spring – Page 9 – nicu's photoblog

Waiting for sakura

2010-04-07 nicubunu

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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:

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

And again on Sunday, when it was really close:

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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Sakura FAIL

2010-04-03 nicubunu

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Yoshiro cherry trees (染井吉野) ready to blossom, probably in a couple of days, and yet another FAIL for me, I am caught on the wrong foot and it looks like yet another time I will miss the opportunity of getting the photos that scream in my head for years and come, at best, with some soulless photos, just like the last year

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Spring in the city

2010-03-22 nicubunu

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Saturday I was out in the city for a photojournalism project (more about it next week) and passed near the Cismigiu Park and noticed how the spring has come: not only short, transparent skirts but also flowers and bees. Stopped for a short while (couldn’t let the rest of the team wait for me) and took a shoot of the later.

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Spring again

2010-03-08 nicubunu

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I think is the time to take a pause from echoing the last photoshot, otherwise people will start labelling me as “obsessed” or something, so let’s take a look at the spring which is trying to settle (it won’t be easy, the forecast says “light snow” for tonight)

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Video: Mărțișoare at MTR

2010-03-01 nicubunu

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In addition to taking photos at the Marțișor Fair at the Peasant Museum (Muzeul Țăranului Român, MTR) I also dis a short, crappy, video:

…have a bit a patience, a better Marțișor will come later today 😀

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Triumph? not so fast Buster…

2010-02-15 nicubunu

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A few weeks ago (almost one month ago!) I though I blew my last chance to get a good (but cliché) photo with snowdrops and snow but many things happened since then: snow and freezing cold, huge snow and so on. However, last week-end it looked like the spring finally triumphed and I got my snowdrops cliché:

It was warm and sunny and the little resilient managed to find their way out:

My joy was premature, this morning the winter was in full swing again, the place of my little snowdrops went from that to that (today’s photo are a bit rushed, I was already late for work):

And the little guys are fighting and still holding:

Who will win in the end? Place your bets…

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Spring’s announcers

2010-01-18 nicubunu

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A week ago when the weather was warm and nice and I thought the winter is gone for good I noticed in my garden some snowdrops (ghiocei) preparing to blossom and, as cliché as it is, I wanted to take a photo, as the message is strong, they are the first flowers of the year, the triumph of live over death, spring over winter.

With a full time work, at 7:30 in the morning when I leave home is not enough light and at 19-19:30 in the evening when I get back, it it already pitch black for a couple of hours already… yeah, that’s one of the ugliest parts of the winter, so my only chance was to wait for the week-end, hoping also for a ray of light, to make the photos more lively.

Fast forward to Saturday: the sky was cloudy, dark and depressing, not the atmosphere I wanted to illustrate the triumph of spring… so postponed one more day. Sunday morning, no luck either: the same dark, heavy clouds, the same depressing atmosphere. However, the ground was covered with some icy dust, a lame snow attempt, so I got the camera out for some photos, even if the story was different than the plan in my head. It still was a good story, about the winter who does not give-up easily:

Much to my surprise, today (Monday) morning when I opened the door was hit with a huge surprise: everything was white, a full winter is back. Of course my snowdrop flowers were covered fully in snow and of course it was too early in the morning, to dark to take a contrasting photos about how winter has won one more battle.

Now waiting for the next week-end, wondering which surprise will bring, what story will be told, what photos to be taken…

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Orange flower

2009-05-04 nicubunu

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Too much girl portraits lately? How about interrupting for a flower close-up? Yes, it is also from my garden and I don’t know its name…

Update: the high resolution of the photo(s) here were lost in an unfortunate accident(human error made by be) and a bit later the only copy remaining (resized for web use, hosted on flickr) was deleted by the yahoo bastards. I am very sad about the lost content, but is out of my control. My only hope is I will be able to replace them with more and better shots.

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Lilac Lucky Charms

2009-04-27 nicubunu

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A short pause from the beautiful girl portraits for some beautiful flowers: purple lilac.

When I was a kid, we used to vandalize the lilac flowers, searching for "lucky charms": flowers with a non-standard number of petals, anything else than 4, be it less or more.

And it happens a lot to find such "lucky" lilac flowers, but I think the tree from my garden is a mutant or something, you can find flowers with 3, 5, 6, 7 or even 8 petals.

And no, they are not lucky…

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Fruity blossom

2009-04-21 nicubunu

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A short pause from posting photos of beautiful and sometime nasty girls for some other beautiful things, like spring blossom. Today is all about fruits: apples, quince and strawberries. Yummmy….

I am not afraid that be bar would be raised too much, I have some really beautiful portraits still awaiting to be posted…

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SMAEB + 4tuning – eye candy for everybody

2009-04-14 nicubunu

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I have in mind a quote which is so obvious that a lot of people should said it already "a car show is for a photographer just like a candy store for a child"

So the candy store cam to me this spring in the form of the 2009 edition of both the Bikes Salon SMAEB and the car tuning salon 4tuning, something I couldn’t miss, no matter what.

I took effectively tons of photos (thousands), like in this post general shots of the show but more will come when I get to process them: a lot of beautiful booth babes, some portraits, a number of panty shots and a few surprises.

I am not much into cars or bikes, so the machines are only [at most] a secondary element in my pictures, so if you are searching for cars, maybe this is not the best place to look at.

On a technical side, I attended the fairs both Saturday and Sunday but tried something: one day shooting with a zoom lens (28-300mm) and a lot of flash (my first massive use of flash ever) and the other day used a 50mm prime and almost no flash. Being lazy, I still prefer to use the zoom lens.

The hardest part was, as always is the case for me, the selection. I just find awfully hard to reject photos, even when they have visible defects, I still find a thing or two what I like. This is my largest weakness as a photographer.

So stay ready, more to come…

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Forget-me-not. Blue.

2009-04-08 nicubunu

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Blue Forget-me-not are one of my favourite flowers, no wonder I can’t stop my camera when viewing some…

Blue Forget-Me-Not / Nu-Ma-Uita Albastre

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Magnolias

2009-04-07 nicubunu

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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:

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

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Senbonzakura Kageyoshi

2009-04-06 nicubunu

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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.