Category: Photography

Ok, today I almost missed it. First half of the day I was in Nicosia because of some paper work that we needed to do with Olga in the Russian Embassy. The second half of the day I was fixing and studing my home workstation after upgrade to Fedora Linux Core 2. I also was doing a lot of scanning of old pictures. Tought and busy day.

But I managed it. On the way back from Nicosia, Olga and I passed by McDonalds, where I made a couple of pictures. Both of them turned out pretty good for the ‘Picture of the day’ project. Check them out here.

I also think with sadness about two missed opportunities. First, there were a lot of yellow cars near KEO factory. All of them were staying in line and had a KEO logo on the side. I was too bored and lazy to stop and make a picture. Second opportunity present itself nearby the St.Mary’s school, which is close to my place. School started today it seems, because I saw a couple of kids with parents, all dressed up, walking in the direction of the said school. All four looked really nice. But I was still bored and lazy to stop. Now I am punishing myself for that.

Today was a bit tough on ideas. But I am not giving up easily. 5 images alltogether go in here.

What I’ve learned today is that flash is a kind of hot after it flashes. Interesting effects can be obtained by closing the flash with different things (paper, hand, etc) in a small room (like bathroom). Also, a polarizing filter can be used without bright sun and reflections – it does decrease the amount of light passing through the lens producing interesting results. This calls for more experimentation though.

Yeah, right, I am still doing it. :)

For today I have a picture of dead dragonfly vandalized by ants, a picture of the office building (Limassol’s new port administration) with a lot of columns which produce a lot of shades and kind of match each other nicely, and a couple of pictures of pomegranates, which grow over our office’s parking fence.

All the pictures are uploaded here. Enjoy.

Update: Added a couple of pictures with cloudy skies.

A couple of days ago, I finally managed to get some time and take few old photo films to the studio. These films were scanned, converted to digital, and stored on CD. I, than, went through all of the images, sorted them out, uploaded and annotated them, and finally they are now a part of my photo gallery.

While going through the pictures I had an extraordinary hit of nostalgy. I almost cried. I was reminded of the active, fun, and crazy times I had while being a student in the college. All the things they say about college students – I did them. :) Sex, drugs, rock-n-roll, motorcycles, parties, carnivals, you name it.

Most of the recovered photos are from the year 1997. If you will look through them, you will get the atmosphere I was living in, although you probably don’t know most of the faces. These were some good old times. I am happy I had them, but I am also glad that I have passed through that stage and went on. :)

P.S.: I have also found films from my wedding (thanks to my brother), which I will be digitizing and uploading in the nearest future. Stay tuned.

So far, so good. Today I took a few pictures in Larnaca airport. I have selected 3 of them to represent the “Picture of the day” project entry for today. Check them out here.