Sunshine in my eyes can make me cry …
John Denver, Sunshine on My Shoulders
Guys having their early morning cigarettes.
From my ongoing ‘Urban tales’ series.
Category: Urban Tales
Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy
Sunshine in my eyes can make me cry … John Denver, Sunshine on My Shoulders Guys having their early morning cigarettes. From my ongoing ‘Urban tales’ series. Category: Urban Tales A couple of years ago I was watching a very famous film - A Hard Day's Night. Outside the storm was over and the sky was almost completely dark. But then the light suddenly lit up the room. I opened the window and the whole space was flooded with a nice golden light. The night turned back into the day for a moment.
The movie's strange title originated from something said by Ringo Starr, who described it this way in an interview, in 1964: "We went to do a job, and we'd worked all day and we happened to work all night. I came up still thinking it was day I suppose, and I said, 'It's been a hard day...' and I looked around and saw it was dark so I said, '...night!' The film depicts a 'typical' day in the life of the Beatles, including many of their famous songs, and was released in the summer of 1964, fifty years ago. Unbelievable! Category: Diary The young couple, bride and groom, posing for their wedding pictures on the shores of the scenic lake.
Category: People I never steal, but if there's an opportunity, I won't hesitate - opportunity seldom knocks twice.
It was very nice and hot summer day. I was walking along the Main Street, and my attention was suddenly caught by a bunch of people, gathering together for a family photo. Perhaps they were participants of historical or architectural educational excursion. I quietly took step behind the photographer, aimed my camera, composed image and waited for a second. The group at that moment started to smile. The photographer seemed to be a bit puzzled, not knowing what’s going on. Then he slowly turned his head towards me and I pushed the shutter. Everybody was laughing – including me and photographer. In fact, nothing special, but even those small moments can make a pleasant day. Above picture is from my ‘Urban tales’ series. Category: Urban Tales Forest Gump is American comedy-drama film based on the same name novel by Winston Groom. The film was directed by Robert Zemeckis and stared Tom Hanks, who won an Academy Award for the role.
The story depicts several decades in the life of Forrest Gump, a naïve and slow-witted yet athletically prodigious native of Alabama who witnesses, and in some cases influences, some of the defining events of the latter half of the 20th century in the US; more specifically, the period between Forrest's birth in 1944 and 1982. The film was released 20 years ago, in the summer of 1994. The picture above is from my project Solitariness. Category: Diary Projects A short photo essay from the Doors Open Day in the Theatre of Jonas Zaborsky, Presov 2014.
Category: Essays A lonely old woman in the company of the friendly shadows.
From my ‘Urban tales’ series. Category : Urban Tales Sunflower, good morning
You sure do make it like a sunny time Sunflower, sweet morning For every time I'm gonna make you mine Glen Campbell: Sunflower Category: Landscape When I photographed a few days ago a lightning storm, I remembered of Thorson (this isn't his real name). Many years ago I attended a few courses of English and Thorson was my teacher. He comes from Iceland. Previously he worked on offshore oil drilling platforms in the North Sea. Then he met a Slovak woman, married her, moved to Slovakia and became a father of four.
Thorson said that in Slovakia enchanted him three things. The first were trees. Thorson admired their grandeur. For days he went out with his head facing to the sky, looking on their trunks and their crowns until his neck began to hurt. Then he noticed small creatures in the grass and he was totally captivated by them. They were ants. Thorson was able to observe them for hours, and while on the ground he walked on four, as a little toddler, until his knees started to ache. Finally he discovered lightning storms. He was kidnapped from them. Always, when the storm began, he put an armchair on a balcony, comfortably sat in it and watched a tremendous light show on the sky. Category: Diary Urban Landscape Not only people influenced my passion for photography. In this post I am going to talk about special thing that enchanted me and pushed forward my enthusiasm for photography at a new - higher level. It was camera Flexaret. Flexaret is a brand of cameras manufactured up to 1970 in Czechoslovakia by the company Meopta. The camera was equipped with two lenses: the viewing lens for focusing, framing and composing the shot, and the taking lens for actually taking the picture. For focusing Flexaret uses quite unique feature, a double-headed lever placed below the taking lens that swivels from side to side. All models of Flexaret are twin-lens reflex cameras with aluminum body, taking square "6×6" format photographs on a 120 roll films. The camera was intended rather for amateur photography; the handling was easy and technical parameters were simple. The Flexaret rapidly became popular in Czechoslovak households and its popularity lasted until the late 1960s. The most striking feature about the Flexaret, and in general about all twin-lens reflex cameras, is the way in which you take the photographs. To look down into the waist-level finder, with the big bright screen, allows a very conscious framing and composing, and you can achieve dead on focusing precision with the aid of a small pop-up magnifying glass. The image projected onto the screen is reversed left-to-right. I had used this camera for two years (1969-1971) and I was greatly satisfied with its performance, reliability and simplicity. The Czech photographer Jan Saudek called Flexaret "our national pride".
Category: Influence From memories of Shinji Mikamo, who survived Hiroshima atomic blast, on August 6, 1945.
At nearly 08:15 he remembers lifting his right arm to wipe the sweat off his brow, when suddenly a blinding flash filled the sky. He recalls: Suddenly I was facing a gigantic fireball. It was at least five times bigger and 10 times brighter than the sun. It was hurtling directly towards me, a powerful flame that was a remarkable pale yellow, almost the color of white. The deafening noise came next. I was surrounded by the loudest thunder I had ever heard. It was the sound of the universe exploding. In that instant, I felt a searing pain that spread through my entire body. It was as if a bucket of boiling water had been dumped over my body and scoured my skin. Category: Diary The High Tatra Mountains are a mountain range that forms a natural border between Slovakia and Poland. They are the highest mountain range in the Carpathian Mountains.
The highest peak called Gerlach, at 2,655 m is located north of Poprad. The highest point in Poland, Rysy, at 2,499 m is located south of Zakopane. The Tatras are protected by law by the establishment of National Parks in their territory, with membership in the World Network of Biosphere Reserves of UNESCO. In my memories are these mountains very often associated with a cult film named ’The Copper Tower’, directed by Martin Holly (1931-2004), and released 44 years ago, in August 1970. It is a bitter comedy about friendship, a balladic story of three friends, whose lives are hit by a femme fatale. Category: Landscape |
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