I headed south!
The twins completed their first lap around the sun and, in the current scenario, the idea of having a party for no one when I had made a thousand plans to celebrate their first birthday with a big party started to seem too sad.
So I headed south!
I wanted a cozy and beautiful place, where we felt at home.
The choice was Sobreiras Alentejo Country Hotel and it did not disappoint.
Being back to Alentejo is…
It must be the hottest "profession" of the moment, and it's no surprise when someone asks what someone else does to hear "I'm a blogger" or "I'm an instagrammer" or "I'm an influencer”.
These are the times we live when new platforms created new professions and, so far, there's nothing wrong with that, right?
After talking lightly about this topic, I received some comments and messages asking me to talk a bit more about this.
Although I do not consider myself an expert on the subject and that all I have learned has come from experimentation, trial, and error, I have been managing my own job for 8 years and I feel that I may already have enough path and luggage to share!
And here I am!
I have many people asking "and when will we have our photos?" and after receiving the answer they ask "so much time?". But deep down, it's never that long!
So, let's go to numbers?
When I'm chosen to document an important moment as a wedding, I don't care about the time, don't care about the money, don't care if they take more or less time to respond to emails!
The responsibility I feel for being present and documenting such a unique and unrepeatable moment in the lives of those two people always speaks louder than…
Don't you know what to post on instagram?
You have a beautiful picture but you don't know what to write?
We've all been there, including me!
So I decided to give you some help and create a Content Calendar for social networks with…
Many of the families we know and photograph travel with some regularity and this had led us to think about how could we help you to create incredible memories of these travels.
There are trips that deserve more than selfies and photographs where one of the members is always forgotten behind the camera.
Once you know what your destination is, why not…
Today we are going to talk about these sessions that are so often done only when there is a special reason but that, deep down, need nothing more than the will to happen!
After all, the happy moments of you two together are dateless, aren't they?
So, let's go?
The investment each couple decides to make in documenting their special day will always be a personal decision. Sometimes it depends on budget, others on the taste of each one!
But unlike many other investments and choices you can make for your day, the photographer's choice should be based on…
I'm back to the blog and in a family mode!
This is perhaps one of the most common questions coming through email: Make a photo session at home or in a studio?
Photographing families with very young children, babies or even newborns can be…
After explaining What is a mood board? and Where to find inspiration for your wedding?, it's time to do the hard lifting and scratch this task from the list!
But fear nothing because I will be with you step by step so that this task will be successfully executed and completed.
I also included a download with all the steps and with…
I love mood boards! It's one of the funniest parts of the entire creative process, it's a source of inspiration and new ideas.
Today I decided to talk more about this...
There's a day when you leave home, on the way to another story, and your life changes forever.
It changes the moment you don't die for a fraction of two seconds.
It changes from the moment you realize that death is real and...
Everything passes by too quickly, and we live in this permanent race against time so that, in the end, we will have some time left.
When a baby is born we have the feeling that everything is so intense that it goes even faster than the clock hands.
Hours and days add up to changed diapers and barely asleep nights and, almost without noticing it, the tiny baby can no...
One of the most incredible... but also the longest and most tiring days of last year.
To prove that yes, it is possible to play the role of a guest and a godmother and still record every detail with emotive and professional eyes.
As long as there are energy and goodwill, as long as it is done with love and that...
We start the week and this publication in a thank you mode.
Thank you for the support, the sharing, the many messages and comments to the last post. The great majority of encouragement, kindness... but not all in this mood, as expected.
Nothing was written lightly, in fact, it was...
This is a less easy and, perhaps, even controversial topic.
But there is always a time when, less comfortably, we talk about topics that are not addressed to anyone, but that can always clarify some doubts and help realize what it is to work with a professional photographer.
When I started working in the photography industry this...
We have been going through a difficult time in our history.
Perhaps a period in which the impotence in face of so many tragedies, human attacks, natural catastrophes has become our daily bread. Difficult to swallow.
This day was no different. A little more than a year ago, the fires around a city that had just welcomed me, left me in the excitement that...
It's been over a year since this session. Days, hours, new chapters added up.
The place remains the same with the normal changes by the passage of time, of the high and low tides and of the elements. The story is still being written today, with the necessary delay of all the good things in life.
This is one of our favorite places. And maybe it would make sense to take some of our favorite people here. Them.
It's not always easy to...
My month. My day.
A day to pause. To enjoy. To inspire so that I can be back on track with new eyes.
I doubt that I can go to sleep without seeing and answering all the emails, it's stronger than me. Good stories can't wait. Although mine is so often suspended in the written pages of yours.
But today is the day to...
How far will we go?
As far as a good story takes us!
As far as you want us to go, so that your good moments of today are, tomorrow, the best memories possible.
Sharp, colorful and so full of emotions that you can feel them every time you look at the pictures!
On this day...
This is a question that comes up almost every week. And maybe it's time to demystify what happens from the incredible moment we shared until the day the gallery, with so many good memories, is available.
The most obvious answer is this: it takes so long because it actually takes long! And it depends from one photographer to the other, from the method and the editing process, the workflow.
But as this answer doesn't clarify anything, let's break it down!
Lisbon is trendy!
The number of people on the streets has increased with all its positive and negative things.
But still, it's an incredible city.
The colorful houses that stretch down to the river, its seven hills giving space to the best views of the city spread by "miradouros" and "varandas", the food, the people.
And what better place to photograph and be photographed?
We know that not everyone are a morning person.
Especially when you are on vacation.
But we also know that early waking allows us to live the spaces and the city in a completely unique and special way.
Feeling the city wake up for another day of life and see the sunrise is a privilege that many people don't do every day or have never done and it warms our hearts to know that some couples we photographed have seen their first sunrise together, with us.
If you are in doubt whether...
As a way to get something off my chest.
I thought a lot about writing this post. And it isn't in a light mood that I do it, but there are things that, although deserving zero of my attention, are so often repeated that we can't pass them by as lightly as we would like
Here at Terra we are photography 24/7. We dedicate ourselves to this as if it was our most precious possession that requires all our affection and commitment.
We grew up with the internet.
It's easy to talk with people, to know what's happening on the other side of the world, to shop and even to read a book.
But, for a long time, Internet has been dictated by social media platforms... So many!
There is always something that leads us to enter Facebook or Instagram to see what others are doing... and, in the end, everything comes down to this: whether it is Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter or Instagram, those are all just a big window to the lives and work of other people and to expose how we live, what we eat or where we are.

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I’m Lúcia!
Photographer, storyteller and content creator.
I want to document your best moments, tell your story and help you communicate your message through images and words.
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