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Austria

I. Facts about Austria Austria, the Alpine country in the southern part of Central Europe, offers an outstanding variation in landscape and scenery; rugged, snowcapped

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Germany

I. Facts about Germany Germany is a diverse country where you can explore stunning landscapes, from rolling plains and marvelous mountains to lush forests. You

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Brazil

I. Facts about Brazil Brazil is the largest country in South America, the fifth-largest country by area and the sixth most populated country worldwide. Mass

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Malaysia

I. Facts about Malaysia Malaysia is a very popular Southeast Asian travel destination, home to a modern cities, older historical sites, a cultural melting pot

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The first time we undertook a long-haul flight ✈

The first time we undertook a long-haul flight ✈️ with multiple young children was to Bali. Back then we were blessed with three kids, Eashan 4 yrs old, Shail 2 yrs old and our baby Tanisha 9 months. 👩‍👧‍👦
We flew from Amsterdam to Singapore (12,5 hrs) and transferred to a connecting flight to Bali (2,5 hrs). The journey had been tough with an active toddler, another toddler completely uncomfortable in an airplane and a crying baby.😭
Upon arrival at our hotel in Bali, my husband and me were exhausted, 😅while our sons couldn’t stop running around!Bali 🏝was surprisingly untouched and pure in many places, even though tourism has taken a giant leap the past decades. The island is drenched in culture and religion in a peaceful manner.🍀‘ A symphony of rustling leaves, croaking frogs and singing birds blows softly throughout flooded rice fields. Endless tints of green are splashed in humid breeze upon Bali’s blessed nature.🌾
Even when not born here, Bali somehow can make you easily feel rooted in its soil.’What seemed to be tough back then at the start of this journey, has become so easy now. I wouldn’t bother about flying with three small kids for a second nowadays! ✈️
Did you feel challenged before by what nowadays seems so easy?
More importantly, all the effort was worth our holiday! We explored so many beautiful places in Bali. More in my next post! ⏭

That time when the sun paints beautiful colors i

That time
when the sun paints
beautiful colors
in long abundant strokes
on the blended canvas
of sea and heaven.And we just stand there,
at the edge of the sea.
The ever blowing wind
moves the color palette of heaven,
while salty sand seeps into the water.We just stand here
shells humming their songs
and the day
slowly surrenders to the night

Inch by inch we conquered our place for lunch. 🍴🍔
We ignored our shame since the area was clearly marked as ‘do not enter’, the chains ⛓wrapped around the furniture spoke volumes.
We wrestled ourselves into the chain tangle ⛓ to obtain a chair 🪑and smiled friendly to every passerby, pretending we hadn’t noticed the signs. 🙈🤷🏻‍♀️I kept telling myself I was granted permission by the owner of the snackbar next door, who told me this restaurant had been closed for ages. 🛑Ah there he was, two trays full of the most delicious fries, hamburgers and milkshakes. 🍟 We enjoyed a lovely lunch at Goes’ harbor site.
It would have been perfect if the dog 🐶 owner of the dog who conquered this place just before us, would have cleaned up. 💩A getaway in own country 🧳during strict lockdown and curfew; but lunch outside. I insisted. Otherwise I might as well stay at home. I tried to remember the ever- changing orders of my kids, ordered alone while they stood outside, watched them with one eye, asked my eldest kids to help and hurried back.Beautiful premises surround the centrally located, picturesque harbor of Goes. 💦
Goes is a great city in Zeeland for shopping 🛍 so I heard, whenever there is no lockdown.
It used to be a trading city for beer, wood and gras. There is a big market square with a beautiful church. ⛪️ In summary, Goes is just lovely to stroll around. Even more after the lockdown I guess.Also, I changed our IG handle ; this is to make the name similar to our blog soon to be launched!

Wishing you a wonderful Easter 🐣 weekend!!!Wh

Wishing you a wonderful Easter 🐣 weekend!!!When I showed this photo to my youngest kids, they actually believe the bunny had been standing next to them!
Never let go of your imagination and dreams 🧚🦄❤️.

