Title: Lisbon's Windows

Date: August 2001

Story:

I don't have the most positive oppinion about most people's way of life. I think that most of us are dumb robots, wasting life on stuff that is completely void of true, long term, meaning.
The world races past us, and we simply do NOT notice, since we are completely disconnected from the natural rythms: each year speeds by, faster than the other - a cliché that everyone knows, yet few chew on what it implies... Each year feels faster, because we live it less and less, kind of under a collective hypnosis (CH).

Under this CH, we don't notice small (and big) city wonders, like... ahm... most buildings' windows. Stop for a minute, reach an inner silent moment, and check what surrounds you, then try to think about what was there, years ago, and about what will be there, years to come... in many cases, the "was" and the "will be" are the same building, so its windows have seen plenty, and if you look carefully, you can almost notice the wrinkles :).

That is enough. Just check this small selection of casual pictures.

Click on any picture for a watermarked 1024x768 JPG. After that, click on the browser "back" button, or press "backspace" on the keyboard, to return to this page.

You might want to visit my Mavica page, with free digital photos taken with my 1st digital camera: a Sony Mavica FD91.

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Tech Note: all these pictures were taken with a Canon PRO90is digital camera, using "superfine" compression (the lowest possible) and a resolution of 1856x1392 pixels (the highest possible), on JPG format. These settings are "high quality" ones, and each picture weights, on average, over 1 MB. However, the PRO90is can do better, using a RAW format (no compression at all), but I wanted to take a few hundreds pics, and had only available three 128MB compact flash storage cards (quite expensive gadgets!).

Unfortunately, it is still not wise to make available snapshots so "heavy", so I decided to only provide 1024x768 watermarked versions of the original pictures, with a 15x JPG compression, meaning that the quality you get on each of these images, is MUCH lower than the original's.