Sharing My Reflections

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  • About
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    • Places in Czech Republic
    • Focused on photography
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    • Reflections
    • Around home and village
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  • Portfolio
    • Artistic
    • Black and White
    • Multiplied
    • Still Life
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    • Same yet different
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    • 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

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  • Focused on photography

    52-week photoproject – Week 7

    2014-02-16 /

    Solitary Canon EOS 500D, 70-300 mm, 1/80 at f/18, -0,33 EV, 70 mm, ISO 200

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  • Reflections

    Added value

    2014-02-11 /

    In the first January week I started my 52-week photography project which should help me to use my camera on a regular basis and become more practised and experienced photographer. Thanks to this project I visited the town Švihov a week ago where my husband wanted to show me a nice cottage on a river bank. We were strolling along the river for a while, went to the near cemetery and eventually arrived at the local castle. The castle is moated and before we left, I asked my husband to go to the water with me so that I could try and capture ducks swimming there. It was getting dark…

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  • Focused on photography

    52-week photoproject – Week 6

    2014-02-09 /

    (A)symmetry Canon EOS 500D, 28-105 mm, 1/200 at f/18, -0,67 EV, 105 mm, ISO 200

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  • Places in Czech Republic

    Photo bits and pieces

    2014-02-04 /

    Thanks to my photography project I regularly take my camera into my hands and though there is still a lot I need to learn and improve, the regularity is enriching. I have more photos than I would have had without starting the project and though they may not be striking, I learn from each of them. The following photos were taken a few days ago and form somewhat incoherent set but I find them worthy of sharing here. Number 1: Cottage I wonder whether the cottage get flooded in spring when there is too much water in the river but in summer it must be a nice place to stay…

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  • Focused on photography

    52-week photoproject – Week 5

    2014-02-02 /

    Mourning Canon EOS 500D, 28-105 mm, 1/125 at f/7,1, 0 EV, 105 mm, ISO 200

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  • Focused on photography

    52-week photoproject – Week 4

    2014-01-26 /

    Synchronized Canon EOS 500D, 28-105 mm, 1/160 at f/5,6, -0,33 EV, 105 mm, ISO 200

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  • Places in Czech Republic

    Having walked on New Year’s Day

    2014-01-22 /

    In Czech we have a saying conveying that what you do and how you behave on the New Year’s Day, it will last through the whole year. A bit scary if things don’t go well on that particular day, isn’t it? But we always laugh at something rather than become afraid and take it easy. We started this year with a walk nearby. First we planned to go to Plzeň to participate in a march, that kind of a march when people come to a specified place, get registered, choose the length of the trail they want to conquer and when they arrive at the finish, they get a certificate…

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  • Focused on photography

    52-week photoproject – Week 3

    2014-01-19 /

    Come and play with me Canon EOS 500D, 28-105 mm, 1 at f/7,1, 0 EV, 78 mm, ISO 200

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    Focused on photography

    52-week photoproject – Week 2

    2014-01-16 /

    Birthday flower Canon EOS 500D, 70-300 mm, 2 at f/9, 0 EV, 300 mm, ISO 200

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  • Focused on photography

    52-week photoproject – Week 1

    2014-01-13 /

    Taken on New Year’s Day Canon EOS 500D, 28-105 mm, 1/125 at f/20, -0,33 EV, 38 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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“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” H. D. Thoreau

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