The Gothic town hall in Middelburg dates from the

The Gothic town hall in Middelburg dates from the 15th century and is one of the prettiest gothic buildings in the Netherlands. 🌆I planned to make a photo on the big square in front of the town hall, which would be pretty easy to do with my kids. However, I totally forgot about the big market each Thursday on this square!
In order to capture the architectural grandeur I would somehow have to avoid the busy market place.
While I juggled with my camera 📸 and tripod for a decent photo, market on the left and pedestrians 🚶‍♀️and bikes 🚲 everywhere, my two little kids suddenly felt a desire to walk off and my boys started teasing each other.Which is totally understandable, although I refused to understand anything at that moment. 😫‘Watch Ishita, watch Rushil, stop teasing each other!’ The ‘mommy-he-said- this-and-he-did-that’ continued..Later on, I opened the photo on my computer and I liked it. Here we are, all perfectly aligned, standing straight up as on military command 🪖and complementary to the majestic town hall. An obvious lack of joy which defined that moment. Kids can’t fake fun and it’s actually a precious characteristic they have!A few moments later we were all truly happy eating very fresh fried fish 🐠 from the markets! Ishita accomplished to get a terrible squealing dog’s 🐶toy here, which we had to listen to for the next days.Middelburg is the charming capital city of Zeeburg, which doesn’t feel like a city at all. With over 1200 restored monuments, narrow, winding streets and historical canal houses, it is a lovely city to stroll around. 🌆

Five kids going to school means; three kids at sch

Five kids going to school means; three kids at school. Or less 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦👧👧At least one child will be quarantined, our eldest attends high school only once a week and we have a toddler. I always have kids at home. Thank goodness. I couldn’t bear being without all of them at once, after months of homeschooling.Classes with 20 to 30 kids coming from 20-30 families. The exposure to corona 🦠is inevitable, despite precautions.😷 Poor teachers 👨‍🏫, poor kids. Poor parents.
With one infected person in class, the whole class is quarantined😷 for 10 days (or 5 days with a negative test result at 5th day after exposure). So good they started again! 🤔🤷🏻‍♀️How has the past year been in the Netherlands?
The WHO informed the world January 2020 about the new virus. Our National Institute for Public Heath Health assumed several weeks later, the virus was probably not highly contagious.
On February 27th last year, the first COVID-19 case 🦠was confirmed. Our government didn’t encourage wearing masks at start and declared population immunity as an effective way to prevent spreading. 🤭🤦‍♀️
By the end of March the total number of COVID-19 infections exceeded 10.000 😱, there was a lack of testing capacity, safety measures in hospitals and caring homes were inadequate, hospitals 🏥 were running out of ICU capacity. This was a very hard time for my husband working at ICU and all his colleagues.The complete lockdown started March 15th 2020 until June. Primary schools reopened June 3rd. In July there was a steady increase in infected cases again. 📈
On December 14th a second complete lockdown was announced and still in effect. Masks became compulsory to wear indoors. The primary schools opened recently, February 8th.
On January 23rd the government imposed a curfew to contain the very contagious British variant and the worst riots in 40 years broke out across the country.People get fed up. People act fed up. People break rules. Still, we live in a pandemic. Our world will not be healed through our disbelief, nor through riots or “fighting for freedom.” We all have the responsibility to contain this virus and to beware of our and each other’s health!

I took the kids and went away. 🏃‍♀️This w

I took the kids and went away. 🏃‍♀️This was two weeks ago. I was fed up of our neighbourhood. 🌆 It’s a fine neighborhood, nothing wrong here, we just KNOW it already. We have come to learn every corner, every playground🤾‍♂️, every house, plant and tree these past months. After homeschooling, we would go outside every day, left or right and return. We truly needed a change.I never booked an accommodation without my husband since we got married, so why not start with me and all my kids at once ?😅😂
My husband had to work, there was a school holiday and I needed confirmation the world 🌍 was bigger than our neighborhood. I think I still need confirmation the world is not flat. 🤔🤔I booked an apartment in Zeeland in a rural 🚜🌾setting, packed sheets, towels, 🚿🛀clothes, detergent, sponges, 🧽our breakfast, Nutella, sausages 🌭, isn’t it better to stay at home 😰😩??!!, our dinner meals 🥘 and pizzas 🍕, toothpaste and shower gel. After all, we would have a getaway during a strict lockdown and curfew starting at 9 pm.The car 🚘 was fully stuffed, we waved dad 🙋‍♂️goodbye and off we went. Ishita tried to grab the clutch only three times and then luckily fell asleep.😴 Our youngest became carsick 🤒 when we were almost there and everyone was a bit fed up after two hours’ drive.Zeeland, the land in the sea, turned out to be such a delight. Endless coastlines with golden dunes, sandy beaches, ocean views without a horizon and great sunsets! 🏝🌊🌞🌅

