“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot,”Robert Louis Stevenson.
Many have asked and to many I have answered, but time has come to make this “move” official since I have finally found a house 
I am on my way to depart beautiful Washington, D.C. toward a new life adventure in New Orleans with final destination few months later in the Brooklyn hood of New York City.
Chance wanted that one silly Friday afternoon, I walked in my usual Vinyasa Yoga class and my lovely Yoga teacher shared with me some piece of information about a photographer she was friend with who needed an assistant for a project he was going to put together in Louisiana.
So, here came my opportunity.
I have often talked about having chosen the journalism path to travel and to experience the “globe granite underfoot,”and when the occasion seemed to have knocked at my doorsteps, I opened. So here I come. New Orleans’s inhabitants watch out, you will have one more crazy Italian on the loose on your streets during the Carnival!!!
I will make a quick (one month) pit-stop in Italy on my way to NOLA, but from Jan. 25 on until beginning of April, you will find me in the post-Kathrina region photographing (and hopefully still teaching Yoga) as many hours a day I can.
Thanks, DCists, for these wonderful 2.5 years of love, growth and political savviness. I shall return!
P.s.–I will be posting as much as I can about what I will be shooting, seeing, feeling, eating and, if time allows, I will resume “the Yoga Column” for once and for all. In the mean time, stay tuned and hang on to your chairs. More to come in few days.
Moket.it is a Jewish, Italian monthly I contribute to with photos and captions of strange and interesting things I am often surrounded by, such as this wonderful Yogi from Israel, Natalie Thaler, 33, who came all the way from Herzelia in Israel to Washington, D.C. to earn the money so, one day, she will conquer her entrepreneurship dream of opening her own Yoga studio in Costa Rica.
She so slips her free time sleeping and commuting to both Tyson Corner and Annapolis Malls to work for Onsen, an American beauty company that uses Japanese technology and retails for more than many pretty ladies are often willing to spend on anti-aging creams, but that does indeed nourish your skin better than Cleopatras milk baths.
Check out the Web site HERE :~)
Every Sunday from 11 to 2 at Perry’s in Adams Morgan Sofia, Gigi and Mama put up their show.
…you can spend a whole day refining your photo style shooting red leaves and blue skies for a whole day and nobody is going to comment about it.
For the past six months, I have been struggling being my own boss, but I have finally realized, as far as I keep it creative and fun, I can be a pretty nice yet productive employer/employee.
Needless is to say when I got my camera in my hands and a full afternoon to fill, I usually forget about time, people, phone, computer etc…so it might be hard to keep track of time and I can get a little too much into what I am doing that my job can get a little dangerous at times. Let’s just say that not even a truck running bye while I am trying to get a clear frame of a District street where trees were changing leafs, might stop me in my endeavors.
In any case, the reason why I take pretty photos (they look pretty to me), is because it makes me HAPPY and it challenges me to get better. Not having a boss on my own, yet trying to run a freelancing business, I have to make sure to keep my photography fresh and marketable at all times, that is why it’s important to never stop shooting whatever and whomever. The biggest fulfillment is the one of seeing ones progress from frame 1 to frame 1,000.
So, this Blog Post is the first one of many to come in which I will provide my readers with a Photo Essay a month depicting whatever comes to mind.
For this month–October–I am featuring FALL in the DISTRICT.
ENJOY and give me feedback :~)
The leaves are turning brown and the days are getting shorter, get your mojo back striking a Yoga pose a day.
Go to the Yoga Column page here to see how to master Airoplane (Dekasan) this week.
Because the Journey of freeing the mind with Yoga, it’s not just striking poses, it’s a never-ending practice of balance within your body.
Enjoy :)
This summer I spent a month in my homeland and among my travels to visit family all over the boot, I found this hidden spot in the hillside of Tuscany.
Mountain biking over vineyards and olive trees covered hills was both challenging and unforgettable.
Watch out for the Giro d`Italia coming bye those same “white gravel” hills next May.
I might as well buy my next plane ticket for Italy for then…
Just as suggestion: You might want to do the same
