Category: Photography

I love photography. For me, it’s like painting, but better. And more accurate. And unlike painting, I can actually participate. I am not a big success or great master by any means. But I enjoy taking pictures. I also enjoy looking at other people work and sometimes sharing it. When I do, this is the category that I use.

Jam + toast + me + camera = picture of the day

Today’s picture or rather pictures of the day are inspired by this post. If you don’t speak read Russian or simply too bored lazy to check that link out, I’ll translate and summarize it for you.

Basically, there is this guy who suggested to all his LiveJournal readers to do a mini-task in photography. He asked everyone to make three photographs without leaving the apartment (or office, or wherever you are). You can’t use pictures that you made previously. You can’t manipulate images too much in graphics editing software – cropping and adjusting levels and curves is fine, but pretty much everything else is left out for the next task. Still you are free to photograph whatever you want (people, still life, landscapes or city line from your window, etc) in any manner you want (documentary, abstract, macro, surrealism, etc).

After you are done, post your three images in the comments to his post. That is in addition to anywhere else you might consider posting those. Feel free to promote the action – more people participate, the better.

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Maxim loves cats

Maxim and the cat

Maxim, while being rather cautious about uknown subjects, is surprisingly joyful about cats. He has demonstrated it on multiple occasions. If the cat is in the 10 meter radius, he starts to watch its movements with a smile. If he by any chance can touch the animal, the laughs out loud like the cat is the Eights Wonder of the world.

I guess he inherits this appreciation of cats from his mother, because I don’t have anything to do with it.

Album location: /photos/2005/2005-12-03_POTD/