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“To the Sea…” (First Dream – The Meeting) – Coastal Portugal – Paulo Flop – Featured Photographer
I keep wondering what this woman is doing here? Why does she have a lantern in the water? Paulo’s photography doesn’t answer a lot of questions, but it sure does inspire them. We have a lot of people who visit our website mention that they get inspiration to write a poem, story, or paint a picture from the photographs we post. I think this one has story written all over it. Feel free to add your poem or link to your artwork in the comment section. We are all one big community here and you never know who might be reading! Also please check out Paulo’s portfolio to see the rest of this beautiful trilogy.
Here is Paulo:
This photo was taken in Portugal on a beautiful autumn day when the ocean was thick with fog. It is the first photograph in a trilogy of photos called My Three Dreams. Each one was an attempt at a deep understanding of philosophy. This shot was a success and I am very pleased with the way it turned out.
Camera: Canon 40D
Lens 10mm
F-stop: 3.5
ISO:200
Shutter Speed: 1/125
By the way, I made up the title “To the Sea…” just because I thought it was fitting.
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FANTASTICA!!!
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Love it!
I love this, seems the epitome of ‘freedom’
Love this photo! The combination of the tide, the misty background, the woman and her accessories, perfect ensemble for a beautiful photo!
Beautiful~ Dreamy~ I wish somebody could take a picture of myself like that by the seashore.
Thank you for sharing!
A fantastic photo! Paolo did a super job here.
Lovely … must be someone you like because she looks pretty awesome in the photo. Thanks for always visiting and reading
This is an awesome photo!
What a superb image! It is small wonder that it has evoked so many poetic responses.
my goal is to capture something like this, this summer…just LOVE IT LOVE IT.
What an awesome blog. I’m very excited to follow your posts. I’m a total newbie at photography and am inspired by you and those you write about. Thanks for writing.
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what a beautiful shot! i’m loving the movement of the water, the way the woman holds her skirt, the edge where sand meets water.
I can think of several stories and poems about the way she waits for him.
This alludes to all of them. Very charming, her period dress and the heavy lantern. Thank you for transporting us to somewhere else, sometime other.
I shall wait… that’s the title of my new poem inspired by “To the Sea……”
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That’s a beautiful picture..
Simply beautiful.. My pen and paper is ready..
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Just love this photo… yes – can inspire all kinds of poetry and prose … a story waiting to be born!!
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Gorgeous! So glad I found this site ! Love it!
Words cannot express how much I love your photos. A-MAY-ZING!
Wonderful photo! Thanks for visiting my blog.
RED SAILS (A RUSSIAN TALE)
Red sails, a symbol of hope.
It was Alexander Grin, a Russian writer who lived during the Russian Revolution, who gave them this good omen meaning.
Here is the story:
When Assol was nothing but a child she lived with her father in a house near the sea.
Her father used to make little models of ships and sell them at the town market.
One day he decided to make a little model for her daughter, but while he was going to put sails on it, he found out that all the white material was finished. How could he finish the little ship for his adored daughter? He thought and thought, then he found out a red material and decided to use it.
The following day the little ship was ready for a happy and smiling little Assol to receive it. She took the little ship and ran towards the sea; she put it in the water and began to play joyfully. She didn’t notice that the ship was flowing away from her. So she was forced to run after it ’till the little ship stopped at the feet of a very tall and old man.
Assol looked up surprisingly while the old man took the little ship in his hands. The little child didn’t know that she had just run into the powerful wizard of the city.
He looked at her, at the little ship and gave a faint smile pronouncing a few words that little Assol would never forget.
He told her that one day she’d see a ship with red sails and on it there would be a beautiful man she’d fall in love with and who would love her in return.
She’d leave with him, marry him and… the wizard stopped talking, Assol was looking at him confusingly, deeply fascinated by the inner quietness of that old man. He gave the little ship back to Assol and went on on his solitary walk on the seashore.
From that day on little Assol began to go to the seashore and sit there, looking towards the sea, waiting for her ship with red sails…
Time passed, little Assol became a young girl, but she never stopped going to the seashore and sitting there, looking at the sea. People looked at her pitifully, “Poor girl”, they murmured, “she’s completely crazy. How can she wait with such a blind faith for something that’s rather impossible to be meant to happen?!”, they shook their heads and passed on, busy with their own daily business.
Young Assol didn’t listen to their sceptical words and kept on waiting sure that her ship with red sails would come, and with it, her love. The words of the old wizard which had been pronounced a long time ago had come straight to her heart and hit her imagination.
She waited and waited, lots of ships with white sails came and went in that sea, but no ship with red ones. ‘Till a day another ship with white sails entered the port and a beautiful young captain landed in the city of young Assol. He was walking along the seashore when saw Assol asleep on the sand and fell in love with her.
He asked to some people who that girl was and they told him that she was just a crazy girl who was waiting her charming prince on a red sail ship since she was a child.
He couldn’t believe that beautiful and lovely girl could be crazy, he couldn’t believe it because he already loved her and so decided to buy a red material and change the sails of his ship.
