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Mathias Fernandes

@mathias.explores

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📸 Photographer & Filmmaker
✨ Travel, Creativity & Growth
✉️ [email protected]
🌍 Algarve | Worldwide

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Still, I Move 🌪️
This year I made a promise to myself. To keep creating, regardless. Even when things feel stuck. Even when the surroundings feel too familiar.

This photo was taken in a place I’ve captured many times before. I know it well. But walking into it with a different mindset shifted everything. Same cliffs. Same ocean. Same me. Yet something new came out.

As a creative and as someone running my own business, it’s easy to get caught up in all the other roles. The creativity can fade if we let it. That’s why it’s so important to keep creativity a priority. Not because we need to grow exponentially all the time, but because we need to keep moving. Keep expressing. Keep evolving.

Even small creative acts matter. Even in familiar places. Especially in familiar places.

Sometimes, just choosing to show up and create is the movement that reignites everything.

#roamtheplanet #stayandwander #algarve #beautifuldestinations taken in Algarve, Portugal by @mathias.explores

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Just be ✨

Found this audio and was reminded that life is a constant process of problem-solving. At the end of each challenge, there’s always a reward. It’s up to us to make that constant problem-solving an enjoyable journey. By tasting it, feeling it, being it. Because this life, right now, is exactly that.

#positivity #motivation #inspiration #filmmaking #travel by @mathias.explores

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a year ago

10 beautiful Portuguese words that make you want to travel.

Swipe to feel the language through moments captured in Portugal 📸

#portugal #travel #visitportugal #travelphotography #wanderlust taken in Portugal by @mathias.explores

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The more I travel, the more I realize how much the smallest things can feel like home.

The morning coffee, a familiar taste, a touch of saudade, until home starts making me dream of somewhere else again.

#cinematicstorytelling #travelstorytelling #travelinspiration #lifereflections #saudade taken in Portugal by @mathias.explores

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In Portugal, “ir tomar um café” is rarely just about the coffee. ☕️

It’s a reason to pause, catch up, and stay a little longer... with friends, family, or even ourselves.

And on International Coffee Day, it feels like the perfect excuse to celebrate this small ritual of connection, so deeply rooted in the Portuguese way of life.

With @delta_cafes

#café #portugueseculture #coffeeculture #visitportugal #deltacafes taken in Portugal by @mathias.explores

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Ten years into photography, the Algarve still finds ways to feel like another world. One quiet sunrise on an island in Southern Portugal.

In frame: @soraianoliveira

#algarvephotography #portugalphotography #coastalphotography #dronephotography #sunrisephotography taken in Algarve, Portugal by @mathias.explores

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Every year, on the first Sunday of August, the waters of the Ria Formosa become the stage for one of southern Portugal’s most meaningful traditions.

A celebration of faith, community and the generations whose lives have always been connected to the sea.

Have you ever witnessed a tradition like this?

#maritimeprocession #portugueseculture #riaformosa #portugal #algarve taken in Algarve, Portugal by @mathias.explores

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3 months ago

Turning 30 doesn’t mean having life figured out. Maybe growing older is simply learning to trust your own timeline.

#turning30 #lifeinyour30s #personalgrowth #selfdiscovery #lifelessons taken in Algarve, Portugal by @mathias.explores

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10 little Portuguese summer rituals. From coffee before the beach and the classic grilled fish to a post-lunch “cafezinho” and long days that end with sunset swims.

Did you know about any of these rituals?

#portuguesesummer #summerinportugal #portugueseculture #algarveportugal #portuguesecoffee taken in Algarve, Portugal by @mathias.explores

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Things you only notice if you stay until sunset.

The beach becomes quieter. The light turns golden. The last swimmers stay a little longer. These are the moments most people miss by leaving too early.

In Portugal sometimes the best part of a beach day begins when everyone else is packing up.

#goldenhour #sunsetphotography #beachsunset #visitportugal #slowtravel taken in Algarve, Portugal by @mathias.explores

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Travel taught me that most people are doing the best they can with the options they have.

Before judging someone’s choices, it’s worth asking whether we truly understand the circumstances behind them.

The world looks very different once you step outside your own bubble.

#perspective #personalgrowth #travelstories #selfreflection #humanconnection by @mathias.explores

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4 months ago

India. A visual journey.

One month across India. Moments of chaos, beauty, spirituality, and wonder.

This is glimpse into a journey that changed the way I see the world.

Watch the full travel film. Link in bio. 🇮🇳✨

#indiatravel #travelfilm #cinematictravel #visualstorytelling taken in India by @mathias.explores

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