The World According To My Camera » Black and White http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com Photos, random thoughts and musings... Thu, 18 Aug 2011 07:10:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Vanessa + Fred http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/2011/06/vanessa-fred/ http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/2011/06/vanessa-fred/#comments Tue, 21 Jun 2011 10:27:46 +0000 Catalina http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/?p=512 Sort of like carving names on a tree, only… you know… kinda cooler. Another one shot in Paris.

photography blog, Paris, Pont des Arts, macro, black and white, lock, love, names

]]> http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/2011/06/vanessa-fred/feed/ 0 Heavy night last night… http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/2011/06/heavy-night-last-night/ http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/2011/06/heavy-night-last-night/#comments Mon, 06 Jun 2011 13:32:43 +0000 Catalina http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/?p=503 …blah blah blah Monday blah blah photo blah…

photography blog, black and white, portrait, tired, hangover, steps, stairs, candid

]]> http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/2011/06/heavy-night-last-night/feed/ 0 Sittin’ on the dock of the bay… http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/2011/06/sittin%e2%80%99-on-the-dock-of-the-bay/ http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/2011/06/sittin%e2%80%99-on-the-dock-of-the-bay/#comments Wed, 01 Jun 2011 09:07:12 +0000 Catalina http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/?p=499 Hello, boys and girls! Color me surprised, I haven’t fallen off the face of the earth… I won’t bore you with how I’ve been trying to maintain the home-sweet-home tradition of painting Easter eggs, while living in a country where major Christian holidays get about as much hype as your average Tuesday (well fine, maybe just a bit… hilarity and beet juice stains ensued)… Or how I flew back home for the traditional spring break in Vama (particularly demented this year) and got the extra perk of motherly culinary pampering, being the returning prodigal daughter and all that… Or how I got back to France and was pretty much a lazy bum for a couple of weeks, waiting to finally get around to seeing Paris. Which I did… eventually. Damn thing took me surprisingly long, seeing as I’ve been here for over three months.

That pretty much sums up all that stuff I’ve graciously decided not to bore you people with, so without further ado, I give you this week’s (long overdue) photo-of-the-week:

photography blog, black and white, portrait, guitar, player, quay, water, beer, river

Alright, so it’s not exactly the dock of the bay, but the French really do seem to have the sitting part thoroughly covered. Anywhere. Any time of day. Takin’ their sweet time… Gotta love latin peoples. Cheers!

]]> http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/2011/06/sittin%e2%80%99-on-the-dock-of-the-bay/feed/ 0 Natural beauty http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/2011/04/natural-beauty/ http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/2011/04/natural-beauty/#comments Tue, 19 Apr 2011 08:57:58 +0000 Catalina http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/?p=485 These past few days, your dearly beloved blogger has been finding herself to have what must be the famed attention span of your average goldfish… With less than a week to go till Easter and then less than another till that magical time of the year known in my sweet mother tongue as “1 mai in Vama”, a.k.a. “betie crunta cu boschetii”, work is finding it more and more difficult to find its place in my thought bubble real estate. And in case you’re not from my neck of the woods and need a translation for those two phrases, my raging hangover-induced incoherence in the blog post directly following this little spring break should be translation enough.

In other news, my camera and I had the pleasure of attending a Renaissance festival this weekend, here in Lyon, and dare I say, it was lovely! Photos to come once I get off my lazy butt and skim through the 400 or so I maniacally snapped away. In the meantime, enjoy some porcelain-faced “natural” beauty I found while perusing a local antique “yard sale” of sorts…

photography blog, black and white, doll, face, porcelain, antique

]]> http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/2011/04/natural-beauty/feed/ 0 Salutations… http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/2011/02/salutations/ http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/2011/02/salutations/#comments Sun, 20 Feb 2011 11:58:29 +0000 Catalina http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/?p=449 …From the land of fine cooking and hilariously stereotypical accents. Your dearly beloved blogger has landed safe and sound, found long-term accommodations, and after one week is currently feeling confident enough about her geographical prowess to try and find shortcuts whenever necessary… “If found, please return to bar”… Oh, the hilarity.

In the meantime, what better landmark with which to start my photographic tour of this fine, fine establishment, than the local Ferris wheel… (No, you do not have the right to veto)

photography blog, Ferris, wheel, carnival, lights, black and white, Lyon, film grain, noise, contrast

Seeing as, so far, the weather has been mighty unfriendly with the budding amateur photographer in search of the nickel tour, I don’t quite have a solid buffer of show-and-tell material yet. So here’s hoping next week will be better “sunshine, lollipops and rainbows”-wise. Either way, this should hopefully be the official “I’m back” announcement.

To be continued and, as always, cheers!

