Lifting a quote straight from Wikipedia:
"In photography, the golden hour (sometimes known as magic hour, especially in cinematography) is the first and last hour of sunlight during the day, when a specific photographic effect is achieved with the quality of the light."
As I stumbled around the city center around the golden hour a couple of days ago, I just had to take a few shots in that magic light:
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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.
But passing there is a torrid summer day the large number of fountains in the middle of the crammed traffic is somewhat refreshing.
And I find even more refreshing the life around those fountains, both beasts and people are enjoying the water.
I think the dog puts in perspective the "dog day" expression and also I envy his his freedom.
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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!
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Many times I talked about the beautiful parks in the city, but there is also an ugly side you don’t want to talk about very often…
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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?
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The weather in Berlin is about the same with what I left in Bucahrest: rainy.
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Rain in Bucharest is doom and gloom, the city usually gets near to a collapse:
But at least some look like enjoying it (or at least being affected not that much):
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The white swans are symbol for what swan stand for: grace, purity, delicacy… and black are original, unusual, exotic. So I guess it was a good idea to have both types in the Cismigiu Park. An unusual +1 for the people in charge.
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The benefits of a sunny morning after heavy rain are not only about taking close-up of snails but also the great opportunity to catch some beautiful rain drops on the petals of the roses in your garden.
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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.
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The first day at Floss Camp Romania 2008 was scary: so much rain…
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