Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Tree



I've found interesting HDR processing and I decided to give it a try. Not the best picture available, but the others are on dvd and I'm not in the mood for search.

Monday, January 25, 2010

HDR



I found another interesting blog and nice tutorial about HDR. If you have will... take a look: http://www.thewindypixel.com/ .  I've picked randomly a photo (at a pretty low resolution) and made a hdr from a single file. I didn't bother to edit it very carefully.  You may guess which is the original.

Friday, January 22, 2010

Tulips



Is winter, is so cold outside, so... here is a spring preview.

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Sleeping beauty...



Seems that is a good idea to take a nap in a coolness room when outside the sky is melting and any living thing is fighting for a breath...

Bird



Early in the morning, when sun rises above the sea...

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Typewriter



I found this (ancient) device on a table in a friend's office and I took it out for a photo.

Sibiu



Sibiu, also known as Hermannstadt, a very nice place to visit. Full of history and ancient buildings; here in pictures you can see the passage of the stairs linking the upper town to the lower town. Also you may find well preserved and stunning defense walls and defense towers, the Bruckental museum, cathedrals and beautiful squares surrounded by lovely restaurants. As usual, for more visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibiu

Country







Some pictures from last summer holiday, far away from crowd, noise, tv, internet...

Sunday, January 17, 2010

16th century Monastery


Cathedral of Curtea de Arges, dedicated to Saint Nicholas. It resembles a very large and elaborate mausoleum, built in Byzantine style, with Moorish arabesques. For more info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtea_de_Arge%C5%9F_Cathedral


Ship



Night shot of full size ship at the entrance (or exit...) of Constanta city. Unfortunately I could't catch the moon in picture, as it was high and my "tripod" was a rock found in the grass.

Friday, January 15, 2010

Cat



Hunting something... It has a bad habit (for me) to catch almost every night a mouse around the garden and leave it at the door. But otherwise... it is cute, despite the fact that one eye is green and the other one blue...

Thursday, January 14, 2010

... you sexy thing



Two girls having fun. Me too...

Shells



 Well, always can find interesting stuff on the beach. Shells, for example. Shortly will be sand...      

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Bear's Cave




I visited this cave when I was very little and since then each year I wanted to revisit it. Finally, I made it... and was awesome to realize that 30 years passed like in no time...
The name of the cave came from some 15000 yrs. old well preserved bears fossils.
And, funny fact, in this cave you may see a natural formation on the ceiling that looks like a trapped bear.
Anyway, you can find interesting facts on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pe%C5%9Ftera_Ur%C5%9Filor
If you intend to visit it... go there with a rented car. Your personal car only if you want to ruin it.




A man apart...



Browsing some old photos I found this picture of a man walking on the beach, in a frozen wind.

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Cluj Napoca



On the way back home I passed trough Cluj Napoca, also known as Klausenburg, a very beautiful and interesting city where I lived for two or three years, and stopped by to take a photo at dawn. I am not very proud with postprocessing but hope you will like as it is...
For more info about the city, access http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluj-Napoca .

Heathrow


Moments befor take-off...
Photo taken with a Canon A610 Powershot. Post processed a litte and I think it looks interesting. Actually the London sky isn't so dramatical but is beautifully strange.


Monday, January 11, 2010

Boat


I found on the beach this rusty boat, sailing on deep sand and high grass, waiting for better days perhaps. So I took a shot and processed as a HDR.

Friday, January 8, 2010

Quit smoking



I try hard to quit smoking... Not for health reasons (these shoud be the main) but from a financial point af wiew. I just made an arithmetic exercise and... guess what: 15yrs. x 2 pks. x 365 dys. x price  =  HUGE.

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Goodbye blue sky...



Price we pay for progress...
A beautiful powerplant.

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Piano under a shoe


I shot for a friend... wedding day...

Holiday


No watching tv, no computer, no internet, no fax, no radio... And it was awesome...

Stonehenge


Stonehenge, surrounded by green hills.  Quite impressive in the middle of nowhere. Hundreds or thousands years ago people used this site to worship at their gods, probably... who knows? And now different kind of people whorship the place. If you have the occasion to visit it... do it.

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Roses


Lying on the coach... bride's bouquet, from a shot at a wedding last summer...




Handwork... Artwork...


A friend's hands at work.
I always wanted to take a picture of him at work and finally succeeded... Here, finishing my bag. Always is amazing for me to watch him punching, cuting, sewing leather by hand. If you enlarge picture you can see all those holes punched at very equal space...  And truly amazing work. From Harley bags, to shotgun holders, to belts for jeans. I know he made a guitar strip for Nightwish.

Seagulls


Birds... like in a Hitchcock movie... flying over my head...

Cold Morning


Walking on the beach on a very cold morning with strong freezing wind, but interesting scenery. My hands were frozen and it took me a while to take the photo due to heavy shaking. I hope it worth...