snowy farytale
Yes this looks like a snowy farytale! It is the place I live, looking particularly magical. In Bulgaria, every year of my childhood I waited for the snow to start falling and the moment I loved the most was the first sunny morning after a big snowfall, when the snow on the ground changes color, from violet early in the morning, to pink with the first rays of light, to white and than blue. I used to walk in the park and just lay down in the snow, before anyone else has made a step in it. I used to think and I still do that this is as close to being on a cloud as I can be. I am going out to do this right now, see you there and oh yes to the bunch of people that I have challenged to snowball fights - Be ware I am coming!! lol from snowy Vancouver Em
LOVE IT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpyYnyViLq8Put a big smile on my face, so much like our lifes! I absolutely loved it! :)
flying around the world
Ola to you all, yes this is the best I can do on Photoshop to explain how the last 30 days looked like. I tried, so you just have to appreciate the effort and love me for it! I promise that at the end of the year I will creat a much more professional map with all of the places i have been.
So I am currently in Mexico city, it is 11 o'clock and I have already had one flight, two wicky's on the plane from Villahermosa, with Alberto a guy from Venetsuela, this is how travel should be. When boarding we were told that the flight is too heavy an all passengers have to go at the back, so we got drunk instead am flying today from Villahermosa to Mexico city, Mexico city to Cancun, Cancun to Houston, Houston to Vancouver. This is way too much drinking coming my way but I promise I am going to do my best. So I have had 12 flights in the last 30 days and have 3 more. love you Ema
the world is full of talented people
i am listening to the songs of one of my cousin's friends Yann (
http://guilbert.yann.free.fr/index.php?rub=chanson&songname=fool). A really talented young guy and I am thinking how in every part of the world someone is creating their art, their message. We meet these people which have so much talent and energy. They seem to recharge us also, make us want to go and get what we want, never to forget that dreams are there to be reached. Meeting people like this is something you cannot forget, they have the sparkles in their eyes. They have the vibrant personality, they put the negativity of the other people in the back drawer and try to see the world trough children's eyes. they are just free spirits, they are something you can't catch. i will try to find one every week and show you what they do to put a smile on my face and hopefully it will do the same for you... :)
being a woman...
Being a woman requires at least from time to time to glam up even if we are not going out anywhere and just remember what it is to feel good in nice clothes. At the end of every trip I so want to throw away the content of my entire suitcase.
Having to spent a month, or two or three with the same clothes ( this is of course if I don't go on a shopping spree in the meantime) has to be one of the experiences i truly do not enjoy. I feel like on the road I just forget to pamper myself and the funny thing is that I hear from my male not female colleagues how they have been to the spa, massages and shopping sprees. Girls we are definitely doing something wrong!!!
So now I always carry a set of glam clothes, just for the sake of making me feel good, just for going out and dancing the whole night and feeling like I belong somewhere.
At the end what would a woman be without inspiration so kudos to Mike Bednar, you are one of the people that make me want to photograph every second of my life. You are incredible photographer I will never get tired of seeing your photos. Check this guys
http://www.bednarphoto.com/ and Filipe we have to have those discussions again, it is good to challenge ourselves. posted some of my photos here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/46341737@N00/ view as a slideshow.
Villahermosa - Ema's search for pirates
I am currently in a place called Villahermosa. It is the capital of the Tabasco State and once centre of the Olmec civilization. The city has moved numerous times down the coast due to the massive pirates attacks. Have not seen any pirates yet, will take some pictures if I see any. All I met so far are British oil geologists and I can say they drink as much as the pirates do. I am here 3 more days and than home for a week :)
LA, friends and good times
Ok so what happen to me in the passed 5 days. I had the most amazing last night in Acapulco. Got to the beach and relaxed, swam in the ocean and after went straigh to the restaurant on the beach, watched the unbelievable sunset drinking Champaign and eating a fantastic meal. I really appreciated it and loved the moment so much.
Things got even better and that was because on the next day I flew to Mexico city and than to LA where Eli ( one of my colleagues), David, Christopher and Tinu ( my bosses) were waiting for me and the same evening one of the biggest Travel conferences started. All CEO's of all the biggest travel companies showed up. We did great job and most importantly had a blast. The presentation of out company was very successful and everyone wanted to be around us.
In the evenings lots of fun, drinking, good food, laughs, karaoke, bull riding and at all amazing times.
