Still at Domeniul Greaca

What can I do? The good photos from Domeniul Greaca are too many to ignore. But today I combine a nice place with an awesome person. Some photos of Dana, who worked extremely much in order for this congress to be successful, and she deserves her own post. Not only because she worked a lot but because she's awesome anyway. There we go.

The light is very important in night photos. The lights there were just great. They were giving beautiful colours, something that we saw on the previous posts.

The editing adds a bit to the lighting without exaggerating. I know you can't see it now, but if you click on the photos, the difference will be obvious.

Here is Dana and behind her is the pool. And the hotel.

And here with more intense colours, as I like to edit my photos in general.

I think that I prefer this photo over the previous one. The lighting is better and the details clearer.

Yeah. You can even see the details on the bottom of the pool. I love night photos. Perix, brace yourself! In two weeks I'm coming!

Back to Domeniul Greaca (poolside)

I told you already, I have a couple of thousands of pictures. And many of them are very interesting. Let's go back to Domeniul Greaca and see some interesting shots.

I know that I don't post a lot lately, but I have some other projects as well, for which we will talk when the time comes. Also, I'm lazy.

Peace, truth, hope. You can find these stones while going to the swimming pool of the hotel.

The great lighting helped me get some beautiful detail here. You can click on the photos to see them better.

Talking about the swimming pool. Check this. It's like we're back in Tunisia, not Romania! This photo is like made for a card! But wait, there's more!

OK, I'm not experienced in taking photos, but a good photo for me is one that keeps you staring at it because you like it (not because of its ugliness), even if there are some flaws. This is one of those photos. The blue is beautiful here.

The young lady on my left is Marina. After some group photos next to the pool in the evening, we stayed a few more minutes to try and see what we can do with long exposures.

I like very much the colours of the night photos. Especially the green of the grass and the details of the motionless parts are great. Click on the photos! See them in all their glory!

Also, I wrote on a previous post that the Peleş was something like Ceauşescu's house. I was mistaken. He didn't like it and he had closed it from 1975 until his execution. Shortly after that, it opened again.

A tireless little fellow

Today, for the first time in the long, almost 4-month, history of the blog, we will have only one person as a subject. And this person is my friend, Luca, from Bucharest. The photo shoot took place on Sunday morning and it was not scheduled. It was more like "Hey, why don't you take some photos of Luca?" and so I did.

The only little problem was that Luca doesn't speak english yet and I had to give him directions with my poor romanian. Of course, it was a chance for me to practice it since almost all the adults speak english and I always get tempted to use what is easier for me instead of pushing myself to improve my other languages. Same thing happens with french as well. Where were we?

Ah, yes. So, Luca was a professional some times, staying perfectly still when needed, which led to some very nice photos. Of course, when he got bored, he would prefer to use me as a trampoline. Yes, this is the word he used when he was jumping on me. Hey, don't get me wrong! Children who run around and play are healthy! You cannot expect them to stay down and read all the time or else they will end up like, well, me.

Off to Luca's photos now!

After bouncing around, Luca would stay still suddenly and I would have to be aware so that I could capture the moment! Here, the daylight was behind him, which didn't help very much.

Technically, this is not a very good photo, but his face says something like "Yes, yes, I'm calm and nice but turn your eyes away for a second and you'll see then!" A very nice one, among many nice photos!

And then we turn around. Against the daylight now. The difference is so obvious that no further comments are needed.

And with some necessary editing, even better.

I don't know what he was looking at. But he helped me get a very nice shot.

And here we see the same photo with some editing, of course. Notice how the light comes from the right side.

With the daylight against him once more, another nice photo. We took more than 100 photos many of them were quite worthwhile.

And with the edited photo, we are done for with today's post. Luca is a fun little guy and the whole photo shoot had lots of laughs. Remember to click on the photos to see them bigger as a slideshow.

More from EFUCA executive board

I took more than 1200 photos these four days. About one out of six or seven is quite good, which means that we have more than 100 good photos to show! Another four of them are presented here, today.

The mornings had a lot of presentations and discussions by individuals who are active members of a world community, trying hard to improve the lives of people everywhere.

This is from the first evening, the arrival.

In front of the entrance of Domeniul Greaca. A nice view behind us. In front of me, actually, since I was behind the camera, but you get my point.

The night photos gave me the opportunity to capture beautiful colours and very interesting light effects. Behind there is a fire and the lines are little sparks and the movement as it was captured in the 2 second exposure. I tortured many people forcing them to stay still for 2 seconds. It's much harder than it sounds. Personally, I didn't manage to stay still in my photos!

Executive board EFUCA, Greaca, September 2013

So, From 18 to 22 of September, we were in the exceptional Domeniul Greaca hotel, in the deep south or Romania (5 km from the borders with Bulgaria) for the executive board of the European Federation of UNESCO Clubs and Associations. Important decisions were taken and the next meeting will take place in March 2014 in New York.

I had the chance to take more than 1200 photos in these days, some of them I will present you right here, right now. It was a great experience with some great people and I'm looking forward to the next meeting. To the photos now!

The weather was nice and we had the chance to capture many nice moments. Here, you can see myself as well, right after I used the remote controller. Good that I had it with me, otherwise I wouldn't be in any photos!

I think that this is my absolute favourite. Everyone is smiling or laughing after my request to say "cheese"in their respective native languages. So, you could hear "queso", "brânză", "τυρί", "formaggio", etc. I was a fun moment.

This was from the last evening, after all the thanks were given to everyone who helped for this event to take place.

The evening of a tiring day is finding us all smiling.

Remember to click on the photos in order to see them larger!