|soblushed| at Libby Hill

Two photos that I need to add to my album :) Libby Hill is definitely a place to visit in Richmond.

photo credits by Will

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The photography mates

This post here it's an ode to all of my photography mates :) Meetup.com it's an awesome website were you can find people with the same interests and hobbies. It was fundamental for my integration in Richmond. Thank you guys! 

Basically, we meetup for events and festivals, for mingles and also workshops. I learn a lot with them!

Some weeks ago we went to Libby Hill that it has an awesome view from downtown Richmond.

I survived 2yr in Richmond!!

And it's been 2 years since I put my feet in Uncle Sam land! I survived!
I'm just kidding, Richmond is a lovely city and it's providing me tons of awesome moments!
Thank you guys for all of your support too! It make things so much easier ;)

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children are the best thing in the world!

Let me rephrase: being a kid is the best thing in the world! ahah You play silly games, you run around like crazy, you make friends instantly, you are pampered all the time,...

Check the photos that I took during the Folk festival, of this group of kids. They were amazing, smiling and playing with me all the time :)

Folk festival

Music+people+food+dogs=festival! Another festival? Yes, this is Richmond! This time, the dogs stayed at home because this is a huge festival. I'm talking about The folk festival! The festival that brings music from around the world! Really cool! It started friday night and it last till Sunday evening. The weather was perfect :)

PS: I missed our brazilian brothers with the Forró! tu ru

a little Italian festival

Some photos of the Italian festival in Richmond. Some pastas, pizzas, cannolis, wine and music! Simple and cozy as this :) 

But now I have a question! Richmond has a greek festival, an italian festival, an Oktoberfest, a french film festival... what about a portuguese festival?? Common! or an Iberian festival, for instance... Oh Richmond, Richmond!... ahah

That's a wrap, September!

September is gone, guys!

|soblushed| at  VCU

Grand and Marvelous Canyon

Cause you're in Hollywood

Los Ángeles

California, California! Here we come!... [Santa Monica beach] 

Chicago surrounded by water

Soft pretzels

Chicago: the steel city

Be strong New Orleans!

September quote

|soblushed| at VCU

September means back to school, right? So, what about some photos at the Virginia Commonwealth University campus? My album was asking for some photos here! eheh My lab is at the medical campus (boring!) but the Monroe Campus is so much fun... a lot of students running around, with their bikes and skates... very stylish people, nice places to hang out, the student commons,...
You may be wondering about the horns.. but is the symbol of our basketball team, GO RAMS! :)

PS: Thank you D. for the photos ;)

August-inho! ahah

Dear August,

It's always so nice to meet you! You always bring me joy, you never disappoint me :) This summer has been really different, I didn't go to the beach, I didn't spend a weekend with my beautiful sisters in Coimbra, I didn't eat a single Olá icecream (lol), not even lupins and beer with friends, or barbecues with the family... oh man! 4 months for Christmas! almost :)
But as you may know, I went with my handsome boyfriend for a trip. For an awesome trip: Chicago, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Grand Canyon and New Orleans. I will show you the photos next week, I promise!

Check the posts from August in case that you're in vacations and you missed them.

August quote
treat number 1

treat number 2

a break in the treats
treat number 3

treat number 4

|soblushed| at Carytown
10 days, 5 cities

and the answer is...
Capture the colour

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|soblushed| at Carytown

Another collection of photos for my album, this time the background is the lovely Carytown! 10 blocks of cute and lovely stores, boutiques, coffe shops, restaurants.. definitely with a european twist :) Carytown is the place for nice events and festivals such as the watermelon festival, food and wine festival, french film festival... Is the perfect place for a frozen yogurt and a movie at the end of the day. Carytown has also a couple of grocery stores in which Elwood Thompson is my favorite one. It's a really cool this local organic food market.

Julai :)

July was amazing but something tells me that August is going to be f***ing amazing! ;)

I'm off for vacations next weeks but keep visiting soblushed blog because I have some nice posts just  for you. In the mean time, check the posts from July.

July's quote

THE orange golden gate

4th of July means: fiiireworks!!!

Apple-Cranberry cobbler

The oldest Chinatown

details SF

RVA at night

Enchanted Muir Woods

@micro lab
|soblushed| at the river

|soblushed| at the river

I’m not a beach person, as some may know (although my hometown is 15min by car) but living in a city that is far from one is painful, specially in the summer! I really miss the sea but I've got here the James River, my perfect place for long walks, landscape seeing...and ice cream eating ahahahah (There is always a cart of water-based ice cream called soul ice). It is definitely a top 5 Richmond’s sightseeing. Love it!

@micro lab

Probably you already know that I'm a researcher and I work in a microbiology lab, right? You don't? Do you want to know my story? ahah

So, after my Masters in Biomedical Engineering (Universidade do Minho) in Portugal, my PI offered me this opportunity: to do a phD here in US, more specifically Richmond, Virginia. I said: why not? It's now or never! I arrived on October 2010 and so far it has been a great adventure! I still have about 10 months here, and then I have to go back to Braga and finish my experiments and writing the thesis there.

This might sound chinese for you but basically I'm studying the mobilization of pathogenicity islands in Staphylococcus aureus by helper phages. Please, let me rephrase. Staphylococcus aureus are "goodfellas" and our body needs them but sometimes they are opportunistic. Worst: staph are smarter than us; they have a few ways to replicate themselves and spread virulence! Till now, the antibiotics are failing like crazy...  Is it the end of the world?

In the mean time, I'll share with you some photos at my lab.

RVA at night

Hey everyone!

I hope you had a good weekend!! 

I told you about the crazy weather here right? Sunny and beautiful skies, hot and humid as hell... and then: thunderstorms, rain and everything that you can imagine. I'm still not used to this, bah!  So after riding my bike on saturday when the skies decided to pour (actually is good to feel the rain in your body when the temperature is super high), I decided to stay at home on Sunday. lol And the plans of doing some shooting outdoors with my photography mates tu ru ru was postponed for the next one.

Until then, I leave you with some pictures of Richmond at night.

4th of July means: fiiiireworks!!!!

Hey June!

My goodness! This month was great! Fast and Furious (furious if we count the storms yesterday! damn, that was crazy :s) Check out the posts of the month of June and stay tuned for more photos from SF.
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the wharf, the chowder and the bread

The hill of SF

My week in San Francisco

tattoed

basements can be fun!

|soblushed| at the festivals
|soblushed| album

my sneaky lens on fiire! :D

Broad Appétit

Blueberry muffins

June's quote

 

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