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  • Home
  • 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

  • Places in Czech Republic

    Technical and musical Vítkovice Ironworks

    2015-08-09 /

    My husband comes from Ostrava so from time to time we go there to visit his mom and the rest of his family and often we also choose a particular place to visit. Last autumn he suggested we could have a look at the reactivated area of former ironworks and as I work in a company producing steel and steel/cast iron products, it seemed interesting enough to me to agree to that plan. I didn’t regret at all as the area is enormously interesting, fascinating. We even took a guided tour that provided additional information and enabled us access to some parts that are not freely accessible. At the time…

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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
  • Focused on photography

    52-week photoproject – Week 43

    2014-10-29 /

    Old factory Canon EOS 500D, 28-105 mm, 1/250 at f/10, 0 EV, 83 mm, ISO 400

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    Petra Pavlátková

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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The places I write about are situated in the Czech Republic, unless stated otherwise.

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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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  • Průhonice castle and park
  • Kokořín castle and surroundings
  • Krahbergzinken view
  • Three-peak hike
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