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Spotlight on readers’ excellent images and how they captured them
Forte da Graça
2 Sérgio persuaded
his local council to
switch off the most
powerful lights that
illuminate the fort so
he could take this
stunning 82-image
composite.
Canon EOS R,
14mm, 30sec at
f/2.8, ISO 1600Supermoon
1 The UNESCO World
Heritage Site of Forte
da Graça forms the
perfect backdrop for
this eight-image
sequence of the
rising supermoon
of March 2019.
Nikon D5100, 150-
600mm, 1/80sec
at f/7.1, ISO 400Pico Ruivo,
Madeira
3 Sérgio navigated
the mile-long trail
that crests Pico Ruivo- the highest point in
Madeira – one night
in order to capture
the Milky Way above
the island.
Canon EOS R,
14mm, 20sec
at f/2, ISO 6400
Sérgio Conceição, Portugal
Sérgio, who comes from Elvas in eastern
Portugal, fi rst started taking photographs as part
of a social communications course he took in the
early 2000s. He hasn’t stopped taking pictures
since, concentrating in particular on social
portraits and landscapes – and a selection of the latter can
be seen here. ‘Photography frees me up to express my
feelings, and that’s important to me,’ he says. ‘It also gives
me the freedom to be able to create. I see photography as
giving me a canvas on to which I can add colour.’ Follow
Sérgio on Instagram sergioconceicaophotos.
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