Castelul Corvineştilor (Hunedoara)

(mulţumiri lui Peter Iancovici pentru panorama de mai sus)

N-am să intru eu în detalii... textul este luat de pe Wikipedia

"The impressive size and architectural beauty sets it among the most precious monuments of medieval art, subsequent developments mixing Gothic style with Renaissance and Baroque. The building lies on a rock around which flows the river Zlasti. It has an impressive bridge, countless towers, a number of interior courts, and two large halls, "Knight Hall" and "Diet Hall", as it housed the diet of Transylvania for a very short period."

În ciuda legendelor din popor, inscripţia de lângă fântâna castelului nu înseamnă

"Apă ai, inimă n-ai"

ci

"Cel care a scris aceasta inscriptie este Hasan, care traieste ca rob la ghiauri, in cetatea de lânga biserica".

my favourite drug

Imagine a hot summer morning... you just want to get away from the noise and the heat that seems to be everywhere... You enter this wooden door that leads you into a realm of peacefulness... You sit down on this big and fluffy and so comfortable sofa that almost hugs you and ask for a coffee. Why coffee on such a hot day? Because the smell of fresh coffee is everywhere inside this place, it's in the walls, in the fluffy sofa and even in the music... that poisonous and addictive smell has touched your every sense and has entered your very being. Great coffee... so dark and strong and yet so smooth and silky... Just like that lounging jazz tunes playing low from somewhere... just can't figure out where. And just like the low, reddish and so smooth light that can barely enter this place... It gives you a cozy feeling that you've only experienced in your sweetest and most intimate dreams... and even more... The perfect place!

And now imagine that you actually didn't imagine that!

the need for changes...

Some people always feel the need for changes. Although I hate it when something or someone takes me out of my inertia, sometimes I feel the need for changes also. It's these changes that make me go faster and higher, that make me be better and stronger. It's the need to outrun my own self, to avoid my own faults and to fight my own deamons.

So... Dog had to go... and so did some other photos that no longer represented my... let's call them 'best interests'...

Fewer but better! Only the good ones will be left standing. So if I want to have anything left in my blog I'd better start shooting better photos, don't you agree?

Oh! And by the way, that's me... why me and why here? I don't know... ask myself!

Chess, anyone?

...potenţial mare, rezultate slăbuţe. Ca să nu mai spun că era s-o şi încasez de la un şahist mai "tinerel"... Grea viaţă!

MARA

...a great model and a greater person!

Îţi mulţumesc că ai acceptat provocarea şi îmi pare rău că nu m-am ridicat la înălţimea aşteptărilor (mele, cel puţin)

Can you see beyond the mirror?

Imagination knows no limits. It reaches beyond age, sex or nationality.

" It's all in the way we're thinking. And we're trapped in ourselves all the time."

În orice situaţie există o portiţă de scăpare, iar imaginaţia este portiţa de scăpare din propria cuşcă.

It's the only way out!


Iar când ma uit în jur şi trag linie... de multe ori am impresia că cei mai mulţi dintre noi suntem condamnaţi la închisoare pe viaţă.


Thank you Sassa, for letting me post your photo on my blog!

marching ants... sounds like a photoshop feature, doesn't it? :P


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Don't you all love this country?

"Cum să ratezi finala in trei paşi simpli"

1. Te aperi
2. Te aperi prost
3. Mai bagi nişte fundaşi

MONEY BACK GUARANTEE!!!


Adevarul e că am cam dat-o-n bară de data asta... da' rău de tot, nu aşa!

Nu cred ca e neapărat vorba de antrenor sau de echipă, de caracter, arbitraj, teren sau suporteri... O avem în sânge!!! Ce? Plângerea de milă, resemnarea şi delăsarea, amăgirea sinelui cu "perele mălăieţe" care sunt pe punctul de a cădea din pom drept in gura noastră cea atât de spurcată... Unii numesc sindromul ăsta balcanism. Nu mă pronunţ... un lucru în schimb e sigur! Nu ştim să luptăm. N-am ştiut niciodata şi probabil că n-o să ştim vreodata: romanii, turcii, ruşii sau Middlesborough... toţi au trecut peste noi fără drept de apel. Iar noi, mai mult decât să le pupăm fundurile împărăteşti n-am putut face. Cu alte cuvinte... "Never stop, never stop fighting till the fight is done." (Kevin Costner in The Untouchables)

Wake up, people! Dacă vreţi să vă fie bine, faceţi ceva pentru ţara asta de CĂCAT în care trăiţi. Sau plecaţi naibii altundeva! Who the fuck needs you anyway?

The long way to a good portrait...

...shot in miserable conditions (something like rain and dark clouds). Luckily I had the chance to use an IS (image stabilizer) Canon lens. Anyway, if you're wondering why the photo isn't that sharp... well that's because I had a 1/4 seconds exposure time.

... and it's a long way to a good portrait when you're at the beginning...

IN MEMORIAM

Who were these people, anyway?

Their names are embossed on the fountain and yet nobody even notices them anymore... Next time I pass by I think I'll... drink in their memory.

Just another spring

...loved those colors, those smells, those images... loved those days...

Viva la Revolucion!

Am cumpărat filmul ăsta de la un amic cu 20000 de lei vechi acum vreo doi ani... Îl gasise într-o baltă din spatele căminului.

Drept urmare... Viva la Revolucion!

(Timişoara, 1989 - fotograf necunoscut)

the Random Gallery (poze adunate de-a lungul "timpului")

...de-a lungul timpului inseamna de mai putin de un an incoace. Toate pozele sunt facute pe film, ori cu Praktica SuperTL (+ Carl Zeiss Pancolar 50mm f1.8 si Pentacon 135mm f2.8), ori cu Canon EOS 500 (+ Canon EF 50mm f1.8 MkII si Tamron 28-200 f3.8-5.6)

"Sunset over the Park"

"Picturesque"

"Censorship"

"Bloody Sunset"


"Lonely Hallway"


"Inside my Dream..."


"In-motion"

Legal 'Street Racing'

Nişte încercări de panning pe care le-am avut ieri... printre primele de altfel.

Un nume sugestiv, cu toate că 'bolizii' alergau cu sub 30km/h, aproape de o intersecţie...

Street racing pe două roţi!

the Birds!

This guy is always there, with his weight counter, whether it's summer or winter... Never saw anyone paying for his services though...
It's just him and the birds!

Photomanipulation

curious about something? just ask!