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Wide in Brussels

2011-02-08
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Over the week-end I was in Brussels for the FOSDEM conference, as part of the Fedora team, the perfect opportunity to take my wide lens with me and take a lot of travel photos.

So of course there were building, cathedrals, monuments and so:

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And there were cool stores, anime, comic books and so forth:
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And plenty of good Belgian beer, at Delirium and not only:
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And there was specific food:
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Of course the chocolate was not missing, but this time was no chocolate:
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Many more photos are dumped in a quickly made gallery.

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The season of what?

2010-12-08
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The season of joy? Yes, it came, the city lights were turned on a couple of days ago. However… don’t expect much joy this Christmas… it definitely be a lonely one.

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Inertia + Glass = …

2010-11-25
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These days I am so low, that I continue to exist and function mostly from inertia… and how the plan to buy some new glass was made long ago, when I had the money for it I followed the inertia and got it. At a focal range of 11-16 mm, it is something one would call ultra-wide and all can say is the world seen trough it is different.

Still, people who know me know my interest in cold buildings or landscapes (strong points for such a camera) is limited, my heart is to photos with people and it will allow for interesting effects, like perspective deformation, impossibly long legs, shooting someone head-to-toes from maybe 1 meter away and such so obviously need to play with it. The problem is… right now I don’t want to be around people, except one single, special person, who do everything to keep me away. Inertia got me stuck to a wall.

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Crepuscular Bucharest

2010-07-15
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It was a heavy storm in the evening, just before I left the office and then the black clouds cleared a bit for the sun near the horizon, allowing for one of the most beautiful “golden hour” lights I remember but I was in a hurry to get somewhere and did not capture it. A bit later, after I failed the task I had in the city I noticed the beautiful colors of the twilight and this time did use my camera, trying to capture them. Hope you like them too, from the right angle and at the right time Bucharest is not that bad… The bad part is me being completely unprepared: hand held camera and only the 50mm lens with me.

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twilight

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The Gathe… what? Gathering. At least there is some fire…

2010-02-26
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Last Saturday I took a pause from shooting hotties and tried to please my lenses with some geeky stuff at a convention called “The Gathering: Origins”, which was supposed to be about “board games, guns and airsoft equipment, action figures, darts, fussball, SF and more”. I can’t say it was a disappointment, it was exactly how I expected it: lame.

First, the cosplay is key. And I can’t call cosplay a “Japanese” girl dresses in something looking like a bathrobe stolen from her mother and a Lara Croft dressed for winter won’t cut it.

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Or how about the hot nurse? Not sure what her purpose was there (I believe a booth with some guys fixing PCs), but she was so bored and tired, not wanting to pose any more.
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Of course there were some girls willing to pose and hoth enough to worth that, but without the costumes, where’s the fun?
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Worth noting were a few tables with people playing Warhammer

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And maybe a few figurines (but not that great: the same old Batman, the same old Star Wars, the same old Lara…)
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All in all, I don’t regret leaving the fashion show for it, I returned to that the next day for more bling.

The part I really liked was a good reprise of juggling with fire:

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There were a few people doing it and knowing what they were doing:
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How I spent the 2010 New Year’s Eve

2010-01-04
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A short lived tradition (it was the second iteration), but is still a tradition, it was again the time of the year to shoot New Year’s Eve concerts and fireworks. Unlike the last year, when my choice was to boycott a communist mayor ans stay in Piața Revoluției, this year I headed to the main event, in Piața Constituției.

However, I still passed trough Piața Revoluției, with a party organised by Pro TV and MTV, which was flooded with people wearing blue and red fedoras (I covered more about this elsewhere).

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One thing to appreciate is those people know hot to make a show, even if they co bad in the opposite direction with manele:
new year 2010

After spending about half an hour there, I moved to Piața Constituției:
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There it was a varied audience:
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Listening to music
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And having tons of fun
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I appreciated the “evil” side
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And rocked a bit
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And then participated in the countdown
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And enjoyed the show, with lasers
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And fireworks
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And lasers
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And fireworks
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And fire
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And lasers again
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And fireworks
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Into the huge spectacle
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All the time I was as busy as I could: in the right hand holding (and shooting with) the dSLR, and with the left hand recording video:
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One over another, it was a positive experience.

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Creepy Michael of the Snow

2009-12-28
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Beyond being totally creepy (oh, those empty eyes!) as a statue and beyond the need for some kids to get a life, I kind of admire the dedication of building this unusual snowman, the snowcarnation of Michael “the king of pop”. Maybe I should take a detour to take another photo a few days later, it wad warm and rainy, he should look disfigured and even creepier.

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Pan Flute for Christmas

2009-12-28
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Playing the Pan flute is pretty much a highlight of the local folklore (you know, titans like Zamfir) so when you encounter a Christmas concert in the park, even if the singer is pretty much a kid, what she’s playing is not bad at all (there is also a video with her solo play of O, brad frumos/O Tannenbaum).

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Real winter, real Christmas

2009-12-21
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The Christmas lights are lame this year, but is cold and the snow abundant, so a combination of the two is interesting:

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Christmas Lights: something

2009-12-07
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I complained a few days ago about our incompetent city mayor and the late firing-up of the city lights for Christmas, the city center is a major disappointment: for the first time they are using exactly the same lights as the last year, only fewer (some were probably broken).

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Something new and positive wad the Cismigiu Park, in addition to the skating area they have a big tree, a fair and lights:
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