Sibiu, Canon 5D, 135mm f2

somewhere in Bucharest
same pany gf1+20mm

Hospital de Sant Pau, Lluís Domènech i Montaner arch., Barcelona,
pany gf1, 28-90mm (35mm equivalent) zoom lens

Park Guell, Barcelona
pany gf1, 14-28mm f 4
somewhere between Ingres and Dali

Hello,
Just a note to let you know I’m still alive. I’ve been very busy lately with postprocessing the photos I took for the assignment I have with a magazine. These are from the Danube Delta, a place somehow hard to reach. Not my kind of subject, that’s the first attempt at shooting birds; that’s why I did not feel like posting them here. Besides, quantity was big. Anyway, here are few. Hope to catch back. Oh, the magazine is about urbanism, not wildlife. I shot all these for my own pleasure, with my normal architecture gear, the longest telephoto being the 135mm. I also have birds shot with 24mm TS-E, but those are from the museum.

Barcelona, pany gf1+28-90mm f 3.5-5.6 kit lens

Just for the fun of it.
Right now I am in Barcelona and I am enjoying this marvel of a city. I took with me a light gear: 2 gf1 bodies + 3 pany lenses (14-24mm f 4, 24-90mm, f 3.5-5.6 and the 40mm f 1.7 (these are translations into 35mm language)). This comes to exactly half the weight of a canon 5D+24mm TS-E+17-40 f 4+135mm f 2.

A girl with mental ilness from Baltesti Roma community. She is laying all day long in that bed. Taken today, during a working visit on site.

pany gf1, iso 800, f 2.2, 1/200s

Edit: The Roma community of Baltesti is one of the poorest in Romania. That’s why I do social work there with the Soros Foundation in order to increase the living standard by designing and building decent houses for these unfortunates.

pany gf1 at Murighiol, a remote place from the Danube Delta

Hi, just for the fun of it, here is a photo taken with the 24mm TS-E lens, shifted to left. I enjoy very much taking photos like this for the following reasons:
1. the subject sees you but can’t imagine you are actually shooting him; thus resulting in very sincere mimics;
2. in fact, the subject wonders what the heck are you so very carefully composing next to his shoulder, since there is most ofen just nothing;
3. the subject’s face while seeing that you turn the knob and the fron lens goes left or right is one of the most funny part;
4. I have to crop the photo, so there is not much to do with the small output. :)
For reference, here is the full image. :) The “subject” was the archer statue.

canon 5d+135mm f2
Constanta, Romania

Hello,
I’ve spent the Easter vacations in the Danube Delta,
where I shot mostly landscapes and birds. While coming back,
I passed through the beautiful city of Constanta
(the biggest harbour of the Black Sea) and I took some street
life shots which I enjoy the most.
canon 5D+135mm f 2

being away in two very poor Roma communities. I am heading a project aimed to improve the living conditions of this minority and striving to find sustainable sollutions.
pany gf1, 20mm. simply a joy to use and much easier to manoeuvre while carrying a conversation etc.

Anvers

being in Belgium for a while and trying to catch back

Rollei 3.5f