I've Been Dreaming Of Visiting Hallstatt, Austria Ever Since I Saw A Picture Of It, Here Are 30 Pics I Took There

My journey as a photographer started in 2008, while I was shooting photos with my Sony Ericsson phone (3-megapixel camera), it was the era of new phones with cameras, and I fell in love with it. '90s guys will understand what it feels like when you upgrade your phone with a colored screen. It was a really impressive year. Then I got my first cyber-shot camera and I realized that I was fully in photography, people were telling me compliments that I was expressing my vision very differently.

I was shooting mostly documentary photos, this was a very different thing for a small boy like me. I was going to social events and places and I was shooting people and their lives. For example, I took pictures of a very ancient tradition of the funeral (called "Svanuri Zari") in Ushguli, Georgia (Ushguli is one of the highest continuously inhabited settlements in Europe, 2,100 meters). I liked telling the stories with a camera, not only with one photo, I liked doing photo series. After some time I started traveling all around the world and mostly I started doing some landscape and nature photography. 

Hallstatt is a place I have wanted to visit ever since I first saw a photo of it. You know the one... I have been to many small villages but... Hallstatt is very different with its nature and coziness. As my car was getting closer and closer to Hallstatt, I was so excited. Large blue lakes, grey rocky mountains and the fresh air all around. The atmosphere is unique and you feel very special while walking in the tiny streets of the village. It is like a fairytale on Earth.

Photography is a great tool to show people how you can see the moments, no need for words. Only you can see the world like you do. You are creating the story, you are creating the moment or moment that creates you to the author of itself. There are surely lots of things which nobody would see unless you photographed them. It not only means discovering new places, but it can make you fall in love with somewhere you never even knew existed. 

I graduated as a marketer and my current job is 100% related to what I really love, which is creativity. I am in E-commerce currently. I have a Creative Market and I am fully concentrated in it. Firstly I started with selling my photo works but for now, I have a variety of products, such as Personalized Gifts, Posters, Photo Presets and so on... I can say that I have learned so much during the pandemic period because I invested all my time in it and it worked. Besides my current job, I always make photoshoots, mostly creating wedding stories all around the world. 

Photography is the thing that flourishes my life. I can't even imagine life without my cameras. Creative thinking is the process that makes my life more interesting and productive. My future plan is to go to France, the French Riviera and Paris and shoot there!