Photography and photographers...

If you have already spent some of your time on this blog you will probably know who I am.
When I say "Who I am" I mean who I really am, because I'm not only a dreadhead with a blog.


                               
                                     This is me⤴

Photography is not only a passion,
It represents my father as a photographer and as such an important person in my life.
It represents my granparents who always believed in me and gave me my first camera as a gift.
It represents my perseversance and all my sacrifices.
It represents every day I spent busking to have the money to travel.

It represents

The places I saw

The adventures I lived.

I'm thankful for all the sunsets

For all the people I met







                    And for who I haven't met yet.

Some of the photos I collected during the past two years⤴

If you liked them (I hope you did) you need to check them out on Facebook or Instagram

I'm sorry for "spamming" part, I prefer the creative part too.
I found and lost myself in the photos I make, this is so beautiful. I've never felt like this before.
Do you know that feeling when you live "here and now", you are the moment, you are everything and everything is you, don't you?
Well, if you don't, stop whatever you are doing and begin to live your life as you want it to be.
Don't let anyone tell you that You can't do it. 
Forget about career, money, people's opinion, and ask to yourself "How do I feel?"... and remember that if there is someone who can change your reality, that person is YOU.
Let's live in freedom and peace, let's make friends and contemplate the sunset, let's live every moment.

When life is not as you expected

Dear You,

Lovely you, who woke up this morning with the question "What am I doing here? Am I happy?".
You're building your existence, this keeps your eyes open on the world around you, this makes you stronger everyday more.
If you're not happy with the aswer to these questions you need to know that's okay.
That's fine if you are eighteen, thirty or even sixty. You're living life caring about your happiness and this is something to be proud of.
You woke up this morning, looked in the mirror and put a smile on your face, well, how true was that smile? Did you let the day fly away or you lived it?
How many days are going to fly away before you will pick up life in your hands? This is your own life, it doesn't belong to anyone else. Who will change it if you don't do it by yourself?
Go outside, take a breath and see what's around you. Do you like it? Do you feel this belongs to you? If that's not, run, run away until you run out of breath.
Build a life which can represent you, build a life where the reason to wake up in the morning is to live.
I know it's scary to change, you leave something familiare to look for something you probably don't know what it is.
If anyone will support you, well, I will, but you HAVE to support yourself first.
Believe in yourself, as a human you are incredible, you can go wherever your heart brings you, just follow it.
Take care of yourself, phisically and mentally, because if you won't do it who will do it for you?
I woke this morning asking myself "Where am I going?" and do you know what's the answer? I have no idea, so I started laughing, I almost cried.
It's okay to not have an clear idea of what you're doing or where you're going, that's life, but it must not stop you.
You're strong, I know you're strong.
I'm so proud of you.
We will go over this and what we will find will be magnificent.

Believe in yourself,
because I do.
See you soon.
Bye.

A new adventure!

A week ago I had the chance to participate in a photography project organized by Let me italian you (Let me italian you - facebook page), a cultural association specialized in creating projects in Italy and abroad.

I spent 5 days in Barcelona with my imagination and my camera.
This experience has changed my attitude with people and with photography, so now I can say it has been important for me as a person and as a photographer.
I made new friends, talented people who live their lives in happiness and creativity, because having a passion in common can create connections between people.

Photo by Maria Shibanova (instagram: @ma_ria_mirabella)

I learned how to shoot in a studio and I took my first shots...

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instagram: @annasparacinophotography

... good shots, thanks to the beautiful model and all the amazing people I had the chance to work with.
I walked around the city with the camera in my hands and I saw Barcelona...

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in color

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            and black and white








 thanks to incredible photographers who showed and shared their passion with us, they made me realize photography is not all about the camera, but it's about people, feelings and the strength of seeing the world as a combination of wonderful details.
I spent everyday doing what I love and what makes me happy, so people were smiling at me and I was smiling at them.
If you will be reading this and you were with me during these days I want to say thank you from the depth of my heart for being such an inspiration for me and keep going because you're doing amazing things. You made my experience worthy to be done!
For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about check the links above to see the brilliant shots which will be posted soon on facebook and remember to stay focused on your passions and on what you love because you will feel happy with yourself and with your life.
It's not about staying positive, it's about BEING positive and you will live as you want to live, you will live a life that represents you!

Life begins every single day

I had the ispiration to write this post from some things that have happened recently.
There is only one thing I want to say to everybody out there who are going through bad times and it is "I care and I can understand".
I know saying "You'll get better" doesn't work, you feel stuck in a life you don't want, you feel like i cage made of your own skin.
I know how it makes you feel and I know how strong you have to be to live everyday with that feeling.
I know you wake up in the morning and the world seems grey every single day, it seems you can change anything.
You suffer and you give up thinking you deserve what is happening to you.
You feel heavy under the world which is crushing on you, you feel guilty because you don't have the strength to run away and escape from all that fear and pain.
Nobody around you seems to understand you and you start blaming on yourself because they can't hear you're screaming inside.
I know you feel alone even if there is someone else around you, you stop talking, smiling and You stop living.
Well, you don't even know how powerful you are to take all that boulder on your shoulders.
It is ok to not have everything under your control, it's not your fault if people can't understand you, it's not because of you people are disappointed.

