a rather short post this time, got internet connection problems after the floods in Prievidza. Some of these are almost 2 moths old.

comfortable chairs, decent coffee in the centre of Prievidza - a miracle

Austrian quality in slovak hands, Miro and his new love

btw never use russan filters, quality is even worse than chinese

some private billboard campaign agains recently elected government

this happens only if you really need to check something (can't remember what) on internet, BSoD in internet cafe

later I went to see my ex-neighbours from Brno. And I don't mean the dog. That's just a dog

Kristina brought some middleformat lenses for repair, hopefully I still got them somewhere around

me and dog whose name I can't recall

from a trip to Mala Fatra, I think, reminds me of Slovak paradise nature reserve, Miro prepairing to make a photo

upper level of cascade waterfall (there's a load of those) with some of our group members

just a quick snapshop of other tourists making a family album photo, while waiting for the rest of the group

Lucka probably aiming for a photographer. that'd be me

this ought to a short series of all our group members climbing up the ladder. Sadly I failed to expose correctly thus the result is more like series of white-washed-out freaks

Hetty doesn't like to be photographed. She ran after me for while immediately, luckily I was fast enough and the hill was too steep

random tourists at paths crossing

as far as I can remember Lucka said something like "Mirko, look there's a camera"

and he did look

another comfortable sitting spot

Tomb Raider style climbing. just, I'm not sure if Lara had a camera with her

now tell me, all the rocks there, isn't it like from Tomb Raider series?

we actually were at the top that's hidden somewhere in back

went to eat afterwards, took some photos on the parking lot and went home.

still life photography place? dunno, not the best light there

few from daily photography camp, trying Karol's style. Not working so good for me.

explaining photograms I think. Miro looks like Wolverine back in there

I've been there something like lecturer, not about the shooting but the darkroom priting stuff, meanwhile making some photos of the kids

they we're not allowed to swim in the pool. Then again, why the hell they wanted to swim the pool for fish?

Kids could ride on horses, more like ponies in the matter of size.

or they could play chess. Though none seemed interested in that. Atleast we, photographers, we're not bored. I lost all three games.

cleaning the pond in Bojnice garden around the castle

resting on place that used to be a fence long time ago. I remember beeing pretty much shattered when I attented the basic school there

the little bastards, sorry for the expression, were planing something mean. I mean all the time. Kids... TO DO: not having children.

cutting the white edges. I don't find that interesting, but maybe in their age. dunno.

not a best practice for drying pictures. the time was short.

I still remember priting the left picture, it was a pain the ass, negative correctly exposed for background shadows, yet we (I and the little author) had to print it for the some skin texture

Viki, surprisingly I still remember her name, clever girl. One of the youngest yet remembered what to do in the darkroom after first explanation, later teaching other kids. Made me feel a little more worthless.

installing an outdoor exhibition

without me ofcourse, too hot to do anything that day.

proud parents, sisters, brothers and maybe some non-related people

local policeman with highly trained dog (highly lazy too in my opinion)

volunteers for dog inspection, not drugs, just some red training, uhm, thing

just the dog was more interesting getting out the sun than finding some toy hidden at some kid

couldn't reach for the top string

a place with a nice view, where some time ago benches used to be

PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: how not to hold a rangefinder
(but seriously, it was a joke)
(yet I've seen a man holding a rangefinder like that)


[boring photo was here]

evening cart racers. not for long, this a place of prievidzas future McDonald

some child wanted to see the circus, it's mother wasn't just that excited about it

next up, croatia

got my new book, Joao Silva's Bang-bang club, but yeah, the book's at home and I'm stuck in school. I'll be back for elections, maybe, haven't quite decided yet. Nevertheless, exams are on so I may find myself staying for some longer period of time.

I know, I know, I should have go give my vote, for the better future. Can't stand that politic shit, well, no at all.
So as usual, I go out to the streets or in a pub for a beer.

one of the enjoyable days, It's been raining for a week now ... again

dog salon sign at chinese restaurant, more like fast food

playing chess with Zuzka on a rainy afternoon. I lost btw

the new town hall window renovation

kid playing in a fountain, no water involved

we've been to school and some beer after. Wanted girls to come with us, they refused :/

though something funny had to happen that evening, Peter couldn't even stand

this scene reminded me of a local mags review of Bessa R4M, they made a few shots in this subway

well, a dog tied to a pole. Owner nowhere to be seen. yet I've seen few people looking at the dog speaking words like "oh, the poor little..."

high school student learning some basics of probability in a bus. I've been waiting, and risking she might leave the bus, for some sunlight. I had some awkward position at the time, really wanted to get those scripts into the shot

home again for a while, road to new industrial zone, where, surprisingly nothing was build in last two years. Good place for skaters

nice day I had, walked across half of a town

park. more like ruins of it. Still nice to see some people going for a walk, just like that. Watching fishes swimming there. Those two gave me a strange look after taking the shot.

building new shopping center, hopefully something worthy the money. The others in Prievidza look more like garage sales.. I have a shot similliar to this, without the fence but it looks less "industrial". I wonder why everyone noticed me making pictures that day, even the worker did. He just didn't care.

in the oldest "shopping center", jewelery. Looking back makes me thinking why the hell they have so many clocks there.

