ONCE UPON A TIME A FAMILY! MADALENA & NUNO

ONCE UPON A TIME A FAMILY! MADALENA & NUNO

The best of August is not the sun, the heat and the (overloaded) beaches of Algarve.
The best of summer are the long days, when the sun lasts longer and delays us with the feet on the sand, the light clothing and spirit and the joy of a never-ending light.

Even better is to be able to return to the origins, to our places, family and friends and the tightest hugs, warding off any winter within us.
And, taking the risk of falling in the weariness of repetition, better than meeting new faces and new stories, it is always to review the ones we are already know, those who are already our own history, written with wide spaces in different places, at different times, when children have grown up, when dreams are different, but the joy of living is always the same.

ONCE UPON A TIME A WEDDING! SÓNIA & GUIDO

ONCE UPON A TIME A WEDDING! SÓNIA & GUIDO

We are in the middle of the high season, in the heart of summer that hits so strong that raises the temperature.
This story was told in full summer mode, a hot day with a burning sun and a stubborn breeze in bringing us the smell of sea and pine forest, but never in refreshing us.

After the agitation of the preparations, the nervousness moments before entering the church, these moments of two (actually four!) are a kind of balm that invigorates us to move forward with a new energy to the party that follows.

ONCE UPON A TIME A CHRISTENING! VICENTE

ONCE UPON A TIME A CHRISTENING! VICENTE

There are many families who are repeaters here. Never from material or disciplinary faults, but because there are so good subjects that it feels good to study and know them at the tip of the tongue.

We met Vicente on a Christmas mini-shoot, so tiny.
We have overcomed the constraints of the first encounter with machines and lenses in the middle and we marveled ourselves with this family in a faster and short record that left us water on the mouth for more, much more.

ONCE UPON A TIME A FAMILY! TERESA & NUNO

ONCE UPON A TIME A FAMILY! TERESA & NUNO

Weeks pass by without more complete stories finding their way to the blog.
The truth is that the time we choose and prepare the images to show here and the care and affection that we want to leave printed on every word written, turn out that only now the first jobs of2015 (yes, you read it well, 2015!) are coming to the blog.

We would like to promise more attendance but there are so many stories to tell!
And there is the constant balance between the humanly possible and the will to be present everywhere, whenever needed.

ONCE UPON A TIME A CHRISTENING! ENZO

ONCE UPON A TIME A CHRISTENING! ENZO

We are increasingly grateful for the people who cross our path, whose stories mingle with ours, in a combination of good times and memories of those that we keep forever.

Then there are friends of friends who come by the hand of other friends, who call us to take part in a special day and make us feel well and at home, comfortable and accommodated into the family's routine and that, in the end, invite us to stay.

ONCE UPON A TIME A STORY! ADRIENNE & WES

ONCE UPON A TIME A STORY! ADRIENNE & WES

We always want to photograph at the best of the best places with the best possible light.
We always want the places, the stage of your story, to be special or have anything to do with you, with some special moment, with old memories.

When we knew we were going to shoot Adrienne and Wes at Belem Tower, on a day promising sun and heat, we tremble on the inside.
How many people would be there, getting to know the place, enjoying the view of the other side or waiting for the amazing setting of the sun that did not disappoint?

ONCE UPON A TIME A CHRISTENING! JOÃO

ONCE UPON A TIME A CHRISTENING! JOÃO

Christening days are also family days!
May the party be bigger or smaller, it's all about the purpose, the reason that leads us to be, together, in that day, that moment, that place.

The day we met João and family was the christening the day. We were welcomed by the big brother Gonçalo who opened up the door and the smile, who fled from the photos but from whom, in no time, we win the confidence with unfulfilled promises of a ball game on the beach.
João was always in good mood and never cried, not even when the cold baptism water helped to cool the warmth coming from the outside.

ONCE UPON A TIME A WEDDING! ALEXANDRA & DIOGO

ONCE UPON A TIME A WEDDING! ALEXANDRA & DIOGO

The weekend was intense.
The sun shone in all its splendor, the temperature rose, many people searched for the beach as a backdrop for one more saturday.

Here, although the beach was also a destination of choice, there was a good story to tell.
The shiver down the spine from a dive into the cold ocean was replaced by the shiver of the lived emotions.
Only a few days had passed since the first shoot and already a new chapter of this story was opened at our eyes, a chapter promising many more happy moments.

ONCE UPON A TIME A STORY! ALEXANDRA & DIOGO

ONCE UPON A TIME A STORY! ALEXANDRA & DIOGO

 

We have been walking up and down the mountain, in the certainty that the mountain air is the best and that, above or below, there are still many stories to tell there.

Although summer, the wind blew strong, misaligning the hair, billowing dresses but not making us give up of the company and of another good story to tell.
This one came out full of other places, different and far away countries where it lives.
Professions in common and a thousand and one projects and dreams mixed with fun and the mother's lap, the favourite one.

Because the sessions prior to the day of your wedding does not necessarily have to be with only two. If your love already bore fruit they are very welcome to our sessions, a living witness that you just make sense so, together.
And if they are sweet, with big eyelashes, full of energy and good mood like little Mathias, even better!

