Memoirs So Luciie ...: About Me

***Very artsy-fartsy self portrait to come soon, when I can bear to get myself INFRONT of the camera***

' We struggle with insecurity because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else's highlight reel' - Steven Furtick

Memoirs So Luciie will be a photography, lifestyle and travel blog run by me, Luciie B Photography, an aspiring 20 year old photographer with social anxiety but itchy wanderlustin' feet!

Once upon a time I thought I had quite an exciting life. What with spending my holidays in Turkey ( to visit my Turkish father) and I had the opportunity to live in Islamabad, Pakistan (1 year-ish) and also Windhoek, Namibia (4 years-ish). I spent my free time exploring Africa and , to be honest, I began thinking of myself as an honorary 'Wild Thornberry'

One of our many weekends away camping in... the middle of no-where! :)

Then when I moved back to the UK in 2006 , it all kind of fell apart a bit. After years of awful luck I have now ended up with no money, battling awful social anxiety including struggling to maintain long term friendships but most certainly not struggling to lose all shreds of confidence and pile on the pounds! * Insert FAT Joke here*

I've felt my life spinning out of control for a while now and as the years have gone by with my anxieties getting worse and my career and life goals slipping further and further away, my itchy travel feet have been working their way to becoming unbearable!!

And unfortunately for the people close to me *cough RHYS cough* it means a lot of standing around posing for me even if they'd REAAALLLLY rather not!

The day I just 'HAD to' use my new lens the second I opened the box!

He can't even escape me while he's sleeping!

Even poor Munchkin can't escape my camera!

I have only ever been truly passionate about 4 things in life; Writing, Photography, travel and unfortunately FOOD! and it's taken me a VERY long time ( say 20 years ;P ) to realize that it might actually be possible to have it all!

ENTER brain wave---------

I started to write down a bucket list and 3 hours later and over 200 'points' later and I start to think my life is really pathetic ... half an hour later and I start to get inspired... another twenty minutes later and I've decided that I'm going travelling INDEFINITELY!.... an hour later and I've told myself to 'get real' and the travel photography project starts to form in my mind.

Which brings me to 2015! This year is going to be EPIC!

I've ditched my job, all financial stability and my 'comfortable, routine life' and I'm going for more!

It will be my biggest, bravest challenge yet. To put it as simply as possible, if you continue to read my blog you are going to see the journey of a socially awkward youth braving new countries, food and ,oh my gosh, PEOPLE! with my camera in tow and bringing you all along for the ride!

EVERY DAY will be a challenge and every day will confront fears and it will be terrifyingly amazing!

Some things I am afraid of:

1) Fish

2) Flying

3) Fairground rides

4) Quad bikes

5) heights

6) Eating alone in public

7) ..Pretty much everything that induces any kind of adrenaline

8) Probably you.... ( Sorry but. it's not you, It's Me! ) **

Some things I will probably be encountering this year:

1) All of the above ( No.8 maybe not so much :P )