Blonde + Bikini + Hot Tub = Photoshot

Such thing just happens: you are at a Luxury Show shooting the preparations for a fashion show when you see right behind you a gorgeous blonde wearing a small bikini in a hot tub. Of course you turn around and start clicking on your camera...

Update: some 3 years later, I revisited one pic from this set and experienced with new photo editing.

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Luxury Show in Bucharest

The admission price is a bit high at 60 RON, but overall I think those were well spent money, it was a great opportunity for some nice photos, mostly portraits (but there are more coming)







PS: there are more things coming from that event.

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Sweets for everybody

Last wee-end, at the "Dulciuri pentru toti" ("Sweets for everybody") fair in Bucharest, is worse than porn: more addictive, triggering an instantaneous body reaction (mouth watering, hunger) and politically incorrect (for diabetic people). But is fun, enjoy.







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December 1st: Military Parade

I do not like at all the military parades and this isn't because I am a huge pacifist (I am not) or because I am ashamed by "our" army being and invasion force in various parts of the world (I am ashamed by that), my big problem is they are a fakery. I served in the army back when the military service used to be compulsory and I saw the real truth: the Romanian army is not something glorious, to be proud of... al those parades are just a show.

But I went anyway (for the first time in my life), trying to catch some photos. And there were a lot of goodies: shiny military uniforms, tanks and cavalry. And girls in military uniforms (probably also fakes, secretaries clothed in uniforms and displayed for the show).










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Fedora 10 Release Party

As announced on my main blog, we had yesterday a Fedora release party in Bucharest. Of course the photos I took the are nothing close to art, but it is fun (ALL the editing of my photos is made under Linux).



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Half-winter sunset at the lake

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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Notes

What to do when you encounter a corkboard full of post-it notes pinned to it? Take out your camera and get some photos, of course. This has interesting stock photography potential.



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By the book

Trying to take some photos at the "Gaudeamus" book fair is not an easy task: the place was crowded with no much room for the photographer and the interesting stands were lighted poorly, so you don't have much success with telephoto lenses either. I am not that happy with the session.







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More beer

I dug up this photo from the older Brno FUDCon photo session, since I am not sure we will keep a Fedora Release Party next week in Bucharest.

No room left for a debate, that is not American Budweiser crap, is fine Czech Budweiser beer. Yummmmy....




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Up to date

The hard work of digging up the history is done, now the blog is in sync with my photo gallery, all the posts following will be actual.

Garden bush

I don't know the name of this plant, but the red was beautiful. And is from a garden, not my garden, but a garden.



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Fly, fly, little butterfly

The sun light is a bit too strong, but you don't have much choice when shooting a butterfly, you find it and shot it. Any preparation and it will fill away scared by you.



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Bees and flowers

A cloudy day has its benefits for photography, but a sunny day in the autumn has some other benefits, like insects enjoying what's probably the last beautiful day of the year. Insects? Macros!





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Roses and chrysanthemums from my garden

A cloudy day is perfect for nature photographing, you can shoot the flowers without the undesired shadows and strong solar light





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Bucharest? Bombed?

A few weeks after the City Days, Bucharest looks like bombed (the Old City is under heavy repairs)



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