I look at those pictures and I just can’t believe that it was me that took them. So many years have pass, so many things have happened. It has been a wild journey since my younger self took those shots till today. So many steps of the journey that I had to take in order to become the one I am now. Actually those are his photographs. I am a different person now and a different photographer for sure. I am trying to remember who I really was back then but it is so hard. My archives give me a hint but it is not enough and my memory is not as strong as I would like.
I was in my thirties and everything looked possible. I had a business that provided for me and at the same time was covering my creative needs (more or less), I was living at the heart of a city that I loved and I had my friends to be there for me, as an ideal extended family. The future looked promising and nothing worried me too much. I secretly believed that I was a genius photographer (I wasn’t) and that anyone who does’t acknowledge that simple truth, is obviously malicious and spiteful (some of them were indeed, some others had every reason to dispute me). I was mostly living my life without longterm plans (I still do that in another level) and never doubted that I will always find my way around problems.
I had things sorted out and I just had to be consistent on the route that I had taken. An unexpected burst of anger for an insignificant reason, was the negative breakthrough that made me think that I was probably on the wrong route. The dream life that I had created for myself was slowly suffocating me and it was time to find a way out before I start hitting my head on the walls of my amazing studio!
For one more time I took my decisions intuitively and in a few months I had left my studio and I had started a new carrier as a travel photographer, replacing one dream life with another! I wonder though, if I had a magical time capsule allowing me to write a letter to the younger version of myself, what I would have said. Apart from the obvious, buy BTC as soon as it starts trading :), what would have been my advise as an older and wiser (hopefully) version, to my younger and confused self?
The first picture is my entry to the photo quest / still life hosted by the 
I took those shots in 2005-2006 as part of my collaboration with the magazine "Votre Beauté Maison". I edited them in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic. I may have used a couple of them in older posts in hive, during the last six years.
All the pictures and the words are mine.
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