I have spend a significant amount of time on the Bernardo Brandao Photos these past days. I transformed it from being a simple blog, to it being a whole website (with a blog as part of it). If you put in the browser’s address bar https://bernardobrandaophotos.com, you will see the home page. The change happened […]
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I have recently taken onboard taking photos of a new bar that has opened in Melbourne. It was fun: I photographed the opening night of a Piano Bar in Prahran (Jono’s Piano Bar) . I took photos of the venue, of the guests, the food and the entertainment (it is a piano bar). It was […]
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I decided to make a puzzle from one of my photos. It was a difficult decision: which photo to turn into a puzzle. A lot of my photos have a lot of negative space filled by sky or water (or soil). For jigsaw puzzles, that becomes a bit of a challenge (calling it challenge instead […]
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Bernardo complains about his problems with having large Lightroom catalogs where most of the photos are on a network drive.
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Since I made it a trend to take photos of Hughey wearing human accessories, here is Hughey wearing (my reading) glasses.
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So yesterday we went out for day trip around Victoria. We wanted to take photos(me)/video(Dean) of the wind turbines and the coast. And so we did. The day was very dark and gray and completely uninteresting at the wind turbines. Even photos of Hughey (our dog) were not great. There weren’t a lot of colors […]
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I wasn’t one to use tripod a lot. Don’t know if it is because my mother rarely used them, or if it is because it is ONE MORE thing to carry (and assemble). Bottom line is, I’m changing my profile with tripods. I have seen the difference that taking a photo with a tripod and […]
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So yesterday we took Hughey for his first boat ride, which was down the Yarra River. At first he was scared and reluctant, he would be either at my leg or Dean’s leg. As the trip progressed, he understood that it was not something to be afraid of and started venturing about the boat. At […]
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I’ve been struggling for a while with my copyright image. As someone who (thinks he) creates beautiful images, I would want something beautiful to say the image is my intellectual property. I’ve been using the same boring “© Bernardo Brandao”, sometimes with the year that the photo was taken. I sometimes think that it is […]
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From the same artist that brought you Dog in a Hat, I bring you: Dog in a Helmet My husband went for a bike ride and after he came back home, we decided to put the helmet on Hughey. He (Hughey) was not impressed.
View Article We are currently in lockdown, with severe restrictions. You can only go out of your home for 5 reasons, and exercising is one of them. So we decided to go to the banks of the Yarra river to do our exercise with Hughey. It was well within our 10 km radius from home. We often […]
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Last week Victoria went into lockdown due to a COVID leak from hotel quarantine in Adelaide. The victorian based traveler got the all clear to leave the hotel and a few days later started feeling symptoms and tested positive for the virus. The variant he contracted was a highly contagious one and because of that, […]
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