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Where I’ve been…

February 1, 2018 | 1 Comment

 

I wrote my first ever blog post over 10 years ago and have never ever not posted for longer than a month since… well it’s been 9 months since my last post here which is very fitting as the main reason for the radio silence took 9 months to “create” as well….. 🙂

 Exactly a year ago a today I posted this picture and screamed my happiness from the roof:

And today I have a 7-month old daughter who crawls, eats with teeth and even started babbling a few words….. I ll save you from the million wonderful cliches filling my head about my wonderful baby and rather I gathered some of my favourite photos from these past 9 months to tell the story for me… 🙂 and with that I am super happy to be back in the blogosphere and I look forward to sharing all the beautiful weddings I photographed this year with you all. (there’s no rest for the wicked :))

Photo by Ana Lui

Photo by Ana Lui

Photo by Ana Lui

Photo by SayCute

Photo by Jessica Quadra 
Photo by Jessica Quadra 
Photo by Jessica Quadra 
Photo by Jessica Quadra  Photo by Peaches & MintPhoto by Peaches & MintPhoto by Collect Moments

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Tulum Travel Guide

February 22, 2016 | Leave a Comment

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 Heyhey! It’s been two weeks since my holiday to Tulum and I’d love to share with you how it all went down… When I researched this vacation I haven’t found as much information as I’d have liked so my hope is that this might help some of you planning your perfect mexican vacation, because you should definitely go!!! 🙂 I absolutely loved Mexcio and Tulum, you all know I’m a chronic wanderluster, but there are only very few places I’d go back (vs trying out a new location) and Tulum is certainly one of these! We only spent 8 days under the mexican sun, but here is everything I’ve seen and learned along the way:

Tulum is a place to visit if you’re in for an active vacation! There are so many things to do, but you can also be perfectly content not doing anything at all if that makes sense. The Caribbean sea is just gorgeous and the sand has this unreal white color to it. Tulum is often called the Ibiza of the Caribbean and I can certainly see why! (and no, it’s not because of the parties! there isn’t much of those… 🙂 ) Juice bars, yoga retreats and healthy new age restaurants are all the craze in the fitness conscious fashion crowd here, while at night the jungle side snizzles with lights and exotic, megacool restaurants. If  not Ibiza, it could also be the Williamsburg of the Caribbean. We traveled there early February and had some beautifully sunny days, some crazy windy days and a few cloudy ones too… I hear April/May is the best time to go in case you’re wondering! 🙂

Where to stay

Luckily Tulum has something for everyone and mass tourism is relatively still unknown here. There are no huge hotels here, only small chic beach cabanas and bungalows.

We stayed at Rosa Del Viento which is at a quiet part of the beach. Pros would be the amazing views from our ocean view bungalow, the super friendly staff and the prettiness of the beach here as its just on the edge of the Sian Kaan nature reserve. Negative would be that you have to walk a few kilometres to get close to the bars and restaurants, but if you rent a bike its all very easy peasy and taxis are cheap too.

A few other hotels that caught my attention were Be Tulum, Sanara (amazing health food restaurant and yoga room) and Mi Amor.

Where to eat

Here comes one of my main cons of Tulum, eating out every day can be very very expensive (compared to Spanish standards at least) and finding authentic Mexican food can be a challenge. We went all the way to Tulum town to try the real Mexican flavours at Don Cafeto… NOTHING fancy, just great food and authentic barrio feeling, we also loved spending time at a live music concert in the garden of Batey.

On the beach we loved the atmosphere of Cenzontle, Casa Banana and Gitano but spent one of the coolest evening in the small taco beach shack of La Eufemia.

What to do

One of the reasons for me to go back will be to go diving, which I didn’t get a chance to do this time, although it’s supposed to be amazing.

We did visit one of the cenotes (underground river) which was one of the highlights of the trip by far. These fresh water lakes and caves are part of an almost 7000km underground river network, parts of which they are just discovering now, prehistoric rock formations and cool animal life… we visited Sac Actun which was amazing and I’d very highly recommend. It was just me & mr with a guide, no other tourists so it was a very unique experience!

One day we rented bikes and rode all the way to the Mayan ruins on the beach which is a must, after which we climbed the pyramid of Koba and bartered with the sellers on the little artesanal shops on the side of the rode for an amazing black dream catcher! 🙂

For shopping I’d definitely recommend getting into Tulum town as the selection and prices are much better than that on the beach.

Don’t miss out on the amazing yoga classes either, I had one in Yaan in a treehouse in the jungle, pure bliss!

