I’m still blogging beautiful days from 3 years ago. I just can’t help but visit the client galleries sometimes and gather all the kind of nostalgia I can. It makes me feel so grateful for this journey, and it makes me deliver myself more and more to every new day that I am able to create something new. And it’s impactful the kind of supreme detail we can remember things about, even feelings we used to have, just by looking at a moment in a photograph. Even to myself this is such an intense experience - to relive over and over again the beauty of a day so very special and so very unique. I am always so grateful to be able to do this. To give myself fully to the ability of putting little bits of what I see, the way I see them, and what I believe in on a little composition that can come to mean so much to someone. And it’s the lost details I love most rather than the most expected ones. Sometimes you see something in a way nobody does and it’s there that lies your heart.
I’m still blogging beautiful days from 3 years ago. I just can’t help but visit the client galleries sometimes and gather all the kind of nostalgia I can. It makes me feel so grateful for this journey, and it makes me deliver myself more and more to every new day that I am able to create something new. And it’s impactful the kind of supreme detail we can remember things about, even feelings we used to have, just by looking at a moment in a photograph. Even to myself this is such an intense experience - to relive over and over again the beauty of a day so very special and so very unique. I am always so grateful to be able to do this. To give myself fully to the ability of putting little bits of what I see, the way I see them, and what I believe in on a little composition that can come to mean so much to someone. And it’s the lost details I love most rather than the most expected ones. Sometimes you see something in a way nobody does and it’s there that lies your heart.
I've been thinking about this session very often lately, yet again. It strikes me as pure luck that strangers find me and feel that what I create moves them. It moves me for the luck I gather to be able to have the humble gratitude to be the chosen one. Picking someone to navigate who you are and what you have together is tough and should resonate within you immensely. The choice of photographer should be an important one. I am so very grateful for being the choice of so many beautiful people.
Lisa and Seva are beautiful beings. I still don't have words to explain how their relationship moves me deeply. Sometimes you have quietness in sessions which translates a lot of emotion and sometimes you have giggling full of fun ones that could not express that emotion better, either. This is one of the most honest, raw and happy sessions I've ever had. I think you can see why.
Eu não peço muito. Dêem-me um passeio, espírito aventureiro, uma praia escondida e a vossa verdadeira essência e eu farei fotografias em felicidade. E vocês passarão um serão incrível a serem vocês mesmos exactamente como o são quando estão sozinhos, apenas um com o outro. Esta deveria ser a verdadeira razão de querer congelar um certo momento no tempo. Ninguém tem de estar noivo, ou casado ou a celebrar mais do que vocês mesmos e a forma como sentem acerca um do outro. A Sílvia e o João sabem isso. Não apenas porque a Sílvia é uma pessoa e fotógrafa incrível e o João tem uma alma de aventureiro mas porque os dois entendem o poder da arte. O poder de criar algo para nós mesmos. Se o mundo tem a oportunidade de ter um glimpse disso, é pura sorte. Porque o que realmente importa é quem nós somos e a forma como a pessoa que amamos é um reflexo disso mesmo, e o melhor que eles nos conseguem fazer ser. É só isso. Sem truques. Sem momentos falsos. Estas, são todas reais. Eles queriam ir a esta praia tão difícil de chegar e tão escondida e eu estava louca para o fazer. Essa sou eu. Eu vou ao fim do mundo para criar. Eu vou até ao fim do mundo para materializar uma visão em algo que eu sinto ser bonito. Eu só quero é clientes como estes. Clientes que se tornam amigos, não apenas porque temos a oportunidade de criar arte tão bonita juntos, mas porque temos a oportunidade de abrir os nossos corações. E isso acaba por ser a melhor coisa deste mundo. Vejam a prova.
I do not ask much. Just give me a hike, adventurous spirit, a hidden beach and your true soul and I will make photos in happiness. And you will have a wonderful time just being yourself like you are used to be when you are alone with just the other. This should be the true reason to want to freeze a certain moment in time. You shouldn't have to be engaged, or married or celebrating something but yourselves and the way you feel about each other. Sílvia and João know that. Not only because Sílvia is a wonderful person and photographer and João has an adventurer's soul too, but because they understand the power of art. The power of creating for yourself. If the world gets to get a peek of that, it's just luck. Because what matters is who you are and the way the person you love is a reflection of just that, and the best that they can make you be. That's it. No tricks. No fake moments. These, are all real. They wanted to go to this hidden tricky beach and I was head over heels about it. That's who I am. I go miles to create. I go miles to shape a vision into something I think is beautiful. I just want clients like these. Clients that become friends, not only because we got to make beautiful art together, but because we got to open our hearts. And that just happens to be the best thing in this world. See proof.
Este dia foi uma canção. Uma canção linda cheia de gargalhadas, surpresas e amizade. Porque a amizade é mesmo a alicerce de cada amor, e eu estou a aprender mais e mais que se nos rodearmos de amigos que nos revestem de amor e de família que nos costura contra todas as dificuldades - que de alguma forma ficamos protegidos - e o nosso amor é emancipado em algo muito mais verdadeiro. Este dia foi colorido por aqueles detalhes que não estão em cima de mesas ou a adornar os ombros de alguém. Foi colorido por aqueles detalhes e aquele tipo de amizade que nos tira o fôlego. Senti-me também tão emocionada quando na Igreja o Rodrigo cantou a Deus e ao seu amor pela Carminho, e o coro a que pertenciam alguns dos seus melhores amigos, me arrepiou sem medidas. O resto do dia foi cheio desses momentos assim também, apenas amenizado pela enorme e sincera necessidade de celebração. Foi uma forma diferente de magia, incrivelmente mágico, e sinto-me uma sortuda por ter podido fazer parte disso. E os nomes das mesas eram músicas dos Queen. Não podia mesmo ficar melhor que o que foi.
This day was a song. A beautiful song full of laughter, surprises and friendship. Because friendship is truly the foundation of every love, and I am learning more and more that when you surround yourself with friends that breed you love and family that sews your hardships in life, you somehow become protected - and your love is emancipated into something so much truer. This day was coloured by those details you don't see on table tops or adorning one's shoulder. It was coloured by those details and that kind of friendship that takes your breath away. I myself felt so emotional on the church when Rodrigo sang to God, and for his love for Carminho, and the choir that was made of some of their best friends, sent never ending chills down my back. The rest of the day was full of these moments too, softened only by the need of sincere celebration. It truly was a different kind of magic, abruptly magical and I just feel so very lucky that I got to be a part of that. And the table setting and names were songs by Queen. It just can't get any better than that.
Foi inacreditavelmente É-P-I-C-O.
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It was unbelievably E-P-I-C.