Being a kid again II

This is another shot. I added a vignette and a cool effect I don’t remember the name of. I thought it made him look cool, especially his skin and clothes. I hope it doesn’t look too burnt out.

Radu came by today, like 9.30 in the freakin’ morning. Luckily I had woken up and eaten. My best friend arrived yesterday from Bulgaria. She fell in love with this Swiss dude. 27 years of age. And she’s like 20. I tried to give her some advice…. Hope she follows at least one.

Yesterday I almost got soaked by the rain, somewhere around 10 p.m. I was coming back from the city and lucky me we live close to the subway station.

On Monday I’m going to have another go at the stupid driving exam. Third time is the charm, right? Wish me luck.

Michael Jackson died. No comment. RIP

Little things

I am in a really good mood for writing today. Almost forgot how it feels. Irina, this is your fault, for making me write. Don’t know if you’re even reading this….. lol

Well, today I had one of those weird experiences again. And it’s really bugging me, because the one person I told this about didn’t believe me. Reminded Radu about “Twilight” a bit, maybe that’s why he adopted that “don’t give me this shit” attitude.

I find it hard to believe I’m doing this on purpose, actually I’m not. It’s simply something that comes from inside, bursts in me and then fades away only to be followed by the real thing in a couple of seconds.

Anyway, to make a short story shorter, I sometimes predict. And most of the times is either connected to Radu in a way or is a good thing happening to me. Don’t even want to think about ugly things happening. This morning I knew 10 seconds before that he would call me and ask to go out. It was 9 a.m. in the morning, I had just woken up barely 3 minutes and he never calls at this time of day. I hadn’t eaten a thing and the last thing on my mind was going out so early. Ok, let’s say it was coincidence.

A couple of days ago, I was at the subway, on my way to meet my best friend, Anca. As I was climbing those stairs to go out into the air, I was thinking it would have been nice if Radu called and asked to come too. And what do you know? He did call, 5 seconds after that.

These are only 2 examples. I forgot most of them, but they also included phone ringing and such. I am not going nuts, I hope I am very far from that. But this got me thinking really bad. And to think I want to have my hair cut just like Alice Cullen…. Who, incidentally, has visions of the future, most of them subjective…. You do the math.

So, my non-freaky friends, who wants to find out something from their future?

P.S. I tend to believe that my next driving teacher is young and wears glasses. (long story with the driving, I’ll explain later)

Being a kid again

We grow up too fast. At least that is my impression. I haven’t really enjoyed my childhood when I was supposed to, so now I’m catching up, let’s say.

I need to take a break once in a while. I did this a couple of days ago. Went to this hidden park next to my university. I didn’t even know it was there. Had benches and all. Me and my friends went for the swings. Man, it was great. The wind blowing was a plus.

This kid came and asked for permission to swing, because we were all over the place. We said ok, I mean, it was a place for kids, after all. Irina started taking shots of him, after she had asked for permission. The kid said okay so she started shooting a few shots. Amazing how the focus turned out, given the fact that Irina had never had anything to do with a SLR before. And like never before, I loved my camera even more when I got home and took a look at the pictures.

I loved working on this picture in Photoshop. I felt it needed a twist, like black and white or a warm filter. This is what turned out. The only thing that I couldn’t change, though, was the fact that his legs were like cut off. But, hey, can’t have them all, right?

I wonder what my cousin will say about this pic. Credit to Irina. *bows*

P.s. The kid looks so natural, doesn’t he?

Sad?

No, I wasn’t sad, it was just…. Oh, I don’t know

Credit to Reen for the picture. With my camera )

Respect

Romania-Belarus, qualifiers for the World Champs in Beijing We won.

Storm

Freaking storm outside. Doesn’t rain yet, but I think it will.

Anyway, this is, believe it or not, a HDR attempt. I mean, it’s made with the HDR software, but the pictures weren’t at different exposures. Instead, they were at different white balance settings. Probably that’s why the pictures weren’t alligned properly.

But I like the weird result, though.

Out of focus

Yesterday I managed to shoot about 70 pictures. I went with some of my colleagues to this place, to have a drink and to celebrate the end of exams. Not too many out-of-the-ordinary pictures to show, just the classic pictures. But I’ll try to show you some

The above is not taken by me, but the camera is mine Credit to Radu (no, not that Radu).