I only found out about this place last night
While I was being lazy and surfing the web, so I guess that's good sometimes
It might sound weird
Instead of staying in a beautiful place like Sintra and taking advantage of being there, I decided to come here
This is kind of a weird place. But, I like them, I like weird places.
When I first saw photos of this place, it immediately reminded me of the Valley of Saints in France
I was there a few months ago and
I made a few good images, one that I absolutely love, and the most important thing
I had a lot of fun in that place, so
Yeah, that's why I am here instead of being in more popular
locations down in Sintra. Should be fun. So let's go and make some images
Oh, and by the way, yes, it is too hot to wear a winter hat, but I'm trying to grow a ponytail
Like I used to have a couple years ago
And right now I'm at the that weird spot
where it's not long enough to actually have the ponytail but it's long enough for my hair to be
really, really annoying on a windy day like today.
I don't wear it in public, though. Only here on YouTube.
I shouldn't have left the hat in the car, it's so windy
So the problem with this one is that the background is pretty busy
So to fix that what we can do is to get really, really low
almost to ground level so that way the platform where the statue is
it helps us removing all the distractions in the background, like so
All right, so I'm trying to figure out... because this part of the park looks more African than Eastern to me
And that's totally fine, but I came here for the Buddhas. So that's what I'm trying to find
Yeah, it's called the African Sculpture Garden. So that's why that guy's there
What the heck? This area is closed. I was really, really looking forward to those
Those are the terracotta soldiers. I was really looking forward to photographing them
I could spend hours there in between the figures looking for compositions. That's too bad
I think there are more across the park, so...
Let's find them
Well, I've been here for...
I don't know, a few hours
3 and a half. I don't know. It's very hot. It's very sunny
This place is really cool though, and I would love to spend more time here
It's very calm in this part of the park, with all the little
praying Buddhas and there are a lot of benches that I would love to use and just stay here for a while
But I think I'm gonna head back to the AirBnB
because I want to go out for sunset tonight, just to finish a very good day all around and
Yeah, I need some time to do that. So let's do it