Where Atlanteans Walked
Legend says this coast was part of Atlantis, so whenever I walk along the cliffs or the sandy beaches I imagine I am walking where Atlanteans walked. That’s how this tour on a stretch of the coast started: it’s what I call my Atlantic Realm tour.
The Atlantic Realm tour started as a personal project, a way to go back to the coastal areas close to where I live, and photograph them over and over, a good excuse for some contemplative moments by the seaside. But so many people have asked about the places and how I create my pictures that I decided to set it as a photo tour. So, my Atlantic Realm project, a collection of pictures that encompasses an idea of longing for the point of origin, Atlantis in the myth, is now a photo tour I can share with you.
But I am not searching for those seascapes always empty of human presence that everybody seems to be doing. A fishing rod or a shellfish collector facing the rage of the waves are welcome and will serve as a mark of Humanity, as if a sign of Atlanteans emerging from the Ocean. It‘s that attraction of people for the coastal areas that interests me, among other things, and makes me use my camera on this stretch of coast.
Sometimes photographers become so excited with the beauty of the coastal scapes that they forget the little things. From flowers to rock formations, there is an immense universe of life on this stretch of land that is a borderline between land and sea life and creatures, an ever changing frontier, between low and high tide, that will offer unique experiences at different hours of the day, and in different days, all year long. And year after year, if you dare return!
Living in an area where the coast seems to have been chiseled by a mad sculptor that left work before finishing it, immersed in the multiple legends of fauns, sirens, strange beings (even flying saucers) that abound here, one is bound to feel that one’s living on the border of a strange, magic world. And having this coast, as some say and write, as the remains of the Atlantis myth, doesn’t help. This is the setting for this tour.
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