]]> http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/2011/02/salutations/feed/ 0 One score and four years ago… http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/2010/11/one-score-and-four-years-ago/ http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/2010/11/one-score-and-four-years-ago/#comments Fri, 26 Nov 2010 08:45:00 +0000 Catalina http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/?p=430 …and a day, to be precise, your dearly beloved blogger was deeply entangled in the complicated process of having been… well… a person… for no more than about half an hour. Which, as the powers that be decided a long, long time ago, is reason enough for one to celebrate and receive presents and all that. And who am I to say no to that? In other words, it was my birthday yesterday, so please… no loud noises and/or bright lights… my aching head will dearly appreciate it. As it will the mornings after the other two birthday bashes that are yet to come.

In the meantime, you’ll excuse the celebratory photo-of-the-week…
photography blog, black and white, sky, fireworks, celebration, smoke, vapor trail, light, sparkle

Alright, so obviously, the fireworks weren’t for me, but still… it does one’s ego good to see fireworks on one’s birthday. Cheers!

]]> http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/2010/11/one-score-and-four-years-ago/feed/ 2 Psychedelia http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/2010/11/psychedelia/ http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/2010/11/psychedelia/#comments Fri, 19 Nov 2010 20:03:26 +0000 Catalina http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/?p=426 …Since I’ve been feeling more or less out of my mind lately…

photography blog, tree, black and white, leaves, contrast, texture, silhouette, psychedelic, abstract, vegetation, sky

In other, not completely unrelated news, your dearly beloved blogger has had a rather unusual house guest for the past week or so, in the form of a real live scorpion, affectionately dubbed Klaus. The little darling was meant as a birthday present for someone clearly even more off-his-rocker than myself, so the accommodations were only temporary… sadly, I might add… I’ve grown quite fond of the little guy, and suffice it to say he’s actually been far more well behaved than my allegedly harmless turtle, whom I’ve decided to rename “Kraken”, it being much more appropriate and all…

]]> http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/2010/11/psychedelia/feed/ 0 Urban Jungle http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/2010/11/urban-jungle/ http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/2010/11/urban-jungle/#comments Fri, 05 Nov 2010 15:20:20 +0000 Catalina http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/?p=417 Getting back to the Balkantrip series, today’s photo-of-the-week is a gloom-and-doom-ey shot of Belgrade, taken through the raindrop-ridden window of our hostel…

photography blog, urban, dark, street, cars, black and white, contrast, raindrops, bokeh, night

I’m also proud to announce that The Photo Argus has once again found it fit to include one of my photos (this particular one, as a matter of fact) in their selection of the weekly challenge contenders. Thanks again to the (by now) infamous pink-shirted-dude, who strikes again as the bearer of good news.

In other, more trivial news, I don’t know about idle hands being the devil’s playthings, but as I’ve come to realize, boredom, soldering irons, and illusions of craftsmanship definitely do not go well together. Your dearly beloved blogger was in quite a pickle last night when her laptop charger, after much deliberation, decided to up and die. It’s roughly at this point that a normal person would take the high road and just replace the damn thing, but nooo… not the polytechnical grad student. Long story short, armed with a soldering iron and oodles of misguided enthusiasm, I decided to perform open-cable surgery on the unfortunate bastard… Hilarity ensues… Which is why I now have a brand new shiny charger, and a smoking, mangled, mess of plastic, copper, and duct tape. The end.

]]> http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/2010/11/urban-jungle/feed/ 0 Ghouls of concerts past http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/2010/10/ghouls-of-concerts-past/ http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/2010/10/ghouls-of-concerts-past/#comments Fri, 29 Oct 2010 10:48:20 +0000 Catalina http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/?p=412 In yet another break from the Balkantrip series, The World According To My Camera is slipping into the Halloween spirit, or as I’ve affectionately dubbed it, “American holiday that makes its way into other unsuspecting countries’ cultures and makes itself at home, like that annoying uncle that just won’t leave already”. I kid, I kid… pumpkin pie is a pretty damn good redeeming quality.

Either way, the ghoulish imagery du jour is brought to you in the form of an older concert photo, with a black and white treatment, and a bitchin’ new texture overlay (because I’m confident, like that)…

photography blog, concert, show, light, music, guitarist, silhouette, contre-jour, dust, black and white, texture overlay

Bat shaped pumpkin cookies for whomever guesses what concert this was…

P.S. Don’t be ridiculous, no cookies for anyone, they’re all mine!

]]> http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/2010/10/ghouls-of-concerts-past/feed/ 3 Structure http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/2010/05/structure/ http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/2010/05/structure/#comments Sat, 15 May 2010 06:27:24 +0000 Catalina http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/?p=368 photography blog, structure, lines, architecture

For an edifice of megalomania manifested in mall construction, I thought it had a pretty interesting glass roof.

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