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A mission of a lifetime

They say that a picture is worth a thousand words. For me every image is a story with a start, middle and end. From idea to plan to execution a good image or album describes a journey. We take pictures to capture a moment in time and go back to them to experience the memories of the journey we took before and after taking that picture.

As this is my first blog post I thought it would be a good idea to tell you a story about how I started my journey to taking better pictures. The images below show a short trip I went on back in April 2014. Me and my dad went to Bergamo, Italy to watch the Monza Rally, a rally race on the Monza race track in Italy, we rented a car and drove around the surrounding towns to experience as much of the environment as we could in the short period of time that we were there. 

By this point I was already very much into photography and film making however the concept of being limited by time never occurred to me as I was only doing local work. The trip to Italy really opened my eyes to what it takes to take a good picture. Since then I have been taking more time thinking about the image and taking less pictures limiting myself and pushing myself to take a few good pictures rather than loads of crappy ones.

From Bergamo we made our way straight into the mountains. We arrived a day early so we could get our rental car from the airport and discover this beautiful part of northern Italy. 

We took a long route up the mountains and through some awesome valleys to see as much as possible. Once we reached the top of one of the surrounding mountains we had to stop to take some pictures. 

We stayed in a hostel for the night which was an amazing place full of young people visiting for the scenery. The next day we took the lakeside road down toward the Monza race track.