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Poster criado por Marcelo Carvalho.

Poster criated by Marcelo Carvalho.

Orquídeas. (continuação)

Vencedora do concurso fotográfico promovido pela Sinhá Flores por voto popular. Obrigado a todos que votaram nessa foto!

Orquídeas e cia.

Foto das orquídeas da Sinhá Flores - Ponte Nova - MG

Querem ver mais fotos?

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Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Eudemian Ethics

Split - Croácia

Mykonos - Grécia

Dubrovnik - Croácia

Cyndi Lauper

Cyndi Lauper

Orlando, Fl. U.S.A / E.U.A

Grupo Aruanda

Winter Festival / Festival de Inverno

Another Winter Festival is gone and here are some pictures I made of it.

Tunai e Cia. Teatro de Bolso
Outro Festival de Inverno acabou e aqui estão algumas fotos que eu fiz dele.

Opening of Ponte Nova Winter Festival / Abertura do Festival de Inverno de Ponte Nova.

The festival started with the National Anthem and then it was followed by performances of afro-dance; street-dance and circus.
Deu-se início ao festival com o Hino Nacional e em seguida houve performances de dança-afro; dança de rua e de circo.

Clip with the photos of the photo exhibition "BASTIDORES em CENA" / Clipe com as fotos da exposição fotográfica "BASTIDORES em CENA".

The song on the video was written by the musician Milton Nascimento and its name is "Bailes da Vida".

A musica do clipe é do cantor e compositor Milton Nascimento e se chama "Bailes da Vida".

Convite.

Convido a todos vocês a visitarem a minha nova exposição fotográfica intitulada "Bastidores em Cena". A abertura será na segunda-feira dia 19 de julho às 19:00 com a apresentação do espetáculo "O Monólogo do Artista" da Cia. Teatro de Bolso. Sua presença é muito importante!

Cultural Season. / Temporada Cultural.

At this time of the year we have what I can call "Cultural Season", dued to the several Winter Festivals scattered all over Minas Gerais.
Needless to say that this is the perfect time for people to get in touch with cultural events, such as: plays; concerts; exhibitions and also workshops of: circus; theater; painting and lots of other things related to art.
Ponte Nova is opening its doors to its 4th Winter Festival, so prepare yourself and join us. It will be fun!

Nessa época do ano temos o que eu posso chamar de "Temporada Cultural", devido aos vários Festivais de Inverno espalhados por toda Minas Gerais. Não é necessário deizer que esse é o momento perfeito para as pessoas entrarem em contato com eventos culturais como: peças teatrais; concertos (shows); exposições e também oficinas de: circo; teatro; pintura e muitas outras coisas relacionadas à arte. Ponte Nova está abrindo as portas para o seu IV Festival de Inverno, então prepare-se e junte-se a nós. Será divertido!

More pictures of Ponte Nova Winter Festival / Mais fotos do Festival de Inverno de Ponte Nova.

The artist. / O artista.

Hi! This picture was taken in Conselheiro Lafaiete, Minas Gerais - Brazil. This guy is Thiago, one of the artists of Cia. Teatro de Bolso. I call him artist because besides acting he plays guitar and he's also a creative graphic-designer, responsable for many of the posters of the company.
I took this pictures one hour before he got on stage to play the guitar in the play "O Arteiro e o Tempo".

Oi! Essa foto foi tirada em Conselheiro Lafaiete, Minas Gerais. Esse rapaz é o Thiago, um dos artistas da Cia. Teatro de Bolso. Eu o chamo de artista porque além de atuar, ele também toca violão assim como um criativo artista-gráfico, responsável por muitos dos cartazes da Cia. Eu tirei essa foto uma hora antes dele subir ao palco para tocar violão no espetáculo "O Arteiro e o Tempo".

Ponte Nova

Você não gostaria que a cidade toda causasse essa boa impressão? Que nós façamos a nossa parte então.

Thank you! Obrigado!

