Vivid Details: July 2007

Affairs

a flick

I have to say this shot was a pleasant surprise. Both are unedited, but if you flick your camera really quick just as the shutter shuts, you get an effect like the picture on the right. I expected a blur, but after several tries, realized it was the vibrant colour of the PicusGold itself that did it.

Moroccon 21
A BIG thanks! to all my family and friends who threw me the best surprise birthday party ever!

Musings

self portrait

inside out

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I already spend hours in a dingy ol room full of books, so if libraries looked like this, I probably would give up my life goal of marrying the rich, old guy and become a spinster librarian with 26 cats...

More pictures here...and they are all of existing libraries around the world.

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Very cool, very modern, very contemporary architecture...thecoolhunter

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When you stumble upon something life changing...

I remember seeing this picture of an emaciated child, making his way to a food camp in Sudan, while a vulture watches in the background, waiting... in the newspapers some years back and reading the story of the photographer, Kevin Carter who won the Pullitzer for this shot and commited suicide shortly after because he couldn't live with the atrocities he had seen Sudan, I was so disturbed that I couldn't sleep or think of anything else for some weeks after. The images that affected the world so can be found here.

Red Wine

Packaging for Advertising Class Last Semester

Some icons I made

Shrubbery

porcelain

metalworks

one man's trash is another's treasure

waterslide

canary

luck

Considering the unconsidered

people watching

behind shutters

hiding

Earth

topview

Life....literally.

I love those wooden, handpainted cats from Bali years back (people watching). I've never seen cats with so much character before.
I also love my handmade satin bound journal (Life...literally.)

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A cool site Their Circular Life
My personal favourites are Venezia-Campo S. Barnaba and Pievepelago-Lago Santo

Another application site, similar to the above, breathtaking.
CN Tower, Toronto

Ladislav Kamarad takes beautiful pictures of wild landscapes, with mere Hasselblad equipment. European Professional Photographer of the Year 2005 and one of the few titleholders of the Master Qualified European Photographer (MQE-P). MQE-P is the highest distinction awarded by the Federation of European Photography. Basically, you have to be bloody good to be awarded such a title. His online gallery

Bruce Willis plus Sirius Black equal serious fun

good ol lovin

Lucid Dreams

Barely There

Lost and Found

Upwards

Metal&Glass

Aura

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I'm not sure about you, but there's always been something about aircraft windows that I found hauntingly beautiful. When on land, it was interesting to see the vast view outside from behind little windows, a little like a strange creature viewing an alien world from a pod. When suspended in mid air, why, is there anything better than the excitement of flying amidst puffy clouds? View France Bizots photos themed aircraft windows here.

Nick Brandt captures the beauty of wild Africa. Looking at his pictures makes my human self feel like an intruder, sucking life out of the beautiful planet. Let your mind soar, here you are

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Chema Madoz is a Spanish surrealist photographer, whose pictures are clever, humourous and ironic. He uses Hasselblad and Mamiya cameras and has published several books. Click here and enjoy.

Something else I found, quite by accident,
I never knew a moonbow existed?! Do check this out: Moonbow

up at midnight

seasoned

old among the new

temple alleyways

disco for life

Navie's guitar, India

There's a crazy bunch in my Biology class...

Paper-covered bangles

when we sleep

"I quit"

Self made bangles, and the last pack of Dunhill 20's, empty and still in my drawer

I introduced myself to Yvonne after her moving presentation on Neurofibromatosis and her personal struggle with it. Brilliant, friendly and very inspiring. Funny how all it takes is a little change in perspectives. Visit her blog here.