Category: Photography

Trying to be a little bit less lazy than usual, I decided to take tripod with me, when Olga and I went for an evening walk at the seaside behind the hotels in tourist area of Limassol. Nighttime photography is something that I enjoy, but don’t feel very comfortable doing. It turned out that seaside promenade behind Four Seasons Hotel, Mediterranean Hotel, and Amathus Beach Hotel has lots of strong lights and projectors, which make photographing those places very real. There are few stone embarkments which go few meters into the sea. These help to create an illusion of photographing from the boat. Very nice!

I had a feeling that I mad many pictures, but when I came home, I saw that these were just a few. Probably, I got a false feeling because of the long exposures (around 30 seconds per picture) that I had to use. Also, I completely forgot about the bracketing. I should have bracketed for a half stop or so. That would give me more pictures to post here.

Anyway, after filtering and censoring the absolute crap and a bunch of duplicates out, the results were uploaded into this album. Hopefully, I’ll push myself to practice more.

I realized something today. I realized that I am running out of subjects to photograph at home, and that I am getting way to lazy to go somewhere once I get back home from the office. This piece of genius came to me while I was stuck in the traffic jam. So I thought why not to use the time productively? Why not to take the camera out and photograph things around me?

Well, aparently, it was a good idea. It was not only because I was able to provide a picture for the ‘Picture of the day’ project, but because I realized once again how relative all things are. While I was stuck in the traffic jam I though that my car is standing on the same place for long mutliple minutes. But as soon as I got my camera out of the bag, cars started moving around and I suddenly had to drive somewhere. Also, I thought that things that I drive by many times a day are boring and uninteresting. Suddenly, at the moment I have my camera with me and no way to get out of there, I see that there are plenty of interesting things around me.

Finally, only one shot came out OK. Everything else was blurry due to the motion of my car and due to the vibration from the engine which I caught while using the door and the steering wheel instead of tripod. I’ll learn from this and reshoot the subjects in the next traffic jam with engine switched off (uh-oh) and faster ISO setting.

There is a lot of fine photography at Art Department. Subjects vary from being absolutely abstract, though fashion, to children. There are works by more than 30 photographers. Try to guess how much time you will spend there…

With today’s photosession at Troodos Rally 2004 I have enough pictures to make fill the ‘Picture of the day’ submission. The album is here.

Only one picture for the ‘Picture of the day’ project today. It is a police car, nice and clean, with URL on it’s door, pointing to http://www.police.gov.cy. It still makes me wonder how come that Cyprus is so degraded in terms of Internet technologies, while having Internet-aware government and pretty rich people. Go figure.

The album for today is here.