Let me take you along on our winter journey in the

Let me take you along on our winter journey in the Netherlands 🇳🇱 throughout the years!Please look us up on YouTube : mytravelfamily). Note: IG blocked our video here, I hope temporarily due to copyright infringement, the music was purchased royalty free @Apple! Apparently royalty free does not mean free from copyright !!!😖 For now the video is only on YouTube 😊We have been in our home country every year during winter, since my husband working as an intensivist either had to work at Christmas 🎄 or at New Year’s Eve.We compiled this video with iMovie, which saved it as a .MOVfile. This type of file can’t be posted on Instagram. It had to be converted to mp4 with Adobe Media Encoder... no wonder it took us days and days ! 😅😅 I will try to make our next video’s in Adobe Premier Pro, seriously the information is dazzling at start! Every video I made before was with an uncomplicated app: Magisto ( which doesn’t save in 4K quality, but in full HD).On the other hand...if someone had told me years ago I would have the IG account I have now, I wouldn’t have believed it! So, as long as you continue, persist and insist, little steps each time...you will get there!#winterview #snowwalk #snowontrees #snowlover #snowfun #macsinstatribe #winterscape #winterseason #ourwinter #magicmoment#coldseason #wintertime #beautifulwinterday #wintertimes #sunnywinterday #wintertimefun #winterfun #winterfun🌸 #winterfun🌼 #kidsinsnow#snowkids #freshsnow #winterkids#visitholland #visitnetherlands#goplayoutside #familymoments #coldwinter
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Is climate change ⛈obvious and alarming where yo

Is climate change ⛈obvious and alarming where you live? When I was young, winters were always cold 🥶and there was always a thick layer of snow in December.
The past decade however, she negligently shows up in January or February, if she shows up at all. 🤷‍♀️ Nevertheless, we await her arrival eagerly every year and feel so excited when the morning welcomes us in a white world! ❄️This year, temperature dropped more than usual, it felt like minus twenty degrees and we are not used to this anymore. 🥶The shops ran out of food just before the snow arrived, it felt like another pandemic wave!Our youngest 👧🏼had been jumping up and down all morning in front of the window to get out, into the crispy snow and whirling snowflakes. ❄️When she finally got outside, she cried within a few minutes to get back inside 😅. The kids made snow angels, threw snowballs and had fun. I captured two family shots and my hands froze by setting up a tripod.
After an hour, we all returned home except our tough eldest girl who built a huge snow wall with her dad in the backyard. 😎Three weeks later, we reached the highest temperature ever measured on 21st of February; 15 degrees. The temperature fluctuates abruptly nowadays!

