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Nič mi minulý týždeň tak nevoňalo ako hnijúce popadané jablká a nič tento týždeň neprekonalo zvuk snehu topiaceho sa na bunde. Krákanie krkavca strateného v hmle. Olamovanie a jedenie ľadu z konárov kosodreviny. Splývanie s kameňmi a s lišajníkmi. Frčky do machorastov, šírenie oranžových výtrusov a pukanie ich viečka. Všetko sa skrúca do seba.

Jednoduché dni, počas ktorých si zvykám sama na seba, dotýkam sa papierových stránok častejšie než obvykle a chodím spávať pred 22.

Vyjebaná stromač.

(Určite viem, čo chcem.)

When I grow up I want to shoot analog.

Awake for almost 2 hours, sleeping disturbed by thoughts of what would I do when I wake up, getting back to my routine.
Feeling really well at home (I wonder how long is that going to last).

Spent 12 days in Bulgaria, 4 days on their wrecked roads full of holes capable to tear your wheel of.

I only would like to post here some links, just not to forget.

Belogradchik - our first stop
The town used to be up to 2x more populated, but as the industry (telephones making factory and some other related to fabrics) fell into despair, people started to move to greater cities.

ГACTPOHOM

Belogradchik Fortress + Belogradchik Rocks
I consider this the most beautiful and most interesting thing I saw in BG. For 3 days we were unable to get to it til end of the opening hours (18:00) [drinking, sleeping & eating was too much for a day;)] so one evening we just climbed a little over the fortified wall [you can await a photo of me nearly crying when climbing down]. Being there later, after opening hours was even better, because the sun still sets later and it just fits the fortress.

Belogradchik rocks + amfiteate…

Up the wall

Magura cave
HUGE cave, tour is 2,5 km long, halls wide and long. 1 EUR entrance, no tourists, no guide. Now think of the money earned and then think of paying more to rent it.
more flickr photos

Bulgarian cuisine
Tarator | Shopska salad | Sirene | Tikvitchki
This is where my veganism ends.

Sofia
Spending two days in Sofia was the hardest part of the trip. On one side Vitosha street with its luxurious shops, trendy restaurants and people driving expensive cars and on the other hand suburbs consisting of huge patchy blocks of flats. Then we thought of the little cities we passed through on our way with car (like Montana), where these blocks looked even more miserable and poor. In small towns the unemployment rate is very high and it's notable.
I know there are many big cities with both extremes, but here in Sofia the difference was huge.

http://photo-cult.com/maggot
We haven't found any place to sleep the first night in Sofia, so we used the possibility to stay at our friend's (Desi) cousin Ros who lives in flat in the suburb area of Sofia. Her boyfriend Svetoslav works as a photoreporter for some bigger Bulgarian newspaper. He showed us some of his photos and we talked a little about some aspects of analog photography, which he prefers.

MORE PHOTOS TO COME

Bulgaria trip (album)

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If I had to decide once again, I would go. I knew pretty early that my experience with this country would be much different than that my mum had, as she went there month or two ago and for typical holidays by the sea.
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I'm as well absolutely unsatisfied with the photos so far, I have one roll left for developing, so maybe it will save my feelings. [+ one film that is stucked in Flexaret due to broken focusing system:/] However, I have decided to have a break from film shooting and take my digital Canon to gain self-confidence. I feel I should move ahead, I should start to shoot with some aim, try to put something in.

Fuck, what am I talking about, I don't even understand the word "art".

And then I think I want only to put my life into pictures, to extract some feelings from it. Still, I'm not the photographer of the moment, I can't make street situations photos, I couldn't do any quicksnaps when we were on our holiday. So I'm somewhere in the middle, have to use my brain when shooting, but not that much to plan any composition.

Tak rada by som si častejšie čítala niečo, čo som napísala dávnejšie, no množstvo takýchto zápiskov je obmedzené. Opisovať bežné udalosti krátkych návštev, pobytov a zážitkov viem ešte horšie ako väčšina bežných písateľov blogov, aj keď rozlíšiť dobré rozprávačské schopnosti, si skromne myslím, viem.

Na stredu skoro ráno som si radšej ani nechystala budík, lebo som mamine neverila, že bude ona sama tak skoro vstávať. V aute na ceste na východ som si odtrpela bolesť hlavy, ktorú som radšej, pokiaľ sa dalo, nahrádzala spaním. (Počasie má na mňa väčší vplyv, ako by som povedala, nakoniec ani tá občasná káva pri nízkom tlaku nezaškodí.) Celú cestu pršalo, tlak mi zvyšovali jedine kamióny, predbiehanie môjho šoféra a jazda v treťom pruhu, kde sú v skutočnosti dva. Najlepšie bolo všetko naraz.

Počasie naznačovalo, že sa napriek (vďaka?) plánom na výlet na Turniansky hrad nikam cez víkend nepôjde. Videla som za tým skôr lenivosť a pohodlnosť mojich rodičov a tak som si ako napriek vymyslela aspoň aký-taký program. A zistila som, že mi moknutie ani blato nevadia a že mi chýba moire spôsobené presvitajúcimi listami v lese.

