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52-week photoproject – Week 13
Cormorant Canon EOS 500D, 70-300 mm, 1/500 at f/5,6, 0 EV, 300 mm, ISO 200
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Stony bits and pieces
Last Saturday we spent several hours on a trip about 30 kilometres away from Plzeň (Pilsen), in and around the town Rabštejn nad Střelou. I will tell you more about this miniature town with interesting history records in my next post, today I would like to focus on another aspect of that area. As you might have guessed from the title of this post, it is about stones which are very frequent there. The structure and colouration caused by covers of lichens and similar plants growing on the surface of the local rocks create interesting pictures in many places. Also, there is an old slate quarry and you tread on…
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52-week photoproject – Week 12
Behind curtain Canon EOS 500D, 28-105 mm, 1/125 at f/10, 0 EV, 53 mm, ISO 400
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Creativity
“Creativity is not just for artists.It’s for businesspeople looking for a new way to close a sale;it’s for engineers trying to solve a problem;it’s for parents who want their children to see the world in more than one way.”― Twyla Tharp, a dancer and choreographer Many times it seems to me that I lack creativity absolutely but when I look at my ordinary day through the glasses of this quote, I realise how much wisdom they reveal. We are creative in solving our family and personal problemsimpressing those we want to impresslooking for new opportunitiesclimbing career laddersfulfilling our needs trying to keep ourselves comfortablearranging clothes in our wardrobessetting tables and…
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52-week photoproject – Week 11
The same but different Canon EOS 500D, 28-105 mm, 1/80 at f/8, 0 EV, 28 mm, ISO 400
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Pálava hills
Last summer, during our stay in South Moravia, we visited Pálava. Pálava belongs to the longest settled areas of the Czech Republic where remnants of prehistoric camping sites of mammoth hunters were discovered as well as a world-known ceramic figure of “The Venus of Dolní Věstonice”, a nude female figure with large breasts and wide hips. The figure was found in ash in a Palaeolithic site by Dolní Věstonice in 1925 and is dated to 29,000 – 25,000 BCE. It belongs to the oldest examples of ceramic articles worldwide. In 1976, Pálava was declared a protected landscape area and 10 years later in 1986 also UNESCO biosphere reserve. It is…
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52-week photoproject – Week 10
Complementary Canon EOS 500D, 28-105 mm, 1/60 at f/5, -0,33 EV, 105 mm, ISO 400
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52-week photoproject – Week 9
Hand-crafted Impression Canon EOS 500D, 28-105 mm, 1/60 at f/4,5, 0 EV, 105 mm, ISO 400
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52-week photoproject – Week 8
Relaxation Canon EOS 500D, 70-300 mm, 5 at f/29, -2 EV, 214 mm, ISO 200
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Revisiting Kozel castle
During the last several years I posted quite a few photos taken in the park surrounding the Kozel castle. I’ve known the castle since my childhood but I see it differently every time I come there. The park is charming in each and every season. I’d like to add a few more photos to that collection today. The castle which is in the upper part of the photo above is not the only interesting building in the complex. Below it you can see greenhouses where plants are kept and grown during the colder months of a year. I liked that overall as well as detailed view. In the following photo…
