Winter Session: The Rat Pack
No sooner had I finished Cuba`s session, when my friends started to ring the doorbell. Every year we meet at my nomad studio in my hometown, 2-3 days before the New Year`s Eve, we have some drinks (mostly that year`s crops, `cause we like wine), tell some stories, play guitar and … most of all … take allot of pictures.
This year was hardly any different, except some of the people couldn`t make it. And the nominees are: Anutza, Zoz, Radu, Gogo and Chircu.
For the rest of you I have a surprise. The people in the following photographs only took a glimpse at the LCD after the pictures were taken so I bet they have no recollection of the things you`re about to see. :hihi:
Behind door number 1: Pinky & Srj (Bonnie and Clyde) – or should I say – The Cepinschis
Behind door number 2: Marius
Behind door number 3: Jo
(Notice how Srj jumps from one door to another …)
Next off I really wanted to show you my “studio” but to better understand the proportions I had to give it human scale.
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Winter Session: Cuba
And the last of the individual winter sessions was reserved for my lovely Jo. She insisted on being photographed while wearing the New Year`s Eve clothes. I must say … she had a very good idea; mostly because she never got to wear that outfit `cause everybody else had everyday clothes on … so she did the same thing.
Winter Session: Alexandra
Many of you will say that I used to much flash. I beg to differ. I`d say two more lights would have been a blessing...
Addendum:
As a side-note, in case you didn`t notice I gave a shot to a popular plug-in for the Wordpress platform: the one with the star ratings and the thumbs-up/down. Three days have passed and already I have some hilariously not so witty people thumbing down recent posts and 1 starring everything in their path. "Not so witty" (not to be too harsh) because as long as you`re not using a proxy or **** (classified info geeks like me happen to know), I can track you down and send 30 pizzas to your doorstep every day for the rest of your life or until you move to another country. They will write about you in the local paper and the Guinness Book of FAIL!
Don`t hate the player, hate the game! 
Don`t abuse the rating system.
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Winter Session : Diana
Still posting stuff from last year...
Just a few more pictures to show and I can fully be in the present. Today I`m going to show off two pictures of Diana, a good friend of mine who was supposed to shake off the camera shyness by now ... but that hasn`t happened yet. I`ll blame that on the cold. I have some pictures of her skin that will make a chicken look photoshoped.
I can barely wait for the summer... No I`m not talking about her in lingerie, I`m taking about my ass in the States!
Le`see, the next entry`s pictures are either Jo`s or Tode`s. Decisions ... decisions.
Pink, Srj ... hold on just a little longer. They`r coming! Slow ... but dangerously hilarious.
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Widescreen friends of mine…
I`m writing this entry hoping that it will cheer everybody up including yours truly. The past two weeks have been like Purgatory and Hell. The worst part is that "it ain`t over yet". The good part is: "only two more weeks to go".
I`ve been shooting to much with my Leica in the past 5 months. And by shooting I mean: "not using my digital counterpart that often". It was about time to use it again `cause the camera hardly got any use in the past two months.
So, Dec 17th, school, drawing exam. Everybody was tired and no one wanted to be there, especially for an exam. I guess they were all dreaming about snowboards and show-ball fights, Christmas and presents, food and sleep. Never forget food and sleep!
But I took their pictures anyway:
I won`t write their name, `cause it`s not that important for you.
Click the pictures for the slightly larger version.
Most of all, enjoy, and share with your family and friends. I`ll take some more on the next occasion.
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Leica 24 (nov.-dec. 2009)
I mixed some of the films and I`m to lazy to fix that now. This roll was supposed to go before the one with Cosmin.
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Teach me tonight - Roots
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This concert took place at the Romanian Cultural Institute and was part of Harry Tavitian`s Teach me Tonight series, and had the sole purpose of enlightening the audience with a little bit of jazz and blues history.
Although Harry talked about the roots of blues for about 15-20min at the beginning, I`m glad he did `cause I learned some new things. Some got bored pretty fast and even shouted "Let`s get on with the music..." but clearly the concert was not for them.
Harry had two guest players Vali "Sir Blues" Racila (slide guitar, delta blues) and Marcian Petrescu (harmonica) and they were both amazing.
I actually know Vali Racila for almost 11 years now. He used to come to my home town (Bacau) collaborating with the FSC (a non-profit organization created to support the people in need). And through common friends he got to know my father, who later brought me to Vali`s "friends-only" 1h concerts at a cup of tea. I remember one day he brought me two CD`s. The first one was an Emerson, Lake and Palmer album (can`t remember precisely the name) and the other one was Buddy Guy and Junior Well Live in Chicago (1993). I listened to them both and I chose to follow the Buddy Guy way. Since then I`m a blues fan, and in 2007 when I was in Chicago, I met him at his bar. I ran and bought the exact album (The 1993 Chicago concert) and had him sign it. Only God knows were`s that album now, but I sure have the pictures to remember about it.
But I digress. Since then I tried to be at all of Vali`s concerts. Missed a few.
Marcian Petrescu is one of the best Romanian harmonica players. I actually wanted to start studying harmonica with him but I never found the time. He is the lead singer of "Trenul de Noapte" (Midnight Train) band and had the pleasure of opening Sugar Blue`s Romanian tour concerts, last year.
The whole performance ended just under 2.5h and it was brilliant. The only spice missing from all these ingredients was "more Harry at the piano", I mean, it was great, but you just can`t have enough piano.
More info about the event @ Harry Tavitian`s Blog -> Here and here
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Alex Galmeanu`s "Contact Lenses" Photography Exhibition
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I don`t want to say bad things about the expo `cause he might kick my ass, but I just can`t resist:
- the space was to small thus overcrowded.
- most of the pictures were wonderful, but a few of them ... "what was he thinkin` showing these next to the really good ones?" (this is my opinion and does not reflect a majority)
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Late ride home
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I snapped this one waiting for the metro one night. Dristor station 11:00 PM.