So the beautiful young man Assol had been waiting for since she was a child came, she fell in love with him and left with him on his red sail ship.
The people of her city looked at them astonished, but each of them with a sweet smile upon their lips. That day, they had witnessed that dreams come true if you believe in them in spite of sceptical words and negative appearances.
Dreams could come true and people began to believe in dreams.
This is just mesmerizing…. it’s so contemplative and leaves you hanging in anticipation, following her, being pulled in. Absolutely a fine piece of art.
What a whimsical photo. I am certain if Keats were alive he would have written a masterpiece of a poem.
The chic in the picture seems unaware of the camera, and that to me makes the picture more appealing. Nice!
Really magical. Love it.
Beautiful indeed! I’m so loving this shot!
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I notice her footprint in the sand, and that it won’t be there much longer.
I wonder what she is looking at out there? What is she going toward? And what is she thinking, feeling?
I like the photo very much. Thank you for posting it.
Stunning …. the young woman and the sea! Very relaxing. Still there is something lurking out there – in the minst.
Lovely!
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To me anyway, I think the most haunting part is the fog.
Mist
I have been walking all day watching the tide
I cannot see you, cannot see where you hide
I’m scanning the mist but cannot see through
I’m searching so hard for a glimpse of you.
The rocks are jagged and cannot be seen
In water that’s deep and so bluey-green
I’ve brought the lantern in case you are late
You know me true, I will never tempt fate.
My ears are strained and I’m pacing the shore
I wander in to the waves once more
I cannot see you, where are you my dear?
The mist is thicker – it is no longer as clear.
Then suddenly, I think I hear the oars
And maybe the low, sweet whistle of yours
Yes, my love, you’re coming back to me
And from worry and angst, once more I am free.
Wendy Strohm 2012
Please may reproduce your picture on my blog with this poem?
I love this photo. The girl, what she’s wearing, the beach, everything! Thank you for liking my post as well!
Just Beautiful!
awesome! it just took me away and i’m not sure i want to come back yet!
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I give this photo two thumbs up!
beautiful.
Like the footprint in the sand,
soon now, lost to time,
and feel the ocean’s rage.
So too, the bird in hand
the time is now, to climb
in freedom, from your cage.
~Jack Downing~
How beautiful!!!
Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it.
It is like something out of one of my dreams – only my hair is blonde.
Hi,
A lovely picture.
Beautifully evocative and engages the imagination wonderfully
Beautiful. The wide angle of the surf line and the woman form something of a triangle that points to the horizon, drawing you into the picture.
I can hear all those male hearts thumping. Looks like an ad.
Gorgeous!
what a beautiful photo – well done!
Lorraine
UNREQUIETED LOVE
Her lover, the fisherman, has not returned,
She carries her latern, I have learned,
To show him where she waits, forlorned,
He visits another, she has been scorned.
I like this a lot Waldo – I was thinking similiar thoughts looking at it. Words like “Discovery,” “Light House” popped in my head also. Wouldn’t this be interesting taken in time lapse photography, at night the lamp glowing and illuminating her? This is a very creativity inspiring picture!
Thanks. I will follow.
I invited a group of 10 to contemplate the photograph this morning. One of them, an 87 year old man who’s wife died four years ago, leaving him sorely lonely for her, saw the woman as holding a lantern so that her love can find her. The pain in him is so deep that he immediately interpreted the piece in that way. i think perhaps he saw his wife Isla as waiting for him, but then realized that the woman in the piece is him. Fascinating.
Beautiful and inspiring photo!
i love reading your blogs
Wonderful color timing and contrast. It’s very subtle and beautiful.
Lovely shot, well done!
Love your photo-a-day concept — looking forward to your future visual treats. This one was a stunner!
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Like a painting. Absolutely breathtaking!
Such an evocative piece of art. I love your querstion. What is she doing there? Why is she holding a lantern in daylight? Is there any parabolic connection here with Nietzsche’s Mad Man who enters the town square at midnight with his lantern, crying t”God is dead! God is dead! and we have killed him, you and I”? In contrast, this woman seems serene, still holding the lantern but looking at the sea. Freidrich Schliermacher spoke of God as the All, and Paul Tillich saw the ocean as symbol for the God beyond theism, Being-Itself. I see some of that here. Also, her lantern is very large. The photo just keeps luring with its beauty and with its questions. Beautiful piece!
Oh, this is lovely. A piece of art that I’d love to hand in my living room.
Lovely…great photo!
It’s not very often I could say I really fall in love with a picture, but I have with this one. I’d like it on my wall. For me it’s full of feeling and dreams and wispy visions, solitude and a sense of ‘waiting’. Beautiful!
I am a real sucker for pictures of beautiful women and of ocean scenes – so, this is a home run!
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Reminds me of a film, The Piano, methinks. Great picture, very evocative.
very nice colors and gradients
thou it would be blank without the girl
great photo!
Beautiful, dreamlike.