The Easter Bunny

The rule of this photography blog is to post pictures made by myself... today is a rare exception, with pictures of myself... Sunday, the Easter day, I was out in the city with a few photographer friends, I was prepared having with me a pair of bunny ears and when the gang saw them, they dared me to wear the ears trough the city and... I did so :) Here are some pics taken by them:

Flori Jianu saw the "sexy bunny":


Alin Dima the "cute one":


Marian Nedelcu the "dangerous one":


And Nick Constandache the "bunny in love" (with his own shadow...):


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Painted eggs / me bad atheist?

Thursday before the Orthodox Easter, is the day when traditionally people paint the eggs for Easter around here. I am not sure if this makes me a bad atheist, but I am posting a picture with some painted eggs from the flowers day festival this year. Shoot me :)


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Cats? Let's try chickens!

I know I kind of promised cat photos, so I had to execute... good luck finding this hidden guy :)

But I think I like way better this chicken picture, so I'll throw it in the mix too:


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Cherry blossom at Muzeul Satului

It looks like I did everything at Flowers Day (Florii) in the Village Museum (Muzeul Satului), from glamourous shoots, to traditional masters interviews, to children portraiture to fun photos and cat photos (yes, I did that too), except the very thing I was there in the first place: cherry blossom pictures. Wrong! I did that too :)



And as it was the tulips season, I did also tulip pictures:

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Little ones at Florii in Muzeul Satului

Traditional masters? Rural glamour? Of course! But there were also a lot of little ones, both in the show and the audience:



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I love candy

They surely do love candy :)


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Rural glamour

When you have it in your blood, you can't stop, you have to make this type of photography, so even if a Flowers Day at Village Museum didn't seem like the place for it, I managed to see those girls taking each other photos with a small compact, stepped in and helped with my gear:

To me the costumes looked genuine, the girls cute and natural, the setting perfect, so I got myself a little shooting. Joy!

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Tradition masters

Sunday was Flowers Day (Florii), the last Sunday before the Easter and the Village Museum (Muzeul Satului) in Bucharest hosted a big event, with traditional art, music, spectacles and such. Being a really beautiful spring day, I couldn't resist and was there with the camera in my hand: rustic houses, people in traditional costumes and blossoming cherry trees... what you can ask for more? (wait the next couple of posts for more...)

There I meet Gheorghe Ciobanu, an amazing guy: he is a peasant naive painter who talk with passion about his art, we had a short but delightful conversation about the purpose of art, he also gave me hid "internet number", where I can see a gallery with his works. Recommended.

He had there a lot of idyllic paintings about nature, flowers, spirituality, village life and so on. When leaving, I saw on a fence a lot of paintings with strong sexual connotations, also part of the traditional rural live, I guess. I love his guy and his work (and there is more such stuff on his website.


Another highlight of an interesting person I meet there is Veturia Suciu, an old lady who does sewing. Seeing my photo camera she asked from which TV station am I, we talked a bit, she told be about her being at sunset and how is she would have a sunrise would be able to create more.


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And SMAEB 2011 it was...

And the bike salon SMAEB 2011 happened this year... despite a massive data loss (still didn't recover the pictures made in the first day, the memory card is not cooperating, my hopes are smaller and smaller), I still have some pictures to share:


Thank you all!

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