today has been a really nice day so far. snow and a biiig sun and not a cloud in sight. had lunch with my cousin and had a really inspiring conversation! love those kind of conversations when you talk about ideas and how you can imrove your skills. i find that really inspiring. they played really nice music too at this place, kind of music that makes you dream away picturing urself walking around somewhere in Rome or someplace really nice somewhere in italy...

when i walk around with my camera i try to look for those moments when i just know that "oh this is gonna make a great picture"" or "this is gonna be magical!" and if i dont find those which is not always the case i try to look for situations that can atleast be fun to look at, lets say if two people are having a conversation and one of them suddenly looks down or is just very focus on what the other one is saying or if something sudden is happening in that moment that will make that picture special. or if someone is resting their head towards a wall with their eyes closed enjoying the sun etc. sometimes i succeed, sometimes i have to take about 100 pictures and maybe one will be decent. sometimes im lucky and sometimes im not but im trying not to be too hard on myself..not the easiest thing in the world but im doing my best...

so day on my way home from the lunch i biked through the centre looking for those special moments and here they are.

i love taking pictures of people when they are either sleeping or resting in the sun.

or when they are in a conversation or grabbing their bike..

or saying hello to a child..

or solitude..

and i just love taking pictures of architecture through trees just to make it a bit special

and something that i also love is when i find a splash of colour that can add that special touch to a picture

and when i find those things i love doing variations and i try as many different kind of variations as i can

as you can see its about to be easter=) which is something that im looking forward becus its means socialising more with ur family and friends=)

have a happy week end!

amor/h

today its snowing. again. snow everywhere. altho it is very beautiful. cold but beautiful. altho it was actually colder yday when there WASNT snow (windy instead) so i have to say that i prefer snow. and its perfect for me who loves taking pictures of magical things and i consider snow to be one of those magical things in life. so i went for a walk eith our dogs and i brought my camera just like I did last week. i didnt take as good pics today as i did last time but thats the way it is. you cant always take great pictures..even professional photographers dont take great pictures all the time. sometimes u have to take 100 pictures and if you get lucky 5 of them turn out to be decent. so its just practice, practice and practice and catching the moment. but even tho im not really really satisfied with todays pictures it was still fun taking pictures. it always ( well more or less) gives me a satisfaction that is quite unbeatable for me to do in another way. it gives me so much joy and happiness that its ok if not all my pictures are amazing.  

an impatient Donna waitng for me to take them out

snow snow snow..

and more snow=)its soooo beautiful!

probably looking at another dog..

something smells good here...hmmmmm

beautiful Turning Torso

looking at the people walking towards us, she tend to think that everything that moves is a dog..

im gonna have some lunch now with m sister who prepared some lunch for me...thaaaank u.what would i do without left-overs?

wish you all a beautiful day, with or without snow.

amor/h

Just saw a picture of crepes on instagram that my russian friend in Bcn had made this morning and it makes me miss eating crepes soooo much. I seriousy love crepes. They are soooo good! My all time favorite crepes place is one in Paris, in the corner of quartier Latin and st germain. Its a teeny tiny corner place but they serve THE best crepes. Crepes with nutella and sometimes banana is seriously THE best combo ever. And at this place its really cheap too, only 2.5 ? for a crepe with nutella. And its so thin too. Oooog god i miss eating crepes. Theres a really good place in Bcn too, cant remember the name of the place but they make delicious crepes, but this place is more of a bar where they sell drinks and coffee. Everything is good there. Right now i wish i would be in Bcn so i could go th El Borne and to this place and have a really good sunday crepes and walking along the harbour:)

But i just have to make them myself instead...

Ok im gonna get ready now so i can see my friend, we re having a coffee in the center with her friend. Oooh im having a huuuge cappuccino. I could easily have a csppuccinonfor breakfast every day for the rest of my life without getting tired of drinking it. I looove cappuccinos. The smell of it, the warm feeling it gives you, the taste...ooooh i love it. But the best feeling is when u have brunch at a really nice place and they serve u a really good breakfast with juice and a really good cappuccino:) becus drinking cappuccinos is not only about the taste , its abt the feeling of the surrounding, that why i only drink coffee at cafes, its just not the same thing having coffe at my place..,
Ok im getting ready now. Wish you all a wonderful sunday!

