Nicoline Aagesen

Time is a gift – use it well. Spend it with people you love, and never forget how important friends and family are. Model Andrea Camilla Cruz Andersen has spent a wonderful time with photographer Nicoline Aagesen, enjoying every second of it, at their dream hotel MARQÍ in Colares, Portugal – a place made for staying, and for shooting, of course. Captured in the soft stillness of an old car, sunlit corners, and unhurried hours.

In psychology, the phrase it comes in waves often describes the rhythm of emotions — how they rise, crest, and fall, never constant, always moving. It’s the natural cycle of things: to build, to overflow, and to fade again. Like a wave, foaming and folding, finding its way before dissolving back into the endless ocean.

Photographer Nicoline Aagesen and model Karla Maria first met in the summer of 2022 at Marqi, nestled in the mystical hills of Sintra, Portugal. Drawn to its rugged landscapes, wild ocean, and golden sun, they both found something sacred in this place.

“Dancing with the Waves,” shot in Portugal by Nicoline Aagesen from My Camera My Rules, is an ode to the raw power of nature and the fleeting, ungraspable moments that shape us. Love Uffot, luminous and untamed, moves through a landscape where the waves break endlessly against the cliffs, where the sunset colors carve stories into the sand, where time is both relentless and still