So I think this picture is the best to start the illustration of my recent travel to India, I spent most of the time on the Ukhra village, but also in the Kolkata and Durgapur cities, all of them in the West Bengal. The state was for a long while under a communist government and it shows, not only from the many signs you can see on the walls. More to come 🙂
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So back in Belgium I didn’t do only pervy stuff, tasty luches and geeky matters, I also had the opportunity to visit the beautiful city ov Bruges, with its old buildings, the canal and the chocolate, everything covered in ice and snow (it was a cold winter):
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It is a beautiful day outside: snow still fresh, bright sun and clear air (is cold), so when I had some errands outside (to print a few indian cosplay pics, incidentally), I couldn’t resist taking a few snaps. Until my fingers got almost frozen on the camera and then I was happy to return to the warmth of the office :). Anyway, as you can see, Bucharest is flooded in snow, but we are still alive:
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If the first time was a quick work with hand held camera, this time, despite the atrocious freezing cold the pics came, I think, a bit better.
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Every year I am more and more disappointed with the Christmas light in Bucharest, surely the mayor is doing a bad job with this. For this year they are monotonous, boring and cheap, unable to impress. It may be his incompetence or the economic downturn, maybe a bit from both.
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From the height of the International Hotel at a fashion show I discovered a beautiful view of the night over the Bucharest city center:
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The winners of the Wiki Loves Monuments photography contest are announced today, time for me to take a deep breath, rest and then brag a bit 😀
From the almost 5800 submitted pictures, the jury made a short selection of 284 “finalists”, pictures considered the best and worthy of a closer evaluation. Despite my notices and warnings, the other members of the jury selected a few of my own submissions among those finalists (as an organizer and jury member, I could not receive any prizes, but couldn’t abstain from contributing). And again despite my notices and warnings, they noted my photos (I disqualified them to be fair, giving my notes as ZERO) and, even with one of the 3 jury members noting them “0”, they are not the last in the list.
Bunt enough talk, here are the pics:
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After a post exclusively dedicated to the Duomo, I am following with some random shoots took trough the city of Milano. Starting, as a journey, from the central train station:
Then a night shot of the Sforza castle:
And a day shot of a bridge in the park next to the castle:
Alternating with yet another night shot with column (sorry, forgot the name of the place):
And some shopping in the Vittore Emanuele II gallery::
Finally, another Italian staple, a motor scooter in the street:
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Today is the opening of the “Bucharest in black and white” (BucureÈ™tiul în alb È™i negru) photo gallery, where I qualified with one picture, the one below. Is open until the end of the month, so come and see us at CărtureÈ™ti:
While black and white is not exactly my thing, I have adjusted myself to follow the rules, And also had to adjust the framing, while I usually do 3:2, the rules here were 4:3 or 1:1, so unusual color space, unusual framing. Hope I didn’t sucked too much.
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Part of the Wiki Loves Monuments campaign, we had this week-end an event called “Wiki Takes Bucharest” (it also happened in many other European cities), gathering together 7 contributors walking for a couple of hours trough the city and taking pictures of historical monuments for Wikipedia. I made a more in-depth account of it on my blog. It was fun and, I hope, productive:
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For the last week-end of the Bucharest Days for 2011, on the stage on Lipscani street they had a Spanish group, named Malasangre5 (is this the 5 bad bloods? they were only 4…) singing and dancing flamenco, and they were not bad at all:
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This was an unexpected attraction for Bucharest Days: a couple of geishas walking around on stilts and entertaining the audience. Yeah, their list of words, expressions and jokes was limited, but they were quite enthusiastic.
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Sometime in September is the celebration of Bucharest Days, so this year for almost a full month (26 August – 18 September) there are supposed to happen various things in the Old City, as this is how the event is called this year, “Old City Days”. Being there for Wikipedia photo hunting I noticed the fair and the concert scene, so when done I returned for a bit of festival.
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It was kind of frustrating to promote the Wiki Loves Monuments, make video tutorials, organize photo walks, but not upload any photo (I can’t and I won’t enter the contest, since I am organizer and judge). Until the solution stroke: there can be a photo category for organizers, which is counted for the total and seeding data, but not entering in the contest. Relief! A first batch is up, more are to come 🙂
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Saturday, being out in the city for the Wikipedia photography contest I saw in the Old City some manifestation for the Bucharest’s Days (it time allows, will follow with more posts on the topic) when I saw this funny T-shirt… I guess I am a natural born survivor, since I am what I like to call a “real bucureÈ™tean” (I say that especially when I saw people fromt he North-West of the country looking down to us with arrogance):
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