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Photo-a-day challenge. 2021 Edition #162

I really have abandoned the blog.

I’m sorry about it but I’m also stuck with it and I don’t know what to write each day.

Yes out of quarantine now but life is not that eventful at the moment. 

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Photo-a-day challenge. 2021 Edition #145

Tuesday. I finally started to tune back in my regular rhythm. This morning I went to a coffee shop and set down and did soma planning. 

I now have a new list of things to do, in order to get back in track with pitching to brands.

I am also in the process of planning an editorial with my hairdresser to submit to magazines. 

It’s very exciting!!

Tomorrow I need to do some shopping in the morning but then I will update my pitch visuals and also put new photos on my website. I also need to plan some new content for instagram. 

It finally feels like things returning normal. I miss normal.

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Photo-a-day challenge. 2021 Edition #174

Yesterday was a sunny and a warm day. Happy summer finally.

I had promised my aunt way before covid that I was going to visit her so around 11 am I was on my way. I made my way there and we went for a walk, stopped at a coffee shop for lattes and returned home for a late lunch. 

The food was amazing, wine was amazing, company way outstanding. I had a wonderful day.

My productivity levels are zero but I am fulfilled. I received much needed family time. my soul fed a little bit. 

Afterwards i stopped by a couple of shops and returned home around 8 pm.

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Photo-a-day challenge. 2021 Edition #173

What did I do productive on this tuesday you ask? 

Absolutely nothing. Now 2 days later I can’t even remember. 

I still have tons of photos to edit. Things that I need to sort in order. I have major block. I’m procrastinating. I am doing everything else but actually nothing. Even the photo of the day is a random out of the window shot, just so that I have done it for the day.

God help me!

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Photo-a-day challenge. 2021 Edition #172

Monday.

It’s funny how it keeps coming around so fast but in the moment it never knows to past.

Today was a strange day. I had a few stressful moments in the morning that I encountered, still slightly unsure about how to go around it. But it will resolve eventually.

I transferred some photos from laptop to storage and from camera to laptop. I will start editing soon.

I edited one from an older shoot and posted on instagram.

Later in the day we went to the cinema for the first time in such a long while. We are still not fully out of lockdown but most things returned to how it was before pandemic, only with masks. 

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Photo-a-day challenge. 2021 Edition #171

Today was a super busy day. I was wrecked at the end of it. 

My hairdresser organized an editorial for a magazine submission. He had planned a team to get together. Two models, make up artist, hair assistant and me. There were 4 looks to complete and shoot. They started at 10 am and I arrived there at 12 pm. We finished at 6 pm. 

It was such a fun day and I got pretty cool shots but I was so exhausted at the end of it.

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Photo-a-day challenge. 2021 Edition #170

It’s the weekend and I had so much planned to do. 

I got up, sorted my hair and then I went to meet a friend from Uni that I haven’t seen in such a long while. We had coffee first then moved on somewhere else to have lunch. 

I came back home around 3 pm. Rested a little and then went to supermarket to grab pizza for friends.

We arranged to have a game night with them long before we got sick. Now we’re better we can socialize again. They came to ours around 8 pm. We ate pizzas, drank beer and played card games. They left around midnight. I charged my cameras batteries for the next day’s shoot.

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Photo-a-day challenge. 2021 Edition #169

I haven’t left home yesterday. It was a rainy weather that also has continued today.

It poured down heavily today and I already missed the sunny days and 25 degrees from 3 days ago.

I didn’t do much this morning, cleaned the dishes and played on my ipad. I also did some editing on a photo I shot a few weeks back. Then we went out to shops to grab a few ingredients for lunch.

After we had lunch and watched a film, mum called and we watched an episode of a tv show together. Now I will go and have a shower. then probably have some dinner. 

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Photo-a-day challenge. 2021 Edition #168

This was yesterday. Another day that I skipped the blog. I’m not even sure why I’m still keeping it. Yes it was for the challenges I take on through out the year. But the only one I am actually doing daily is the photo challenge. Everything else I am slacking with. The gratitude jar, I haven’t done it in 3 days, Weekly mindfulness challenge, for many months now I haven’t done it. And the blog is also not regular.

I have fallen of the wagon. I know i am the only one who can keep herself in check and get back to it. But I’m also so disconnected. 

Anyway, at least I haven’t given it up. I’m still going on with it. I will keep it up a year, that was my promise. 

Yesterday, I took on another challenge. It was a different one. My friend in Germany, challenged me again for a Random Item Photo. I used nail polish, food and paper in combination this time. So I was busy with that during the day, shooting it, editing and sharing it to instagram took time.

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Photo-a-day challenge. 2021 Edition #167

Wednesday.

I took another long walk today. I found out from the weather forecast that the rain is coming for the next 10 days so I thought I’d make most of the sun.

As for later on we invited some friends over for barbecue but we rained on so had to move it upstairs.

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Photo-a-day challenge. 2021 Edition #166

I am failing at this terribly. It’s tuesday’s photo. I skipped it and I am uploading it today.(friday)

So not much to say really except that it has been busy with so many different things. We have done cleaning today and then just ate pizza whilst watching Lupin. 

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Photo-a-day challenge. 2021 Edition #149

I’m having a really stranger day. I was supposed to work and somethings gone weird and work got stopped half way. And I haven’t heard from it any update so it looks like I’m losing tomorrow’s work and pay too :(

I came home and my partner is not feeling well. I’ve spent the afternoon trying to make him feel better and get him recover. 

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Photo-a-day challenge. 2021 Edition #148

I had a great day yesterday. I went out with a friend and spent most of the day enjoying the sun.

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Photo-a-day challenge. 2021 Edition #147

I think today’s highlight was the fact that I finally got the first dose of covid vaccine. I’m happy that things are going forward on the road to recovery.

I didn’t really do anything else today, other than taking care of some chores and finishing the day with a skype call with my friend in Germany.

I am meeting another friend tomorrow to visit Tate Modern after nearly two years of not visiting any galleries or museums. So looking forward to that.

off to bed now.

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Photo-a-day challenge. 2021 Edition #146

Today I had to buy bigger size trousers. I’ve never been this heavy before. I think combination of unemployment, lockdown and poor mental health can be held responsible for my weight gain. Every day I am coming up with the decision to do something about it but so far I haven’t been successful. This has been affecting me a little bit.

Anyway, I’m pretty sure once I start getting more active and busy I will have this problem solve itself.

Later in the day we had some friends come over for a game night and it was actually so much fun.