When your kids answer with: ‘Pedophile!’ to yo

When your kids answer with: ‘Pedophile!’ to your question about a character starting with ‘P’ , who woke kids up and brought them along to Neverland ... what would you do??I felt personally insulted. Anyone who has read my intro, knows the last time I stared out of my window to spot Peter Pan, I was 15 years.I felt and acted flabbergasted. In a desperate attempt to regain trust, I fired a million questions. Only to discover my kids literally mixed everything up...The spinning wheel, a pumpkin turning into a carriage, the poisonous 🍎 apple in a candy house. A girl in the sea suffered from pain in her legs and Maleficent was out there with long hair.
It was a complete disaster. I declared merciless:’ From now on, we will discuss one fairytale a week!’The mutiny started with my two eldest boys and slowly affected my younger kids. Ishita and Rushil united fiercely in protest, eventhough they didn’t why.With dad working a weekend shift, I needed to be pugnacious.
They: ‘What will we learn from it?’
Me: ‘ You need to develop your fantasy’
They: ‘We have enough fantasy ourselves, why don’t you?’
Me: ‘It is an escape to a imaginative, magical world!’
They: ‘So why can’t you just live in the real world?’
Me:’ It is an essential part of your childhood!’
They: ‘We knew the tales in our childhood! Why do we have to remember now?!
Me, determined: ‘Because I say so!’So we sat down in front of the television. Peter Pan arrived and Wendy woke up. My elderly boys grumbling. My younger kids secretly enjoying Peter Pan, they didn’t want to abandon their big brothers.Later on I asked myself if I had been fair.
We taught them all about drugs, pedophilia, wars, prostitution, murderers and death.
Can I honestly blame them for mistaking my intro of Pan by a pedophile?Can I really expect my teenagers to watch fairytales? The week before they watched Mandalorian, Speed and Annabel!Are the classic fairytales outdated? What do you think? Do we have to open up for a new generation? For some new characterless tales flashing from left to right on screens nowadays without a proper story?
O man, I must be getting old !!!
What do you think???

Allow me to introduce the Corona Warriors, our He

Allow me to introduce the Corona Warriors, our Heroes. 🦸‍♂️A selected group of pioneers, fighting the Corona virus 🦠 like never before.They awakened the moment the curfew ⏰was introduced last Saturday and operate during hours it is in force.They roam the streets ⛔️ at night, screaming, ravaging and rebelling. They light fires 🔥, attack police 👮, loot supermarkets and plunder 🏴‍☠️ whatever crosses their path. Nothing stops them from accomplishing their mission.At the risk of endangering their own life, they smash windows 🪟of local businesses and destroy Corona-infected merchandise. The owners watch from a distance, weeping 😭 in gratitude. They suffered so much financial loss, finally the Heroes came to help!The Heroes 🦸‍♂️ were a godsend in front of hospitals 🏥. After all, this is where the Corona virus blooms and blossoms in all its glory. The broken windows were accepted collateral damage. The health care workers 🧑‍⚕️👨‍⚕️of overcrowded ICU’s were so grateful. At night, when they go home, extra security and police surveillance 👮helps them to get to their car safely, so no virus imagines jumping on!Last week, I rebelled. ‘Let us go to Belgium or Germany, stay one night, enjoy the snow we don’t have, and come back! No one needs to know!’, 🤫🤐 I invented triumphantly. ‘Have you gone mad?!’, my husband replied in disbelief, ‘in case you haven’t noticed, we are in a strict lockdown!’ ‘It is only 3 hours drive,’ I tried,’ it is practically the Netherlands!’ In a final attempt to trigger him to prove masculinity: ‘Why don’t you dare to?’ My husband didn’t even consider replying. I think 🤔such triggers don’t work after 14 years of marriage. 🤷‍♀️Don’t get me wrong, we are grateful, healthy. It just gets on my nerves. Sometimes. Homeschooling five kids and a busy toddler 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 household 🧽, our daily walks around the neighborhood... it’s all fine, but a Lot and Every Day the Same. I read border patrol would send us back and I surrendered. You can’t drive three hours with 6 kids only to return. 🚙Thank god there are True Hero’s. People way more brave and courageous than me. Heroes who will fight until the end. “Free the people!!!"

Imagine pastel coloured houses cozy lined up in an

Imagine pastel coloured houses cozy lined up in an intimate gathering. 🏡🏡Each flaunting it’s own marvelous structure, yet together displaying one cohesive character.
Narrow alleys and wider cobbled streets 🚸humbly laying down at the feet of stately residentials. Their facades are decorated with bountiful ornaments and opulent balconies, 🖼🎍⚜️ their roofs are capped with gracefully vaulted roofs.
A harmonious scenery basking in the valley’s warm lap, while friendly mountains covered with green foliage, hoist themselves up to watch over this gem in the Alps. ⛰The name of this beautiful city is Innsbruck.

