The way I feel today…

Eyes burns and head hurts and I can’t see well…

I couldn’t see much beauty in my day today, only seeds of hope survived.

Geranium & HDR

I don’t pretend to do great HDR, but I do love what you can get with HDR “technique”.

Starting from these:

to end up with this:

The story of the unusual sunflower

Hi!
I am a sunflower that has been planted in a wrong period and place (September in Sicily).

I’ve taken more than 2 months to grow a few centimeters.

There have been cold, dry and warm days.

At the end of September, when I was only a sprout came a very terrible storm at night, and a girl run outside, under the rain, in order to save me and my 2 little brothers living in another vase. Her mother yelled at her saying: “What did you do there?! You are all wet now!”

An animal ate all my first leaves, and this probably slowed down my growth.

In October there have been terrible rainy days that cooled air and killed my brothers, but I kept on going ahead.

I gave up growing too much. I gave up becoming as majestic as were my parents in July. I only wanted to live and do my best and enjoy and use every single ray of light that hit me.

A few days ago came very warm days that made me able to grew a little more but…

I started lacking of water. “Were was gone that girl? She no longer come outside checking me… I need water”.

2 days ago she saw me. She gave me water, she cared of me… I finally bloomed today.

Nobody believed I would have ever bloomed or survived, except that girl.

At first I hated her, I was suffering and wondering: Why did she plant me in such a wrong place and period?
I don’t know the answer.

Other people come and smile or laugh at me saying “Oh! You bloomed in a wrong period my dear” or saying “Oh! How small you are”.

I’ll never be majestic because I’ve been planted in the wrong period and place, but…

I’m alive and I’ve lived longer and seen seasons that all my other relatives have never seen.

I saw that girl smiling proud of me.

I won my little battle.

Who said B&W is colorless? ;P

Of course I’m not being serious!

Not totally at least.

My way to create “black & white” pictures is change it into a  gray scale picture and than into a duotones one. Of course the colors are block plus the light version of another color in order to get a wash, often it’s sepia wash…

A few nights ago I’ve noticed that I use different toning, and thought that i could create a B&W banner preserving the crazy idea of a banner made up with 7 (once were 8 pictures) pictures put in the color sequence.

I underlined a lot the toning difference, so we might say they are not real black & white shots but I don’t think it’s such a terrible thing, do you?

Silent, because I am…

Studying…NAH!  I’m playing with pictures!

Since I opened this site I’ve wanted to change the header and make change at each reload (or so).

As you ca see, today I started creating the different headers… well, I should say “tonight”…

I’ve to seriously start studying, I’ve to study a lot if I want to get that d***** degree as soon as possible. Therefore post might be less frequent till Christmas time.

Did I give up with the B&W project? Sure not! Indeed there’s something in my plans… I won’t say anything else, but 1+1=2!

It’s bed time now (2:33 am) so it’s better I leave.

From dust (bin) to dust (cover)

Keep on playing with B&W shots, here you another picture I’ve taken a week ago at my brother’s house, the house where there are still a lot improvements to be done.

It’s a part of the branch of a chandelier. I’ve asked to my parent what was the story of this and my father said: “You uncle took it from the street near a rubbish bin”.
I thought that was “crazy” and “funny” at the same time… especially because there was a thin”film” of dust on the chandelier, that made it looking surprisingly “interesting” with the flash light.
I can’t explain the reason of this feeling, probably it’s just a consequence of “funny” light reflection.

Wood in B&W

Again, the last Sunday, in the yard of my brother’s new house….

In May in the yard of my family country house

For some weird reason I love wood in B&W

The covered past

On Sunday I’ve seen a lot of old things, a lot of things I have not seen since I was 15-16. A lot of things coming from the past, before my father was born.

Among these things there was this sideboard. At least I think it’s a kind of sideboard. It was in my grandma house and now was covered by plastic to avoid it gets ruined during the various improvements their are doing to the house.

I don’t know why but I’ve taken several pictures to it, in order to do at least an “HDR version”. (This could make me explain you how I take B&W pictures… but I’ve no great will to write today).

It isn’t a great shot, probably, but it’s like those good friendship. You understand you are going to live really pleasant moments, as well it has been pleasant playing with lights and taking pictures to this old sideboard… and realizing that before Sunday I’d never take a picture of it… it reminded me that at times we’ve to (at least partially) cover/lose/bury things to understand what is good in them.

Confusion…

Typed the password 3 times… I’ve a good memory for my password. IT’S A SIGN!

Of ages?! NAH!

I’m here, reading about spin, protons, neutrons, shells and feeling confused. Not by the subject, but by painkillers.

In the last 24 hours I have had to take some painkiller pills, I’m below the maximum dosage, but weirdly above the dosage I usually take… so, even if no doctor would seriously worry about me, I’m feeling kinda… “suspended”, “confused”…

What can I do? Sleeping, at the moment is impossible even if eyes are closing alone…
Have I a picture that can describe my state of confusion?
Uh… a picture of my brain would be fine but cannot be taken… I just let me run through the pictures… found one, something I considered close to a “trash bin shot” but perfect for this situation…

I slightly edited the light and here it is:

Probably I should never publish such pictures? But, who am I hurting with this? ;D
When I saw it, it kinda “called” me… probably it’s just painkiller effect…

To whom it may concern (wow, so serious!) it’s a 4yrs and half old shot. I’ve taken it during my senior high school year… (AM I SO OLD?  )

Now I’m mad. Mad at me. This shot reminded me that I have lost at least an year of raw shots for being unable to copy and paste… silly girl.

I’m also wondering why my “dreaming-thinking about pictures” part of the  brain never turn off, even when I feel bad! GH!

(If this post sounds like a delirium, it is! At least I had fun in writing this, and allowed me to focus on something that wasn’t the “pain” ;D )

October shots

In the last post I talked about the fact I haven’t took pictures in October (except that picture to a red rose) since I’ve my DSLR.

I said that I needed to take some pictures in October (my way to say:”I’m going to do that”) and…

As usually happens when I really decide to do something ^_^

Just a quick selection.
Hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoyed taking them.

Going back to study physics…  sob!