Every year Carina holds a session to celebrate her birthday.

This year she decided to talk to me and when we arrived at the place we had agreed there was a gale like the ones that only Serra do Louro can give us. But happily and quickly I remembered another place that maybe I could get away with and lo and behold: we were lucky enough to catch the hayfields still to be plowed and through the thistles and peaks – there is no beauty without suffering – we got some images that had Carina written all over them: light, feminine and so very very sweet.

Happiest of birthdays, you beautiful soul!