I’m Anastasia, and I travel not only to see new places, but also to find the shots I sometimes imagine long before the journey begins.

I love studying maps, planning routes, looking for the right light, and sometimes travelling quite far for a photograph I imagined back home. A particular passion is aerial photography - a drone gives me much more freedom to explore different perspectives and see familiar landscapes in a completely different way.

Most of my photographs are taken at sunrise, with the occasional sunset thrown in. Sunrise sometimes means getting up at 3 or 4 a.m. - the one and only kind of morning activity I'm actually willing to wake up for. But when the light is perfect, it makes all the effort worthwhile.

Behind me are mostly travels across Southeast Asia, but my saved places list is full of unexplored spots waiting to be discovered.

Photography is above all a way to preserve moments that truly move me. And yes, I'm a bit of a perfectionist. If the light and the final result don't feel quite right the first time, I have no problem returning to the same location a second, third, or even fourth time - until everything finally comes together.