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My Photo scholarship 2011 entry

Chile | Monday, November 7, 2011 | 5 photos

Sometimes you can travel somewhere looking for a feeling, in my case this happens when I am surrounded by an open landscape. I´ve allways loved travelling, photography and environment, I love travelling because I feel good, feel free,doesn´t matter if I have to travel thousand kilometres or just a few, the most important thing for me is see new places, landscapes, people or cultures. When I am travelling I become a child again, I try to open my eyes as much as posible, like if everything was new, amazing and surprising. I love photography because I like to show people how I feel and what I see in my trips and common life. I take pictures from everything who make me feel something, specially good feellings.

I have been my life studying and working in different things, I love nature, so I decided to study geology and while I was studying, I´ve started working as a ski instructor, then I realized I would not be able to work in an office, and once I finished my degree, I decided to make ski my way of life which gave me the chance of working and travelling, discovering new places.

I feel lucky, I always could have a camera at home for playing. I always wanted to become a profesional photographer, and I thought It was impossible, like want to be spaceman, but last year I met someone who made me realized that it´s difficult but sometimes It can happens, and the most important thing is trying to do it, so I decided to start studying photography, trying to learn as much as posible for someday, if I am lucky enought, make a hobbie became a job (as I made with ski a lot of years ago).

The photos I´ve sent you are from Torres del Paine, a National Park in the South of Chilean Patagonia, an amazing place where you realize how huge is nature and how small people are. It´s like being in the middle of nowhere, in the end of the world. That´s immensity.