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KLEINOD / beauty spot 2021 Portugal

There is nothing called “life”
there are just enormous energy fields
changing at tremendous speed.

Joko Charlotte Beck, Zen Master 1917 – 2011

KLEINOD /beauty spot is about places and things that are easily overlooked. It’s about
the moment, the flux, the magic of the moment. Following the flow of energy, the end-less play of light and weather, wind and silence, the perpetual change.

In the fall of 2017, while researching the devastating aftermath of the wild fires in Portugal, I unexpectedly came across a tiny valley on the Atlantic Ocean amidst the burned forests of Leiria / Marinha Grande. A tiny patch of ancient beauty encircled by square kilometers of black destruction. In 2021, I returned to photograph. By then, the reality of fires in Europe and global warming was a very different one. And what is the state of the world today?

KLEINOD / beauty spot 2021 Portugal

There is nothing called “life”
there are just enormous energy fields
changing at tremendous speed.

Joko Charlotte Beck, Zen Master 1917 – 2011

KLEINOD /beauty spot is about places and things that are easily overlooked. It’s about
the moment, the flux, the magic of the moment. Following the flow of energy, the end-less play of light and weather, wind and silence, the perpetual change.

In the fall of 2017, while researching the devastating aftermath of the wild fires in Portugal, I unexpectedly came across a tiny valley on the Atlantic Ocean amidst the burned forests of Leiria / Marinha Grande. A tiny patch of ancient beauty encircled by square kilometers of black destruction. In 2021, I returned to photograph. By then, the reality of fires in Europe and global warming was a very different one. And what is the state of the world today?

KLEINOD 2021

KLEINOD / beauty spot 2021 Portugal

KLEINOD / beauty spot 2021 Portugal