A Porto Roofscape

Porto is a city filled with open plazas and narrow alleyways... and steps, oh, lots of steps. But it doesn't always lend itself to photography in the bright high contrast light, and many of the architectural assets need a damned good post processing tilt and shift, because even with the ultra wide you're looking up a lot.

But occasionally there's a decent view across the city... and that's exactly where the local telecom companies like to site their mobile antenna!!! Every great wide angle shot of Porto seems compulsorily to include either a 4G or 5G mast, several leaning street lamps or an advertising hoarding. So believe me when I say this was not an easy reach...

On the other hand, I'm accruing so many image files that I'm going to be days or weeks processing them all. Today we visited the Carmelite monasteries, where the monks and nuns lived in separate sides of a monastery with a 1m wide private house in between! I'm interested to know whether this demilitarised zone worked, or whether senior clerics had access to a private knocking shop.

Also, all over the place there are graffiti or street art, depending on your contextual preference, declaring Pixo is not dead. Apparently they've been not dead for many years now and there's a growing cult following on Instagram. And because of someone called Stanislav Petrov, we're still alive too, after sixty years...