Summer in Madeira

Atlantic cliffs, black sand, and ancient laurel forest across Madeira.

Madeira’s scale changes quickly: a headland crowded at sunset gives way to black sand beneath mountain walls, then to sheer cliffs and isolated sea stacks. At São Lourenço the island feels dry and exposed; in Fanal, old laurel trees disappear into green shade and mist. The sequence follows those contrasts, with the Atlantic acting as the constant edge.

• landscape
• summer
• sunset
• coast
• forest