Mário Nogueira

Natural Born Beauty

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A photography collection

Natural Born Beauty is perhaps the most traditional collection in my photography portfolio, exploring the beauty of the natural world through landscapes, textures, and natural scenes.

I've never felt particularly successful at capturing the kind of dramatic, sweeping landscapes that traditionally define landscape photography. Instead, I've often found myself drawn to narrower scenes, more intimate compositions, and sometimes just small details — fragments of nature that might otherwise go unnoticed. These are the subjects that tend to catch my eye, where textures, shapes, light, and patterns become as interesting as the landscape itself.

The collection brings together photographs taken between 2012 and 2019, using a variety of photographic tools and approaches, from DSLRs and other digital cameras to medium and large format film cameras.

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