More Azenha do Mar

Portugal is a great country for landscape photography and one of my favorite places of the dozen or so coastal locations that I traveled to last month is Azenha do Mar.  A huge thanks to my friend and long time NSN member Alexandre Vaz for helping me prepare for this trip where I would be on my own in a country I had never been to before speaking a language that I do not know.  It illustrates the power of a worldwide community like NSN.  Alex and I have known each other online for about 18 years and we finally met for a great afternoon shoot (in another location from where this photo was taken) and a great dinner.  Without communities like NSN I would have likely never have gotten to know anybody from Portugal and a trip like this might never have happened.  It saddens me to some respect that the anonymity of social media has largely replaced places like this but I hope many that are still here stay engaged, you never know when it might pay dividends for yourself.