The World According To My Camera » urban 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 Peek-A-Boo! http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/2011/07/peek-a-boo/ http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/2011/07/peek-a-boo/#comments Mon, 18 Jul 2011 09:11:27 +0000 Catalina http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/?p=527 Yup, boys and girls, it’s that time of the year again… With less than a week to go till Eurotrip 3.0 (code named “meet the Vikings” this year), your dearly beloved blogger is busy making lists upon lists, shopping for fur-lined bathing suits and implements of ice fishing (or whatever it is one shops for before a northern holiday), and generally bouncing off the walls with impatience. So yeah, there’ll be silence in the ranks around here for a couple of weeks (maybe three, depending on the amount of sheer laziness piled up by the time I return). In the meantime, though…

photography blog, Paris, Notre-Dame, cathedral, architecture, telescope

…playing peek-a-boo with the gargoyles on Notre-Dame de Paris.

So assuming I don’t fall off a ferry or some excellent, flaxen haired, cello wielding specimen drinks me under the table, I’ll be back in a few weeks. Skål!

P.S. I was supposed to do this last week, but obviously I forgot. So cheers and kudos to the lovely lady in the leather jacket a.k.a Geo, for figuring out why my bikes are traditionally called Freddie. Hoorah!

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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!

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photography blog, sunset, blur, bokeh, lens flare, grass, birds, park

]]> http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/2011/04/dream-within-a-dream/feed/ 0 Once upon a Monday dreary… http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/2011/03/once-upon-a-monday-dreary/ http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/2011/03/once-upon-a-monday-dreary/#comments Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:01:33 +0000 Catalina http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/?p=466 …Whilst I pondered dazed and teary, over many a dull and dusty volume of forgotten bore, I found myself quoting gothic literature out loud in the computer science lab, because for the love of God, Mondays are the worst possible use for approximately one seventh of a person’s life. Rainy Mondays in particular are probably nature’s twisted sense of humor right there.

On a different, more positive note, today’s photo of the week is some glowy eye candy of the Notre-Dame de Fourvière basilica here in Lyon, which in all honesty, and all jokes aside, is a thing of beauty. Will try to get an inside shot as well sometime.

photography blog, basilica, Fourviere, Lyon, France, contre-jour, sunset, silhouette

As always, even on Monday, cheers!

]]> http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/2011/03/once-upon-a-monday-dreary/feed/ 0 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…

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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 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 Rollin’ – rollin’ – rollin’ on a river… http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/2010/10/rollin-rollin-rollin-on-a-river/ http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/2010/10/rollin-rollin-rollin-on-a-river/#comments Fri, 15 Oct 2010 07:29:05 +0000 Catalina http://the-world-according-to-my-camera.com/?p=402 photography blog, river, Ljubljana, houses, reflection, river bank

…In Ljubljana, which was quite possibly my favorite destination this Eurotrip, maybe on a tie with the Muslim bazaar in Sarajevo. Also, as a side note, the tall, narrow houses along the river bank were pleasantly reminiscent of the ones I saw in Gdansk last year, which made them even more likable.

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