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Photographing Lisbon on Flickr

Lily — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 22:37:02 +0000

In Love With Lisbon’s Flickr Group has now hit 100 photo’s. I became a member of Flickr when I came back from my first trip to Lisbon last May and have been a fan ever since. If you have never investigated Flickr I highly recommend it. It has been a source of inspiration to me both for this website and also for other pursuits such as writing and music. As well as being able to flick through other people’s holiday snaps, there are some stunning images captured by talented amateur photographers as well as professional ones. There are millions of photo’s to see covering all aspects of life. People, animals, places, cute puppies, a thousands sunsets, hidden places, the weird and wacky, arty mysteries and so it goes on. There are groups dedicated to the colour blue, haunting photographs, black and white, sepia, food, trees, hearts and again – so it goes on. If you have any kind of creative inclinations you can while away a good few hours. If you are a photographer the community discussions and notes on photo’s can give you some excellent tips.

photo credit: Filipe Dâmaso Saraiva

In Love With Lisbon Flickr group was born last August, a few weeks after the site went live. Like it’s mother ship, the group has steadily been growing. The aim of the group was to show images that “capture the heart of Portugal’s beautiful capital city”. There was already a wonderful group called Illustrar Portugal and groups for other specific places in Portugal as well as an already thriving Portuguese run Lisbon group called Amar Lisboa (Loving Lisbon -of course I rather like that title!).

I have been spending more quality time on Flickr in order to build the ILWL group and it is wonderful to make new connections and see how others see Lisbon. Looking through all the images already submitted to the pool is like dipping into a warm sunny afternoon in the beautiful city. It makes me smile, makes me feel nostalgic, makes me sense the ever present saudade.

I love how different people notice different things: the dogs lying on the mosaic pavement, a couple dancing in the street, a rainbow over the castle, azulejos galore, graffiti, buskers, famous faces, quiet shadows, places that seem like they were just waiting to be discovered, steps in Alfama, modern sculpture. Like Lisbon itself, the group has so much to see and to say.

photo credit: starrynight1

I want to say a personal thankyou to everyone who has submitted so far to the group and to those who have also chosen to become members. Do look us up if you are a member of Flickr, and if you’re not a member why not come and join us? Whilst some of us choose to pay for a subscription, anyone can set up a free account and can use it to upload their photo’s to share with the world. Of course if you have some photo’s of Lisbon please submit them to the In Love With Lisbon pool! Now that I have celebrated the first milestone of 100 photo’s I’m looking forward to our next milestone – set at 1000 photo’s. Let’s see how quickly we can hit this target!

In true community spirit here are a list of other groups relating to Portugal that I really like. I’m sure you are going to love what you see.

In Love With Lisbon

Portuguese Food and Drink (another group I also started)

Amar Lisboa

Ilustrar Portugal

Postais Ilustrados de Portugal Huge long running group with thousands of images

Lisboa

Lisboa na Rua

Azulejos de Portugal If you love Portuguese tile then this is for you

Alfama

Portugal Unlimited

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Happy New Year

Lily — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 19:04:16 +0000

So the old year slowly comes to an end and a new begins. I love new years. It may be purely psychological but I do have that great sense of anticipation, of new things coming, new possibilities. In Love With Lisbon has been running for 6 months now and there are now 70 posts on the site. I have thoroughly enjoyed building the site and making new friends. Thankyou to everyone who has visited so far. I have lots of plans for the site for the new year so please do call again. I love to hear your comments.

Wishing you love, light and happiness for 2008

Feliz Ano Novo!

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In Love With Lisbon Features on Blog Carnival of Cities

Lily — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:33:10 +0000

Currently The Digerati Life is running a Blog Carnival of Cities. I am proud to announce that In Love With Lisbon has been featured in the carnival with my post Finding Fernando. Do take a look at the site and have a read of the four other featured entries. I love the one about the million dollar painting found in a rubbish bin in Manhattan!

Many thanks to The Digerati Life for their kind comments.

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Lily is off to Lisbon

Lily — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 10:50:17 +0000

Hello lovely readers.

I am off to Lisbon tomorrow morning. I have lots of plans and places to visit, photographs to take, adventures to be had and people to see…

I shall be gathering masses of information for you all to post on the site, so expect many Lisbon stories when I get back!

Wishing you all love

Lily x

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Hello World!

Lily — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 13:07:42 +0000

At last I am finally back in the land of the living and my computer is fixed! It’s felt like a very long week without it and I’m glad to be back with you. Posts to come

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Computer Crisis!

Lily — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 15:43:39 +0000

Hi all
Oh dear, I am having a crisis! I switched on my computer this morning and five minutes later it switched itself off combined with a very sad sound from coming one of the fans. I am using my friend’s computer to write this message. So – I may not be able to post for a few days until I can get the computer fixed. I just wanted to let you all know so you don’t think I’ve deserted you.

See you all very soon I hope!

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A Little Change to the News

Lily — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 09:36:41 +0000

Just a quick post to let you know I have decided to change the weekly news roundup category to ‘Interesting Articles Found on the Web’. This is a more accurate representation of items I have found which I think you might be interested in and also gives me the freedom to cross categorise which I think will be more helpful to you my readers.

I had already finished this weeks ‘news round-up’ so I decided to post it anyway but from now on I will post entries in this category as and when I see them rather than specifically on a Sunday as I have been doing. This also keeps the content fresh and up-to-date. I realised using the word ‘news’ and then blogging about something that’s happened almost a week ago was somehow just not right!

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Shop for all things Portuguese

Lily — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 21:09:47 +0000

A quick post to let you know I have set up a store in association with Amazon here at In Love With Lisbon. I have a huge amount of items to add to the store so please call back again if you can’t find what you are looking for or you can always leave me a comment. I’d love to know your thoughts.

I will be adding music, books, household goods and all manner of items with a Portuguese twist. As I go along I shall also be posting some reviews of books, cd’s and movies as well, I have a huge amount on my shelves so plenty to come

Right, I’m off to cuddle up to a hot water bottle – yes even in the middle of Summer! I have a horrible cold and I need my beauty sleep.

Love Lily x

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