V piatok ráno však pršalo až príliš, a tak sme pod gaštanom čakali čo sa bude diať a či sa objaví presvitajúci mrak. Keď už aj gaštan začal presakovať, Mirka dostala nápad pozrieť Botanickú záhradu, ktorá v Košiciach narozdiel od Bratislavy má viac krytých priestorov a množstvo vysokých skleníkov. Naposledy som tam bola asi tak v štvrtej triede na základke. Je to vraj dobrá zašiváreň, je otvorená aj v zime (opäť narozdiel od bratislavskej), nikto si tam nikoho nevšíma a tak sme v tomto duchu vybalili obed (mmm, domáce lokše zos lekvárom) na veľký radiátor a kukali ako okolo presakuje voda a padá na všetky tie tropické zázraky.

Botanická záhrada, Košice

Botanická záhrada, Košice

 Uch, musím zobrať štvorčekový papier, farbičky a začať plánovať tú botanickú záhradu (všetko si vlastne beriem odtiaľto, ešte aj starú plastelínu).

Počasie sa za hodinku zlepšilo a tak sme mohli vybehnúť na Bankov. Trochu blatko, trochu do kopca, akosi veľa húb a málo ľudí. Ale fajn pocit (nielen môj:), že sme niekde boli, nelenili "dole v meste". Spokojná únava podporená zablatenosťou a faktom, že som sa 2 dni nesprchovala a teraz toto (nešla teplá voda a to, čo tieklo nebola ani studená voda ale niečo ešte horšie).

S Mirkou sme sa stihli ešte rozprávať o takých malých zvykoch, činnostiach, ktoré sú uložené niekde hlbokov našej pamäti a ktovie kedy vyjdú na povrch a či vôbec sa zachovajú. Odtŕhali sme kvety s hlbokým kalichom, z ktorého sa dala vycucať šťava podobná medu a vtedy nás to napadlo. Neviem ako preniesť takúto informáciu, ktorá nemá v podstate žiadnu hodnotu, je to len nejaký dofarbujúci doplnok, neviem ani ako to nazvať, lebo mi to nepripadá ani ako mém. Neviem ako sa volal ten kvety, neviem, či to čo sa dá z neho jesť je vôbec podobné medu, aj keď to tak chutí, ale je to stopa v pamäti, rovnako ako jedenie kyselky z nášho plota, ktorá teraz už neviem ako vyzerá a ani ako sa volá. Selský rozum je príliš škaredé pomenovanie týchto znalostí.

Skúsim takéto "veci"/ jednotky zvyku spísať a priradiť im nejaké meno.

V sobotu poobede, keď sme zase riadne premokli sme sa šli pozrieť do Kulturparku Kasárne, ktoré len nedávno otvorili. Areál kasární predstavuje niekoľko budov, ako kultúre centrum slúži zatiaľ len jedna, ale do tej sa pomestilo malé kino, priestor pre koncerty a vernisáže + kaviareň (s takýmto yummy retro kávovarom). Bratislavský kurátor závidí priestory ;).

Aktuálny program tu a ako sa tam dostať tu.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Tatras

vysoke tatry

Finally, I have some time to get my things together and sort everything. I've taken 657 photos up there in mountains, which is quite a lot, but I still don't like many of them. The main problem with shooting while hiking is time, weather and everything connected with those. It's hard to concentrate on taking pictures when you're all wet in windy 5 degrees of Celsius knowing there are few hours of walking ahead.

I think I like this photo the most, because of the light in the middle. Mountains without clouds and shadows are dull.

 

belianske tatry

Totally different from High Tatras (Vysoke Tatry) are Belianske Tatry. Unfortunately, they ain't accessible for tourist, because of enviroment protection (maybe only with a guide, I have to find out) .

 

 

 

 

The whole album can be found here: www.ipernity.com/doc/morrigan/album/28212

During these holidays I have finally founs something that excites me and can keep me awake (except for computers and internet, agh, those obsessions). I know I do copy a lot the current trend of photos (lomography, contrast, sharpened, greenish and everything else). But anyway I think I found few of my own features by accident.

I hope I will get somehwere this week, maybe to the country, maybe som industrial exploration ;). And I hope I won't be shy to take pictures of people just because I think I can't do it and it's only bothering for them. Next week I'm taking my new dear Canon EOS 400D to High Tatras and then to Košice. I will have to make the best of the time I'm there cos it won't be so soon I get there again.

I would like to find someone to go with me here: gargamel8.webzdarma.cz/desolation/magnezit01.jpg gargamel8.webzdarma.cz/desolation/magnezit02.jpg. I've been there before, but not inside.

I like this whole project (ipernity) a lot, but I still wonder who does it belong to. The layout and design is nearly the same as flickr's, but I didn't find any connection between yahoo and this french company. Does anyone know anything about the background of the company?

PS: if you enjoy photos of trashed, half-ruined industrial buildings checkout asebest's photos: www.flickr.com/photos/asebest/, I go mad when I see them (note - ALL of them are scans, he doesn't own  a digital camera).