Picture of the day

Building for X-MenOlga and I went for a short walk today. For some strange reason, I’ve been seeing ‘X’s all over the place. I’ve seen an unfinished building with lots of ‘X’s in it, a sign pointing into direction of Xception cafe, a photo studio Kodak eXpress, and few others. Not all of these were photographable, but I managed to make a couple of shots. Check them out here.

I have also noticed that ‘Picture of the day’ project does improve my vision of things. I have started to notice photographs everywhere and I started to care about thing around me much more. Olga and I were sitting in the cafe, eating ice-cream, and she was so beautiful that I wanted to make a picture of her like this, but somehow my eye noticed by itself that there is a closed umbrella behind Olga that will look ugly on the photograph and that there is an ugly tungsten lamp on the right of her, which would spoil the picture too. I than tried to rearrange the frame mentally, but by the time I was done, the atmosphere was gone. At least I haven’t made yet another disappointing picture and saved the web from another portion of crap. Good me.

Picture of the day

Making pizzaOk, today I actually went out of the house. But it was nothing special – Pizzeria Pepperoni. Unfortunately, it was too dark for the fast subjects that I was trying to capture. I used ISO 800 and built-in flash, but most of the pictures are still blurry. ISO 1600 is way too noisy. I guess I do need that proper flash unit after all.

Anyway, the subject is interesting, so I am doing almost no censoring. Enjoy the pictures.

Girl and ice cream

Girl and ice cream

Olga and I went for a sunset walk in Molos promenade today. I was surprised to find a lot of people there. Some were running, others walking, yet another others – sitting on the benches.

There were a few photo opportunities. The best two were the girl with an ice-cream and a couple of kittens. The girl was the best ever, but she was almost running trying to catch up with her parents, so I had only one shot. I guess with better cropping the image can get better. Kittens, though were very atmospheric and would have been much better on the video. They were very synchronized. They were sitting and moving their heads in exactly same directions at exactly same time. Very cool. But they were wild and were scared away when I tried to get closer.

Album location: /photos/2004/2004-09-28_POTD

Picture of the day

Old singSomehow I failed to get back home from my yesterday’s night shift until today’s evening. Lots of home tasks and general sleepyness tried to stopped me from doing something for the ‘Picture of the day’ project of mine, but I am unstoppable.

Without much strength and will to go outside I decided to find something new in my home. And the first thing that pops up into a spoiled mind like mine is, of course, the bathroom. I have made a number of pictures there, which I think are more than enough to represent today in the POTD project.

Check all the pictures here.