Weddings: Crying bride

Revisiting some unpublished photos from 3 years ago at the Indian wedding. The then crying bride is now a happy mother of a cute baby girl.

Silence of the pigs

One moment of silence for the pigs. Then we shall proceed to eating.

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Proud Romanians

One does not have to be a citizen or even speak the language to wave flags on the national day parade.

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Patriotic horse

I pretty much doubt the horse cares about national pride and such things.

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Parade in picture

Everybody likes taking pictures at the national day military parade.

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Elections

Yesterday evening a number of Romanian cities witnessed demonstrations where the people requested to be allowed to vote, here are images from Bucharest. A week ago, in the first elections round, the current prime-minister and leader of the communist party, Victor Ponta, who is also a candidate in the presidential elections, just blocked the people from voting in the places where it was expected he won't receive a good score, including university centers and outside of the country.

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Killer wave

This is no joke, people died in those waves at the shores of the Black Sea.

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Nijikon 2013

A new edition of the anime convention Nijikon is taking place in Bucharest. I was there in its first day and found what it was expected to be found: costumes, a cosplay competition and a lot of goodies: manga, toys and so on. And, of course, a huge lot of anime fans.

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Tattoo Convention

This week-end Turbohale hosted yet another edition of the International Bucharest Tattoo convention

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Hero Run

Every such event has his heroes and an incontestable hero of the Midnight Run in Bucharest was this disabled guy who was able to run his full 5000 meters.

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Viral

Unexpectedly, a picture I snapped last week became viral on facebook, the stats below are "likes" and "shares" I can see directly, there were a lot of duplicates copied and uploaded separately by other people, for which I have no way to count them. On top of that, the picture was picked (copied from facebook) by mainstream traditional media, TV and newspapers like Realitatea, ProTV, Gândul, EVZ or RTV.

What was it about? Street garbage and people discarding it is a big problem in Romania and people eating sunflower seeds and spitting them on the ground are a special case. Friday evening, walking in the nearby I.O.R. park I assisted to an unexpected episode: a couple of local police officers confronted a group of youngsters practicing this bad habit and offered them a choice: take a broom and clean the place or pay a fine. This is original and funny and also quite unexpected, since the police rarely react to such things. I posted the image on social networks and the rest is history, a lot of people got enthusiastic over the police action.

There is one more side of the story, the police officers were not alone, they were accompanied by a couple of agents working for the private company hired by the park administration. One of those agents asked me not to show the logo of their company, which was printed on their shirts. I listened and excluded them from the frame. Their excess of secrecy made the company miss a huge free advertising opportunity.

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After the storm

The biggest storm from the last years hit the city, unfortunately personal duties kept me in-house afterwards, still in the morning I tried to capture its aftermath. Kind of late, this time the cleaning people were surprisingly fast, not much subjects left.

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Train Delivery

A smaller sister to the already established Street Delivery, this year Train Delivery debuted at Gara de Nord (Train Station North) in Bucharest. I didn't manage to get there on Saturday when the weather was beautiful and the place animated, only on Sunday, when the station was covered by heavy rain and the action reduced a lot. Still, it was a good photography opportunity.

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Little painters

A lot of workshops took place at the Street Delivery festival and many of them were painting for children.

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Turtle life

Apparently my turtle pictorial show the happy life of some turtles in the IOR park of Bucharest, the reality is not so bright:

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St. Patrick parade

At the first thought, one wouldn't expect a St. Patrick parade in Bucharest, where we probably have more Irish Pubs than Irish people (or maybe this is the reason), but our city had one for the first time. And I don't think is a bad thing, is a good opportunity to get people out from their houses, walk, listen to music, meet other people, enjoy a show. Yes, as a first edition it has some (many) flaws, but that's to be expected. Looking forward to the next year.

There was a Romanian riverdance group, a couple of Irish music groups, but there was a serious presence of Romanian traditional dance and music groups, from Săpânța, Vaslui and Vrancea. Which probably enjoy better the local palinka over the Irish beer.

Personally my biggest disappointment was not seeing any green beer, which I understand is an international tradition for the day. Not in Romania... fingers crossed for the following edition.

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Tango

This is already a tradition for orasul to get people dancing tango in the subway at the Unirii 1 station, as is a tradition for them to offer chocolate in the same place in the Martisor day every year, so guess what? Today I shoot people doing tango in the subway.

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More Martisor pics

If the experience yesterday shooting Martisor sellers was less than stellar (I had one security guard come to me and ask to stop, since the market is private property, even if everything happened on he street, so I have to move to the opposite side of the market), today at Unirii it was much better.

People asked me to shoot their dog (carrying flowers in his mouth), complained about the mayor and the chaos he created, talked about photos and such.

A couple of them even asked to be shoot and offered me free flowers (snowdrops, which I had to decline as my hands were busy). Of course, it was not all perfect, I heard some mumbling they better get paid "100 Euros" for being photographed (even if I didn't shoot them, but the flowers they sold).

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