Mom's Flowers

The rain here is pouring down for hours, so I felt the need to try some photos with my mom's flowers :3 just because I Love flowers with drops of water, they always look fresh and peaceful but still full of life and color!

The two photos above were taken with my canon 1000D,the picture beneath was taken with my panasonic dmc-zx1 because this camera has a macro mode, and with my canon I can't get that close up pictures (I don't have the right lens :( )

Don't you just love macro shots?>3<

Hope you like them!I sure had fun taking them!:)

Happy

Did the driving exam today,was raining like hell,but I passed!Now I can't wait to explore all those places far from the city with my loved one and take a lot of photographs <3

Pumpkins

I got into the halloween spirit the other day,so I've made some pumpking earrings (and sold one :3) and little charms for a bracelet (bat,bone,skull,pumpkin and ghost,these last two are not in the photo) and it made me want to do some christmas related crafts sooo bad...

Little Blossom

I've just realized that winter is here to stay and that for the next few months the nature won't be so colorful,so i decided to make a post with a flower blossoming in the sun :)

Take care!

Rain rain rain!!!

Didi inside the house

Finally we have rain!!Cold rain!I was so sick of the hot wheater!>.< I was really happy when I heard the rain,but the next moment I felt sad because of my dogs,they were outside in the rain!D: When I saw them,they were all wet,poor things!

So I went out with my dad and we assembled a little house for the dogs (luckily we bought it the night before!).
I've cut some carpet to cover the house's floor since it is made of cold plastic :c and they loved it!They feel warm and cozy,protected!

Tomás and the new house!^^

Mushrooms and Owls

Today I rushed to do some fimo works because I had a request to do green mushrooms pending for a while >.<
So, since I had to do those, I tried to do some owl earrings too, they didn't turn out quite like I wanted but I wasn't with the best mood to work :c

I'll probably upload other pics so you can see how they look on the ear ^^

Next time I'll try to do some halloween earrings, because that is a theme that I love :3 lots of orange and black what could be better?>3< I just wish I still had the age to wear costumes!

Hope you like them,see you in the next post ^^

Two Years

Two sweet,loving years with you. We had our share of hurt and pain too, but we always get over those things ,because we stay together.
I have to thank you for everything,for your patience,love,affection,dedication and understanding.

You're the most wonderful person I've ever known, you truly have a heart of gold, getting to know you has been a great and fascinating experience.
I hope this new year brings us nothing but good things!

I love you with all my heart and I will always fight for our happiness!
Now let's get some sushi :P

Fimo Earrings

Today I woke up happy,but very fast my happiness went away and I needed something to disctract me,so I decided to play a little with fimo!

I spent the past few weeks gathering thing to do earrings and other stuff,so today I decided to try and do something!
So what better symbol of autumn than MUSHROOMS!:D

They are not great,but for the first earring experience with fimo I think they are okay.

I've always loved to do little crafts like this, never really had the time/materials for it,but I'm trying to really invest in it now,gathering up materials little by little.

Here is one of the earrings to see how it looks on the ear

World Animal Day

Today (October 4th) is the world animal day!So the picture of today is about animals! In this case, my dogs ^^

In the above picture you can see Didi (B&W female) and Tomás (male german shepherd), they are two of my four dogs and they get along really well,she is much older than Tomás and way more peaceful. He, on the other hand, just wants to play and play till the end of the day!

I picked this photo because it shows the unconditional love and care that animals share, the dedication... So many times we , the human being, are cruel to them,we kill them for food,to make clothes,purses...sometimes we just kill them because we think it is funny. It is really disgusting.

Instead of being the racional animal,we are monsters with no compassion. It makes my blood boil when people defend bullfighting, saying that it is a cultural thing, that there are paintings about it made by important painters, so we (the animal right defenders) are ignorants! Claiming that if the bullfighting industry would end, the bulls would be extinct too.

People, WHAT THE HELL??

the human being is responsible for many extinctions and surely isn't a "spectacle" of torture and death that will keep the species alive!
Bulls always lived peacefully in the fields, like cows,sheeps,pigs. Give them their habitats and they don't need the human to survive,believe me, they will gladly say goodbye to us!

Culture. Killing inocent animals is culture?there are paintings about that? wow
Then why don't we hang people in the public square like we used to?
Maybe we should get a new Hitler, since he tried out for art school (and he was pretty good at it!).
Why can't we follow some paintings examples and live in harmony with nature?

