25 +1 facts about me .

HeyHey! 

I'm back! I mean, back here, not that i've been anywhere lately, just school house school house and school again. Pretty boring? It's just the fact that on Wednesday there will be a meeting between teachers and parents to look at marks, talk about attitude and other things. So all my teachers just pretend to put as many oral and written testes as they can in two weeks, letting us dying on our books!

Basically this post i'm making today is to introduce other sides of me that ofc you can't see/know through this internet page. So here they are, 26 facts about me!

► I can't sing without my headphones. If i hear my voice, or i know someone could hear me while i'm singing alone in my bedroo...i'll quite immediately! 

► I've never skipped/been late on purpose at school until when i turned 18. In this way i could sign my own autorization without falsifying my parents' signatures. I've done like this because I sucked at copying signatures. 

► When it comes to left and right it always takes me a couple of secs to realize which one is left or right. For the same reason i have problem memorizing the translation of them in the other languages i study. It's not a problem ot anything else, it just doesn't come immediately.

► I'm a talkative person. Sometimes while i'm talking i forget what i'm saying. I starts saying things like ''so...that's why...i mean...don't really know how to say...ehm...yeah...'' and after repeting them a couple of them i confess i forget what i was saying.

► I talk so much my friends have the bad habit to stop listening to me while i'm talking because they're tired to hear me.

► I've been in a distance relationship with a dutch guy of my age for two years, and i regret no one of the moments i spent with him. 

► The 'RS' at the end of the nickname i use (more or less) for every social network/websites, stands for Ringo Starr. I was and i still am pretty obsessed with the Fab4...mostly known as The Beatles. My   favourite one as you can see was the drummer.

► The first cat i got was a grey pussy called Zoe. She arrived at christmas and we thought she was a 'she'. But when it arrived the moment to sterilize my cat, well the vetinarian ended up castrating my animal. And that's how we discovered my cat was a 'he' and not 'she'. Now he's called Zorba.

► I had lots of gold fishes we were used to buy at the local fair we have in my city on the 5th of October. All of them were dying after one year. They started living four years more just when we decided to change name.

► Althought i'm Italian (and Italy is famous for good food) I'm really bad at cooking. My pasta sucks, i can't cook anything, i'm terrible !

► I like order, but my bedroom it's a mess.

► I'm 1.70m (it should be 67 inches...more or less) and i'm not thin. I consider myself quite chubby, and that's why i've done several diets. I'm currently in one, and i lost 5 kgs !

► I used to HATE shopping. I like it now, but not that much, still have some problem when it comes to spend money (i'm a bit stingy but i'm solving this out ahah)

► My favourite food is ice cream. I could eat ice cream everyday at every time.

► Behind my bedroom's door there are lots of papers with quotes and sentences from songs and books that i like. 

► I hate fish, just with the smell of it i have nausea. I also do not like cream and whipped cream, and this is why i rarely eat cakes at bday parties, and i don't drink sparkling stuff (no coca cola, sprite etc.). I lately started drinking beer when i was in Germany and i liked it, althought i can't drink a whole can/bottle of it.

► I do not eat gum. When people discover this when they know me a bit better, they look at me like if i'm an alien ahah

► My biggest dream is to travel the whole world.

► My foot size it's 39 (IT) and, as my size, it's bigger than my friends one. For this reason it annoyes me to give clothes to anyone, i'm not used to it.

► My favourite make up product is lipstick 

► I keep every airplanes tickets and bday cards i have. 

► Althought i'm 18, i'm still afraid of darkness. I've always had this fear. It's not darkness itself, just the fact that i can't see/know what's in it.

► I'm a scout (not the stereotype of boy scout we see in movies; i've never sold biscuits and stuff). Here they're pretty cool tbh.

► I'd like to have my own photography blog but i have no clue of how to make it

► I have several tastes of incesce. There's always a different parfume in my bedroom.

► I have at least one cup of tea everyday, sometimes even two.

Hope you discovered something interesting about me and that you enjoyed reading. And now that i've told you some personal stuff it's time to introduce my face to you!

So face, this is my blog. Blog, this is my face, hope you two will see eachother again soon, 

you know, just to avoid shyness ;)

My photography story .

I do not consider myself a photographer. I don't have a personal facebook page or a personal website, i think i'm not that good and famous to do that. This is why i don't understand why people that just buy a good camera just feel like they must have their name written on pictures that represents nothing (as lookbook with friends) and when they hit 100 likes on facebook on some of their ''artistic pictures'' they think that is time to create their own page to sadisfied all their fans!

In my opinion...this is not how it should work. I'm okay with people that buy SLR cameras, and i like the fact they try to use them as much as they can. I think that those people, at the same time, connect the idea of a good camera with the hability of a photographer. 

