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Lovely evening. Celebration of closing the season at a dance school. The different smiles caught moreover my attention. From one dancer to another the smiles variate - from a very controlled one trying to harmonize with the pose, to a "oops"-I-did-a-mistake, to a very the natural, uncontrolled (and quite rare) which was accompanying all the moves: the joy of dancing. The photo set tries to

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... came across via a flyer in the train station once arrived in Zagreb. I had in mind to visit the Museum of contemporary art, but the curiosity prevailed. The journey through out the exhibits was impressive: lots of stories told sometimes in few words, sometimes in extenso upon their heros. Irony, anger, sadness, resignation... the museum is also one of emotions. A whole spectrum is there and

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Friday afternoon, on the way home. Tired. Therefore happy that the tram arrived quickly. I got in and, while trying to keep myself next to the door to be ready to get off at the next stop, I smiled to a lady that looked familiar to me. "Hello", I said. Then I realized I actually don't know her and felt a bit embarrassed of the situation. She started talking to me. A bit fast and, for a while,

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...on a rainy day. Discovering Türkenschanzpark and parts of 18th district (such this Swedish church).

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... i discovered them this Christmas while searching for a present for a 8 year old girl. Not sure how the kid enjoyed her present, but I surely did. This is my very first try. Of course, the ornament for the coffee cup needs serious improvement.

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and continue the journey! Happy 2012! via http://gapingvoid.com/ 

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Classic & cheesy. Yet, couldn't help to click this one! :) Happy holidays for all!

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Friends recommended me to watch "Rockstar" one of the latest Bollywood movie featuring Ranbir Kapoor, especially for its music. I found this piece and judging the story line, the scene is happening in Czech Republic. Loved the combination. First time when I see India and Eastern Europe in one song. Update: I found in the meantime the full song:

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Inner smile after a weekend with my parents. It made me remember of this video, because... yes, I do get it now! :)

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...a hike, chats and Vienna's hills.

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Busy days and lots of photowalks lately. Many flickr postings: A night walk. A Japanese fest. Sankt Marks in the autumn sun. Tea time. U6. Leopoldstadt. And unfinished collections like this one or this one. The thoughts in between? I just love it. And I keep on clicking. But I feel a bit stuck composition wise. Story-less. Thinking to change the angle. Or the lens. Or just for short while to

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... say never.

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... sun.

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...on a wall in Venice.

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I love randomness because it always happens. A random shot, in a random place randomly discovered ... instead of a planned session at an art gallery.

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... and photos. The rest just beautiful randomness :)

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... at dusk.

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... always count! :)

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Curiosity, openness, joy of exploration. Sometimes just a comfort zone. It's comfortable to be a tourist. Everybody knows how to be a tourist: you have a map and a camera. Sometimes a guide. All the mistakes are allowed. Detachment is allowed. Questions are highly recommended. Some are professional tourists. Always in a rush to the next hot spot. Fully prepared for all kinds of weather.

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My very first night photowalk... unfortunately cut by rain. Great fun and pretty hard working.

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„Well, you never know what will happen. Maybe you‘ll be sick or maybe you’ll not get to that point", said my friend surprised about my question. But what if you do? A lot of people I have met have a pretty vague idea of their life after age of 50. When we are kids, everyone is asking what we will be when we'll grow up and we are busy with "life-decisions". Why stop asking this question

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... you gotta love them! I wanted to take a shot through a fence and one of the photos came out like this. I actually like the mistake more than the "correct" one. Well... what's a correct photo anyway? :)

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...and a concert hall full of people dancing. Priceless.

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  ... at the seaside in Italian style. 

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... another lazy Saturday.

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... randomly.

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... of Jan Fabre and a rainy Saturday fully reinvented.

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With a delay, but still within the month here are the photos from the last photolecture. This time we wandered in the steel&glass part of Vienna, talking about modern architecture. I stuck to black&white photos, therefore the result.  My 32 project is still going on, but I'm planning a different posting.  The summer will be even more inspiring! 

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... as a natural step and preventing you from stumbling. :)

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Disclaimer: No, this blog is not entirely about photography. It just seems so at the moment. ;-) With our little photogroup made it through the old architecture of Vienna. Great places to be checked out in  the first and fourth district. The weather wasn't the best ever - I was ice cold at the end, but sure was worth it. The Archilecture gave me lots of thinking, but not necessarily about

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I liked the idea of doing a photo-project, so I said to myself… why not and why not now? The reasons for this are quite simple: - to take more photos - to train my spirit of observation - to blog more   The theme is daily happenings, therefore I came up with the title: My 32. How often the postings, I haven’t decided yet, but for sure more than once per month and less than daily.

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... and for the first photowalk of this year. The theme was (of course) shopping, therefore the shiny shoes and the other shapes for sale. Been a while since i didn't shot any photos - two busy months with anything else than photos. The break is over... back to lens and headaches about light and shutter speed. Hello Spring!

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I wanted for a while now to use Posterous, but I couldn't find a good reason to integrate it in my blog-verse. Finally I managed it, so here we go: Ruxandra's posterous - where I'll post things related with photography -tutorials, tools, events or interesting galleries. Enjoy!