When you will realize how strong you need to be to bear all that stuff, because you will find it out one day, you will discover what is behind all that pain.
You will discover how you really are, how positive and beautiful you really are.
Nobody will stop you, you will do whatever you want because you survived worse situations, because you had the power to win the sadness.
You need to find out what ispires you and motivates you and you will be invincible.
I know it takes a long time to recover from all that fear that kept you paralyzed, this is a long journey, but you have to do you for yourself, to find how you truly are and begin to live life.
You DESERVE to be happy and smile everyday, that's what you really deserve.
Don't let others to say the opposite.

It may not matter, but I care about you, I care about your happiness. Stay focused on what you want and stay positive! You can change your life if you want to.
Be the best yourself, do it for your own happiness because you need to live, not just to survive.



This is the story behind the everybody's scars, mine too. I've always seen my scars as a big failure, a symbol of you I did wrong in my life, but now I can see beyond them, I can see the person I was to understand the person I am, they remind me everyday what I went through and I strong I am to be here now.
I'm so proud of myself and I'm so proud of you!
Stay positive, spread your happiness and be the best yourself!

Child of the artificial nature

 The second video is up!

Link Child of the artificial nature

This is only the first of many other works.
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If you like the picture on the cover you can find it on Fine Art America on sale.

The first video!

It took me some weeks, but the first video is ready!
I know it is only an introduction to the project and I'm not good at speaking, but I'm happy because I finally made it!
I hope my future works will talk for me.

1. What I want to do with my life | Spreading the happiness 

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Soon you will see the idea growing up and maybe me talking in a better way.

Spread the happiness and be happy!

Anna.

Let's talk about you!

This post is related with the previous one.
If you liked it, you need to read this one because you will get more information!
Why Green?
Green represents hope and tranquility in many cultures and it is the most natural colour in the world (don't worry I won't forget the other colours), we would be surrounded by green if we let nature flourish.
What do you mean with "Happy community"?
There are a lot of communities around the world, internet helped them to become international, but talking about different ideas, opinions and beliefs we have forgotten something which can unite all of us: Happiness.
This feeling is what everyone share, it doesn't matter where we come from or why we are happy, we can describe it and feel happy together.
Who will be part of the community?
Everyone who wants to.
I don't want it to be about me, I have already spoken about my happiness on this blog. On the channel I want to talk about what makes YOU happy.
How can we do it?
Easy, tell me your story.
Tell me what makes you deeply happy, tell me what you experienced and what you've learned. Talk about something is really important for you, a part of your life.
Why?
I see beauty wherever I look.
I think there is something straordinary in what is ordinary, we can find beauty in everything.
It may not make sense, but for me it does because I know being not used to happiness is really common nowadays and it is stressful.
We shouldn't despise things we haven't when we could appreciate what we have.
This is the reason behind it.
Feeling part of a community makes us happy because we feel attached to the group we belong, so I'm asking to you: Would you join a community where all you need is happiness?
If you would, help me to make it possible.
What you need to do:

• Write and tell me your story sending it here -> greenishminds@gmail.com
• Enclose a photo of you

I will reply and you will know when and where (blog and channel) your story will be published.
Help me to make a dream possible, help me to make people smile and be happy with your story.
Why should we do it?
Big question, but I won't choose the reason for you.
Talking about sad or incredible things it's too easy. I want to focus on love and happiness in the everyday life because it is not straordinary, it is REAL.

"Happiness is real only when shared" - Into the Wild

Why I started this blog

After a few posts I wanted to talk about the reasons why I started this blog.
"I was not used to happiness", this is the reason, not that obvious, so let me explain.
I spent most of my life struggling with my dissatisfaction and my pessimism so I've lost a lot of wonderful things from my teenage years: the first kiss, the first trip without parents, hanging out with friends all night. These experiences just flipped away and one of my biggest regrets is I didn't enjoy them, I didn't find any beauty in what I did.
Luckily, better late than never, I realized there is such plenty of beauty in life.
I started taking care of myself, studying more and appriciate everything life would give to me. I kept my eyes opened and I discovered what being a child feels like, so everything around me looked new and magnificent again.
Nowadays I find almost everything which surround me incredibly stunning and it makes me really happy.
We are close to the end, don't worry.
During the last years I joined many communities (vegan, for the animal rights, volunteering, artistic...) which welcomed me with joy and let me feel at home, so I had an idea: why not create a HAPPY COMMUNITY.
A "place" where people can share their passions, what makes them happy.
I'm also thinking about starting a youtube channel with the same aim, interviewing everybody want to share something which makes him/her happy.
I would like to share with you a quote from one of the most touching movie I've ever seen: "Happiness is real only when shared" (Into the wild).
Let's share our happiness and let's be happy together.

Please, If you read this post, comment below (anonymously too, I don't mind, but do it). It would mean a lot for me to read what you think.
Thank you so much.