#Hungary - Dinner

We planned to do a camping weekend and a little party at "our" fishing lake. I made pasta salad and some other stuff, they were going to do some good food, called Pacal here in Hungary and menudo in mexico. It is some sort of gulash, made of cow stomach. Doesn't sound very great, but cooked right, it's awesome :)!

Some spices

#365 - 50 Shades of Sunlight

No matter how dark the shadows,
there's always light

#mojojourney #3

#365 - Warning

Don't overload the system.
Don't do too much at once.
Or you will scare mojo into dark corners again.
Take it easy.
Enjoy the journey.

The sun's shining, so that helps.
Batteries are charged. I went for one photo and marked some photo
Ops for the coming days.
It's a start.
Again.

#mojojourney #2

#Hungary - Little details

One of my Favorites from Hungary.
Memories of the beautiful nature :-)

Waiting, Blue Damselfly macro Post Cards by NicoleB Photography

#Germany - Maria Laach, Laacher See

From Germany

#Hungary - Rinyaszentkiraly, Horgaszto

From Hungary

I sure miss it!

#Germany - Rhine valley near Bonn

Rhine valley near Bonn, Germany Postcards by NicoleB Photography
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#Hungary - Branched out

From Hungary

Hungary  2008

#Hungary - Glory

Sunset @ Rinyaszentkiraly, Somogy 2006

From Hungary

#Kuwait - Doctors orders

Ready for tea break

From 365 - 2013

Doctors orders for our last Mentorship assignment were to go out and play.
Not necessarily photography wise, but have fun, nourish the inner child.

Exactly that was an issue for me these past few weeks. I don't know why. There were days when it worked, but mostly I just didn't feel like it.
Maybe because people here are not used to smiling foreigners with cameras in their hands. Crazy folks, those smiling people, you know.

Anyway, this morning after replying to Ron that things are still on the funky side I asked myself 'WtF'?! Yes, those words, booh on me ;-)
I grabbed the camera, said byebye to the irritated pooches and went out.
Only half an hour, but well worth it.
My mood is considerably better ;-)

Anyhow, this is what I came up with today.

Not my final post yet, even though I am late, but I want to follow up on an idea in my head and still have to put it together.

Hope you get some smiles out of the photos.

A Buddhist temple I hope,..?!

From 365 - 2013

Laundry day

From 365 - 2013

Paradise

From 365 - 2013

Hangman

From 365 - 2013

Cozy

From 365 - 2013

Grounded

From 365 - 2013

Drive through

From 365 - 2013

This one always makes me wonder,...

From 365 - 2013

Walking

From 365 - 2013

Shoes in twos are fascinating

From 365 - 2013

I love Typos

From 365 - 2013

I love Typos

From 365 - 2013

#Egypt - Memories

From Egypt

Last one for tonight :-)
I think.
Did I mention lately that my archives are way too big & that 80% of the photos
have never been edited / posted,... sigh :-)

Hadaba harbour, Sharm el Sheikh #Egypt South Sinai 2010

#Egypt - Watching the world go by

From Egypt

#Egypt - Greetings from Egypt

Just walking through my archives, not deleting as much as I should ;-)
Wishing you all a great weekend!

From Egypt

#Kuwait - Luck

This morning I had a reminder of how lucky I am.
If I am hungry, I open up the fridge for example.

The man I saw this morning, not so lucky.
I saw him walking along the beach, stopping at a plastic bag with Trash
and Leftovers from someone's midnight picnic.
He turned if upside down and I got mad for a second for all that trash spilling on the beach.
I thought he was digging for empty soda cans. They get cash for those.
Nope.
This guy was digging for food.

We should never forget that things always could be worse.
 ___________

Photo below is an archive shot from 2012

From Kuwait 2012

#Kuwait - Fahaheel beach

From Kuwait 2013

For the second part of my assignment - spontaneous - you've seen most of my posted photos already.
The ones from Fahaheel beach last Thursday.
 Here's my text along with two you haven't seen yet.

