Category: candid

Mărțișoare 2010

Even if I think Mărțișor if a shitty useless and overcommercialized tradition, every year I go shooting, as the opportunity is too good to pass. This year the Peasant Museum held again a big fair, but the weather today was really uncooperative: clouds, rain, cold. Still, people were on duty.

martisoare martisoare

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Teaser: playing with the brides (the bride and the panties)

Beware, huge bridal photoshot incoming, including a lot of candids and playful poses, here’s a teaser (technically, this was NOT a candid, since she was aware of my doings):

the pride and the panties

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Panty hunting at Expo Mariaj 2010

If you follow my photography blog, you already know that, I am a perv and if there are any panties in the visual reach, I will shot them, or at least try to… So the last week-end, I was surrounded not only by beautiful cleavages but also by panties… here are some:

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Squirrels in autumn – cutesy

Remember my old friends and models, the squirrels from the Herastrau Park? I meet them again this week-end, when shooting the beautiful autumn

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Buses – part 2

In fact there is no part one… Part one was about a year ago when I posted on my main blog a photo made with my phone while going home, back from work, in the public transportation system in Bucharest. It was nothing special, made with the phone hels in the normal position for use wile texting for example and showing nothing more than could be recorded by the surveillance camera.

Still, it generated the most heated debate ever on my blog (I still receive now comments on it), with people attacking or defending me. Some even tried to Google bomb me, trying to make me to take down the page. This simply won’t happen! But in a funny(ironic?) twist, those guys are still one of the main traffic sources on the blog 😀 (and indirectly ads click, which probably made me something in the range of 20$).

This controversy was one of my main reasons to start a separate blog dedicated to photography, where I published a lot of stuff, even more revealing, and the reactions were completely different (maybe because here the audience has less pompous *******?)

But Wow! what a long introduction! And for what? A couple of days ago, returning from work to home, the same public transportation system and having with me the same crappy camera phone I got the opportunity for a similar shot. Going full-circle.

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Enache

My bad joke is like: if her name is not Enache already, it should be. Laptaria lu’ Enache. Sorry, but I think she its impressive and I believe all natural. +1.

I tried hard to get the best shot, so hard that in the end I got noticed, which reduced the "candid" impact. So is life… too many people crossing the road, not enough chanced for a clear shot.

Summer in the city

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Summer in the city

I always hated the megalomaniacal constructions in the center of the city at Piața Unirii, I think they are an ugly remaining of the dreaded communist era and are making Bucharest uglier.

Summer in the city

But passing there is a torrid summer day the large number of fountains in the middle of the crammed traffic is somewhat refreshing.

Summer in the city

And I find even more refreshing the life around those fountains, both beasts and people are enjoying the water.

Summer in the city Summer in the city

I think the dog puts in perspective the "dog day" expression and also I envy his his freedom.

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Under the bridge

A loot of my candid shots are taken on a certain bridge in the Herastrau Park (a favorite spot), just like the one below: either with people passing by or looking down at the boats below. But there is also an ugly side: last Sunday, don’t know how, I had my lens hood falling in the water… I don’t know to swim and even so, I would not swim in that water, so it lost… time to buy another one!

Park candids

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Dealing with the wind… close, but no cigar

A reader of my photography blog may already know I am trying to master the wind, with a various degree of success. Last week-end I was so close… but still no cigar.

Park candids Park candids

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Master of the wind part 2

A second take on the "you must master the wind" lesson and (coincidence?) this is taken minutes and effectively a few meters away (the same part of the Herastrau Park) from the first part, it must be exactly the same nasty wind, as it was the same nasty photographer.

The wind and the bride

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Street photography: formal versus casual

A quick research: the girls walking on the street look better in a formal or casual outfit? Look below:

The beautiful streets of Bucharest in the summer

+1 for formal

The beautiful streets of Bucharest in the summer

+1 for casual

The beautiful streets of Bucharest in the summer

+1 for formal

The beautiful streets of Bucharest in the summer

+1 for casual

… so far is a tie :p I guess is not about the clothes but about who is wearing them.

And now as a bonus something that isn’t either casual nor formal:

The beautiful streets of Bucharest in the summer

A goth girl can be cute too!

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Master of the wind

This photo, from the park candids set is so close but still failed, it could have been framed a lot better. But there is one thing to learn: you must master the wind and the result is revealing.

Herastrau

PS: still debating with a friend, he is sure she is not wearing any panties, I say there may be a G-string. What’s your take?

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Afternoon in the park

A lot of candid things may be captured if you spend a sunny Saturday afternoon in the park. How about when your "prey" notices you and send a smile?

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Beside walking, people are skating, taking photos and taking photos while skating:

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Lot of candids

For quite a while I took a lot of candids and was not sure about publishing some of them… well, a chain of recent conversations with people from various countries and genders made me to change my mind about that.

From a lot of angles Bucharest is a shitty city, this hit me heavily when returning from a short vacancy in Berlin, but still there are a few things on it streets making you feel comfortable at home, here are a few such snapshots gathered over the past year:

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A perv in the rain

So you are a photographer… you have some things to to in the center of he city when a heavy rain, a storm, start falling down. Of course you take out your camera, move into a place where you are covered enough so the rain will not damage the camera or cover the lenses and start shooting left and right. Don’t the wet girls look nice?

Snapshots in the Rain Snapshots in the Rain

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