yellow (Sao Tiago Fort, Funchal)
For my own personal sense of structure, I'm going to attempt to give each post a one word (or short phrase) summation. Having a consistent mood, theme or idea will be good for me, at least to start off with. When I first got into photography I started doing the weekly assignments in the Digital Photography School forums, and that was great except that everyone else was so far above me it made the whole thing feel a bit futile. So these are my own themes, born out of whatever happened when I was shooting. Sometimes it might be deep, or abstract, or thought-provoking. Today it is not. Today it is "Look, I saw a pretty colour." The São Tiago Fort in Funchal was built in the 17th century to protect Madeira from pirates, and these days it's a museum and art gallery. And a restaurant, because everything is a restaurant. When we visited it was fairly empty, and I was enthused to take photos in a way I haven't been for some time. Mostly it was the combination of ...