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.

Mouse

MouseGoing around the web and seeing a whole bunch of beautiful pictures fires up the need to photograph something inside of me. Having the will to create beauty and having my creative self totally on vacation really hurts. I know that I can photograph anything and everything around me. At the same time I have difficulty actually seeing the photograph.

I decided to shoot something never-the-less. The first thing that got into my camera’s viewfinder was the mouse. Out of three shots I’ve chosen the last one. I postprocessed it a little bit in Gimp. And here is the result.

Album location: /photos/2005/2005-03-20_POTD

Picture of the day

Biker on the benchOlga is still recovering, but today she felt strong enough for a little walk. It was the first time she got out of the house since I brought her back from the clinic two weeks ago. Today is a fine sunny day with a slow cool wind, so we went to Molos promenade which is close enough to our house and far enough from the road and traffic odours. Of course I made a few pictures.

It is interesting how I never saw a man laying on the bench in Cyprus. In Russia it is a pretty common sight, but I never saw one here. During the last couple of month I had this picture in my head – an old poor guy laying on the bench by the sea. The picture was supposed to be in black and white. There shouldn’t be anything else in it. Just the sea, the bench and the guy. It seems very simple. But it surely needs staging since one can’t just find it in this country. With all the baby rush I forgot about the idea, but today, when we went out, I was reminded. Someone is watching me…

Album location: /photos/2005/2005-03-15_POTD

Limassol Grand Carnival 2005

The mexican

Grand Carnival passed the Macariou Avenue of Limassol yet again. Plenty of people were having fun. Adults, teenagers, kids – everyone you can imagined put on costumes, wicks, clown noses and went outside to dance, listen to music, throw some confetti, and watch others.

I went out with my camera and took a whole lot of pictures. Originally I shot 376 frames, out of which I have selected 159 images to postprocess and upload for your enjoyment.

Try not to miss this next year…

Shurik and Max

Shurik and Max

My brother’s 20th birthday coincided today with Maxim’s two weeks birthday anniversary. This was the perfect time to photograph both of them together. It is also the first time Alex is holding Maxim, as well as it is the first time they appear on the photograph together. Happy birthday to both of you guys.

Album location: /photos/2005/2005-03-09_POTD