Here is the Os Marnotos Official Trailer

Posted on May 16, 2026 by Andy Cline

I have finished Os Marnotos 🙂

This is the official trailer for Os Marnotos.

The film examines the working lives of a family — three generations — that works one of “marinhas” on the estuary in Averio, Portugal. Historical records show that residents have been producing salt here for a thousand years. And it is also likely that the Romans produced salt here two thousand years ago. The Banca family works the Ecomuseu Marinha da Troncalhada salt pan (marinha). It is owned by the municipality of Aveiro and is administered by the Aveiro City Museum. The Banca family attempts to keep alive the traditional methods of making sea salt.

Runtime: 19:30
Format: digital, 1080HD, Canon LOG, 16:9, monochrome

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Premiere by Adrián Berenguer

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Long Train Runnin’

Posted on February 14, 2026 by Andy Cline

I no longer have my first SLR. It was a Nikon F, with the photomic head and a 50mm lens, that I bought used in 1974 while I was in high school. I carried it every day. I was one of those yearbook nerds 🙂

In the fall of 1975 I started college at Rochester Institute of Technology as a photographic arts and sciences major. That Christmas, the I found the Leica M3 you see here under the tree. I used it almost exclusively for the next year and half at RIT. And I used it as a news photographer on many occasions. In my final year in news photography (six years total before becoming a magazine freelance writer/photographer), I used the Leica exclusively.

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Using that camera was what led to my love of rangefinders. Its why I look for digital rangefinders when I buy cameras today. There is just something about the feel of a rangefinder. Maybe someday I’ll try to put that into words.

My latest purchase, that I have mentioned before, is the SONY a6400.

It’s been decades since I last ran a roll of film through the Leica. And if I were at all interested in being retro, I’d use it exclusively. But I’m not interested. It sits on a shelf near my desk where I can keep an eye on it. Every couple of months, I “exercise” it to keep the shutter limber. Is that a thing? I don’t know. It’s just something I do.

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Concept Video for Os Marnotos

Posted on February 1, 2026 by Andy Cline

Here is the concept video for Os Marnotos. I am in post-production now. The finished film will be ready sometime this spring. I am working with two Portuguese filmmakers, who each have new documentary short films ready, to schedule screenings our work. Plus, I’ll try to make a couple of film festivals. I’ll post all news here. Part of what this means is that it may be a year or more before I post it to YouTube.

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Documentary Photography 101: Example of Good

Posted on December 14, 2025 by Andy Cline

So what is a good documentary photograph? Take a look at this one. It’s good.

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The evaluation of a photograph as good, or something less than good, must take its context into account. The photograph above is not so good if I’m trying to produce art photography. If it’s news about what is happening in this space, I’d say a better adjective is functional. But as a documentary photograph it is good.

Why? Because it is a record of a moment in the re-development of a residential and commercial space in a particular neighborhood in a particular city at a particular time: The intersection of Rua Manuel Firmino and Rua Concelheiro Luís de Magalhães at 13:10 on 14 December 2024 in the Vera Cruz neighborhood of Aveiro, Portugal.

Someday someone will want to see what this space looked like after the old building was torn down and before the new building was built.

So here you go. You’re welcome 😉

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The Whole B&W Thing

Posted on December 12, 2025 by Andy Cline

I’ve made many little “mini docs” in black & white that you can find on my YouTube channel. Much of this is about my desire to begin doing my larger documentary projects in black & white. Eventually, I want to produce/direct a feature in widescreen black & white.

Os Marnotos is first up. I am now in pre-production. I have published a black & white test video. I didn’t have to publish it 🙂 But it’s a good idea to keep up a “steady” stream of new videos for YouTube. Self-promotion and all, you know.

Gigantes Verdes. however, will be the usual 16:9 in color.

I’ll be discussing this further in my visual style series.

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