Photography is feeling, it is art, it is a message.

Impressing a feeling in the observer, whether it is happiness, cheerfulness, sadness, nostalgia, etc. it should be the primary purpose of each person getting ready to take an image but, unfortunately, is also on the hardest goal to achieve.

In this competition we want to focus on a feeling in particular: happiness.

The feeling is one of the most discussed topic in the photographic field. Many are the masters of the image that over the years have tried to represent it in their own way.

According to the dictionary, happiness is “the positive state of mind of those who feel satisfied with all their desires. Etymology makes happiness from: happiness, derivation. felix-icis, “happy”, whose root “fe-” means abundance, wealth, prosperity “but we want to focus on all aspects and facets of this emotion.

A birth, a marriage, a laughing baby, the achievement of a goal, nostalgia, love, kiss, a place of childhood, meeting with an old friend, participation in a manifestation, principles that they move actions… all that can be done, in the observer or in the subjects of the images, a feeling of joy and happiness is part of this photocontest