Want to know what else I do? Here you have another video... Let me introduce myself as
✍🏻The writer
🎬Director
💡DPO
🤓keep watching!
At the end, I was laughing and dizzy because for a moment I lost the direction of the chair, so I was doing it in both ways just to be safe haha. 🤢
Instagram Insights showed this reel performed well, so here you have another one! Hope you like it!🥳
What other tasks do you do at your job?
More things I do as a freelancer while having cafecito! 😋
#FreelanceLife #IAmMyBusiness #ThisIsWhatIDo #WomenInPhotography #ContentCreation
"Where is Laura?" This is what people normally ask when they don't see me walking with them.
I'm behind, taking photos. It's better to save memories for life.😅
My mom was the family photographer; she always told me that I was living her dream and she was proud of me and my photos.❤️🩹
That's why I took this opportunity to produce an exhibition to show you my instant film pictures from trips, portraits from work, and also my personal project, my family album.
It's also an invitation to come with friends and family to have your picture taken by me or yourself, so when you look back, you remember those times with love.
Save the date and stay tuned 📸
🗓️16-21 June
📍@1bwindowgallery
📸"Take That Shot" exhibition by
🙌🏻@laura_martinez_photography
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#exhibition #photography #portraits #memories
#grief
Se me olvidó que hoy era el día de la madre en Venezuela. Pero mi cuerpo no lo olvidó.
Ayer lloré mucho cuando regresaba del trabajo, no te tenía más para hablar mientras caminaba a casa. No es lo mismo hablarle al aire. No es lo mismo tenerte en la mente sabiendo que ya no estás aquí en este plano.
Buscarte en fotos, en videos se siente tan irreal, es como volver al pasado sabiendo que ya no estás en mi futuro y esto dolerá por siempre mamá.
Hoy, donde quiera que estés, te deseo un feliz día de la madre, porque para mí fuiste la mejor. Nos diste amor a pesar de todo lo que enfrentaste, nos cuidaste, nos amaste, como no sentir más que amor por ti, y aunque no te tenga más en esta vida, te tendré por siempre en mi corazón.
Encontré este video buscando fotitos tuyas y de nuevo que bello es poder recordar todo el amor que te di y que todavía tengo por dentro.
Mamita desde aquí abajo te deseo un feliz día de las madres allá arriba en el cielo
Te amo ❤️🩹🥲🥹
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I forgot that today was Mother's Day in Venezuela. But my body didn't forget.
Yesterday I cried a lot on my way home from work; I didn't have you to talk to as I walked home. It's not the same talking to thin air. It's not the same having you in my mind knowing that you're no longer here on this earth.
Looking for you in photos and videos feels so unreal; it's like going back to the past knowing that you're no longer in my future, and this will hurt forever, Mom.
Today, wherever you are, I wish you a happy Mother's Day, because for me you were the best. You gave us love despite everything you faced, you took care of us, you loved us, how could I not feel more than love for you? And even though I no longer have you in this life, I will have you forever in my heart.
I found this video while looking for pictures of you, and again, how beautiful it is to remember all the love I gave you and that I still have inside.
Mommy, from down here I wish you a happy Mother's Day up there in heaven.
I love you.🥲❤️🩹
#happymothersday #felizdiamamá #photography
Oh no, it happened again!😱
I started my week good, tapping and affirming that everything would flow (like Emily), which I'm grateful for because everything was going well, work, meeting, no bad news... till yesterday night when a vein in my eye broke...
This happened I think 2 years ago, people where scared to see me haha. I plan to play it cool with the sunglasses for the rest of the week, haha. Like I'm a celebrity (una Anna Wintour, una cosa 😎)
Universe, what do you want to tell me? Do I need a vacation, a retreat, win the lottery, something 🤣
After a few little tears came before doing this post the I got this idea of sharing what happened and I remember that my mom would have told me, "Lala, don't worry about it and just carry on with your day."
Mummy, I hear you. All is good. 🌼
This is just me being creative with a situation I don't control. 📸
Sorry if you didn't like the 👀
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#creativewritting #canvatheraphy #selfcare #tapping
I cried yesterday night like it was the first day without you. I thought that feeling was gone, but the truth is I don't control it, so I just need to let go.😞
Today is Mother's Day in Portugal, ha! I have to go through this 3 times. It's better to see the good side than the sad one, which sometimes is hard.
So I had a plan. I was going to church to leave tulips, and then I was going to the flower market to buy more. My sister came with me, so I know you would have loved that.
Coffee, flowers, pastries, and sun, what else could I ask for? A lot of margaritas around, so I never stopped thinking of you, and I know you are with me.🌼
At 1:38 p.m., I was fixing the flowers in the same place they called to say you were gone, same time. My dear @elisa.martinez81 told me last week,
🤍"Put all that love you have into things you love; that way, you can keep living, and the pain will transform."🤍
To all the people who wrote me, hugged me, cried with me, and wiped my tears, thanks. I couldn't have done it without you. 🤍🥹
I still have more love to give 📸
#3ofmay #flowersmarker #journaling
Last week WAS
This week IS
2015 was the last time I hug my dad, 2023 was my last visit to mom, 2026 is the year I feared the most
Time passed by, and all I have are memories from my childhood, my farewell in 2015, the last hug, and a bunch of screenshots from WhatsApp calls.
