Life

 

Life has a funny way to make me fall, but it also has a great way to lift me up. Lately things are improving little by little, and I've had a couple of surprises on the way.
It's currently summer vacations here,but I'm still waiting to know the exams results to know if I'll have to repeat any of them, and after that university to my photography degree!:)

I've also started on a healty diet,I've started to change some eating habits a couple of months ago but nothing crazy, but this past week I went to a nutritionist appointment and learned a few things so I'm thrilled about it, not because I'm fat and unhappy with my body, I'm the typical pear shaped girl with curvy hips that is loved just the way she is.
But I want to change my habits for my healt at all levels,it will help me to feel even better about myself both on the inside and out.

Another thing I'm hyped about is my new aquisition of photography material. I will make a post about that later though ;)

So I leave you with this work,a peacock from Jardim Público de Évora - I took this photo while on easter vacations with my boyfriend and his parents :) I love these birds, so majestic and elegant, with lovely colors and patterns!

Have a great week!

*See more works on my facebook

Still alive

I haven't publish anything here for quite a while, I haven't had time to do anything lately >.<
Today I decided to give the blog a little update just to say I'm still alive and super excited!:D I'm planing some portrait photos (and selfportraits too if I'm able to) because they are one of the big flaws on my portfolio!
I've studied the basics of portrait photography but I know I'm a little limited due to my equipment,still I'll try my best!:) I'll also have a huge help from my boyfriend, he has been my haven and support theses past months,he gives me so much support and strength to follow my dreams it almost makes me doubt him xD
So here stays a photo that I haven't published here yet, a female snowy owl!:)

235mm f/7.1 @Jardim Zoológico de Lisboa

You can see more works on my Facebook Page! :)

Zoo Trip

I've spent yesterday at the Lisbon's zoo with my boyfriend to celebrate (a little late ^^;) our 3rd year anniversary, so that means I have a ton of photos to select and work :) It's a total of 10GB of photos! Would have taken more photos but the light wasn't the best yesterday and it rained a little.
So now I need to go work a little on them, maybe i'll update something soon :)

New lens has arrived!:)

 

My new lens arrived yesterday!:) I woke up at 9 AM and waited the whole morning for the courier that only arrived at 2:22PM! Since it was the first time I purchased a lens, and it came from Italy, I was pretty nervous and a single morning seemed like an intire day! But thankfully,it arrived and I couldn't wait to try it out! I called my boyfriend and we went to a little farm nearby, for our misfortune it started raining heavily when we got there, so we spent most of the time under a shed, but still I got some pretty decent shots and I was very happy about it!


Here is my favorite picture of the day, a pidgeon under the heavy rain!I don't know why he didn't look out for some shelter, maybe the fresh rain felt good after the intense summer heat we had for the past couple of months.

Taken at 250mm f/5.6

Losing hope

This little fellow is a baby chimp from the lisbon's zoo. I know most animal suporters are against zoos but honestly I support them,not the "we use animals for profit" kind of zoo but the "we live for animals" kind.

Seriously,if we didn't had zoos and natural reserves many species would be exctinct. for example the white tiger,there are only 100 to 130 tigers in the WORLD and they all live in zoos or reserves. there aren't white tigers in the wild anymore,and if zoos didn't exist,they would probably be extinc by now since the human being anihilates them.Lisbon's zoo has had 3 offsprings of white tigers this past year and that is great news,it means the species are staying alive.

It's something that really scares me,a world without animals.Even with animal's rights,world wide organizations protecting them, and a lot of attemps of those organizations to make people see how the planet earth is in danger,nobody really seems to care...

Am I dumb to think that we should try and help those beings that the men are trying to make disapear for money? Or are them already lost to a world of greed? Do people realize that some species are fading away this fast? Or do people think that it doesn't matter if you kill them,they will never get extinct?

I can't understand,maybe I'm just a soft heart for animals and nature and I can't see the full picture, society will always rule and money will always talk louder,what can a teenager do anyway? I do the best I can to help the planet,but honestly it feels like nothing, and that makes me lose all hope...

You can help save the tiger!

There are as few as 3,200 tigers surviving in the world's forests in this, the Chinese Year of the Tiger.

The scientists say the situation is so bad, that the tiger faces extinction in the wild by the time of the next Year of the Tiger in 2022.

WWF will not let this happen. Instead, we want to double the number of tigers by 2022...

Find how you can help WWF here "You can help save the tiger!"

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 ^^

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.