Archive for January, 2008

Kutscher

Posted in Men on January 31st, 2008 by Galina
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I wonder what he is thinking about

I discovered it is impossible to cheat people trying secretly photograph them,

individuality under the question always knows he(she) is object of interest,

even being surrounded by others, being in the group

As if they feel it

So we always know we are loved

They say the dogs always know who is afraid of them

Dogs catch micro movements and vibrations of our bodies,

and also the smell of stress (distress)

I think people are subconsciously sensitive about unknown for science vibrations

of other creatures from the point of possible threat

Schwedenplatz

Posted in Portfolio on January 30th, 2008 by Galina
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I like red and green. In Graz the trams are green, and here in Vienna they are red.

I guess too much sitting with pictures makes me asocial.

After many hours of privacy I find it

difficult to bareprolonged small talks

I read yesterday letters of Vincent van Gogh to his brother.

He knew himselfhe was wild and asocial, and also knew he would

stay in state of extreme poverty till the end of his life.

He wrote that painting was hard physical work

Only he himself knew true value of his art at that time.

It is the same with all of us

Only we ourselves can estimate our own efforts

We go forward, not because others value or don’t value us

Licht

Posted in Portfolio on January 28th, 2008 by Galina
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Fast portrait of young worker

Light is best artist, it creates something impressive and bright without slightest effort.

The lack of light makes everything dull and flat, and a few hours of work over such photos

hardly improve anything. It is like relationship. When relationship is dull from the very beginning,

it will hardly be better after months of closeness. Only it will be much more difficult to split

Blaue Erde

Posted in Gesellschaft on January 26th, 2008 by Galina
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I made a few shots of this blind man accompanied by black dog today in vicinity of Michaelaplatz,

it looked symbolic that he decided to take rest in place where bookshop with big window was situated.

Blue globes and black dog are metaphoric

Picture occurred to be very heavy because of many different colors and I reduced quality a little bit.

Shot was made with Nikon D200 and Sigma 50-150mm f2.8 lens

1 Bezirk

Posted in Women on January 24th, 2008 by Galina
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Die Dame

Nikkor AF 70-210mm, f4-5.6

Snapshot was made in conditions of cloudy weather. Woman appeared suddenly in front of me and moved rather quickly

Lens

Posted in Portfolio on January 18th, 2008 by Galina
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Cafe Aida. Spinnst du?

Hurra-a-a! Galina has the new lens at last! She is preoccupied now only with one thought: why construction of human head is so that humans don’t see what is going on behind their back. If they go along dark street or through jungles (what is the same) - to prevent sudden attack from behind they need constantly turn their head. I miss many things walking in the city without third eye at the back of my head that I would like very much to have

Samstag

Posted in About on January 13th, 2008 by Galina

The thought of the day: my human relationships are imperfect and always will be so; imperfections cause sufferings, and sufferings reconciliate me with the absence of all and any relationships, with nothingness. We are mortally afraid and at the same time unconsciously strive for perfection of unknown which will never come in cramped space of individual destiny. How many books can I read during my life time, how many men can I meet? Numbers are rather limited, and years and years of short jouney are spent in sufferings and adaptation to next painful imperfection

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Nikon

Posted in Portfolio on January 8th, 2008 by Galina

Nikkor AF 70-210mm

This old lens, almost single one i constantly worked with, is very nice. But time comes to start with indoors journalism photography, and my camera with this very lens is mostly dead in dim light. Solution?

Maybe solution is Nikkor AF-D 80-200mm 2.8 D lens which costs about 800 Euros.

I realized I can not control reality, what I have and what I have not is part of divine plot

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Kenya

Posted in Portfolio on January 1st, 2008 by Galina
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Recollecting days I had spent in Kenya