This is my favorite photo from today exploring Marco de Canaveses, a municipality about 60km east of Porto, beside the Tâmega River. But for reasons you might not expect.
We first drove past this shepherd sitting on a wall near his sheep. It was the perfect scene I couldn’t capture because we were in a car on a two-way, one-lane road. We were enroute to Tongóbriga, a Roman ruin, which wasn’t due to open until the afternoon. I had time to walk down to the pastoral scene, which I wasn’t sure would be there by the time I returned.
I went a little ahead of Paulo and Ice the Dog, in case Ice scared away the sheep. As it turned out, I didn’t have to worry about that at all, since the fellow was talking loud enough on his mobile phone to carry into the next county. He sounded like a betting agent yelling at the television because his picks were losing. Perhaps he was deaf. He was shouting into the phone, smacking the tree with his cane, oblivious as I stood behind him taking pictures. In the photo above, he’s got the phone in his left hand and I can hear traffic going by. Thankfully, you can’t.
This picture is a perfect example of why I’m a still photographer and not a videographer!
February 25, 2017
Album: Marco de Canaveses