We are counting the hours that separate us from another chapter of this story!
It's a see you later, like so:

14th July of 2016

ONCE UPON A TIME A STORY! ANA LUÍSA & JOÃO

ONCE UPON A TIME A STORY! ANA LUÍSA & JOÃO

We often exclaim the places, the breathtaking view, the light ... but are not always the places, the view or the light that tear us sighs, are the people.
It's the people who make the places. Are the stories that give them life, color and salt.

Peninha is an amazing site asking for a story to match.
Neither more nor less!
And Sintra is in their blood, in the place they chose to enhance an happy ending in this story that has barely begun.
We sigh just thinking about the day ahead, such an amazing place, a story that remains even if the wind take away a few words and the conversations flew off to other places.

ONCE UPON A TIME A BELLY! FILIPA & JORGE

ONCE UPON A TIME A BELLY! FILIPA & JORGE

When Portugal plays the whole country stops.
It's like if a giant red sign was lit and everything would be there in suspense, waiting for a verdict that would lead us to the streets or confine us to an infinite sadness.
If the whole Portugal stops, we don't!
And how good it was to find Lisbon practically empty, to serve, quietly, as a stage and backdrop to this story of two that in no time will be lived by three.

ONCE UPON A TIME A PARTY! VICENTE

ONCE UPON A TIME A PARTY! VICENTE

How many memories do we already keep from this family? I don't know.
Few, in proportion to how loved they already are to us. Family of themselves and of ourselves too, as if this Vicente was not "our" Vicente!

I know that the sudden passing of all the good times is a misplaced and unparalleled injustice.
An headache, a flu.. last forever! An afternoon at the beach, moments in the company of the best people we could have around... a blink of an eye!
And we deal pretty bad with injustice! We feel like breaking the glass of the clock and halt, once and for all, the clock hands and only wind it at the pace that we wanted to.

ONCE UPON A TIME A BABY! BEATRIZ

ONCE UPON A TIME A BABY! BEATRIZ

The first days of life of a baby are a stage of charm and tenderness, but also of recognition and adaptation.
It always passes quickly, too quickly and, often, when, a few weeks after the first shoot, we deliver the photos, we listen to exclaimed reactions about how grown, how changed, how different he/she was.
How many times have we heard"I don't even remember her so little"?

Those are the best memories we can deliver. Memories that are now part of the parents but, with all the probability, will also be part of these tiny lives we photographed.

ONCE UPON A TIME THE B SIDE

ONCE UPON A TIME THE B SIDE

All stories have a B side, or at least two versions, depending on who tells.
And the other side is, perhaps many times, the best side.

If in a version of this story there is detail and a lot of light, on the other side there is symmetry, balance and a job that is often done in the shade, undeservedly.

Sergio, besides Terra, this our side A, also wears the shirt of a project although the same, so different. The Invisible Gentleman, a wonderful and amazing side B!
Invisible Gentleman is photography, but much more than architectural photography. There is rigor, there is symmetry, balance within each picture, every shot, but there is much more, there is love for what is done.

ONCE UPON A TIME A BABY! TOMÁS

ONCE UPON A TIME A BABY! TOMÁS

Some days we feel like we woke up in the wrong side of the world.
In these days, when we feel like doing a little or nothing we settle ourselves by the memory of the others. The days when we tell stories, when we laugh and play, exchange experiences... and keep everything in a memory card that is so tiny, in front of the great stories we want to tell.

Tomás was born on the King's day against any prospect to come as a christmas gift. He was born on the day he wanted, even like a little king, and as for us, on the right day.

ONCE UPON A TIME A PARTY, ONCE UPON A TIME A BOOK!

ONCE UPON A TIME A PARTY, ONCE UPON A TIME A BOOK!

Early last year we received an offer we couldn't refuse.
What started with the idea of shooting a set of children's parties quickly became the party and the excitement that would be to shoot for a book.

Says the popular saying that life is this: "plant a tree, have a child and write a book." Although we can not say that we wrote it, literally, but if we think that it is through the images that we write and tell our stories, then we may have some credits in this part of writing a book, right?

ONCE UPON A TIME A CHRISTENING! HELENA

ONCE UPON A TIME A CHRISTENING! HELENA

This story already has some time, but now, more than ever, it really makes sense to share it.
On this day we met a family of three but with stars out of sight, a friendly family that so well welcomed us in the party of little Helena that later on we would met again, this time in Paris, for a delicious family shoot.

After Helena's christening there have been many small stories giving body to this larger one, there have been Paris and Paris agains, but also Rome, Berlin... there have been a family shoot, but the best was yet to come.

ONCE UPON A TIME A BRAND! HOMES IN COLOUR

ONCE UPON A TIME A BRAND! HOMES IN COLOUR

Here we forget the good maxim that "the secret is the soul of business."
The soul of the business are, truly, the people behind it, representing it like a second skin and taking it off of the ground.

Behind every brand we recognize the effort and dedication of someone who we don't always know exactly who it is and how it will be, afterall our Terra also gives us a good shirt to wear, and it is with great affection that we welcome new brands here in our space to help them showing up with pictures where they recognize themselves and where the quality of their work stands out.
That's how we met Sofia, the (cute) face behind the brand Homes in Colour.

 

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