Bad Bunny said, "Debí tirar más fotos de cuando te tuve"... I took a lot, and they are not enough.😞
I miss a lot of things, and they are not coming back.
Losing someone you love makes you more aware of time and how you do things. It puts you in perspective of many things especially yourself.
Another week to enjoy every minute of sunshine/sunset.
🤍 Happy week
Asómate a tu ventana y disfruta del paisaje
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#journaling #memories #dtmft #grief #sunsetlovers
An advice that no one is asking for:
🤍Tell your loved ones how much you love them.
📸Save their pics when they share them with you.
✈️If you can, visit them often, especially if they are becoming older.
👏If any of your loved ones had to migrate and changed their life completely, remind them how proud you are of how far they have come.
🫂Give a lot of hugs.
😁Smile and enjoy your life.
🫠Stop wasting time.
Time is not coming back...and we only have the memories we build with them.
This video found me while I was looking through my Google photos. I saw it and didn't pay attention to the end. I reopened it and then I realized Mom was saying hi and sending us a kiss... Yes, I broke down again.😭
You know what gives me peace, that I did tell her how much I love her every day, and even last year I told her:
"Mom, I know that when you are gone from this world I'm going to be really sad, but I know that we will always be connected because of the love I feel for you." Little did I know that this sadness was about to come true this year.😞
This book, "Bearing the Unbearable," has taught me so much about loss, grief, and fear. I will keep talking about her, sharing my journey through grief with my photography, and I hope I can be there for people who are feeling the same. Because this can be a lonely walk...
Mom, thanks for always loving me. 🥹
#grieftherapy #dtmf #familyalbum #googlephotos #duelo
And I liked it 😊
After I moved to Spain and lived by myself I started enjoying moments of solitude, of being with myself.
Today was one of those days. Mum loved when I visited the flowers market. She always asked me to send ther pics. I took these today.
I could feel she was with me. I saw butterflies, a lot of daisies and tulips which I bought.
Can't wait to show you
Happy Sunday. Go out, enjoy the sun, the silence and take care of yourself.
#selfcare #dateyourself #flowersmarker
Did you know that tulips represent rebirth because they are among the first to bloom after the frost? 🌷
Losing my mom has been the hardest winter I’ve ever faced. 😔 But as these flowers start to appear, they remind me that 💗 perfect love 💗 never disappears; it just takes on a new form.
It’s in the memories, the lessons she taught me, and the way I carry her spirit forward. She always loved my photos of flowers and nature. She used them as her profile pic on WhatsApp.
I was fine all week but then again it hit me. I think this sadness started yesterday night when I wanted to share some pics of my day and then I realised she wasn't here. Your brain can play tricks on you...
I just need to learn how to live with this emptiness inside my ❤️
Does anyone else find comfort in nature when they’re missing someone? 🥹
#tulips #photography #nature #photography
I started telling myself, "Just enjoy every minute of this silence."
Today, I treated myself. I had my nails done by @supernovanailss , and she kindly listened and hugged me.
I bought some tulips and decorated my living room. I took these pictures and shared them with my family. Funny story: my mom had the same plate at our house in Venezuela.
I found this in a street market in Saint Malo, and it was from Madeira. The lady was selling it for £3. I remembered I told my mom, and she said, "BUY IT, PLEASE!" 🥺 So now it's part of my house.
Some days I'm fine, no tears. Other days, don't ask me how I am, because I'm going to break.
I have found the right people at the right time because they are willing to hug me and take care of me. It's a blessing.
Thank you for taking care of me. ❤️🥹🫂
I hope you are taking care of yourself too.
Happy Friday
Just sit beside me.
You and I,
enjoying the spring 🌼
I miss talking to you while walking through the park, showing you the flowers, the sunsets.
I sat today on a bench with a bunch of cherry blossoms around and thought about you. Some tears came, but the silence was so peaceful that I want to think you were there with me. 🤍
Miss you, Mum. I think there's no good or wrong emotions while grieving. This emptiness is part of me now, and I think I'm embracing it. I read that in order to move on, you need to let the pain get through you. Hehe, I think it got through me with that phone call and has stayed there.
Anyway, today was a nice day.
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#grief #photography #landscape #greenwhich #williammorris
Smile through the yellow Tulips 🌷
What beautiful weather and afternoon, finally. Couldn't stop taking photos.
Thanks @cristi_ti for the tip for my selfie, we had fun 👯♂️ We walked the whole Lloyd Park until we sat in front of William Morris Gallery. We talked about life, Mum, and quotidianity.
Always nice to bring back memories. While I was going home, I remembered that on days like these, I always called her so she could enjoy it with me. This time I was just imagining the conversation. I do think she saw it anyway 🥹
Today was a nice day. 🤍
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#tulips #walthamstow #spring
