Portuguese pride Photo

Photographer’s Note

This is a detail of a door in Gaia, on the other side of Porto in Portugal. These are the actual colors, I haven´t edited the picture at all.

Porto and Gaia are very colorful places, with a lot of bright-colored tiles, but also with colorful doors such as this one, showing the colors of the Portuguese flag. I visited Porto and Gaia some months after the Eurocup 2004, but flags were still hanging around everywhere. Who knows? Maybe someone decided to paint his door for the occasion.

(corrected with suggestions of beijokense)

Tezic, jafadabret, srgabreu, jmdias has marked this note useful

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Tezic (16927) 2006-01-10 15:21

Hi Yvonne.. very nice colour contrast with the very good composition... I love it :)) thank you..
Coskun

ahmetgedikli (22249) 2006-01-12 19:10

Hi Yvonne,
The colors and the composition here are very good.
Well-seen and captured.
Regards,
Ahmet

beijokense (498) 2006-01-15 13:41

Good picture.
Regards from a proud Portuguese :)

Just a note on the name of the city - now it's called Gaia and the previous name was Vila Nova de Gaia.

The name of our country, Portugal, originates from this two cities, Porto and Cale (now Gaia), since it was originaly called Portucale.

jafadabret (40717) 2006-01-20 11:45

Yvonne, je ne comprends pas pourquoi cette photo a si peu de points. Je la trouve pleine de qualités. J'aime le cadrage serré qui en fait une oeuvre presque abstraite et les couleurs très fortes qui forcent le regard.

skegz (453) 2006-01-31 11:56

Another good shot - good colours and composition.

rozy975 (3047) 2006-03-03 9:03

Very good, yvonne.
I love the colors and your compo.
Well done!

capthaddock (28640) 2006-04-01 15:46

Hi Yvonne - a random find today, simple but striking, I like the symmetric vertical composition, and a very unusual pink & lime green colour combination.

fabio_ts (13674) 2006-07-04 3:57

A high graphical impact picture Yvonne, I like a lot the result.. excellent work!!

have a nice day,
Fabio.

srgabreu (767) 2006-07-04 19:18

Olá Yvonne!
Great compostion that you present us here, I like the colors offcourse :) and the subject also.
I have some photos of door knobs like this one, so typical in Portugal.
If you're interested you can see them here:

http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/Europe/Portugal/photo349774.htm

http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/Europe/Portugal/photo349018.htm

Um abraço, Sérgio

jmdias (20213) 2006-07-04 21:45

yvonne

Beautiful photo. The colors and the way you put elements inside the photo are very nice

Jorge

magui (435) 2007-03-10 16:11

Adorei a foto. Adoro as cores e o seu contraste. Sou uma apaixonada por imagens de janelas e portas. Gracias.
Magui