Olga was baking a cake with berries today. I think those are called black rasberries or something like that. Since this kind of berries does not grow in Cyprus, we have to buy them fresh frozen. Straight out of the freezer and out of the box, they look something like these.
Today’s ‘Picture of the day’ submission portraits a piece of my jacket. I find it a bit amuzing that I was wearing this jacket for many years, also at times when I was trying to find a subject to photograph, and I never looked at it. It turned out to be pretty photogenic. Mostly it is due to the many interesting colors (a combination of white, greenish cyan, blue and black) and textures (it is combined of slightly different fabrics too).
Once again I am convinced that pictures are all around us and all we have to do is just stop for a fraction of the second and look.
Album location: /photos/2005/2005-01-18_POTD
Leaving the office today morning after my night shift in NOC I saw a crane with a bunch of guys who were cleaning windows of our office building. Everything around was wet after the rain which stopped just few minutes before, a very cloudy sky with just patches of blue and cyan, and a bright rising sun combined with window cleaners caused me to feel off balanced. In order to compensate myself for the akward situation, I decided to make a picture.
I usually think very slow and do all sorts of stupid things when I am pushed outside into bright morning sun after being hacking inside for the whole night, so the first thing I did was to put a polarizing filter on my lens. Yeah, right. Very smart move. Actually I wanted to put a lens hood, but go figure… Anyway, I think it came out pretty good after some minor Gimp manipulations.
Album location: /photos/2005/2005-01-15_POTD
Today I took a short walk to the bakery. My neighborhood turned out to be very photogenic. Strangely, I was never noticing it. The best time to go around is at about 4:00pm. The sun is not that bright anymore, but provides suffecient light. There are plenty of old houses, creepy places, traffic signs, and cats. There are also some dumped cars which look interesting in black and white. By now you probably think that I live in the middle of nowhere and the only missing bit is some huge factory which is no longer operational… Well, I assure you tht I live practically in the center of the city and it is a very nice and quiet place. And no factories or anything like that.
Album location: /photos/2005/2005-01-13_POTD