Apart from that our run in on the beach in the sunrise was a definite highlight that set the tone for the whole vacay. 🙂

That’s it! Now pack and go! 🙂 Any questions just let me know in your comments

p.s: here is a teaser of an engagement session I photographed while in Tulum… 🙂 can’t wait to show you the rest!

p.p.s: anyone getting married in Mexico? TAKE ME WITH YOU! 😀

tulum engagement session

 

 

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Travel Dates 2016

January 25, 2016 | Leave a Comment

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I am in full blown travel planning mode! Flight tickets, hotels, transfers, weddings, shoots, vacations, girl weekends it´s all happening and I´m excited to be EN ROUTE again soon! (not that I was sitting too long in one place in the last few months either, but that´s another story) Below you´ll find my travel dates for 2016 so far, if we happen to be at the same place holla at me, I´ll have some time to take on a few portrait, engagement or family shoots at each location! See you soon?!

February – Tulum (Mexico) & London (UK)

April – Valencia (Spain) & Brussels (Belgium)

May – Budapest, Szeged (Hungary) & Ibiza

August – Budapest (Hungary)

 

 

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2015 the year of balance

January 9, 2016 | Leave a Comment

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Today is the day I officially started missing the wedding season! It’s been two and a half months since my last wedding and while that time was productively spent with delivering all the photographs to my clients, attending workshops, shooting family and engagement sessions, designing albums and meeting new dream clients for 2016, I miss all the excitement of the summer months. While my first wedding of 2016 is still a few months away, one of my new year goals is to catch up on my blogging in the meantime and show you most of my beautifully awesome 2015 weddings (and just a few more from 2014! :)). 

Above is just the tiniest peek of what’s to come here on the blog… 2015 you really were a good one, and I have this group of beautiful people and the top notch vendors I got to work with to thank for that so THANK YOU… I sincerely loved each and every one of my weddings and each and every one of my couples!!! From small elopements to huge celebrity weddings and everything else in between it’s been a rainbow of crazy cool weddings for my crazy cool international couples from all over the world.

2015 was an amazing year in so many ways, I got to really enjoy my work as a wedding photographer and I flew all over from San Francisco to Norway, from Antibes to Formentera and I got to spend quite some time on my beloved Ibiza as well, while I got just the right balance of being away and enjoying life at home in Barcelona, which was something I have struggled sometimes in the past. I spent much more time with my family, my friends and focused on getting much more quality time with them as well… I enjoyed long afternoons horse riding and way too early mornings boxing and running, started painting a little and enjoyed some creative personal projects which truly helped creating that much sought after balance in my life that creative female entrepreneurs so often lack.

I also completely rebranded En Route, my website and the blog and have turned my Instagram into my visual diary.  Another huge business progress was that I seriously started shooting analogue film and tried different formats and cameras which now I fully integrated in my work flow, so yes, I am officially a  film photographer now and it makes me very happy to say that… this was a big step that I wanted to make from day one, so it is a big accomplishment that I got to do it and I have so many people that helped me get there, Pia, Birgit, Isabelle, Siegrid, Miguel, Ana… thank YOU!!!

I have not only learned a lot but started passing on what I know as well and as a result I got to present on two marketing workshops and started some private mentoring too which is something I am hoping aiming to do a lot more of this year. While 2015 was an awesome year, a fun year, a balanced year, 2016 is screaming for more. BIG GOALS, BIG DREAMS, BIG CHALLENGES…. I want to push my boundaries, I want to stretch and go for it and I want to  have the best time doing it… my list of goals is very long, the longest I ever did actually and even if I won’t get to cross each one of them off, I rather try and fail than never have tried. 2016, let’s go and kick 2015’s butt!

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From the other side

December 9, 2015 | 5 Comments

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We photographers like to hide behind our cameras and can easily fall into the mistake of photographing beautiful memories for everyone but ourselves. I have recently made a conscious effort  to start documenting not only other people’s lives but my own as well and have revamped my instagram account to be not only the reflection of my business but a little visual diary of my life as well.

As a wedding photographer I am fortunate to have amazing photographer friends and Ana Lui has been one of my oldest friends in the industry. We met almost four years ago and have worked together, explored Ibiza and even held a workshop together.  Her work is totally fabulous and I couldn’t be more proud to call her a friend, so when we decided with my boyfriend to get dolled up (well the dolled up bit was just me :)) and jump in front of the camera I knew I wanted it to be her on the other side of the lens.

Photographer friends, if you haven’t had a shoot with your love recently, I cannot recommend it enough. It’s such an inspiring experience to be on the other side and it gave me such a deeper understanding of my clients. While photo shoots are always fun, the preparation can be overwhelming, where, when and don’t even get me started on the what to wear! (a topic I am planning a blog post for you soon!)

Our third anniversary with my boyfriend was the perfect occasion to organise this shoot in Ibiza, where the light is always magical, the beaches are empty in the winter and where we spend quite a lot of time with my man every year (major plus that Ana lives here too :)).

I literally started crying when I received these images… they turned out even better than I have imagined and it reinforced that beautiful feeling in me that is the core of my job… being able to provide the same kind of joy and long lasting memories for my clients. Thank you Ana for these amazing photographs and thank you Diva Borrelli for beautifying me for this session, but most of all, thank you Alex for doing this for me… I know you’re not a natural poser like me, but I know that together we’ll treasure these photos together. I love you.

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