Category: sky

Fly, fly, little butterlfy!

If soemthign is appropriate for the Children’s Day today, this must be it: the cute butterfly flying over the grassy field.

butterly

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Crimson city

At times I may be positive towards it, but there are also many cases when I hate this shitty city, like yesterday evening when returning home I witnessed such a beautiful sunset, only to have the city obstructing my views and ruining the scenery.

sunset

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Air Show on Lacul Morii

Saturday with a few friends I attended a show with boats and airplanes on Lacul Morii in Bucharest. From my point of view, the most spectacular part was the finale, with those planes and their smoggy trains, drawing on the sky.

air show air show air show air show

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Two sides of winter

Archway over time, two sides, evolution, change, progress… still winter.

trees in winter

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Crepuscular Bucharest

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.

twilight

twilight

twilight

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Waiting for sakura

Even if I expect it to be a failure, I can’t stop following the cherry blossom season and take the best pictures I can, even if they are not the pictures I wanted. And this season is now, so I started on Friday, when, before the Easter mini-holiday I had a short day at work, by then they were ready but still not in flower:

sakura

Then I returned on Saturday, when the first flower started to show, not enough but a little step forward:
sakura

And again on Sunday, when it was really close:
sakura

But after that the weather changed, Monday was dark and cold, under an imminent rain, Tuesday it rained all day and today is a bit better, still not hot enough. Not sure If this weather change is bad, ruining the season or will help me keeping the flowers until the next week-end. We’ll see.

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Magnolias

Is relatively easy for me to shoot white magnolias, since there is (still) one in my garden, so I have a lot of shots with its flowers:

White Magnolia and More

But I like better the pink ones, so I had to search the city:

Pink Magnolia

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Senbonzakura Kageyoshi

What can I say more? Those are yoshiro cherry trees (染井吉野) in full blossom in the "Japanese Garden" from the Herastrau Park in Bucharest. Ah, there is something more to say: it was a warm day and the bees were flying from flower to flower. So Chire, Senbonzakura Kageyoshi.

Sakura: Japanese cherry tree blossom Sakura: Japanese cherry tree blossom

Sakura: Japanese cherry tree blossom Sakura: Japanese cherry tree blossom

Sakura: Japanese cherry tree blossom Sakura: Japanese cherry tree blossom

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Blossoming apricot

I think is the time to start unleashing the blossoming trees of the spring… Chire, Senbonzakura Kageyoshi!

Blossoming trees: Apricot

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Sunset at Arcul de Triumf

My last photo session from 2008 (the New Year Eve one doesn’t count, it ended in 2009) was completely unexpected: the last working day was a bit shorter, I left the office a couple of hours earlier than usual, so I encountered a beautiful sunset. Jumped out of the bus as fast as I could at Arcul de Triumf where I hoped to get a clear view of the skyline and tried to capture it.

Sunset at Arcul de Triumf

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Half-winter sunset at the lake

Not very happy with the photo session at the Gaudeamus book fair, I tried to "save" the fay: only a few steps away is the Herăstrău Park, the place where I took most of my nature shots.

It was very cold, last days of November with a weather just like snow-less winter so the place looked deserted, a lot of crows, dead leaves, few people and a drowned lake. And the sunset photos are taken from the opposite direction, with the sun on my back: the horizon was covered by trees and buildings and I had to use a reflection.

Half-winter sunset at the lake

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Prater, Vienna

The amusement park, attractions, Ferris Wheel, and girls in "interesting" postures.

Prater: small wheel

Prater: Visitors

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FUDCon day 1: The City

Going to FUDCon was an awesome opportunity to see the beautiful city of Brno.

FUDCon 2008 Brno

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A walk in the park

What can you expect from a walk in the park? Unhealthy food, girls in "interesting" postures and the beauty of the sky… Isn’t Herastrau great?

Candy apple

Girlfriends

Heavenly light

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