Ni hao! As you can see I`m starting to learn Chinese! It`s harder than anything I`ve tried to do so far in my entire life so I won`t be mastering this new language any time soon ... but at least I try. Enough with the introduction, but just in case you liked ...
After 4 weeks of constant whining I`m pretty sure everyone wants to hear good stuff about China and about what I`m doing here. I have two topics that I will address in this week`s rant. 1. Perks of working in a big company. 2. Perks of traveling to "slim fit" country So let`s start ...
Howdy folks! I bet you`re wondering why I gathered you here!? Well, if it`s Sunday, and I`m abroad, it means it`s time for a fresh set of "bitching and moaning". Enjoy! Part 10. Chinese fruits (likes and dislikes). As you know already I get to eat fruits every day at work between lunch ...
Oi! Welcome back, y'all. Another week down, and many more to go. So, get you coffee ready because it time for round 3 of this prolonged ordeal called life. Part 7. Dealing with just the iPad Not a problem so far, and I'll take you through the whole process, including apps and tips and ...
I`ll start this week`s letter from where I left off last Sunday, Part 4. Job The first day I was supposed to get to work at 10:00 for the orientation. At 9:20 I got out of the subway station and I was ...
Part 1. The necessary introduction Good evening ladies an gents, This week's open letter is the first of hopefully many to come. I'm planning to write just about everything I will experience in my first 6 months abroad to the east. For those of you who don't know, a few months ago we ...
The first shooting for 2012 deserves a blog post, so I`ll try to be short and to the point. As you probably know Europe was under a massive snow storm. We (in Bucharest) got hit pretty hard, and we had to stay in the comfort of our apartments for a few days. That ...
Hi there, For the past 4-5 years I`ve tried to showcase my work in almost all the ways possible. I`ve started with a Blog on Blogspot.com (Google owned), witch worked fine until I managed to wipe every photo off, just by deleting some Picasa albums. Eventually I had everything back on, but wanted a ...
Hi guys, For the past month I`ve dedicated my time to my first MMORPG - Star Wars: The Old Republic (I skipped World of Warcraft due to 6 years of college that needed my undivided attention). It`s kinda self explanatory that I`m enjoying it a lot. (I have 12 full days of ...
CES is over, so enough about cameras. Let`s see something else every photographer should have in the toolbox! If you take pictures you`re inclined to post-process them to whatever extent necessary, but the main concern is "are the colors right?". Well, it depends! Are the ...
For Romanian press HERE. "An opinion nobody asked for" Fuji X-Pro 1 - Hands on preview As you probably know already, Fuji just launched a brand spanking new camera @ F64. Yep, the X-Pro 1. If we look at the big picture it`s just a mirror-less camera. But ...
Howdy, Today I`ll tell you a few things about a toy that`s really fun to use. The Supersampler! It`s a Lomography camera with 4 lenses and each lens exposes 1/4 of the frame. The lenses have individual shutters and the camera has 2 shooting modes: Instant Shutter (4 exposures in 0.2s) ...
Finally got some spare time on my hands and instead of catching up on games or books that I`ve put aside, I`m catching up on some films that I exposed more than a year ago, but never developed. For the last couple of days my main concerns were: "Hope I didn`t ...
Catching up on stuff. I finally managed to get done a big batch of photos for the Dear World project. First thing: Share with the whole World. Second: get some sleep! The project is pretty simple: ask people to send messages to the world by writing them on their body....
Make-Up: Ioana Toma Hello there! Not to disturb the previous post about the Samsung NX200, I`ve decided to make a 2nd entry with samples, some ... artsy, others ... not so much, but rounds-up the 1st review a little bit. For those of you with "pixel-peeping" as ...
Make-Up: Ioana Toma Hi folks. Long time no see. I have been reviewing Samsung NX 200 for the past two weeks already and now I have the time to post this on-line for everybody to see. Today's review is based on the actual presentation that I did for the launch ...
For Romanian press here. Another week, another review. Towards the end of the year the camera manufacturers try to launch as many gadgets / cameras / accessories to keep the people world-wide buying stuff throughout the holidays. After last`s week Nikon 1 V1, a mirror-less system with ...
For those who landed on this page thinking this preview will be full of ISO 100-6400 pictures ... you`ll be slightly disappointed. I healed the pixel peeping illness about 2 years ago by shooting one Leica, one lens and 1 type of film for the entire year so this article ...
So here we are, the day we drank wine from sunrise to sundown: We started the trip in Dijon, took the highway all the way down to Beaune, than we headed futher down towards Puligny-Montrachet. That was the southern-most point of ...
We arrived in Lyon 1h before sundown so we managed to get a map from the tourist info point, and went on foot north from Place Belecour towards the Opera, and then up and down on parallel streets in between these points. All the people were photogenic and dressed really good. ...