‘The stone is like a sign pointing the way for pilgrims’: Adelino Marques’s best phone picture | Photography

Adelino Marques was taking a morning stroll on the coast close to his vacation house in Moledo, north-west Portugal, when he took this picture. “It’s the northernmost seashore in Portugal and is taken into account some of the stunning within the nation,” Marques says. “It additionally has two distinctive options: a fort in the midst of the ocean, which served as a defence towards varied assaults over the centuries and is now a nationwide monument, and the hill you’ll be able to see within the background of this picture, Monte de Santa Tecla. It’s within the neighbouring nation of Spain, however is nonetheless an icon of this seashore.”Within the foreground of the picture is a rock that echoes the form of the hill, with a stone “positioned atop in a approach that would appear unattainable. Pilgrims cross by means of this space on daily basis to stroll to Santiago de Compostela in Spain, a pilgrimage that covers round 500 miles [805km] and takes a couple of month to finish. The stone is sort of a signal, like a small mound pointing as if to say ‘That approach’.”Marques says that, for the reason that Nineteen Seventies, he has developed his personal movie negatives in a darkroom at his house in Gondomar, simply exterior central Porto. He thinks this has given him a desire for black-and-white photos, regardless of how they’re created. On this occasion, he used the Hipstamatic app on his iPhone to use a monochrome filter. “It permits me to raised distinction the sunshine and shapes,” Marques says. “Color might be distracting. This filter helped to convey the serenity and resilience of the pilgrims who cross this manner.”