Miro and his camera, I think he likes it more than any other from his collection. Well 6*9 pocket version, bright lens (for its size). Though I find the rangefinder awful. I personally can't see a damn thing with it. Russian copy od Carl Zeiss with coupled RF, niiiiice.

Lucka telling us some stories from India or I don't know. A lot weed smokers as far as I can remember.

Hard to keep track of order lately (thanks to new blogspot uploading system, the beta version). Went to barber.

I can keep track of weekdays by my shots, this was definitely saturday. I wanted to make some prints. Didn't make to the darkroom :)

went to see Ghost festival in Bojnice. Not their best year.

An ongoing singing contest, the judges. probably

definitely tourists

hmm, barbecue

failed to expose for the shadows. Locals enjoying "the mood"

the back of stands, selling all kind of stuff, probably fellow student during a break.

back in school, shooting face silhouette, experiment
not my kind of style

interesting playground, situated between two parts of Brno, only fields and old gardens around

and a huge electric pole right behind

a plane on clear sky, flying too low if you ask me

high school reunion at "Prígl", local dam

Tomas with his home made 60% water

Betka and dunno who the other girl is. A dentist probably too.

Ivka and Matka as it was getting colder

all together. Who did shoot this then?

Betka lit by laser, terrible resposne. What did I expect from a monochromatic green light, right?

later that evening, after few more beers. Singing songs in some pub at Prigl.

more of semi-group photos

ok, I might have a little too much. Probably playing some hiphop or rnb or I don't know. Judging by our poses.

a poker face :D

I really can't remember this moment. I mean again wtf was this about?

at nightline bus getting back to town of my heart

the other day, I went and took Jozef (he got in Brno for a weekend to see his old schoolmates, us) to a trip. The highest place in Brno, just above old loom.
On our way back to tram, well this is at the tram station, while waiting we spotted a young bird. It couldn't yet fly and looked hungry. end of story

ehm, a bus parked in the middle of something that might have been a basketball court short time ago

a very bad placement for a webhosting company ad. Definitely not a main road, more like village outside the town.

new exposition at MG, Victor Pivovarov, be sure to check his work, though I didn't like the concept of lemon people, but seeing the paitings from upclose was just amazing. One can't get enough of this feeling.

the name of the expo - ONI (they). Took me a while to get rid of the gallery ladies.

the wednesday, Semester end at faculty of philosophy. Official photographer I'd say.

we're sitting in a rain waiting for a dance performance. Funny thing, we've been sitting with backs turned to the performance.

while looking for restrooms, I did find a library I wanted to get some street art books. Quite hidden this little one. Took this to remember the opening times. Though from what I heard it's not open during those opening hours.

some donations to, uhm, whatever, some fund. Luckily for me they were accepting €, so I finally got rid of those dreadful cents.

oh, I almost forgot. There was a juggle competition. You could see people prepairing all around.

they actually didn't care about the rain. I liked that. The mood that you could feel from the people.

the other stage, theatre play captured while waiting for my meat

This, I call, a school. Playing football for a while. Not like faculty of f***ing informatics, that's just a load of computers.

Honza and Mato arguing about something, as usual

my room-mate

Matej showing off his football skills.

later that evening went to drink with philosophers

singing nirvana and I thing I was the only non-philosophy-faculty-man there.

a stranger sat with us for a while.

what's with men and alcohol. It just had to end up in fighting.

a fellow photographer, she also got interested with the two fighting

"everything's ok" signal. Well not really, just a pose for photographer. It was dark like hell, had to push this pretty much.

This had to happen. Capturing a flash.

at this point it started to look a bit weird

nevertheless some were still interested

the kitchen superman (had some absinth, I didn't make in time :( )

ok, funny story. Or more like advice, never go with me and Rado for a walk. Went to a hill we saw on the map. This is Rado at the top. It's used as a motocross track now. And it was raining.

Yes, the mud. It was everywhere. None of us fell down. Luckily, or unfortunately. I've been tracing Rado with my camera for a while. He had a few moments that looked like they could end up in a nice fall down to the mud.

Sandy texture of the mud.

well, what to say. We both have some crazy ideas sometimes.
Here trying to sip rain drops from fence.
and then a 1 and half hour walk back to closest tram.

We've been chatting about cooking all the time. Mainly about risotto I think.