
Leaving the water to sit so tranquilly…
msuzanne http://www.godisiam.net
Star filled dream – very beautiful !
Wow, that is stunning! Makes me want to go find a beach and camp out!
I’ll just go with a nice simple WOW!! It looks so other worldly.
A dream of a photo. I wandered off to the lost city of Atlantis
beautiful dreams…
It looks to beautiful to be real. thanks for this.
A glimpse at the lost city of Atlantis!?