WHY WILL EVERYTHING BE THIS WAY?<\/p>\n
Summer photoshoots are, to my eye, the most beautiful of all.<\/p>\n
Why? Because they are filled with an incredible amount of real feeling. Photographing in May, I almost feel it on my own skin\u2014the barefoot summer girl, hopping right before my nose, with sand between her toes, riverside piers, cozy picnics, and terrace evenings.<\/p>\n
I love that summer feeling\u2014the lightness, the carefreeness.<\/p>\n
Those sun-kissed bare feet, matched with the fluttering \u201cfragments\u201d of a dress, those straw hats perched on hair drying in the sun.<\/p>\n
That sun-kissed skin, which takes on a kind of magical glow. I never know if it\u2019s from the tan or from happiness.<\/p>\n
But. Oh. Yet.<\/p>\n
Bearing the title of the most beautiful, a summer photoshoot plays on the tightest string of my nerves.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s the only one for which I don\u2019t debate the location: indoors or outdoors. And it\u2019s practically the only one when everyone points at me and the calendar, signaling there\u2019s no time to wait, and places a polite suggestion on the table: \u201cShoot indoors.\u201d I then shake my head nervously, tapping my nails on the windowsill louder than the cold spring rain tapping the same windowsill from outside.<\/p>\n
Every morning begins with checking the weather forecast, asking: \u201cHas it changed for the better yet?\u201d I don\u2019t know whether wishes work miracles or if it\u2019s fear that I might have to immerse myself in summer somewhere inside a studio\u2026<\/p>\n
But for many years now, the weather has listened to my long prayers.<\/p>\n
Are there mishaps? Of course. Sometimes instead of the planned +20\u00b0C, it\u2019s +9\u00b0C.<\/p>\n
Sometimes, out of nowhere, winds rise that I\u2019ve never seen before.<\/p>\n
Sometimes, instead of pleasant warmth, the heat threatens with a \u201cscorching blow.\u201d<\/p>\n
Such is summer.<\/p>\n
But no matter what, it is always full of real feeling\u2014whether under a fierce wind, unsuitable weather, or near-heat shocks.<\/p>\n
You can only truly feel it in union with nature, holding in the back of your mind the feeling that we are photographing summer the way we miss it most.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s why, approaching a photoshoot, we start \u201cgoing a little crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n
This time, the idea struck that this shoot needed a romantic beach \u201csofa.\u201d Of course, not store-bought. Of course, handmade. Of course, made of natural wood, with love and care. And unquestionably, exactly as it exists in my imagination\u2014unyielding, ready to be captured. Skilled, beloved hands hammered, sanded, twisted, and fastened it together.<\/p>\n
Others sewed pillows, blankets, mats, and curtains.<\/p>\n
Today, the day before the shoot, the big summer furniture is being loaded\u2014eyebrows raised at the thought of carrying such a \u201cmonster.\u201d Watching those raised brows, I\u2019m fully convinced everything will go smoothly.<\/p>\n
And tomorrow, early in the morning, a large, fully loaded crew will head\u2014toward summer.<\/p>\n
For a week now, items have been mobilized, details coordinated, the location inspected again, outfits rehearsed. So that tomorrow isn\u2019t just a photoshoot\u2014so that barefoot in the sand walks the real, utterly unposed feeling of summer coming alive.<\/p>\n
Mua,
\nV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-15217","kolekcija","type-kolekcija","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/viktorijos.devbrothers.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kolekcija\/15217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/viktorijos.devbrothers.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kolekcija"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/viktorijos.devbrothers.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kolekcija"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/viktorijos.devbrothers.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}