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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
    • Technical
    • Vehicles
    • 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

    Evaluation of my 52-week photo project

    2014-12-31 /

    2014 will soon be over and I’d like to evaluate the 52-week photo project I started at the beginning of the year. If you are interested in hearing what it was or was not good for, sit back comfortably and read on. It’s quite personal and it would be a different process for you but I guess we are not that different in many regards. First of all I wanted to express my heartfelt thanks to my wonderful husband for supporting me and helping me with everything I needed. He was often accompanying me, sometimes taking his own photos, sometimes just being there with me which also helped. Further I…

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    Petra Pavlátková
  • Focused on photography

    52-week photoproject – Week 52

    2014-12-28 /

    Peek into fairyland Canon EOS 500D, 28-105 mm, 1/60 at f/5,6, 0 EV, 28 mm, ISO 400

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    Petra Pavlátková
  • Focused on photography

    52-week photoproject – Week 51

    2014-12-23 /

    The fourth Canon EOS 500D, 28-105 mm, 1,6 at f/11, 0 EV, 90 mm, ISO 100

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    Petra Pavlátková
  • Focused on photography

    52-week photoproject – Week 50

    2014-12-18 /

    Looking forward to Christmas Canon EOS 500D, 18-55 mm, 2,5 at f/8, -1 EV, 55 mm, ISO 200

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    Petra Pavlátková
  • still-life
    Focused on photography

    52-week photoproject – Week 49

    2014-12-09 /

    Music in Library Canon EOS 500D, 28-105 mm, 3,2 at f/8, 0 EV, 72 mm, ISO 200

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    Petra Pavlátková
  • Focused on photography

    52-week photoproject – Week 48

    2014-12-01 /

    Advent expectations Canon EOS 500D, 55-250 mm, 1/10 at f/11, 0 EV, 123 mm, ISO 100

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    Petra Pavlátková
  • Focused on photography

    52-week photoproject – Week 47

    2014-11-24 /

    Inner self Canon EOS 500D, 55-250 mm, 1/8 at f/8, -0,67 EV, 250 mm, ISO 100

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    Petra Pavlátková
  • Focused on photography

    52-week photoproject – Week 46

    2014-11-16 /

    Moody Canon EOS 500D, 28-105 mm, 1/200 at f/10, 0 EV, 72 mm, ISO 200

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    Petra Pavlátková
  • Focused on photography

    52-week photoproject – Week 45

    2014-11-11 /

    Back in time Canon EOS 500D, 28-105 mm, 1/160 at f/13, 0 EV, 28 mm, ISO 200

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    Petra Pavlátková
  • Focused on photography

    52-week photoproject – Week 44

    2014-11-05 /

    Lazy afternoon Canon EOS 500D, 28-105 mm, 1/100 at f/9, -0,67 EV, 45 mm, ISO 400

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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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