The World According To My Camera » night 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 Wonderland http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/2011/03/wonderland/ http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/2011/03/wonderland/#comments Mon, 14 Mar 2011 09:34:03 +0000 Catalina http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/?p=459 Well hello again, boys and girls, my camera is back from holiday, all wound up and ready to impart more wisdom on its view of the world. Sadly, the photo goodies from my most recent travels outside of Lyon aren’t quite ready yet, but fear not… there’s plenty more Lyonnaise eye candy to make up for it. And this week’s sugary goodness is, what else, cotton candy flavoured…

photography blog, carousel, merry-go-round, lights, night, carnival, colorful, kids

Come one, come all…

]]> http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/2011/03/wonderland/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 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 Stop the world, I want to get off… http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/2010/10/stop-the-world-i-want-to-get-off/ http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/2010/10/stop-the-world-i-want-to-get-off/#comments Sat, 02 Oct 2010 10:32:54 +0000 Catalina http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/?p=390 …Which is a pretty good description of my state of mind at the moment, seeing how your dearly beloved blogger is nursing a royal hangover right now. Screwdriver flavored, if I remember correctly, and yes, the epic get-together was way worth it…

Anyways, in completely unrelated news, it’s bragging time yet again, as ‘The World According To My Camera’ (or more precisely, my Flickr upload of ‘Rise and Shine’) has made it to the final selection for the ‘In The Shadows’ challenge on The Photo Argus. Yay! By the way, a big thank you to everyone’s favorite pink shirted dude, for the good news. Couple that with the fact that my plucky little bike has been miraculously resurrected in what seems like a better condition than it was even when brand new (again, thanks where thanks are due), and I suppose I can say it’s been a pretty good week.

Moving on, today’s photo-of-the-week is a bit of eye candy from Split, Croatia (which is stunningly beautiful, by the way, especially at night, strolling along the coast)…

photography blog, landscape, sea, highlights, light streaks, palm trees, cityscape

Now if you’ll excuse me, I think I’ll go take a brief nap for a couple of days or so. Cherry-oh!

]]> http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/2010/10/stop-the-world-i-want-to-get-off/feed/ 0 Raindrops… http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/2010/02/raindrops/ http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/2010/02/raindrops/#comments Sun, 14 Feb 2010 17:45:02 +0000 Catalina http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/?p=301 …Are falling on my head…
Well, not anymore, but I do wish the weather around this part of the world would make up its damn mind between snow, rain, sun, warm, cold, and everything in between. Anyway, here’s this week’s weather inspired photo…

photography blog, bokeh, lights, rain, raindrops, window, macro

In other news, in case there’s anybody Twitter-inclined in the audience who’d like to keep up with the updates around this place, here’s mr. linky. Enjoy!

]]> http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/2010/02/raindrops/feed/ 5 Carnival http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/2010/02/carnival/ http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/2010/02/carnival/#comments Sat, 06 Feb 2010 09:32:19 +0000 Catalina http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/?p=298 I don’t really know what to say about this one, except that the sign was on top of a bumper car ride… which I obviously indulged in… twice… at the mature, responsible age of 23. And then I got pink cotton candy. Boy, oh boy!

photography blog, black and white, bumper cars, carnival ride, lights, sign

]]> http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/2010/02/carnival/feed/ 4 Back in town… http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/2010/01/back-in-town/ http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/2010/01/back-in-town/#comments Wed, 06 Jan 2010 09:46:37 +0000 Catalina http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/?p=278 …and reluctantly washing the ‘Techno Red’ highlights out of my hair. I kid you not, that’s what it said on the box.

New year’s vacation (the term ‘party’ would be much more appropriate, but writing about a continuous five day party makes me question things) was a riot and beautifully surreal (as expected from said company). Among the highlights were the traditional epic snowball fight (with Wagner playing in the background… in my head), someone disinfecting their butt with whiskey (for a sledding related cut, you perverts!), me putting on my new year’s eve make-up by the light of a headlamp (thank heavens for backup generators), a private guitar concert in the snow, various party-goers attempting to sleep in said snow, a food fight beginning with what shall remain the motto of the trip – “Put down the polenta, man!”, never going to bed before 6 AM, and enough alcohol fumes to cause the entire house to spontaneously combust. I should’ve mentioned the Eurotrip crew being a small part of the new year’s mob, but then none of the highlights would’ve been surprising.

On the photographic front, there’s really not much to ‘show and tell’, seeing how I only took a handful of photos (and most of those should not be unleashed upon the unsuspecting world), after my camera caught a glimpse of the two other cameras around and, feeling in the presence of greatness, went and cowered in shame in a deep dark corner of my backpack. I will, however, share a photo I took a couple of months ago, of another campfire, reminding me of this vacation’s campfire, which, in the good spirit of the trip, was built on the first night, rather than the last…

photography blog, color, abstract, fire, light trails, long exposure, camp, night

In other news, Eurotrip 2.0 is already pretty much settled route-wise (for the most part, anyway), and now in the process of being settled financially-wise, for the purpose of which I am willing to make the ultimate sacrifice (oh, the horror) – not go to *both* the AC/DC *and* the Chris Rea concert within the next few months. Deciding to which one I *shall* go is a whole other matter, so I’m having an actual ‘Sophie’s choice’ moment here. Either way, enjoy the photo and a happy new year to everyone!

]]> http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/2010/01/back-in-town/feed/ 0 Making a list, checking it twice… http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/2009/12/making-a-list-checking-it-twice/ http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/2009/12/making-a-list-checking-it-twice/#comments Tue, 29 Dec 2009 08:24:27 +0000 Catalina http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/?p=275 …and then forgetting to pack half the items on it, in all the pre-holiday excitement and bounciness. Or in other words – the day before departure for yours truly. Aren’t holiday preparations lovely?

This is going to be my last post this year and obviously early, since no, I won’t be anywhere near within reach of the blog – which is probably for the best, seeing how my new year’s holiday promises to be a fairly insane one, and I shudder to think what the imminent inebriation and likely ski slope induced contusions would drive me to write. Either way, photo of the week and hopefully an appropriate one for this time of the year…

photography blog, color, clock, midnight, night

In other news, my little arts and crafts project is coming along nicely. With any bit of luck I should be able to finish it shortly after getting back in town. Yay!

So anyway, a happy new year to everyone, have the time of your life, and do mind those firecrackers (by which I mean “don’t forget any unlit”)! Cheers!

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