Carlos Chegado

I was born in Évora City, Portugal, but grown up in Mozambique, more particularly in Pemba City, Cabo Delgado province, but had to leave that place at the age of 16 and return to Portugal to pursue my studies.
My father introduced me to photography when I was a kid and that passion just grow with me so that I decided to make my studies in the Portuguese Institute of Photography.
Back then it was all about Black & White Photography, Color Slides & Cibachrome prints. I met my wife when I was teaching photography and she was my student, since that I decided to quit teaching photography and started my company in 1992.
Back then my very first clients where Hotels from Lisbon that needed images from their premises to use on brochures, by that time, the World Wide Web was still on Tim Berners-Lee head.
My Business grow with multiple additional photographic services up to the point that I was completely saturated with all the analog issues I was having, just imagine the load of stuff it was needed to shoot pictures inside Hotels with mixed sun light and artificial light sources, it was insane, I was craving for a digital system but when I looked at the specs of the Nikon E2 from that time, how disappointing, just made me give up on photography for a while.
I started to work mainly in the marking & advertising business and focused in developing my Large Format Print Center.
Having been a Nikon user all my life, I waited and waited for a decent Nikon Digital SLR to get back in the action, to no avail, at some point I decided to give up on Nikon and switched to Canon Digital gear.
Hans Nyberg web page introduced me to panoramas and I started to develop my skills on 360º Photography and when I started to show these immersive images to my Hotel clients it was a perfect match.
This year (2009) I turn 40 and I want to shoot more images for my own pleasure than as my professional obligation, but of course I am always open to new experiences and learning/expanding skills is a never ending task that I happily pursue.