Summer on Stan Grams Photography

La Palma Seaside

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0200

The roads along La Palma’s coast repeatedly open onto the Atlantic. Black lava fields slope toward the water; at Fuencaliente, white salt mounds and pink evaporation ponds surround the lighthouse; higher up, a narrow road folds through a steep volcanic face. The final panorama gathers coastline, settlement, mountains, cloud, and open ocean into one continuous edge.

La Palma Sunsets

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0200

La Palma often places the sunset above, rather than at, the visible horizon. From the high forest, the ocean is replaced by a level blanket of cloud and a distant island; lower down, pines and mountain slopes become silhouettes against a narrow band of colour. On the coast, the sun finally touches the Atlantic beyond banana fields and a solitary lighthouse.

La Palma Nature

Sun, 07 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0200

La Palma’s interior reveals its volcanic construction in layers. Terraced ridges catch the late sun below drifting cloud, while the Caldera de Taburiente dissolves into pale haze between jagged silhouettes. These two views look less at individual landmarks than at atmosphere and geology—the island’s steep folds alternately clarified and concealed by Atlantic weather.

La Palma Observatory

Sun, 07 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0200

At Roque de los Muchachos, scientific instruments share a severe volcanic ridge above the clouds. Domes and telescope dishes appear first at the end of an empty road, then repeat across successive peaks. Low shrubs soften the red ground, mist erases the horizon, and the open framework of a large telescope stands brilliant against the blue. The observatory reads as both landscape and working architecture.

Around Teide

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0200

Teide rarely appears alone. The route around the volcano frames its summit with Canary Island pines, places dry slopes against a sea of cloud, and looks outward across the caldera before returning to the mountain’s dark, symmetrical mass. These photographs use distance and foreground to show how the peak governs the wider landscape, even when it occupies only a small part of the frame.

Tenerife By The Ocean

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0200

On Tenerife’s coast, small fishing boats are pulled above a sandy cove beneath an intensely blue sky. A yellow restaurant, improvised sheds, harbour lights, and overhead wires make the working waterfront feel direct and lived-in, while the mountain wall and Atlantic remain close on either side. The single frame is as much about coastal colour and daily use as it is about the ocean.

Lubogoszcz Forest

Sun, 17 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0200

This walk around Lubogoszcz moves through several kinds of woodland. Tall conifers give way to bright birch, dense beech slopes, and a marked ridge above the Kashubian landscape. Sunlight arrives in narrow shafts, catching fresh leaves and the curves of the path before the route opens onto a dry meadow. The photographs follow the rhythm of enclosure, elevation, and release.

Pawel Szymanski in Lidzbark

Sat, 09 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0200

Paweł Szymański’s outdoor set unfolded beside the lake in Lidzbark, close enough for conversation between songs. A fountain and park establish the setting before the photographs move toward the small covered stage, the seated audience, guitar cases, cables, and the performer himself. The scale is modest and communal—the kind of concert where the surrounding summer afternoon remains part of the music.

Borsk

Tue, 01 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0200

At Borsk, the disused runway and dry grass create a broad stage for flight. Canopies are laid out, checked, pulled into shape, and carried upward as pilots run across the field. Against the clear summer sky, scale shifts constantly: a wing fills the frame at launch and becomes a bright mark a few seconds later. The sequence follows preparation, lift, and return.

Summer in Madeira

Tue, 20 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0200

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.