I live in Cyprus for many years now. It is a beautiful little island in Mediterranean Sea. It features warm weather for most of the year, sea, very kind and hospital people, plenty of jobs in IT industry, good food and plenty of alcohol, stable currency, and more. It’s really a nice place to live if you can handle small towns and villages. It’s also a great place to raise the kids.
Not much happens here. It is a quiet and simple place. Yet, when something happens or when I write about it, I post it to Cyprus category.
I’ve just uploaded few pictures I’ve made at Special Stage 11. Unfortunately, the stage was cancelled due to safety reasons, so there isn’t much to shoot.
There are few spectacular views around the stage, but I was not in the mood for nature photoraphy, so, I guess, there will be another trip to grab that too. :)
I’ve just uploaded pictures from the two special stages that I’ve been to today. Enjoy – Special Stage 3 and Special Stage 5
I was shooting cars in aperture priority (Av) mode with aperture set to 8.0 or 9.0. After closer inspection on the big screen it seems that these aperture values are a bit too small. I will try with a slighter bigger settings tomorrow.
I also have both B&W polarizer and lens hood on. Polarizer does improve the images a lot. Lens hood protects mostly from the dust which there is an excess of. :) Light conditions still seem a bit tough to me. Even the afterlunch sun is very bright giving harsh shadows. Shadows from trees along the stages make it look kind of stripy (shadow, no shadow, shadow, no shadow…). On-camera flash is not strong enough to fill the shadows around the car and good viewpoints are hard to come up with considering the safety guards, spectators, stage track shapes and locations, and my ignorance. :) More to shoot tomorrow…
I’ve uploaded pictures that I took during the full Moon eclipse yesterday. Nothing particularly interesting. As I’ve already mentioned, my 75-300mm lens is still in custom’s clearence office, so no details of the Moon for me. But at least something is visible on the full-sized pictures. I am to lazy to crop them though. :)
Cyprus Automobile Association has updated the Cyprus Rally website with the information regarding WRC 2004. It seems that this year it will be an even bigger event. There are bus tours from major cities, VIP packages with “Drive It Yourself” offerrings, etc. Maps and schedules are also there.
It is also useful to visit WRC Online and WRC’s official site for standings, points, articles, and pictures.
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Well, Agia Napa is one of those few cities in Cyprus, which lives only during summer time when it’s full of tourists. There is nothing much in there except a waterpark, carts, hotels/motels, discos, bars and pubs. It is well known for it’s night life and sandy beaches. You ended up here most probably because your search engine found few pictures of me and my friends in Agia Napa’s waterpark, which is very not bad, I must say. That’s about all I can tell you about Agia Napa. Now you’ll have to hit ‘Back’ button and go to that search engine results again. :)