could it be ?

the first little european trip on a rainy day - Luserna, Switzerland

Paunul

there's a certain nostalgy about this picture that I could not overlook

around the lake

la grande traversée

Crossing over felt like an adventure, and it probably still hasn't hit me that there's no turning back from it for the next 8 months. I'm in Geneva, in the middle of Europe, ready for life by myself and university.
But with views like these, I really forgot to be scared .

Little Freedom

Artifices du Lac

the finale of an annual fireworks competition held in Gatineau, Ottawa's neighbouring city

dincolo de nori

what remains behind ... must fade ... what could be, pulls me away ... beyond the clouds

sunset on the Ottawa River

maybe ... depression would never be, if not for lack of perspective

Brick walls can be broken by the most slender thing

Sparks, wonder, smiles ... inspiration

The beginnings

doesn't seem like much ... yet this edition of the National Geographic, found randomly in my old building's basement, triggered a lot. I myself didn't expect much from this 1998 edition, seemingly worn down and full of dust (it turned out to be frost on the cover photo from the Transsiberian) but the stories it had inside covered a superb range of places and people. The photography was mostly done with wide-angle lens, capturing sweeping views of faraway places : the russian taiga, and scottish island landscapes

And on the back of the magazine, a small Kodak ad which remains to this day a simple phrase, a simple plan, and a big dream.

It sells for 2 $ on ebay presently :); it means a little world to me.

You'll never walk alone ...

I've been looking, for a long time, for the will to keep going on no matter what, and i hope to find it here.
Because it's something so beautiful, I believe; to be aware of the failure up ahead, of the missteps, of the distrust, and yet to keep going just to stay true to one's self.
Nothing means much lately but it is up to every single one to create meaning, often from nothing.
And so I endeavour, to find, to meet, to build.
Hoping for better times :)

First steps

While the general purpose of this blog eludes me for the moment being, this much I can say: I want to propose a definition.
It relates firstly to photography, although if it comes to be, it might extend to so much more than that. Regardless, I want to throw it out in the open, see what might come of it, and who knows?
Just as I ask myself, who knows what might happen after this definition is labeled? It is far too early to define. But it’s my way of saying that I don’t have any long term plans for this blog. Photos, connections, opinions … all will have some relation, or perhaps not …
This blog was created on a Thursday evening, as my westward room was bathed in light, and my optimism reached all the way to the setting sun.
Enjoy