Mission 5 Plus post - Spontaneous

Thursday morning I grabbed the opportunity of a clear looking, dust free morning.

I didn't calculate in the haze, so photos resulted in some grainy disappointment.

Oh well, I salvaged what I could. Editing was done by hand, except for shot Nr. 6, which I have thrown in for some colour, not really belonging to the set :-)

Have a good Sunday all!

From Kuwait 2013

#Kuwait - More camel market

Can I eat dat?!

From Kuwait 2013

These were the photos for my Photography assignment for the 'Advanced Mentorship program for Photographers'on G+. The assignment this week contained two parts. One for 5 Intentional photos and one for 5 spontaneous ones. These were my Intentional ones, since we had it planned to go here, me for taking photos.

Mission 5 Plus Post - Intentional

One stop on my list of Places to go & things to shoot was the camel market. Ever since my friend Linda mentioned it. Yesterday she took us there.

The morning started out rainy and cloudy. Not as bad as it sounds. Turned out, the closer we got out and into the desert, the dustier it got. Add a bright sky and the results of attempted shooting will be solala. For some mysterious reason though, they didn't turn out as grainy as expected. Maybe the harsh sun helped there (the spontaneous shots, taken early morning Thursday with no dust turned out grainy, but it was hazy and no sun in sight). One day I'll figure it out.

The photos are not as clean and uncluttered as I would have wished and I would have liked to try different angles and such. BUT, the longer you stick around there, the more flies men gather around you, try to chat you up or just watch you.

Can't blame them and they kept their distance, but it makes for some uncomfy shooting. By the time I had the first 3 shots in my bag, there were about 10 men gathered around the area. We switched locations and ran into chatter mouth from Sudan (the guy in the last photo). I sure don't want to know what he tried to offer me, besides a camel ride ;-)

Overall, given the conditions, I am fairly happy with the results. I wish I could have done things different, or take the time to use a tripod et all, but sometimes you have to go with what you can get.

That is one lesson I learned during our travels. Get what you can when you can. You never know when and if you will get the chance again.

Tender Love

From Kuwait 2013

Innocence

From Kuwait 2013

We are family....

From Kuwait 2013

The man and the camel This guy from Sudan was chitchatting with me in Arabic the moment he came around the corner. I think this might have been the only second he kept his mouth shut ;-) He offered me a camel ride and many other things, I blissfully didn't understand. I can't imagine the Life these guys live here. The temperatures are still moderate right now, but I can't even fathom 50C out here. A few seem to have trailers, but most don't. And all that for 30 or 40KD per month, most of that being sent home to their families. Still a better Life than starving at home for most.

From Kuwait 2013

Say that again

From Kuwait 2013

#Kuwait - Say that again

Yeah, that's how I feel right now. Happy, but pooped and kind of 'huh?!' We had a nice 'girls' morning out. My friend Linda was kind enough to drive us around Kuwait. And I mean around. We saw the Camel market (never been there), the Flamingos, the place where they used to build the Dhows (fishing boats - never been there), the oldest mosque in Kuwait (been there, but didn't know), some of the few very old, traditional buildings left in Kuwait (need to go back!) and loads more, including a lot of information. I am grateful for this day and a very happy camper :-) Now, who's gonna edit those photos and puts up my assignment? ;-)


From Kuwait 2013

#Kuwait - Ignore the Rest

If you shut your ears and avert your eyes,
you get peace and quiet

From Kuwait 2013

#Kuwait - Hazy Glory

The beach photos I am posting are from my walk yesterday morning.
I needed to get out and I needed to take photos for my assignment (for the Mentorship program).
We have a two part assignment this time. One for spontaneous photos and one for planned.
These will be the ones for my spontaneous part (I think).
They are not as crisp, tack sharp or whatever I wanted them to be.
The weather isn't playing along. I thought it was yesterday, but looking at the photos at home,
it's grain galore.
I'll make up for it.
One day ;-)

From Kuwait 2013

#Kuwait - Fahaheel

From Kuwait 2013