Thanks to you who are following me, and for those who only log on. As I said I'll try to keep posting my work in here but don't forget to leave your massages, your comments, likes and NEVER deslikes.
Thank you!

Obrigado a vocês que estão me seguindo, a aqueles que somente acessam o blog. Como eu disse eu tentarei postar meu trabalho sempre aqui, mas não se esqueçam de deixar suas mensagens, seus comentários, o que gostaram e NUNCA o que não gostaram.
Obrigado!

Ponte Nova - In Chunks. / Ponte Nova por partes.

Ponte Nova makes me sad every time I walk down its streets and see all that trash scattered all over the place, but every once in a while I am caught by surprise by beautiful views of such magnitude.

Ponte Nova is a riddle.

Ponte Nova me deixa triste toda vez que eu ando pelas suas ruas e vejo todo aquele lixo espalhado por todo o lugar, mas de vez em quando eu sou pego de surpresa por imagens lindas de tal magnitude.
Ponte Nova é uma charada.

Pluft - O Fantasminha (Pluft - The little Ghost)

This is THE picture. The picture that I love the most. But the credit is not only mine. People may say that I captured the moment perfectly, etc, but what I did was to capture the extraordinary theatrical interpretation delivered by the actor Allen (Maizena).
Thank you Allen!

Essa é A foto. A foto que eu mais amo. Mas o crédito não é só meu. As pessoas podem dizer que eu capturei, perfeitamente, o momento, etc, mas o que eu fiz foi capturar a extraordinária interpretação teatral do ator Allen (Maizena).
Obrigado Allen!

Walt Disney World

Hello everybody! Here I am again bringing some old pictures out of the dusty trunk.
This picture is of a ferry boat at Walt Disney Worl. I like it 'coz it's simple, and the sepia tone gave a special look to it, sending us back to the time when such transportation was common across the U.S.A.

Oi pessoal! Aque estou eu de novo tirando algumas fotos velhas do baú empoeirado.
Essa foto é de um navio à vapor no Walt Disney Wolrd, Orlando. Eu gosto dessa foto por que ela é simples, a o tom sépia deu à ela uma aparência especial, mandando-nos de volta ao período em que esse transporte era comum pelos E.U.A.

Primatas - A local band

These are two of the pictures I took for the band Primatas. To see the others log on to http://bandaprimatas.webnode.com.br
If you have a band and want to have some pictures to promote it, contact me at: marcelocarvalhof@gmail.com

Essa são duas fotos que eu tirei da banda Primatas. Para ver as outras acessem http://bandaprimatas.webnode.com.br.
Se você tem uma banda e quer fazer uma seção de fotos para promovê-la, contate-me pelo e-mail:
marcelocarvalhof@gmail.com

Still and behind the scenes photos of "O Lugar". / Fotos de bastidores e filmagens do documentário "O Lugar".

"O Lugar" was supposed to be a documentary about Ponte Nova, but it ended up being prohibited to be exhibited. Well, the only thing I know is that my pictures are with me, and for that reason I bring them to light. I worked for free, so at least I have the right to show them to people.

This documentary was a collective idea of the people who were taking a Cinema Workshop on June, 2009.

Intriguing. / Intrigante.

That was one of those moments when a scene catches a photographer instead of the opposite.
How intriguing can a shadow of a bird be? It isnt'. That's right. But what if the shadow of such a bird was created by a twisted leaf? That is something else! Therefore I had to register it.
Here it is. I hope you like it.

Esse foi um daqueles momentos onde a cena pega o fotógrafo ao invés do contrário. Que intriguigante é uma sombra de um pássaro? Não é. Isso mesmo. Mas e se a sombra de tal pássaro foi criada por uma folha retorcida de uma planta? Issé é bacana não é? Por isso eu tive de fazer o registro. Aí está. Espero que goste.

"Three Generations". / "Três Gerações".

