Chasing Waves in Rio

Summer evening rituals at Rio’s Arpoador beach in Brazil, where you can find youth chasing the thrill of a jumping off the rocks almost daily.

For this series I wanted to capture a tighter composition to highlight the shadows and the way the setting sun was lighting up everything. I thought shooting with a longer lens also allowed for more abstract interpretations of the scene and brought the crashing waves closer to the subjects through compression. When composing my shots, I wanted to be positioned above looking down so that we don’t really see the horizon, it gives the scene a more intense and locked-in look where the viewer is forced to focus on the action.

Shot using a Sony a6700 with a focal range between 55-100mm.

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Oscar Niemeyer's Stunning Museum on a Cliff

Perched on a cliff overlooking the ocean and Rio de Janeiro’s stunning mountains, The Niterói Museum of Contemporary Art, which looks like a space ship or UFO, appears to float over it all. It’s one of those sites that sticks with you long after your visit.

I wanted to highlight the curves, color and unique structure of the building, framed against the epic vista. I ended up visiting at two different times to get a variety of lighting conditions as I usually enjoy playing with silhouettes in harsh light as well as softer sunset hues. Sunset is especially gorgeous as the sun catches all the best angles of Niemeyer’s work of art.

A red winding ramp leads the main building at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

View of the mountains from inside the Museum of Contemporary Art in Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Rio de Janeiro’s Sugarloaf Mountain is seen from the Museum of Contemporary Art in Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

View looking out over Niteroi from inside the Museum of Contemporary Art in Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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