The  Short  Version

Hi, my name is Veronika, but everyone calls me Vera. I love traveling and exploring new places. I have a camera in my hand so I do my best to capture special moments for others to enjoy and hopefully inspire to travel.

If you want to know more about me, please keep reading, or just enjoy the photos in the Gallery.  

I am not from Montana, but moved here from Europe, specifically from Slovakia. I fell in love with photography when I was a kid - watching my dad develop his photos in a dark room. He gave me my first camera - Praktica from Germany, but soon after that digital cameras came out and I started with a little point and shoot.
I love traveling and got into hiking and backpacking, so most of my photos are in the landscape category where I try to capture those magical moments I get to experience out in the wilderness to share and inspire people.
After I had a daughter I took a little break from landscape and traveling and focused on giving her all my time. Now her daddy and I take her hiking and traveling and she is loving it!
If you'd like to read more about my story, check out my blog post about Why do I live in Montana.

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Why Gringa and what the hell does it mean?

Friends called me Gringa while I was in Chile and I really liked the sound of it.
The word gringa is a term used in Latin America to refer to a white English-speaking woman, usually American. One rather fanciful theory traces its origin to the Mexican-American War of 1846-48 and the song "Green Grow the Rushes-oh",  supposedly sung by the American troops. According to another theory it is a corruption of griego or "Greek", in the sense of anything foreign and unintelligible, as in the English expression "it's all Greek to me".

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