The pictures are the result of both; camera and who's behing the camera. Starting with this idea i approached to the world of photography. 

Everything started when a friend of mine, Ilaria, used to upload really good pictures on Netlog, and since the fact we all wanted to look good on social networks' pictures, we went out once with her to have nice portraits to upload! When i saw her camera i fell in love with it. It was much bigger than my parents one (an average compact camera), I noticed how good the pictures were in terms of quality, everything was looking way better on the screen with that camera. I started dreaming about getting one but that was when i was 14. After two years, in which i used to take macro pictures on every single family trip and than modify them using 'picnick' online, i finally got my Canon 1000D. That was an awesome christmas. I started taking pictures everywhere. I tried to avoid pictures of myself in the mirror holding my camera or pictures of friends of mine while they were in unnatural position, dressed in a better way than the average. 

After one year i decided that i didn't want to keep taking pictures with automatic settings and that's when i started following some lessons made by a photography association (Contrasti). Those 10 evenings helped me a lot in a technical way but also when it came to understand what kind of pictures i like to take.

I worked a couple of time in discos for events, same for big birthdays...but it just does not satisfy me enough. Yesterday i was working in Perugia at an 18bday party. Well the picture i like the most is one of the cake. I can't stand average birthday pictures with people with fake smile on, just standing there hoping for me to catch their best expression. Althought this is the kind of photo i do not like, is the easiest one to gain money, and that's why i accept everytime people ask me to do that. Oh i forget to say, i also took pictures for a football team for a couple of months...and that was sooo boring. 

In any case, i realised what i like to take pictures of when i was doing the things i love the most in the world; travelling. The lovest thing i could do while i'm abroad is to visit some place i've never been before taking pictures with all the kalm of the world, studying what i like the most about that place and than trying to capture it. 

I do love street photography. From the details of the cities, to the compositions of shapes you can find in the organization of a shop, the expression of the faces of subjects i don't know and i never will...eveyrthing looks so perfect and fascinating without being forced, it's all natural. 

This is what i like about photography; find harmony where you can.

I'm going to post below my favourite picture. I took this photo one year ago while i was in summer holiday in Holland, more precisely on Utrecht. I wanted to focus on a bike wheels but i had the luck to capture the exact moment in which every wheels of the street were on the same line. This creates this tunnel of circles that i absolutely love. I'm so proud of this work of mine!

My Flickr; http://www.flickr.com/photos/federicaz/

I have a Canon 1000D
Lenses; 18-55mm (Canon)
70-300mm (Sigma)


I'm going to buy my first tripod on amazon soon, just a cheap one (it's the first) and i'm thinking about a 50mm for portraits or a big flash for when i work at parties

Hey hey !

I can't believe i finally started writing! I honestly thought i was never going to do this.

Let's start with a presentation (not too full, not a small introductions ;) ).

My name is Federica and as you can tell from it i'm italian. I live in the center of my country, so i'm not any close to big cities (Rome is the closest 2h30 with car) and in my region we don't have sea! yay!

I'm 18 and on the 12nd of September i started my fifth and last year of high school. You may think i had to repeat the year, well no i've never had it's just that school in italy is one year longer! If you're shocked for this well wait to hear this; I don't have a proper weekend because we have always had school on saturday!

My high school focuses on the study of languages and that's why at the end of my 5 years i'm supposed to be talking in a good way english, french, german and italian ofc. I tried myself to leanr dutch and spanish but..yeah i was not that constant with the study, but i think that, at least for spanish, i could have make it.

For this interest i have in language i'm also a travels lover! I like travelling more than anything else and i think that to leave in Europe is the best thing that ever happened to me because i can fly everywhere and see a thousand things without even being on the other side of the globe. I've also been there..in Australia i mean. Last summer i went there and it was amazing. The things that i like the most about travelling, except for the new places to see and the new faces of people, are the pictures i take. Yes, i like photography, I got a Canon1000D (3 years old..i love that baby!) and every picture i take is a memory and i can't delete any of them (and that's why i finally bought an external memory ahah).  In my future i see myself teaching italian abroad, probably in Germany, and i'll work hard to do this !!

I'm a really talkative person and i think that it may be cool and usefull to write here what happens in my life and what i think about several topics; i said usefull because i think this is just the most perfect way that i have to wreake out all the thoughts i have in my mind .

And today, 11st October, that's where i start my journey! I'm apoligizing in advance for all the grammar mistakes and all the repetition i'll do but remember...i'm just SUPPOSED to be good at english at the end of school ahah kidding, i also want to improve so please, correct me :)

Remember; Life is a game we play! 

                                             My Flickr;  http://www.flickr.com/photos/federicaz/