‘Mum, take our photo! Take our photo! ‘
👦👦👦Of course I post this photo. 📸 This is one of the rare moments where they actually want their photo to be taken.I post this photo. Eventhough I didn’t have the energy to get my camera out of the bag and shot this on my iPhone.📱The hike had been exhausting, 😓 mainly due to the other two unwilling-to-hike children (they can, but didn’t want to) and little Ishita (who wants to, but can’t hop on for many miles). 🧒
Here are our three fast and strong boys who literally ran 🏃‍♂️🏃🏃‍♂️all the way up. I wished we all were energetic like they are.My boys, they are also the reason it freaks 😳me out to visit so many parks like the Grand Canyon. Eashan, the eldest, loves taking calculated risks, but wouldn’t put himself in danger. I’m talking about Shail, our second son, who is afraid of anything in a theme park; bumper cars, 🚗 carroussels, 🎠🎠 but reckless outdoors! Gyan, our third son, obediently follows his big brother’s example. 😱Shail and Gyan managed to crawl behind the fence at a viewpoint of Twin Peaks, California, while we were watching the younger kids. They managed to climb through a hole in a fence for a waterfall lookout 💦 in Mauritius, eventhough I had warned them not to do so! 😰 They approached cliffs way too close at the Highway Pacific during our roadtrip California, despite our punishments. They moved quickly at the front of a boat amidst wild waves on open sea 🌊 in Mauritius, eventhough I screamed to get back. Recently, when visiting Montserrat in Spain, Shail decided to place one leg over the fence of an abyss. 😱Just thinking about a cruise already freaks me out, images of me jumping after them over the railing appear in my mind!Are you familiar with dare devils? 👹👹And if so, how to stop them??

On the last day of the year, 🎆 many people refl

On the last day of the year, 🎆 many people reflect and reminisce the last year, while I can’t come up with anything worth mentioning.
Was it a good year ? A bad year? How to label 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣0️⃣? Pandemics have always been part of our lives. In earlier days, complete generations and populations were wiped out. 🦠 We are actually lucky science has evolved so much and we have vaccines available.
By no means I want to ignore the enormous grieve and lives lost this year was marked by as well. 🌍 A global awareness arose there is still so much to be grateful for. Which is good. As long as there is life, we will always be inventive and find things to be grateful for. Definitely, we know we should be happy to be healthy and have everything we need. Although we are slightly frustrated we about our restrictions and impossibility to travel. ✈️I am one of those people who is grateful for having spent so much more time with my kids homeschooling. However, let’s be real. Homeschooling 5 kids, household, cooking, laundry and a little one waddling around?👨‍👩‍👦‍👦
My husband did not get to spend more time with us. As a doctor at ICU he has been really busy especially when there was a huge increase in COVID-19 cases in March and now, at this moment. There were weeks he was on duty for 120 hrs. He is working at New Year’s Eve.👨‍⚕️I came across an article by Amy Morin. It resonates with me and offers me goals to achieve. I’ll cite:13 things mentally strong people don’t do:💪🏼
1️⃣ They don't waste time feeling sorry for themselves.
2️⃣ They don't give away their power.
3️⃣ They don't shy away from change.
4️⃣ They don't focus on things they can't control.
5️⃣ They don't worry about pleasing everyone.
6️⃣ They don't fear taking calculated risks.
7️⃣ They don't dwell on the past.
8️⃣ They don't make the same mistakes over and over.
9️⃣ They don't resent other people's success.
🔟 They don't give up after the first failure.
1️⃣1️⃣They don't fear alone time.
1️⃣2️⃣They don't feel the world owes them anything.
1️⃣3️⃣They don't expect immediate results.
Everyone, have a great New Year’s Eve and wonderful 2021! 🎆 May the next year be joyful, healthy, fun and together!

