Parenting: New Year

Parenting for the new year: booze, balloons, hats, confetti, fun.

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Biscuit salami

The previous cooking picture was true, real cooking happened, The result, a biscuit salami (dessert made from biscuits, cocoa, flavour and more) is this:

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Cooking

This picture was intended for the parenting series, but due to a technical failure, the light didn't come to match the series, so it was replaced with something else. Still, it was popular enough, probably due to the subject.

Update: if curious about the final product, here is it.

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Parenting: Nap

Today on the parenting series: taking a nap in the playing cot.

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Night encounter

The night was cold, still there was a warm place at the border of light and shadows

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Star trails

Those stars in the dark night, they really do have light trails.

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Christmas fair

It opened a few weeks ago, but only now I managed to make a night visit to the Christmas fair in the center of the city.

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Frozen pattern

Cold weather means ice and snow, the colder the more aggressive the ice.

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Almost winter

Today I has some business to take care of on the opposite side of the city. Much to my surprise getting out of the subway, the weather was very different from home, almost like winter is supposed to be (only snow on the ground was missing)

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Sunny

A place called 'Sun Plaza' (it is a mall in Bucharest) is supposed to be sunny, right?

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Making of Parenting: Xmas

For those who liked my Xmas picture in the Parenting series, I am breaking some of its magic with a 'making of': tripod, remote trigger, multiple shots, loaded as layers, masks.

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Christmas decorations

There days, Christmas trees are everywhere and they are all fully decorated.

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Coffee

Do you like coffee? Then you may appreciate a choice of flavours.

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Parenting: Xmas

We are near Christmas, so it was obvious one of the pictures in my parenting series will have a Christmas theme. Actually my first concept for it was "preparing to set the Xmas tree on fire" but I ducked it to prevent any possible domestic debates.

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Winter cake

The cake is pretty much a standard chocolate cake, the decorations make it wintery.

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Christmas biscuits

Those specially shaped biscuits, they are ready to be decorated for Christmas.

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Cristiana

I played a bit with portraiture photography having as the model the pretty Cristiana, with her blond hair and blue eyes.

And since the pictures felt feet for that, I also tried a black-and-white treatment (usually I prefer photography in colors).

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Am I a photographer or just play one on the TV?

Back in July I had an interesting job as a photographer: play the photographer role in a commercial for Audi. It was really interesting, as everything was close to normal: real boxers in the ring fighting, a real referee from Vegas, many real professionals. Even us, the photographers were real: we had to shoot as in a real game, except don't use the pictures.

The experience was fun but a bit frustrating: see so many good photos-to-be, but don't take and use any... For additional bonus points, I have to acknowledge I felt a bit like in Extras.

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Parenting: shooter

'Like father, like daughter' can be titled this selfie where the little one show interest in following daddy's steps.

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Caturday

Nothing beats a lazy Saturday with some pictures of lazy cats.

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Snow globe in the dark

For those who liked my animated snow globe and not only, here is a new interpretation of the scene, this time darker and stormier. Available both as a still image and an animation.

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Snow globe

We are bracing for the winter holidays season, so probably a little cinemagraph with a snow globe is appropriate.

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