I am Chantelle Flores a South Africa-born creative professional making my home in Switzerland. I am big on paving your own path in life and chasing my dreams so years back I decided to leave the corporate field working as a marketer and spend time creating a lifestyle that I really wanted. I spent 14 years mastering the art of photography and through my determination, hard work and commitment I built a global name for myself. Through this, I managed to self-fund all my travel adventures to 65 countries and built up an extensive collection of travel images through the process. I set up the 51 Countries & Counting platform to showcase my adventures to far-flung destinations, to inspire fellow travellers to make their travel dreams a reality and to travel adventurously on any budget – big or small. I've always been adventurous and found myself gravitating towards foreign cultures and languages from a very young age. I am a backpack wearing, camera-toting coffee-loving traveller who is huge lover of the great outdoors and adrenalin-pumping activities so you will see a unique range of these topics throughout the blog. Did I mention that most of my adventures have been completely solo! I absolutely love meeting new people, and what better way to do that than travelling this way! I rarely say no to anything, and have this philosophy to try everything at least once. I am known for pushing the boundaries, as a result, my photographs are a fresh take on the natural world - full of energy, mood and movement. I like to look for the beautiful in the common, the unusual in the usual, the perfection in the broken and the uniqueness of the mundane. Like the butterfly embracing the beauty of a single flower, I like to focus on the unnoticed – those things that we all look at, but never see. www.51countriesandcounting.com www.kzaravisual.com Current global project: Holding onto Humanity with Greetings from my core. #liveforthestory #explorewithcanon Recognition by Canon and a National Geographic Contributor.