Aiste Ridikaite

I was never impressed by Egypt as a travel destination. Thus, when Marina and I decided to make a kite camp there at the beginning of May I thought of it as another assignment. I thought, “I’ll just do my job without expecting too much for myself”. However, Egypt positively surprised me from the first…

So finally it happened. My presentation on how extreme sports can become an asset in the business world in CIC Venture Cafe Rotterdam.

They keep saying that beautiful is something a girl needs to be. Seriously? I’d say don’t be beautiful! Be angry. Be intelligent. Be witty. Be klutzy. Be interesting. Be funny. Be adventurous. Be crazy. Be talented – there is an eternity of things to be other than beautiful. And what is beautiful anyway but a…

The best way to tell stories for me is photography. One look at the picture and hundred more visually related stories pop into the mind. Then magic happens in the brain and the adventure of traveling back in time starts. Sometimes only by looking at the picture, we can remember smells and sounds of what…

All of us have heard once or twice that we should live in this moment. But does anyone know what it actually means? It should be painful. Think of it-it’s against human brain nature. Human brain nature is to plan, hope and get lost in the past. Lose that and one loses a part of himself.

I guess, for me as for adventure photographer, it was always very important to get as close to the object of the photography as possible. Racing cars or motorbikes, ski-divers and pilots, skateboarders and skiers… it is always an emotion that matters. That exact perfect moment, athletes face, sparkle in the eye…