Emporion

We went on a school trip to Emporion (a Greek city near France, in Catalonia). This city was so beautiful -I really love greek culture so I enjoyed it a lot.
Also I took few photos as my camera had run out of battery and I had to take them with my friend's cameras. I've tried new curves I made myself! Tell me what you think about them!

 i used a curve to add contrast and yellow tones to this photograph

 i used a black and white curve

 i used a curve to make it warmer and darker and make it look like an old photo

i used a curve to add contrast and summer tones

flower tiara

We went to Marta's house to be with her family -we're cousins- and we took some photos. We hope you like it.

models: Andrea, Júlia and Marta
photographers: Marta and Andrea

destiny

it's pretty horrible to think that if I hadn't been on twitter that 4th of december 2010 and I wouldn't have met you. I can't imagine life without you and if I do I end up crying.
It's funny to think that we both were in the place we were meant to be the time we were meant to be, so we got to know eachother. And I get afraid when I think that it was just a second, a short second which made us meet.
I can't wait to told our story. I have told it many many times but still I feel like I could go on about it forever. It just amazes me, destiny or luck, whatever it was that brought us together.
It's amazing that after a simple mention of twitter I have been in love with him a year and 3 months. I love him.

thoughts by midnight

trip to the lake -2012

So I went to my village on January and me and my cousin took photos of the beautiful lake. It was winter and it was a cold, rainy day, but yet the water had beautiful colors and soft waves on its surface. The feeling of freedom was in the air and I thought I had to share these photos with you.

Marta contemplating the immensity of our lake

 Trying to reach the water

 We got to the lake by bike -to infinity

 Julia getting her feet wet with the cold water

after a fight

 a big christmas hug

 straight to the camera

with the wind

the trees

I'm pretty scared

So PP has won the elections in Spain. Hello, Spain of 1996.
I swear, I'm so scare of this "change". Negative change, of course. I don't see Spain surviving the crisis, I think we're going to sink even more deeply than ever.
It's possible that PP doesn't allow us to speak catalan (my native language, co-official in Spain).
I think we're going back. We will live Franco's era again. And I don't really want that.
Now that PP has won, I'm going to pray. Very hard.

Elite?

I'm against elite sport. I mean, athletes that trains every day and every hour of it.
Andrea: I used to be one of them. I did gymnasthics since I was 4 until I was 15 almost every day of the week and I didn't know what I was losing until I decided to stop doing it. It wasn't like I gave up: why should I? I won every competition, but it didn't seem enough to my trainer. I was so proud of myself but sometimes I felt like shit because everything I was doing seemed to be shit for my trainers and the club. This gave me a low self-esteem. I didn't love myself. I thought: maybe if I was thiner, maybe if I was better. Had I reasons to think that? No. I was the best of the club, I nearly have more prizes than any girl in the club. I shouldn't complain. But I complained. Some of my school said: it's a priviledge that you're the best of your country. And I thought: where's the privilege in training every single day and never get a "congratulations, you are the best"? My parents were sad for me too: as I trained every day when I got home I didn't want to talk, I was too tired. This made my parents think I didn't love them -and maybe think about their divorce too, though it wasn't my fault.

I got bored of doing the same just to please the other because gymnasthics never pleased me. So I stop doing it. But I didn't gave up -I have given up a long time ago. The first day without gymnasthics was rare. I felt like crying. I felt like I was useless. Time later I discovered I could do what I wanted to: I could write, draw. Do things I barely couldn't do when I was into gymnasthics.

Marta has also been skating since she was a little girl. She has stop doing it this year, with fifteen, like me. I think she thinks the same as I do.
We were both losing life training. Some way, I didn't know who I was until I gave gymnasthics. When I was into it, I just was "Andrea the winner", but I didn't win anything. Now I've won some much more: I've won time for my own.

This is my little sister. She's a dancer. She's lucky she doesn't compete.

New blog

Well I guess here we are!
The most important thing about ourselves is that we like photography so much and we hope you like our photos too!
Nice to meet you,

Marta and Andrea