A few days ago, a close friend had a birthday, and to celebrate, she organized something very special and beautiful: an afternoon of wine and painting with friends. I attended, and as the passionate photographer I am, I brought my camera with me to gift some photographs to my birthday friend.

The first photographs I took were obviously of the day's protagonist. I took photographs of her from various angles to look for the best shot:

And after that, I started to include more people in the photographs:

I also took photographs of the other guests, all my friends:

We all did a painting. Everyone was free to look for a reference on their phone and chose the one they liked the most. I did a landscape that I liked very much, the other two paintings in the photographs were done by my beloved girlfriend:

After we finished painting, while we were drinking and talking, I saw how a ray of light passed through one of the glasses and created a beautiful effect on the table:

And at that moment, an incredible idea came to my mind: a friend painted a sunset, so I thought of placing that ray of light right on the sun, and the result was that the light gave life to my friend's painting: