Between the Pages and the Lens

The Gaze Behind the Pages

Photo by L&G Portraits

There are stories that feel alive — so vivid that they begin to look back at you.

This photo captures exactly that moment. The moment when fiction and reality blur, and a novel becomes more than words on paper — it becomes a presence.

In my hands, my very first book “Pasaulis Tau skolingas ateitį...” ("The World Owes You a Future..."). It is not just a book. It’s a world suspended between hope and despair, beauty and fragility. It tells of a young woman chasing meaning through chaos, searching for her place in a world that promises everything and yet takes so much.

The photo by L&G Portraits invites the viewer closer — to that precise heartbeat between the reader and the story. The covered half of the face symbolizes the part of us that hides behind the books we love — the side that dares to feel deeply but rarely shows it.

Soon, this novel will speak to a wider audience — as "The World Owes You a Future..." will soon be available in English. And when it does, it will carry with it the same haunting question that lingers in the eyes of this portrait: What does the world truly owe us — and what do we owe ourselves?

Through the lens, the book is not just seen; it is felt.

Every shadow, every reflection, every silent gaze reminds us that stories like this one are not meant to be read once — they are meant to stay, quietly, beneath the skin.

“Big Dreams in Small Steps”

Photo by Lens.Wide.Shut

Big dreams rarely arrive with grand gestures — they begin quietly, with a first, almost hesitant step.

This image captures that truth with elegant simplicity: a diary that holds the promise of tomorrow, and a pair of high heels — symbols of ambition, grace, and perseverance.

We often imagine success as a confident stride, but in reality, it’s more like walking in heels — balanced, measured, and refined. Each small step demands intention, patience, and poise. Each mark on the page, each note in your diary, becomes one of those steps toward something larger.

Because whether you’re walking toward a goal or writing your next chapter, what truly matters isn’t how quickly you move — it’s that you keep walking, one graceful step at a time.

Big dreams start with small steps… and sometimes, the most elegant steps lead the farthest.

“A Letter to the Past”

 Photo by Lens.Wide.Shut

A quiet Sunday morning.

The light is soft, hesitant as if afraid to disturb the silence.

A cup of coffee, the scent of ink, the weight of thoughts waiting to be written down.

Before me lies “Noted with Gratitude. Your Gratitude Journal.”

It opens with an invitation to pause, to look back, and to write a letter to the one I used to be. The one who stumbled, dreamed, doubted, and kept walking anyway.

For a moment, the pages hold both of us — the past and the present, the one who didn’t yet know, and the one who finally understands.

Gratitude has a sound — quiet, like morning light touching paper.

And in that stillness, writing becomes a kind of forgiveness.

“In Between Departures”

 Photo by Lens.Wide.Shut

A quiet hotel morning — the kind that exists somewhere between stillness and motion.

The suitcase is half-zipped, the coffee half-finished. But for a moment, she pauses.

In her hands, her special Diary. The pages open somewhere mid-May — a place between what has already passed and what is yet to come. Outside, the world is waiting. Inside, so is she.

There’s something sacred in these small pauses — the ones before the next journey, before the next decision, before the next version of herself begins.

A woman with her diary and a pair of heels.

Not rushing — just aligning her thoughts with the day ahead.

Because even in motion, elegance begins with stillness.