We wish you a merry Christmas and a wonderful new

We wish you a merry Christmas and a wonderful new year!Clinging bells, twinkling lights, dangling decorations, a pile of gifts, the smell of fresh pine needles and enlightened faces under sparkling trees. Rushing back and forth, setting dinner tables, cutlery, plates and glasses... and then, a quick glance at empty chairs for so many amongst us..
However, let’s still count our blessings. Our family, friends, our health, opportunities, the food we have and the house we live in.
Now it is the time to be thankful for what we have and not to grieve about what we lack.
COVID-19 is approaching its end and soon we will have to explain to our kids about the year a pandemic ruled our world.
May the next year be joyful, healthy, fun, blessed and together!!!Love and best wishes from
Anjali, Rakesh , Eashan , Shail , Tanisha, Gyan, Rushil and Ishita.

On a lazy Saturday morning in August at 9.30 am, I

On a lazy Saturday morning in August at 9.30 am, I told my husband we really should go somewhere. Anywhere. Now.
We had just arrived back home from a roadtrip 🚙 to Austria 🇦🇹, Italy 🇮🇹 and France🇫🇷. My husband didn’t have to work and the kids didn’t have to study.📚
We Googled and decided to leave to Cologne for one night. My hub booked a hotel and prepared food for the car ride. By the amount of food 🍱 consumed in our car, I would swear there is a not yet discovered amount of calories being burnt when looking out of car windows. The appetites are insatiable! 😋I took care of the kids, cleaning and packing.🧳 At 1 pm we were ready to go! My husband drove 3 hrs and we arrived around 4.30 pm at our hotel @novotel_koeln_city.
We freshened up quickly and walked to the City centre.Cologne is a charming city founded over 2000 years ago. The first Eau de Cologne ever was produced here in 1709. In the Altstadt, cobbled streets and cozy stores transfer one back to times passed long ago. The most outstanding landmark is a gorgeous Cathedral ⛪️. A long line of people queued up in front with face masks on. We strolled along the medieval market place and marveled at historical buildings 🏙.
It was fairly crowded (a bit too much given the pandemic!) and music bands played at several sights. 🎼🎺
In Second World War this city was amongst the most severely bombed 💣 , nowadays it is restored in original status. You can still see photos of the ravages around the magnificent Cathedral.
We crossed the Cologne bridge, 🌉 which is decorated with colorful locks offers and changes color by night.Somehow the kids always manage to find a playground, 🤾‍♀️⛹️this time it was sliding down a small slope close to the cathedral, probably a hundred times.I’m happy we went , even though it was with very short notice. At this moment, we are in a strict lockdown, schools are closed, only the essential shops are open and we can’t travel abroad. 🔐
COVID-19 🦠must have sensed it’s near to extinction. The virus took a tremendous leap and guaranteed an enormous rise of infections globally. As if it wants to make sure humankind will never forget about its existence. 😢😔🤒

Saint Nicholas. What happens if rooted traditions

Saint Nicholas. What happens if rooted traditions are disrupted? 🚫Abolishing with what we grew up with, affects people as a personal attack. Many will strike back to keep ‘what they deserve’.The United Nations 🇺🇳urged the Netherlands to get rid of Black Pete some years ago. This led to unforeseen events, from understanding to riots and threats.😡Black Pete is a beloved character in a popular Dutch feast day, Saint Nicholas. 🎅
For decades we have celebrated Saint Nicholas’ name day, patron saint to children and honored all through Europe. 🌍
In November, Saint Nicholas departs from Spain with his Pete’s on a steamship, the journey being broadcasted on television.🚢Upon his arrival, large crowds and dressed up children gather. Saint Nicholas disembarks his shop on a white horse, 🐎marching bands play loudly and hundreds of Pete’s dance🕺🏻 and throw candy around!From this moment on, kids can expect to find a small present in their shoe 👟 daily. At night, Saint Nicholas rides on roofs and Pete’s throw presents 🎁 through the chimney. Children sing Saint Nicholas songs at school, make various handicrafts and a great gift for another pupil. The Spanish celebrities visit schools, malls, hospitals, offices! I’m sure you can imagine the ongoing excitement, for adults and children! 🤩Pete’s used to be Black Pete’s, portrayed in blackface makeup. Many people of African descent experienced black Pete as a vestige of slavery. 🙁
I never realized the racism overtone in this tradition. However, I immediately understood: a white man with many black, funny servants. The songs: ‘eventhough I’m black, I mean no harm’. If a feast offends so many people, it’s just not right. We had to either change or abolish it.
However, discussions arose and suddenly all citizens seemed to be divided in two groups; the pro and contra groups. It had a huge impact. It took a long time before ‘Black Pete’ was transformed into ‘Colored Pete’ and ‘Soot Pete’...😃The situation described in general is not restricted to the Netherlands. It’s rather universal, traditions mean so much to people globally!
Did you ever realize the importance of traditions? Has your Christmas tradition changed due to COVID-19?

