People nominee

"Staring at the sea staring at the ocean" is a serious of photographs that I started shooting for over a year, I took these photographs at various beaches of the Algarve in Portugal.

I've always found interesting and I observed several times people by the sea, sitting on the sand next to the salt water, others swimming in him and others just by the sea sitting on a bench looking at that immensity of water, and I thought to myself "what are they thinking?","what is going on in their minds when they are looking to him?".

I think the sea has something hypnotic that transmits calm but sometimes some concern and anxiety and more extreme situation the sea becomes violent with storms, maybe there is a link between the sea and human nature, the human mind is like a huge ocean where we sail by our thoughts, and sometimes we got lost in them and other times we are saved from them.

We all have our own ocean to navigate.

AUTHOR
Portimão, 1976 - Portugal

Awards and Nominations:
2014-Honorable Mention in the category "People:Portrait" in the "ND Awards "Neutral Density Photo Contest"2014.
2015-Honorable Mention in "Photojournalism" Professional category "Monochrome Awards 2014" International Black & White Photography Contest.
2016-Nominated in the category of "Fine Art"of the"9th Annual International Color Awards™."
2016-Honorable Mention "Silhouette" Professional in the "11th Black & White Spider Awards™ 2016". - Nominated "Photojournalism" Professional and Nominated "Silhouette" Professional in the "11th Black & White Spider Awards™".
2016-2nd place-Silver Star Award in the category Editorial:General News in the "ND Awards 2016" Neutral Density Photo Contest".
2017-Honorable Mention in "People"Professional category "Monochrome Awards 2016" International Black & White Photography Contest.
2017-Honorable Mention in Professional category "Abstract" and Nominated with two photos in Professional category "People" at the "10th Annual International Color Awards™" 2017".
2017-Nominated in the Profissional category "People" in the 3rd Edition of the "Fine Art Photography Awards" (FAPA)2017.
2017-Honorable Mention in "Silhouette" Professional in the "12th Black & White Spider Awards™".Nominated "Architectural" Professional and Nominated "Fine Art" Professional in the "12th Black & White Spider Awards™"
2018-Honorable Mention in "People"Professional category "Monochrome Awards-2017" International Black & White Photography Contest.