Boys

Casa studentilor, Timisoara, februarie 2010

Sunset/Moonrise

I've gone soft and now I'm photographing sunsets. This was taken Saturday evening, after rain. Haven't seen such beautiful light and colors for a long time.

Old man

Four years old digital photo, the reason I like it is, that it's almost black and white, few grays, and 2nd, you can hardly see anything behind his eyes, but has such a gentle face that tells you everything about the way he is. I remember that he wasn't upset by me taking this photo, and had an attitude like, why are you photographing me, am I that interesting or intriguing? Maybe he was about to ask me something, but I left before he did. I found him near a market place, in Iasi.

Black and white

First roll of Fuji Neopan 1600,
December 2009, Bucharest

Test shot

Ilford Delta Pro, iso 400, Coloprint camera.

Street kids

Walking, talking and photographing.

Bucharest, February '10

Spring is coming,

So many events,

so many people,

so many paper dreams... 

Max Dupain, Australian photographer

The sunbaker, taken in 1937, only in 70's became iconic in Australian art and photography.

Max Dupain was against studio fakery or manipulation, claiming that "photography is at its best when it shows a thing clearly and simply."

"Simple geometry and dynamic symmetry had perfectly expressed the energy of modernist formalism." Gael Newton (Curator of Australian photography at the National Gallery of Australia) on Dupain's "The Sunbaker"

Modern photography : Something whose aim is partly or wholly aesthetic as opposed to photography which is merely documentary and representational.



Source of information: Each Wild Idea

Some music

Dub Incorporation

Music and friends :)

No direction home

I wish myself a warm comeback to Bucharest!

Warmer days, more sleep, sunshine, less (no...) snow, spare time, reggae parties, trips with friends, travels around the world.

Prima ninsoare

Acelasi Canon, alt fomapan, aceeasi fereastra, acelasi etaj 7, alta perspectiva, o zi frumoasa, aceeasi prieteni.

January 2010

Cris and Alex at a friend's birthday reunion. Shot on old fomapan, iso 200, available light, a 60w light bulb.

Snow table and chairs,

Bucharest, December 15th, 2009

There's something about Manhattan...

Treat a boring day, a day which you spend with enormous lack of imagination, with a film. Take Manhattan for example, even though you've seen it before, this time it fits perfect on the situation. Well, you push play and your eyes see these incredible black and white pictures, little moving-picture postcards. Atmospheric gray shots, each with its own story, snowy streets drowned in evening lights, seen from the point of view of a puppy. Everything has a light taste of poetry, from New York's immense buildings seen by night, billboards and street signs that hurt your eyes, fireworks electrocuting the entire sky, leaving light dust behind. Rich blacks, slightly underexposed interiors where characters affected maybe by the city they live in, have endless conversations on a variation of topics, making no point at the end. Simple, beautiful compositions, shots where only highlights guide you through and help you follow the actors inside it. If I wouldn't be writing about a Woody Allen film, I would make a reference about the music played in the background, saying it's so..Woody Allen. Cinematography's so intimate, matching the story and the relation(ship)s between characters. Besides the way Gordon Willis handled photography, I love the fact that there's a joke or reference every step of the conversation, not just common humor, but sometimes sad or (auto)ironical and you find yourself laughing. Too bad that this 2.35:1 film can only be seen on a laptop.
Two things to mention before I stop writing, Diane Keaton made me think of Julie Delpy's character in Before Sunset, and second, Meryl Streep looked incredible, I'm just curious why Allen cast her for this part, not taking into consideration her acting talent.
Enjoy if you end up watching it!

New gallery

I'm new to photo.net, you can see my work here. Check the link from time to time for new photographs. Thanks!

Happy Holidays

Enjoy this time of year and a nice cup of hot chocolate.

Nothing much to do... Brasov...

Sitting on a bench on a rainy day

Gas station geometry

Shot on film three years ago

Incepe

Aici informatii si program

Entry for...

3000

Timisoara.