I named this picture "Three Generations". Guess why.
Eu dei a essa foto o nome de "Três Gerações". Adivinhe por quê.

Testimony.

I've had my moments abroad and that was one of the things I had dreamt of untill it finally happened.
I've already said about dreamings coming true here, but now it is time to talk about other things that are important in life and that I only noticed after those moments in a foreing territory. God and Family
So many weird things; ups and downs; evil people telling fake stories setting up against others, a total disaster, a dream out of the sudden became a nightmare.
I hereby testify that if it wasn't for my faith in God and all the prayers I wouldn't have survived the pressure. There were moments that I saw myself alone, no friends were around even when all I needed was a small talk, so I talked to God, and I might say that he sent someone one night to listen to me, because at that moment it was what I needed the most, to be heard.
Gosh! It was somewhat magic, scary (if I stop to think about it) but magic!
After that experience abroad, I had a second one and that was even harder, worse, exausting and something to forget, and that's what makes it a turning point of my life, I had to cut it short and even having spent a big amount of money to embark on that shit and to get out of it, my mother never ever questioned me neither judged me, she simply helped me and after those bad experiences I could finally see that friends, even the ones you call best friends are not always there, some even end up f..ing you up, but family never does, at least family never did. We argue, we yell at each other, we loose our tempers but we are always there, and what about my friends? They are no longer called friends, I refer to them as ex-colleagues but I could easily call them "acquaintances from college".
God and family, thanks for everything!

Cultural events in Ponte Nova.

We are struggling to keep that flame on. It is hard, nobody said it would be easy but we embraced the cause and are step by step doing our job.
People tend to say that Ponte Nova has nothing, but the people who say that are the people who don't leave their houses to watch a theatrical play or a concert, some of them don't even read the paper in order to know what is happening in the city. Anyway! As a minister of a church in Orlando once said, be a doer, I'm being.

Having a mint cigarret and a cappuccino. What a combination huh?

This picture was taken in Tiradentes - Minas Gerais - Brazil. There will be a whole section of pictures and texts about that town, so hold on, I'm feeling cold and sleepy right now, so I'll do it tomorrow, nope, later, 'coz it is already tomorrow. Gosh!

Here we are.

Here we are. The three of us enjoying the cold spring time in New York. For those who read my last post, these are my companions, (from left to right) Fernando Portes, Me and Breno Cordeiro.

This is me in New York City. A dream come true. God knows for how long I waited for that moment to come, and the good thing is that I went there with two mates, one very smart and a great friend and partner and the other one is a man with no boudaries, a friend, but at the same time, a person who pushes your buttons real hard. I'm glad God gave me that amazing present, a whole pack trip to N.Y.C, which was the trip itself and the companions.
Thank you God for being present in my life.

Greetings everybody!

I hereby present to you my work as a photographer and some as a graphic-designer.

For years I have tried to build a website thru which I could bring my art to a bigger number of viewers, I’ve always felt that they should be seen outside my home town, but even having them on Facebook, I knew that a webstie or even blog would do a better job.

My journey in photography started off when I was still in college and for a particular reason I realized the power of a good image, I noticed that they could cause a great impact on people. I starte using images on my class works, back in 1999. I presented them on PowerPoint, before classmates who literally turned their back on those who were presenting their works, and using PowerPoint, blending the texts of my work and the images related to it, I managed to make a couple of them look at the screen, and it didn’t matter if it was a glance or for a few minutes, they looked into my direction.

A former classmate once told me that I was the pioneer on using the PowerPoint there, I liked that, but then came the consequences, I had to do the follow up, and one thing led to another, I got involved more and more with the world of photography, studying it, doing researches, being presented to the newly-born image processing software named Photoshop and consequently taming it, I am still doing it though, because it never stops growing.

My history with photography is way bigger than that, there is a lot to be place between these lines above, but I don’t think your patience will let you got until the end, so I decided to sum it up.

Enjoy my website, enjoy my work and let me hear from you.