Getaway Place...

Simple chill-out recipe:

1. Get a Getaway Place... preferably somewhere quiet, harder to reach, ideally with no cell-phone coverage.


2. Find a slightly tilted spot with lots of green grass.


3. Just sit back on the ground and let Sandman take over :D


Check out a few more pics here:

Getaway Place...

Tangled?

I was always fascinated by the weeping willows... growing wild, quickly raising to the sky then relaxing back to the ground as if from a heavy burden... and above all I guess I like it how its branches always stay straight and do not get tangled, even if sometimes it appears so...

 
 
 

Spring - Mobile, Raw

Just wanted to share some quick snaps from the weekend. Forgot my cam but I just couldn't help it so I used the nasty, no-macro focus 2MP mobile phone cam.

The one nice thing though is that I can blog it directly from my phone :P

Have a great week, everyone!

(Sent from my Nokia phone)

It's back

Yes, we've all felt it... we've seen it... it's in the air again...
Spring is officially back in action.

And sadly, I only noticed it yesterday... In the place we're usually having the Sunday morning coffee, the air was no longer filled with smoke from the crazy party night before... one of the windows was wide opened... and through the old window, caught onto an old piece of dying wood, strapped onto an ancient metal fence, there it was... a tiny green group of leaves, a small plant awakening back to life!

To HDR or not to HDR?

That is the question... HDR (High-Dynamic Range) is a bit controversial process that adds a surreal feeling to a regular photo.
The folks that are "against" it are advocating the fact that it turns the images into more "artificial" pieces.
On the other hand, the "adepts" of HDR are stating that it's meant to present a captured moment in a more life-like way, a way that would bring up to the surface an emotion, a feeling, a state of mind that would have been induced by the respective moment (if you were there). It's supposed to be similar to how your mind would've remembered it.

I have a few HDR experiments myself, but because they're made out of JPEGs there's a lot of noise. Hey, you'll get the idea, everyone can judge for themselves. Really quality HDRs would ideally be made out of RAWs. Let's just hope I get a bit better even with the JPEGs, because I really do not expect to buy another gear soon...







I should post an original vs HDR soon, to show the differences by comparison as well.

BTW, here's a guy that takes HDR onto another level - Trey Ratcliff's blog.
Check out Marius's blog too, he has some really fine HDRs.
...and I'm sure there are lots others out there...