I've been posting and curating here for a while, but I haven't taken the time to introduce myself yet. So here we go.
I'll start by telling you what I'm passionate about and what I'm planning to be writing about from now on.
Photography and Bicycles.
Just wanted to send this out to the universe before start talking more about my journey. No more rants and complains from me.
My Journey so far.
Me and my older daughter Gabi.
So, My name is Daniel Nobre and I am a 39 year old architect, photographer, dad of daughters, bicycle enthusiast and archviz artist.
I was born in Brazil, lived there for 34 years, but these days I call Calgary home.
Although I am an architect, I have never actually worked as an architect. My interest and passion was 3D visualization, 20 years ago, and I ran a small 3D visualization business for almost 10 years before burning out and giving up. It was just too tough during 2008 economic crisis and I found a new passion on photography.
After leaving my own company, I worked as a photographer for almost 4 years, starting as a family and children's photographer and becoming a ful time wedding photographer. I ended up photographing almost 150 weddings in 3 years and made enough money to be able to immigrate to Canada. You can check some of my work here at www.danielnobre.com. Website was never finished.
We arrive in Calgary, from Brazil's nice weather and beautiful beaches, in may 2011 and I began working right away as a Archviz artist. I wasn't ready for photography here, on a different language and culture. Things went really well from there. We bought a house, I left my company, we had our second daughter, 12 years later, I started a new business with a Canadian friend and now I’m slowly returning to photography as a hobby and side business. Quite a journey.
And what winter cycling has to do with all this?
Cycling is something I’m truly passionate about. I love to talk about it and discuss ideas around urban cycling and commuting.
After immigrating from warm Brazil I had to learn how to bike here in Calgary. Temperatures get really cold during winter and It also gets dark and icy.
My first commute was when I took this picture. It was -25C, there were lots of snow and my commute was 19km each.
So do you think this is crazy? It is crazy to Immigrate from beautiful Brazil to also beautiful, but very cold Calgary and bike to work on these crazy temperatures?
I will write a lot more about these 2 journeys. Photography and my long and cold Bike commute adventures.
Thanks for reading.