Creative Harmony with Luiza

Photo-walking in April ( in Finland) can easily turn into a treasure hunt for the first signs of life after a long winter ❄️ how’s spring unfolding in your area?

🌑 The word “equinox” in Latin means “equal night.” In many cultures, this time of year has been tied to letting go, cleansing and planting - let the old energy melt away so that new energy can have place to grow. 🌞 Here’s a little nugget of new energy from today’s photo-walk! 📷🌱

Some shots from last week’s photo-walks and some soft words that I hope can help you during this uncertain times 🫂 enjoy and share if you can! 🦋

Have we forgotten how to play?

March moments captured with my 📷 and the most important lesson March taught me 🌱

A special surprise for all sensitive souls! 🫂 link in bio for more info 🦋

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Weather Details is a well-being photography project that taught me many lessons (and helped me re-calibrate after a severe burnout). Here is one of them🦋

New blog post to encourage you to make art no matter who you are and what's you age or art experience + exciting news for April! Join us in an art for well-being weekend! Your nervous system will thank you!

Healing Through Art: How Creative Play Supports The Nervous System — Luiza Preda - Therapeutic Art, Photography & Well-being Learn how the nervous system responds to stress and how creative play can restore balance, safety, and emotional resilience at any age.

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If this resonates with you, follow along! 🤍

In simple terms, this is initiative 🪽 If you want to learn more, visit www.creativeharmony.art

New Year’s Eve for dog owners can also mean that at 00.00 on the first day of the year will eventually find you locked somewhere home where no fireworks can be heard 😅 That can also feel a bit sad ( because yes, we just looove to gaze at those lights popping up in the sky, don’t we? 🎇 )

But with a 📷 and the right people next to you - you can turn this in your own way to start the year with less external noise - and hopefully less internal noise from our thoughts as well 🌬️

Grateful to have adopted Mia the doggo from the dog shelter 9 years ago despite her anxious behavior. She is the purest soul I’ll ever have the honor to spend life with and I cherish every moment with her! 🌌

Wishing you a calmer year ahead - as when we find calm inside ourselves, the whole world becomes calmer outside as well. 🤍 May art be your guide this year to achieve that!

Warmest thank you to ALL of you!

-the 180+ participants in art for well-being events in 2024-2025!
- the organisations who supported this initiative
-all supporters and followers of Creative Harmony initiative on social media and beyond

May all of you be guided be love, art and kindness this coming year! 🤍

Traveling is something we all do at some point. 📷 No matter if you are a professional photographer or not, you can take all my lessons ( after 15+ yrs of constant photography practice) as simple tips for a slower and more sustainable travel experience:

TIP 1: Walk first. Photograph later.

Your brain needs time to orient. Walking without shooting lowers sensory overload and helps your brain understand its new surroundings first. Plus, did you notice that when we shoot everything from the start mindlessly, we usually end up not using those first shots anyway?🤔

TIP 2 One scene. One photo.

Too many choices increase mental fatigue. It happened to me so many times. You can choose to be more selective, as this saves LOADS of time from post-processing and leaves you with much more free storage in the long run! 😉

TIP 3 Take photos instead of buying objects.

Experiences activate memory and emotion more deeply than material things - this creates longer-lasting satisfaction. Just take a photo of that cool souvenir before you buy it and check if tomorrow you still want to buy it so much! 😁

TIP 4 Let some moments pass unrecorded.

Yes, I know it feels radical at first - YET the brain remembers moments much better when it isn’t jumping its attention 3 times per second . Allow yourself to just be and take and THEN take that photograph to express that feeling/first-impression.

🪄I leave here a series of photographs from several photo-walks I took in Mexico City in 2019 while traveling for work.

Let me know which photograph/tip is your favorite!