Year: 2012

Bucharest in black and white 2012

2012-10-04
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Last year I had a picture there, this year one of my pics was selected again for the “Bucharest in black and white” (Bucureștiul în alb și negru) photo exhibition, which should open on October 17 at Cărturești, near Piața Romană. It was taken earlier this year at Femei pe Mătăsari.

bucharest in black and white

Again, the same rule is for the image format, 4:3, which I wonder about, it is the image format for compact cameras: is one of the exhibition heavyweights too lazy to crop his pictures or is an opening for newbies still using compacts? (a newbie may not know how to crop, while you have better expectation from someone with a bigger camera).

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Purple haze tutorial

2012-10-03
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iphone 5I rarely cross-post things from one of my blogs to another, but now my sarcastic howto edit photos for an iPhone 5 look is somewhat on-topic here, so if you want to make a bit of fun about the defective iPhone camera while learning a tiny bit of GIMP editing, go read it.

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Jazz interactions

2012-10-03
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Assisting to a jazz concert (the Jack DeJohnette Group, with an opening by Iordache and his band), I understood is less visually appealing compared with, for example, a metal concert (my fave), both as lighting, costumes, accessories, stage play (also, my placement, as a mere spectator in the crowd was limiting), so I decided to channel my attention to interactions on the stage.

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jazz
jazz
jazz
jazz
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ASE ball still up

2012-10-02
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Yesterday a new university year started for students across the country. ASE, standing for the University of Economic Studies is one of the big traditional universities in Bucharest, famous for the large percentage of female students. It is also knows for an urban legend: one of its buildings has a ball shaped roof and the legend say it will fall-off when a virgin (implied, female virgin) will pass by it.

Note: myself, I graduated long ago at UPB, the engineering university, where is no ball problem (if you know what I mean…)

ASE

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The old man and his bike

2012-10-01
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Sitting on a bench, near the agitation of BikeFest and so many youngsters

the old man and his bike

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Two on a bike

2012-10-01
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Besides SkirtBike, another event at BikeFest was the “two on a bike” race, here teams of two people riding the same bike went head to head in a competition.

two on a bike
two on a bike

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SkirtBike

2012-10-01
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Last week-end the Izvor park in Bucharest hosted the BikeFest festival, which had as one of its events the fourth edition of SkirtBike (autumn edition), where women are invited to take part with a bicycle while wearing a skirt (preferably vintage) and maybe high heels.

skirtbike
skirtbike
skirtbike

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Halfway

2012-10-01
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The first half of the Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 is done: photo submission ended, not is the time for the second half, jury enters the action to select the winners.

So far it exceeded the expectations, in Romania we collected over 8750 images from about 270 participants, a significant increase from around 5800 images in the previous year. The international contest is also well, the grand total is over 360000 images and still counting (some imports are undergoing), more than double compared with the previous year.

Some serious ass kicking happened!

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Low priced dwellings

2012-09-27
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Believe or not, as this historical monument plate says, it used to be a “Low Priced Dwellings Society”. I expect the name to pretty much be a publicity stunt, but that makes it no less funny.

low priced dwellings

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Must time

2012-09-25
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Is autumn, the season for grapes to get ripe. The wides use for the grapes is wine making, but before the fermentation they become must, a wonderful drink full of sweetness and flavor. Best served with grilled pastrami.

must making

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Luxury photography

2012-09-25
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Hunting for my latest batch of photos for the Wiki Loves Monuments photo contest, I encountered this building, which is not a historical monument, but still an interesting sight. Ans you can probably see is a former shop, which had a “FOTO LUX” sign, if not obvious, that is Romanian for “Luxury Photography”. Think of the past glory of this place…

luxury photography

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A last sprint for Wiki Loves Monuments

2012-09-24
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I have queued for editing and upload around 75 pictures taken in the last week-end, I will add them to my other contributions to Wiki Loves Monuments, is the last week and my hope is to exceed the numbers from the last year, when the total was close to 5800 pictures (this morning we were at just a bit over 5000)

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On religion and my photos

2012-09-20
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If there is one thing I try hard to avoid is being a hypocrite, this is why I question myself often. Now is one of those times 🙂

I deeply and sincerely believe religion is evil but I do photography, contributing to things like Wiki Loves Monuments I take and publish a lot of pictures of churches, monasteries and various other religious things and I also take photos at events like weddings and baptisms, where religion is a very important side. I know churches and monasteries are the bulk of historical monuments here (in medieval times very little culture happened in Romania outside the religion) and I know the society make the religious part that important in life events, but still feel a bit uneasy.

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religion

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Bye Caragiale

2012-09-20
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If a few month back I caught an Caragiale act near the opening the the all-summer long Caragiale Festival, now near its end I caught another, the same company, Masca, but a different play, “O scrisoare pierdută”.

scrisoare pierduta

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Attention span

2012-09-20
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Somehow, I am not very sure the seller is very focused on his colored balloons, something else may have caught his attention. Not good for the business.

balloons

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