Sharing My Reflections

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  • About
  • Categories
    • Places in Czech Republic
    • Focused on photography
    • From abroad
    • Reflections
    • Around home and village
    • Poetry
    • Miscellaneous
  • Portfolio
    • Artistic
    • Black and White
    • Multiplied
    • Still Life
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    • Same yet different
  • My photo projects
    • Still Life Projects
      • Still Life experience (2015-2016)
      • Back to Still Life (2024)
      • Still Life yearly plan (2025)
    • Technical (2021)
    • Local towns and places (2018)
    • A theme for each month (2017)
    • 52-week photo project (2014)
  • Word for the year

ABOUT PERSPECTIVE
"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."
H. D. Thoreau

ABOUT PERCEPTION
"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift."
Albert Einstein

ABOUT VISION
"The world has no edges. Composition and framing is defining edges in the subjects that we see using the camera that we’re using. And it sounds like a really easy thing. But in order to get really good, strong, dynamic images, we do need to be quite mindful of how we compose and how we frame our world."
Dr. Shane Hulbert

  • Focused on photography

    52-week photoproject – Week 30

    2014-08-01 /

    Waiting for passengers Canon EOS 500D, 28-105 mm, 1/160 at f/13, 0 EV, 28 mm, ISO 200

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    Petra Pavlátková
  • Places in Czech Republic

    Park of Blatná castle

    2014-07-29 /

    At the end of my post about the castle in Blatná I promised to take you to the castle’s park so here we go. The park is open to the public all year round, free of charge. At the beginning of 19th century, the front part of the park was remodelled from a deer-park into an English style park, the back part remained preserved in its original form. Today the park is not as large as it used to be but it seems to have retained its charm. There used to stand several buildings in the park but today there is only one, an Empire style house, where Hildprant family…

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  • Focused on photography

    52-week photoproject – Week 29

    2014-07-27 /

    Blessing Canon EOS 500D, 55-250 mm, 1/320 at f/11, -0,67 EV, 194 mm, ISO 200

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    52-week photoproject – Week 28

    2014-07-14 /

    Wheel Canon EOS 500D, 28-105 mm, 1/60 at f/8, 0 EV, 98 mm, ISO 400

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  • Places in Czech Republic

    Blatná castle

    2014-07-12 /

    Amidst marshland, situated on rock bedrock, a wooden fortress used to stand. Then, in the 13th century, the fortress was rebuilt into a castle. Later a moat was built in the place of the marsh to protect the castle. That is where the history of the castle in Blatná, which is a small town in South Bohemia, dates back. The era of the family of the house of Rožmitál in the 15th century, under which the castle was remodelled significantly, is considered as the most important period in the castle’s history and sometimes it is called a golden age of the castle. The family of the house of Rožmitál was…

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    52-week photoproject – Week 27

    2014-07-06 /

    Encounter Canon EOS 500D, 55-250 mm, 1/400 at f/8, 0 EV, 187 mm, ISO 400

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    52-week photoproject – Week 26

    2014-06-30 /

    Pelargonium peltatum Canon EOS 500D, 55-250 mm, 1/200 at f/10, -1 EV, 179 mm, ISO 400

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  • Reflections

    Reflections

    2014-06-25 /

    Once I was standing on a bank of a pond, watching a duck resting just opposite and admiring its reflection in the water. It was such a tranquil scene… I zoomed in my camera in an effort to capture the impression but when I opened the photo on my laptop, I felt taken aback. Is this what I saw at the place? There is something wrong with the picture… And then it dawned on me. The reflection did not look as I supposed it should. The duck was there but there were also trees mirroring themselves in the water which could not be seen in the upper part of the…

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    Petra Pavlátková
  • Focused on photography

    52-week photoproject – Week 25

    2014-06-22 /

    Thinking Canon EOS 500D, 55-250 mm, 1/100 at f/9, 0 EV, 200 mm, ISO 200

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  • Focused on photography

    52-week photoproject – Week 24

    2014-06-16 /

    Campanula persicifolia Canon EOS 500D, 55-250 mm, 1/320 at f/10, 0 EV, 154 mm, ISO 200

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    Petra Pavlátková
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Hi, my name is Petra. I come from and live in the Czech Republic, and this is my personal blog where I share my photos and thoughts. Welcome!

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