Amor/h

yday it snowed! havent been snowing for a while now, we all actually thought that spring as about to come but nope dopey..winter came to us again and said hello. but i dont mind, yes i would prefer if it was warmer but froma photographer´s point of view its great! becus it gives me a lot more beautiful things to take photos of=) this morning when i was walking the dogs on the field close to the water it struck me how beautiful it was. a bit of fog on the water, everything in white, evevrything calm, only a few people out with their dogs. it was very much in harmony. so i thought to myself that i just HAD to get back there today but this time taking my camera with me (and the dogs). so i went back there couple of hours later and most of the snow had disapeared unfortunately but there was still some left on the bushes so it was still beautiful. not as beautiful as in the morning but still beautiful=).

it wasnt the first time that ive thought to myself that i should bring the camera while walking the dogs (ive thought abt doing that like a million times, but i never got around to do it) but today was the first time that i actually did it, i mean taking the camera while walking our dogs. and it was so much fun! AND i must say im rather proud of myself becus i took an advice that a photographer gave me last week=) Isabell, if you read this, u should be proud of me=) cus i remembered her telling me that i could take anything (more or less) and put it in front of the camera (a flower or basically anything to give it a touch of something magic or beautiful) so thats what i did.

my dogs werent too happy when i had them sitting and waiting for me all the time when i took the photos;P but they didnt have any choice but to wait for me=)

black and white..not very hard to spot who is who=)

i just love taking close-ups. especially if its something beautiful like snow

Bella´s spoted a dog...

isnt the shore line just soooo beautiful? it was even more beautiful in reality...tried to take a picture that would justify the beauty of the shore line but it was hard..anyway u get the picture..

so this in the picture below is a branch covered in snow that i put in front of the lens.

its the same branch but with the branch in focus. in the other pictures Bella is in focus

calm, calm and some more calmness...

our dogs are always on the look for stuff...

behind the bushes is a pond which i assume was covered by ice and snow...it was very beautiful

i have to say it again, i just looove branches, cus they give a touch of magic to the picture.. 

and this was on my street just when i was seconds away from my home. i saw how the sky was devided in blue and white, it was sooo cool!

this was only the beginning for me bringing my camera while walking our dogs=) it gave me such serenity.

i hope you have had a very peaceful friday so far and i wish you an even more peaceful week end!

amor/h

Hello from a sick girl. Well m not sick as really sick but i have a huge cold that makes me really tired. But ive beenin a quite good mood ayway today i think, its beautiful weather outside, i took uor dogs out for a walk on the field by the sea which is only a minute away from our house, ive talked a very good friend of mine who had spent the week end in stockholm so it was fun to hear about her week end. And this morning i emailed all the schools that ive ever attended ( since high school) to ask them if they can send me my certificates/diplomas since im so bad at organizing my papers:) and the language school, Centro Fiorenza, in Florence replied actually really fast which i really apprecated and the cute thing was that she rememberd me! And she was really impressed that i was still so good at Italian ( thank god for google translate!). It was sooo much fun reading italian again and getting to write in italian was fun too. It brought back so many nice memories of my time in Florence. And writing in Italian and then in French ( to my language school in Annecy) made me realise even more how much im ment to be living and working in south of Europe.thats where i belong. Ive always known that but its becoming clearer and clearer now. But i am glad and happy that im in Sweden becus ive really missed hanging out with my friends and my family so im really enjoying every single moment of it.
Anyhew, it made me so happy to write in both Italian and in French, I really love love live writing in French, Spanish and in Italian. Imagine if I could do that for a living and actually getting payed for doing all my passions? How wonderful wouldn that be? Well someday im gonna do it.
Yeah it made me very happy going back the memory lane and think about all the countries where ive lived. All the cafes, all the restaurants, all the friends ive made, the tough times,the good times..making friends at cafes or bars..god i miss it! But im gonna be back soon! Thats a promise! Im just taking a year "off" from my normal life.

The pics are mostly from Bcn ( some are from Madrid) and some are from Sweden and some are from Tarifa.
I really appreciate all the friends that ive made from all the paces that ive lived at so dont be offended if u as a friend dont see pictures of you in this post:)

Have a great tuesday night
Amor/h

Its suuuuch a beautiful day today. Really feels like apring is about to come. Im in denial yes, its after all february and spring doesnt come until april or something but theres atleast hope of spring which is the most importing thing:) im right now on our terasse and listening to the birds talking to each other. I just love this. Wow is all ive got to say. Ive heard that the week end is gonna be sunny as well, so cross ur fingers:)
Im going to my hair dresser in 2 hours, hes absolutely amazing. He really knows how with work with my hair, what looks good on it and doesnt look good. So im excited! And plus its always fun to have a good talk with him:)
Ok, i have to get ready now, have to walk our dogs...i could sit here for hours tho...hopefully ill be back soon!
Have a lovely day!

Amor/ h