I know I am not the kind of person who has a lot of friends to hang out with, and I used to feel like shit for that. But even if I didn't go out every saturday night (and still I don't) I am grateful to have friends that I love so much and I know I can trust. We've always been there for each other, at the end of the day.  

Since I'm leaving on tuesday we're spending a lot of time together lately and finally decided to take a decent picture (quite more than one). So we basically set up the tripod then acted like ourselves in the most stupid/fangirling possible way. I can't tell how fun that was, we had a great time.

I love being myself so much, you know, being with people who make you feel in the right place, it's just something you can't do with everyone. I have friends I really care about, but I still have to act in a certain way because we don't have the same approach.  

It took me years to realize that it's better to have few good friends than a lot random ones. You never have to be alone, you can always count on someone, even if that person lives ages away or whatever. When I was planning to move to London I thought I wouldn't miss my friends that much except for two or three of them, but now that I had to spend so much amazing time with them it makes me so sad it brings me to tears. 

And now (I need to stop crying) enjoy!!

The lasts

So here we go with all the last meetings, last hangouts, last dinners, last parties, last everything. Basically I'm scared as hell, I mean, I live in two weeks, for good. 

You spend like your whole teenage dreaming about one-way tickets and then you get one and, I don't know it's just freaking me out. 

I'm sad, and happy, and scared, and eager, and worried, and sad, and happy.

I didn't even realized the whole thing because I'm really calm right now but if I try to think about it....

We'll see how it goes.

5/52 BTS and Park adventures

Today I finally shot the 5/52 "Hats" theme with my best friend, we went to the park and took so many photos. You can see the final photo here.

Then, we visited the places we used to go when we were, like, 12-13 years old and it was like traveling back in time. So many memories: our old school, our old friend's house, the field where we went to take photos and then found ourselves covered by some sort of caterpillars, after which we had to change all of our clothes. 

I miss being this young and carefree, everything was so easy and beautiful and exciting, I was happy. I still am, but I miss those times. All the girls nights, the gossips and just being stupid and having fun. I'll miss these places, these people, everything.

Last days of my senior year

I'm not really crazy about my school days but I was talking with my friend about this amazing house (above here), and decided to post some of the photos I took then.

This was our last dinner as class-mates and my Art's teacher, who's the owner of the house, invited us all to enjoy some time together. It was incredible, I think, one of the best (school-related) dinner I've ever had. There was a lot of good food, an amazing view and it was all kind of romantic. I regret that I didn't take more photos of the house, especially the indoors because they were so beautiful and original. Everything was, I don't know, just stunning. I remember thinking about all the possible photos I could've taken and how the light must have been beautiful in the morning. Instead, I spent my one and only roll taking photos of my class-mates (stupid!)

Seriously, at that time I thought I had to collect every moment of my last year because I was going to miss it once it was over, but the truth is I don't. I actually miss the place and the atmosphere more. However,  as it became dark it grew more and more magic. There were fireflies literally everywhere, it was like having christmas lights all around. I finished my roll before that so I tried to capture that beauty using my friend's camera, but with no tripod it was nearly impossible. I remember taking few good shots but my friend never sent them to me so I'm not sure how they turned out.

If I will ever visit that place again I'll surely take my DSLR and tripod and everything. I want to capture that magic!!!

3/52 BTS

I joined a project called Let's Get Creative 2014 which is a 52 weeks project open to everyone with a theme for each week of the year. 

Since the day I fell in love with photography I struggled with myself about starting a 365 project (where you have to take one photo everyday for a year), but with school and everything I had neither time nor will to actually start one. 

When I saw this project I thought that maybe a 52 weeks project was easier and the fact that a lot of photographers are joining made me want to join it as well. It's a very cool project because you get to see lots of differents ideas and concepts of one single theme and it's very inspiring.

Anyway...

This was week three and the theme was "books". Thanks to my friend who helped me, I felt less awkward  with her than if I had to shoot it by myself. However, the shoot went well and then we decided to make some Pavesini. 

I really really suggest this project, it's quite funny and I hope to improve the way I didn't in the last six years.

Going off topic...

Today I finally (after three long months) booked my flight to London, me and my friend are moving there. It was exciting until it became scaring and now I'm trying not to think about it because I'll loose my mind if I do. Wish me luck and cross your fingers for me, it's going to be...hopefully a great adventure.

A day with Harry Styles' beanie

Just so you know I'm not a fan of One Direction but apparently I ended up using a Harry Styles photo on my phone. Anyway I took some photos of my best friend yesterday, enjoy!

ps: I also went to see Catching Fire and damn it was so good!!! Can't wait to see the next one.