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... while studying a photography book: Me: Are these pictures good? Friend: Well, they are famous, yours are not... Never be afraid to ask questions. But make sure you formulate them better. :)

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A couple of weeks back, I went to watch a documentary and beside the interestingness of it, I absolutely loved the settings of the feedback/discussion session. Four drivers were stated: Whoever comes are the right people. Whatever happens is the only thing that could have. Whenever it starts is the right time. When it’s over it’s over. We wrote down the first 4-5 topics raised by the audience

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... at Zentralfriedhof. My first photowalk out of many more to go (I hope). I'm really happy with my results and bit amazed that from around 400 shots only 9 12 made it to flickr (or facebook). The good news is that I am now less confused about ISO, shutter speed and aperture... All you need is patience! :)

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A couple of months back I did a lot of shots in Innsbruck. But very few I liked at that time. Every now and then I'm browsing the set and try to "transform" some of the images. (I very much like to edit the photos. I feel like a little painter.) I actually do this exercise with most of my sets. I like to turn back and see if I can create new meanings. Sometimes you have a result -like the one

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Messages "without subject" (like a friend named them) are the best you can receive: a short simple question: „how are you?“, a hello „hey... thought to say hello“, a memory „I've been remembering our awesome trip..„ or a „miss you loads“. I am fortunate to have friends with whom even if I dont have daily contact (no, not even facebook poking) make me this surprise from time to time. Showing up

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Today I received an awesome present: "I miss my friends from Bosnia... you remind me of them...", a friend told me. It made me remember of another two similar precious gifts received in the last years: "you are very much black even with your white skin" (a very dear friend) and "you are more Indian than Indians" (a very dear professor).  I couldn't help wondering once again how come people find

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I don't know if it was my holiday mood, the Sunday slow motion or the fact that I was coming back from a brunch with lovely people, but I couldn't have said better myself:

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Lazy afternoon. Chilled conversations.                                                           

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I finally did it! I bought my first camera: a Canon 500D. This is the joy of trying it out.                                             

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And I started to play more with photography. Not only reading photoblogs and following photo tweetpeople, but also joining a photo club and trying out cameras. I'm a beginner and I need a lot of technical training. Thanks to my photo-club and friends, I had the chance to work with a Canon 300D and 450D with different lenses – Sigma 10-20 mm, Sigma 70 mm, Canon EFS 18-55 mm, Canon EF 90-300 mm. It

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... with photography. Think it's a good solution when the words are missing or are too many.

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Last week I had the best conversation ever. Coming back home from my German classes I traveled for few subway stations with one of my colleagues. We didn't have any common language other than the beginner level of German. But the will to communicate went beyond the little vocabulary we had at our disposal. Smiles and gestures made stories flow. I still smile remembering her sweet complain: "

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Walk in a park. Chilly sunny morning. Conversational shapes.

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 I think I'm not a disciplined tourist. I'm not buying Lonely Planet and I'm not making to do lists for vacations. I love and remember places for random reasons like: spring smell  (Zagreb, Croatia); joy. great cocktails. (Cluj, Romania); friendship at large (Mumbai, India); laziness. ping pong and pool. laughs (Mlilwane, Swaziland); creative bug. silence (Freiburg, Germany); retreat. relaxation.

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The other day I was complaining to a friend about how stuck I am with my writings. From three lines of conversation in which I explained the idea of my post, here is what it came out (title and editing are not mine): Invictus I'm trying to write about the expat life and it's like being a baby again I want to say you build very much aware your social web you learn how to walk how to interact and

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It's been a while: five full months. Been busy changing job and home. So yes... it's time to put some thoughts on these shelves. Promise to myself!

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Every morning I take the subway to go to the office, but lately I have the feeling that I'm traveling in a moving library. More and more people are reading books. It seems the popularity of newspapers is slightly decreasing. Young or middle aged men and women, either standing or seated are all captivated by the universe of their volume. Some even are getting in the train with the book already

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Indeed, its been a long time since my last post... I was busy repatriating after my two years away and the adjusting process was a bit more challenging than I thought. It seems is taking longer to re-adapt than to adapt. A funny process of re-discovering your neighborhood, your city, your friends. But I'll talk more about this in my next posts along with other learnings. For now.. just a "

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Labels, patterns, categories... we use them. That’s an obvious fact and not necessarily a bad thing. Human mind needs to operate somehow in this world of infinite information. The exploration process starts with a first step of recognizing and comparing our previous experience, seeking landmarks in an unknown space. The freshly discovered item is classified in a "folder” after setting

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Last week, Tuesday started as a normal day: woke up, had breakfast, worked at my thesis, chatted with few friends. Around noon I decided to do some food shopping and headed to the supermarket. It was a beautiful day, few traces of snow here and there, very shinny sun, but still cold. Walking to the supermarket a thought hit me: I'm happy! How come...?!?, I was about to revolt. No fireworks

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One of the usual answers to this question is … I am a Romanian. It’s very easy for me to say this, because I was born in Bucharest, I spent 28 years of my life in the same city (most of it in the same house), my parents and grandparents were born in Romania as well. I'm probably one of the “last Mohicans” who has the luxury to define herself in such terms. During my travels, I met people for

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The day of ‘Diwali’- the festival of lights is a national holiday for India. Even though it is primarily a Hindu festival, in India it is celebrated more or less by all religions. This year, Diwali was celebrated on October the 28th. I have come to like it very much, not only because of what it symbolizes, but also because of my experience of the festival. This holiday has “followed me” on my

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For the last year and a half, I had been traveling a lot. Basically for my master's program. During which time I spent 9 months in India -a great experience from so many points of view. For a European like me, living in India presents many challenges. My first was dealing with food. Cooking on campus wasn't a possibility (no kitchen available for student use) and soon enough I started eating at

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A lot of services available today make invisibility impossible. Be it facebook, linkedin, myspace, orkut, hi5, tagged, second life or a myriad number of blogs, these are tools through which one can construct and reconstruct oneself. The virtual world is simply a mimesis of the physical space in which we communicate, connect, interact, work, or have fun. And of course, you need a ‘face’ here as

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