Last summer, I visited Rotterdam. In these photographs you can see Rotterdam through my eyes. 

Last summer, I spent a day in Eindhoven with my parents. We found this huge thrift-store, it was so fun to look around! I can't wait to go thrifting again when I look at these pictures. :) 

I took these pictures in the summer of 2018. At the time I was 17 years old, and in about a month I would leave my home country to go school in Redding, California.  My parents and I went away together for a couple days  before I would leave for 9 months. These pictures remind me of a beautiful time with family, and I treasure the memories they bring up. :) 

Pouring rain
Chasing everyone away
Back into their home
A safe place? 
We don't mind the rain as long as we're inside

We are used to hide
The rain on the the glass creates
a blurry picture
so you can't really see
What's going on inside of me

Here is another series of pictures I took on my school trip to Croatia. I loved the pastel colors of the buildings, so pretty! 

Croatia, April 2018. 
I visited Porec, Rovinj and Pula in my last year of high school. Since we were there in april, outside of the tourist season, it wasn't busy at all. It was kind of a strange feeling walking through narrow streets with almost nobody there except us, a group of teenagers. I imagined being there in the summer, when it's hot, the streets are filled with people, noise, laughter... It's interesting how different a place appears and feels when there are more people, especially tourists visiting. 

 
English: Photography is something I really enjoy doing. But writing blogposts… not so much. You may have noticed I nearly posted any of my photography on my blog this past year. I didn’t really make time for it and kept procrastinating because I never knew what to write. I still have so many pictures from my school trip to Istria, summer last year, California, Italy… And I want to show them to you! I am going to start uploading them on my blog every week (yay!), but just without (long) introductions that I felt like I had to write to make people want to see my pictures and want to see the full blogpost.
​ An image is worth a thousand words, right? So, I’ll just let them speak ;) 
 
 
Nederlands: Fotografie is iets wat ik heel graag doe. Maar het schrijven van een blogpost bij mijn foto’s… dat niet echt. Je hebt misschien gemerkt dat ik het afgelopen jaar bijna geen foto’s meer op mijn blog heb geplaatst. Ik heb er niet echt tijd voor gemaakt en stelde het steeds uit omdat ik nooit wist wat te schrijven. Maar ik heb nog steeds zoveel foto’s van mijn schoolreis in 2018, vorige zomer, California, Italië… En ik wil die graag laten zien! Dus ga ik elke week foto’s plaatsen op mijn blog (yay!), maar dan zonder de (lange) introductie waarvan ik steeds het gevoel had dat ik ze moest schrijven. Dat deed ik om mensen ertoe aan te zetten mijn foto’s te bekijken. Maar een foto is waard duizend woorden, nietwaar? Dus ik zal hén gewoon laten spreken… ;) 

Nederlands: In maart 2018 ging ik op schoolreis naar enkele verschillende landen in Europa; Slovenië, Kroatië en Italië. Ik zat toen in mijn laatste middelbaar, wat lijkt dat al lang geleden! Het afgelopen jaar heb ik niet zoveel fotografie online gezet, dus ik heb wat in te halen dit jaar! In deze post deel ik (eindelijk) de foto's die ik nam tijdens de eerste dag, toen we een bezoek brachten aan het meer Bled in Slovenië. Het was een prachtige streek! 

English: In March 2018, I went on a school trip to different countries in Europe: Slovenia, Croatia and Italy. I was in my last year of high school back then, it seems so long ago! I haven’t posted a lot of my photography in 2018, so I have some catching up to do this year! ;) 
In this blogpost I’m (finally) posting the pictures I took on the first day of the trip, when we visited Lake Bled in Slovenia. It was such a beautiful and peaceful place!