Some people really don't learn. We need to respect the other living beings, even if it doesn't have eyes to look back at us, or a mouth to beg for is's life...even a tree,or a flower.
Humans probably forget that without trees, we wouldn't even be alive.

Well I won't write anymore because this is an angry and sleepy post, so it must have a lot of grammar mistakes :3 I'll work on that later!

Happy world animal day everyone! Enjoy the day and show your pets just how much you love them!

Note: If you got the wrong idea,no I'm not an apologistof the nazi ideals.

I still believe

Sintra,2011

I'm so sick of living in the city,I'm dying to spend some time in the country side and breath some pure air.

It's getting worse day by day, traffic,pollution, buses full of people that don't bathe and don't respect others,shopping malls that are as hot as a stove. Just yesterday I went with my boyfriend for a walk by the river side and it was chaotic,the floor was all dirty with plastic cups,plastic syringes and things like that,half of those most certainly ended up in the river. It was disgusting the smell of beer in the air,why can't people just respect simple things? why must the human being be such a mess and destroy everything without remorse?

I try to tell myself that there's still hope but everyday my spirit is crushed a little.

From spoiled little children that don't value anything, to teenagers that think it is cool and badass to be disrespectful to everyone, even the elderly people are disrespectful these days...

That's one of the reasons I adore photography,I get completely absorbed by what I'm doing and I forget the troubles around me,even if it is just for a few minutes. It makes me see what is beautiful in the middle of the ugly city, even if it is just a flower on the side of the road or a little moss on a painted wall. It makes me believe there's still hope..

Fuchsia Magellanica and Childhood

Fuchsia magellanica is the scientific name for this flower,

I used to love this flower when I was a kid.
My neighbor had a garden full of these and she used to pick some for me every now and then so I could play with them,pretending they were earings (In Portugal this flower is called "Princess earings").

I used to visit her almost every day,I loved her dogs to death,really she had the sweetest female dog I've ever met,she was called Linda.

Linda's son was like his mother,just as kind and affectionate but one day,he bit my face,I got lucky and only got a little scar,I could have lost an eye.

But still my love for that dog never died and it was painfull to hear the news about the death of mother and son.

I loved the older women from my street,they were always so lovable,probably because they were alone since their kids were all grown up and with their own families. I used to spend a lot of afternoons with them,I loved talking with them and listen to their stories and some of them used to give me tea and cookies!

How I miss the strawberry tea!

Those were times when people trusted each other, there were no dangers always looking,people weren't so greedy and malicious towards each others...or maybe it was just from my childish naive eyes...

Alvarenga

Sometimes I need to run away from everything and when I feel like that I always remember a little place that eases my heart,a place where I can breathe deeply and rest my mind.

The place I'm writing about is called Alvarenga (north of Portugal) , it's where my grandparents used to live and now it's where they have their eternal rest.
 If you like nature and peace you should try and visit it, you won't regret it. The photo was taken there,in one of the mountains but I can't remember which one!:(

After the hot rain

Today the weather is awful,looks like we're in a tropical country! Wind,high temperatures and rain!One of the things I hate the most is hot rain...the air gets all sticky!:( I even had to let my dogs get inside the house because of the bad weather.

Well,I was hoping to take some after the rain shots but the heat is so much that nothing is wet, so here stays a photo of my vine, not a great photo but the best I could do since I can't go out of my yard.

Have a great day!

Moving on

Hello there,this first blog entry will explain the reasons behind the creation of this blog, I need to get things off my chest before starting this new stage in my life.

When I first thought about creating a blog I wanted it to be about photography and my photography studies.

Later on I wanted a blog also because I was angry and sad, feeling that, no matter what I did, my work was never going to be noticed or apreciated by the one I wanted the most.

I was feeling trapped and confused while that special person was loving others works and looks, flattering them, and at the same time despising and mocking my works and looks. Those were devastating times for me, I felt constantly compared to others and felt that nothing I could ever do would be as good as the other's work, I felt untalented and even dumb I wanted to give up everything,I didn't even had will to take photographs or learn more about it...

But I didn't give up, so now here I am still picking up the pieces of a broken heart and soul, trying to forgive and forget so that I can move on with my life and my passion, taking wildlife and landscape photos. I know that it will be hard most of the times because just looking at my camera brings back bad memories and anguish but we all have our inner battles every day right?
So this was just a blog entry to clarify the "why" of this blog,it's my way to say I'm still alive and fighting!
I'll upload some of my old works for a while because I don't have time to go out on photographic trips for a while!:(

Sorry for the bad english but I get messed up when writing about things that hurt.

Thank you for reading this,see you in my next post!