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.

The past made me stronger

The past made me stronger  is the first video of (I hope) many others!
I spoke about something really important and difficult for me, I felt uncomfortable for a long time, but I finally had the courage to talk about it.
I'm so excited to share with you my journey and transition from the who I was to the fit and healthy person I want to be.
I hope it will help me to stay focused on what I want to achieve and to help and inspire others to never give up on their dreams and stay positive in every situation.
I know it is hard, it may will take a long time to happen, but I promise we will make it together!

So watch the video, leave a comment below and make sure to subscribe!
Bye, cute humans.

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!

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.

How photography changed my life

My whole life has been marked by falling in love with art everyday, from visual arts to music and phylosophy.

I've always had passion for drawing, since I was young.

During the elementary school I wanted to be an artist, I was not very talented, but I had passion. I used to spend hours and hours drawing, which was the only thing that mattered to me and I don't regret it.

On my last year I started playing piano just for fun, but I immediately fell in love with how music made me feel and in a few years I also learned how to play guitar, cello and I joined a band.

I felt so lucky for having the chance to be on stage and singing the songs I loved, sharing my passion with the audience was incredible and also helped me with my shyness.

The passion for music influenced my decisions too because four years ago I chose an high school where I'm currently studying music.

I don't regret any of my decisions, I've built my life on art and beauty and it is amazing.

When I got interested in photography I was speechless, I've never been good at using words to describe the reality around me, I used to see the world like a grey and sad place to live in, but when I saw the colors my life changed.

I found a way to share my colorful vision of the world without words, photography made it possible.

If you want to see what I'm talking about check it out!

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Motivation

This morning I was thinking about motivation. What motivates people to do something they ardently want?

Whatever it is your purpose, you need to focus on why you want to do it.

I will try to summarize what worked for me (with some examples):

1. Inspiration

When I decided to go vegan I had a lot of doubts, I admit it, but I got my inspiration from almost 4 people:

The first one is my father. On his highest weight (110 kg – 242 pounds) he decided he couldn't go on like this because he wouldn't have been here today to see his daughter growing up. It took him 5 years to lose 40 kg and now he's one of the happiest person I've ever known.

Two years ago he also decided to go vegan and work on his body to be healthier and stronger for me and my mother.

He is such an inspiration to have the strength to change my life as he did!

The second one is a lovely girl named Alyse who has a youtube channel Raw Alignment (she is amazing) and last but not least two brothers from Norway (youtube channel Sweet Natural Living).

I got inspiration from them to follow my dreams, to keep studying about health and I had the chance to see with my eyes the real connection between being healthy and being happy.

For those you have any doubt about changing diet or you want to change your habits to feel better with yourself, I want you to know you have the strength to do it.

If you are scared or afraid about what can happen, just take your time to study the topic more and get into it then, try it when you feel ready.

You can discover that it may fits for you, it could even make you happy.

2. Support

If someone supports you for what you are doing, it will be like you are doing it together, it could be quite easier.

I'm really lucky because my family always supported me for almost everything I did in my life. I know maybe not everybody can say the same.

I went to xfactor last year, I'm not that proud of how it went, but my father was there for me, to support me anyway.

During the audition I made a mistake and I just gave up, I knew that was not what I want to do with my life.

That experience gave me the chance to learn one of the most important things in life:

The best supporter for you... is you.

Believe in yourself and you will do whatever you want.

You can make mistakes, but it doesn't matter because every mistake will let you know more about yourself.

3. Intuition

Potentially you can completely change your life overnight, but if you aren't ready it will only upset you.

This is what intuition stands for, you need to find the optimal conditions to be ready to change, physically and mentally.

It is similar to when you read a book: some years ago it may was insignificant, but if you read it today it might be a revelation.

Things need time to happen, if not today, maybe tomorrow.

Let me know what works for you, what you are planning for the future and how far you want to arrive!