Exploring the Danube Delta

Just one , and probably the most fascinating, of the many amazing parts of my country : The Danube Delta. Amazing large wetland, formed over a period of more than 10000 years, has the third largest biodiversity in the world, with over 5500 flora and fauna species. I had the exciting opportunity to go on a boat trip exploring a little the channels of this superb delta. We left early in the morning and once we turned around the corner we found, 'having breakfast' : white pelicans together with the graceful swans and the 'cheeky' ospreys .... the swans floated slowly away when they heard our boat approaching, the ospreys flew away as well, only the pelicans stayed for awhile so we can admire them quietly. On a different channel we found beautiful water lilies, staying above the most amazing clear water. Then there were the frogs, the tortoises and the fastest dragon flies :) .... and so much more ... It was an amazing day for exploring :D

Free Range /End of Year Show Exhibition

It was a an amazing experience to be part of the Free Range Art & Design show. It was the very first time I exhibited and I felt slightly proud, as I can never be fully proud of myself. I choose 4 of the photos from my personal project PLANETTREE. The idea behind this small, fun project was to turn my camera away from the everyday, busy life and find a different kind of world, get closer to the things around me and explore. So I ended up photographing bark, interesting looking bark; also having this idea in the back of my mind to make my pictures look somehow like an abstract painting.

Reality has never been appealing to me, always trying to find weird ways to escape. Trying to find a world within a world, a planet on a planet. I like to believe this abstract, close up images of trees have some of the qualities of the work called 'earth from the air', where the scale of things is hard to judge.

All in all it's been an amazing year for me at City of Westminster College and it ended in a brilliant way. I learnt so much about photography in this college year and all I know is that I am prepared to follow photography to the next level :).

More portraits ... more studio work

the Irving Penn Influence

Irving Penn's photography has an amazing, bewitching effect on my mind. I guess is all about his very tight framing which gets you so dangerously close to his subjects, and then there is the elegance, the soft side lighting coming probably from a nearby window. It is the way Penn gets you personally involved in his portraits, the eyes of his subjects will haunt you forever. I also refer to his amazing portrait of the great Picasso, the photo that led me to do this project. You will have to search the mentioned portrait yourself as I believe my portrait is more fashion related, or I wish to think so, and I also feel that my portrait is not worth to be put next to Penn's fabulous Picasso. My portrait does not do much justice in its resemblance to Penn's photo. I will tell this much about Penn's Picasso, besides being amazing, IS VERY PICASSO; a nose, a big staring eye, an ear .... well, I guess you know what I mean, and if not, no problem, look at the framing and the lines and you will get a cubist photo. Enjoy ....

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