I have a funny photo of Eli and me doing a Virtual Tout, the tripod is on a bar table and we are walking on the bar chairs around it. This is called determination. I loved every minute of the trip to LA and my wonderful company. Really didn't want them to leave at all. Eli, we are going to have even bigger blast in Miami, will try the bull than, lol.
So today I am back in Mexico, flew to Cancun, than took a tiny plane to Villahermosa where I am now. Evey time I see those planes I think that they are joking with me and very soon my big shiny plane will come but no. I still remember flying from Pueto Rico to St.Lucia last year. We were bussed to a very small plane and not allowed to come out of the bus till the plane is fully checked that means we were watching the the pilot kicking the tires to see if they are fine and spinning the propellers. I think myself and all the rest of the passengers got slightly worried that he is doing the checking of the plane in such fashion, but hey makes life definitely more interesting.
Acapulco singing and dancing
I am in a place I have always wanted to visit. I have childhood memories of my mum singing a song called Acapulco, it was one of those places which sounded like paradise and the escape from our grey communist reality, place that we can never go to or see and now I am here, here and smiling all the time. It is beautiful, it is full of atmosphere it is amazing.
My Mexican trip has been one of my best professionaly. People run around me and after me, carrying my tripod and camera and not allowing me to do anything that can strain me, all they want is beautiful photos. My contacts in all of the properties have been amazing and have done all they can for me to have the easiest and the best shoot ever. I have asked for crazy things ( get access to buildings in the area so I can get a better exterior, have all of the lights on the balconies of all of the rooms in the entire hotel to be switched on, so I can take a dusk shot, pools blocked for a whole morning....... Wow). The best thing is that I found great friends and I am coming back and going on a holiday with them. Jose Enrique we are off to the Mayan city in the jungle!!
Off to LA on Monday, Cancun on Thursday, Villahermosa on Friday, Vancouver on 23rd, Miami on 3rd, London on 13th, Sofia on 20th.
kisses to all of you
We have a colorful life
I was thinking today what a colorful life we lead. Today as usual I talked to many friends and than realized where they all are and that in couple of hours I have talked to people in Bangkok( Thailand), Mumbai ( India), Sofia ( Bulgaria), Hohhot ( China), Marseilles ( France), London (UK), various US states and Vancouver and I am in Merida Mexico. We do have a colorful life! Love you guys Ema
Merida the place for taking photos
Merida, the white city, an amazing place which has gathered so much history and has so many faces. Merida is the capital city of the Mexican state Yucatan, founded in 1512 and build over the Maya city of Ti'ho, also known as Ichcaanzih or land of the great "sihoes". The architecture is unbelievable and on the main boulevardard Plaseo Monteo one can find the most interesting Colonial buildings and in the same time if you dive in the small streets you are surrounded by the typical colorfulful one story buildings. Three differentent worlds.
Sunday morning I had time to go take some photos for myself and found out what Sunday really means in this city. All streets leading to the church are closed and thousands of people head for the morning service which was truly incredible and I managed to take some shots inside and than to bribe the old ladies outside to allow me to photograph them for a while. This is another of those magic places where I feel like photographing non stop. Oh yes this is a city where the sky is never cloudless, makes me love it even more.
Asta luego
Ema
fishing for a dream
Lets go fishing for a dream, lets find some place new, somewhere we can be ourselves all of the time. The whole world will see you shine. :)
free in the rain
It was pouring rain today, pouring, I have never seen a sky like this, so gray, so amazing. I did what I do always when it rains - go out and get soaked it just makes you feel like there are no worries in the world. So I went to the beach and stood there having the drops of rain and ocean spray fall on my face, tickle my skin, such amazing sensation. I was the only person there, I could not see anyone on the miles long beach. I ran, I swam I did everything just because I was there alone and hell it was good to feel free.
Yes this looks like a snowy farytale! It is the place I live, looking particularly magical. In Bulgaria, every year of my childhood I waited for the snow to start falling and the moment I loved the most was the first sunny morning after a big snowfall, when the snow on the ground changes color, from violet early in the morning, to pink with the first rays of light, to white and than blue. I used to walk in the park and just lay down in the snow, before anyone else has made a step in it. I used to think and I still do that this is as close to being on a cloud as I can be. I am going out to do this right now, see you there and oh yes to the bunch of people that I have challenged to snowball fights - Be ware I am coming!! lol from snowy Vancouver Em
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