Of human stupidity

There are very few things in the world bigger than the human stupidity, here's a recent example: at the weddings fair today the organizers asked me for a few photos so at some moment I decided to make a tour of the floor, take some shots, so they have a few pictures showing the general context. Which was OK in general, except a couple of booths that asked me to not take pictures, at one a guy rejected me with a hand gesture and at the other a more energetic guy jumped in front of my lens saying "not here".

This is stupid... those guys failed to understand two basic things: one, that every picture taken there has the chance to end on the web or maybe even in a magazine, meaning free publicity for them. And second, if I was a spy or such, I would not go close and personal, journalism style, with a wide lens... would have used the zoom and took the shoots from 3 booths away, without them noticing or used a compact, posing in an innocent customer, which were allowed to shoot. What would have been the smart thing to to? Allow any picture and make sure the company name is visible. Win-win.

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Dragon Fight: Heart of Ice

All of us have our dragons. The question is: can we fight them? Do we want to fight? Why?

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Hot stuff

Real men like it strong and spicy... the food, of course.

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Dragon Fight: The Fire Within

All of us have our dragons. The question is: can we fight them? Do we want to fight? Why?


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Rebirth?

They say the spring will come, they say there will be good, they say the sun will shine. I am skeptical. The winter seems to never end.


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My best shot 2010

Since other friends are doing it, I will join the meme posting my photo from the past year I like the more... and unexpectedly, is not portraiture/glamour/beauty/fashion/nude as I did a lot over the year (and still sitting on a ton of unpublished stuff, "thanks" to a camp organizer, but not only), but is a landscape made at a computer/community camp, which for me is kind of magic due to its special light and I am still using as a wallpaper on my computers.

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Freezing cold

At -9°C is way far from the worst keen frost I saw, but believe me, is a really cold morning in this end-of-year day, witness the ice powder on those trees. I want, no, I need warmth. Now.

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From Santa with love...

I found this old picture made with a crappy camera... I may not look exactly like it now, but that's how I feel inside, so here is a season greetings from the Evil Santa: "choke on your Festivus, have a bloody Xmas and a fucking New Year!"


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Misery

It was about the time for me to choose the next week topic for Project 9449, so I started developing ideas, the first of them was "Misery", then "Season of Joy" and a few others, but then I got a better one (to be announced at the right time). Since I had "Misery" on a corner of my mind and also a potential implementation for it, when I saw the opportunity on the street I shoot it. It also helped those days I feel myself a lot like this hobo...

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Love/Hate64

I have solid reasons to hate F64 but at the same time I must continue doing business with them, since on many photography areas they are the only source in town (there are a few other smaller stores with good goods, but not everything you need), so yesterday I had to give them a visit for a few of accessories (filters, belt, adapter). It was a nice surprise to receive, as any other customer, a small Christmas gift some small trinkets: stickers, odorizer, strap and ginger bread. Know what? I am stupid enough that my first thought was at someone else who would have been even more happier with such a gift...

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Mici and bere at Curtea Berarilor

For a while we practically moved the headquarter of the FLOSS meetings at Curtea Berarilor (Brewer's Court) in Bucharest and since then I wanted to take a photo with their most popular (and a modern Romanian tradition) menu: mici, fries, mustard, pickles and, of course, plenty of beer. Every time people were hungry and I missed the opportunity. Until now...

Or in other words: I am Mitica :)

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Fairy tale fabric

This is the stuff the fairy tales are made of:

And looking closely you can see its crystalline texture:

To bad life is not a fairy tale...

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E.M.M.A., Santa, and the Ghost Nicu

Sunday I participated with Organizatia E.M.M.A. as a photographer to a charity action, where a group of people from this NGO donated all kings of things, from food to toys and sweets to a children center. It was an opportunity for we to depart from my glamour or depressive styles and try something more like photojournalism.

Still... I am not myself much than a little kid in a huge (and hairy) body, so from the normal photographer - subject interaction, it was not far to get into full play, we could resonate. They were in need for affection, happy to get it and to give back when receiving. Pretty much like me. And all of us cursed in the end.

The photo above is, obviously, not made by me, so credit where it's due, it was "stolen" from Bogdan's gallery.

I am again in the sucky world, so didn't have the energy to go in-depth with photo processing and publishing, so for now here is just a big photo dump from the event.

The season of what?

The season of joy? Yes, it came, the city lights were turned on a couple of days ago. However... don't expect much joy this Christmas... it definitely be a lonely one.



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Inertia + Glass = ...

These days I am so low, that I continue to exist and function mostly from inertia... and how the plan to buy some new glass was made long ago, when I had the money for it I followed the inertia and got it. At a focal range of 11-16 mm, it is something one would call ultra-wide and all can say is the world seen trough it is different.

Still, people who know me know my interest in cold buildings or landscapes (strong points for such a camera) is limited, my heart is to photos with people and it will allow for interesting effects, like perspective deformation, impossibly long legs, shooting someone head-to-toes from maybe 1 meter away and such so obviously need to play with it. The problem is... right now I don't want to be around people, except one single, special person, who do everything to keep me away. Inertia got me stuck to a wall.

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