My girl She sat patiently Still figuring out if

My girl
She sat patiently
Still figuring out if she liked this or not.
While I painted her in colors
bought at a cheap drugstore years ago.She was friendly,
had a break with popcorn in between shooting.
She wondered if the results would be nice.My girl
slowly drawn out of her childhood
by the persistent hands of time.
She enters the colourful stage,
a bit before puberty opens it gates.
Slowly the awareness seeps in
she decides her own colours in life.Have you ever tried to photograph something totally different than you are used to? It’s a challenge! First I asked my eldest girl if she was ok with some creative makeup and a photoshoot.I googled ‘extreme make-up ‘ and painted Tanisha’s face with makeup 💄 from our Halloween box. Her little sister sat next to her and wanted it all as well 😂. In between the photos obviously, my boys were hungry 😋 and made a mess. I’m glad I’ve learned not to be bothered by mess anymore ( for a short period)! 😅

This photo was taken right after and just before t

This photo was taken right after and just before they slipped. It’s fair to say; in between the slippery scènes. My poor kids.Well, when you plan a roadtrip in Europe during COVID-19 with 8 persons in a car, there is not so much space left. We wanted to go to Norway in July, but Norway was in quarantine. So we decided to go to Austria one day before we left and decided to choose our next destinations depending the severity of COVID-19 affected area. We took along winter clothing, swimsuits, pants and shorts, underwear and PJ’s. We had bags with shoes; sturdy shoes, Crocs, flip-flops, water shoes. Disinfectants and masks. No snow boots. You have to compromise, right?
We also carried boxes with food, homemade and frozen enough to keep us stuffed for a week, and canned and fresh food. After all, we didn’t know if restaurants would be open or willing to seat our family of 8 persons. Picnic table and fishing rods, we were going to be independent and Corona-proof!We arrived at this place by cable car, my kids tried to stand up straight for some photos and we returned quickly to the cable car!

How do you photograph a situation with huge differ

How do you photograph a situation with huge differences in exposure 📸? Sunset, sunrise? 🌅Don’t these shots come out all too dark or too bright?
It’s a true challenge, right?!I joined Christina’s Insta-Succes @macs_explore a while ago, this course covers all there is to know about Instagram! 🙇‍♀️
If you ever wonder how to improve your account and make connections with brands, you should have a look! 👀
It’s about
-building connections in the travel industry ✈️‘how to get paid to travel’,
-how to build an engaged community,
-spend less time and focused attention on this platform ( instead of scrolling aimlessly),
-posting tips 📲
-photography tips in general
-pitching brands
I really love the Facebook group, where I can ask any question and get support from Christina and many members!I don’t ‘have’ the time for it. ⏰I just ‘take’ the time, in between the scenes, a bit here and there and late at night. There is still so much to learn! It feels overwhelming sometimes! Still, I see progress and it really makes me happy. I learned to let go of getting anywhere fast, I just like to know I am heading in the right direction. Slowly . 🐢🐢I recently started an online photography course to finetune photography 📸even more.
This photo is made with bracketing, a technique of taking several shots of the same subject using different camera settings. I discovered settings in my camera 📸 I never knew existed when I shot on ‘auto’ mode.
So I made 3 photos on a tripod, one a bit overexposed, one less exposed and one normally exposed. 💥The aperture needs to be the same. Lightroom combined the best part of the photos to compile one good photo!I’ll share my first bracketing photo , it’s not the best but I was so proud! 😃😃 Nothing is supposed to move, trying to do this with young children is challenging! Somehow this serie turned out to be reasonable good. So here it is!

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