Sunday Bloody-Sunny Sunday
I don’t know what the hell is going on with the weather broadcast these days, but they always get it all wrong!!! For 2 weeks, they say that it’s going to rain most days, and every day it’s sunny. As for last Sunday. It was supposed to be pouring rain all day long. And what [...]
Animals
When I arrived in London, I knew that I would photograph this place. I think that my father had the album, and I always wanted to see that place from my own eyes. When I shot it, in 1998, London was not like it is now. The docks were a bit neglected at that time, [...]
Some Pictures of my Favorite Sport: Athletics
I love that sport. I started when I was 10-11, then I had to stop few years because of some knees problems… Too bad. I went back to sport with Baseball, and then I did Athletics too. Actually for few years I was into sports a lot, training every day, Baseball, Athletics, and vice versa. [...]
The Notre Dame de Bon Secours Rugby Team – 1991
Wow! That’s old, beginning of 90′s. May be 1991. I don’t really remember. I shot these pictures with my EOS 10, its EF 100-300 USM, and with some HP5+, a multi purpose film by Ilford. That was also the first rugby game I shot. I was following my school team, Notre Dame de Bon Secours, [...]
About Dust, Scratches & Films
Vladimir Vladimirovich Selkov – a backstroke swimmer from Russia, three silver medals at the Summer Olympics – DUST ON As I wrote few days ago, I just bought a scanner, and right now I’m scanning my films (I gave up with scanning slides, will do it later). It’s a painstaking task and it’s long, very [...]
Lechia Gdańsk vs Ruch Chorzów – 4:4
My last soccer assignment. For once I was entertained, 8 goals in total. That was cool. Plenty of actions, plenty of good pictures [You can see more pictures here - in Polish]. But I’m still feeling a bit short with my 70-200. I saw some really nice pictures of a photographer shooting with a 400. [...]
Canon EOS 5
Last part of my series of articles about the film cameras I owned one day or another. So after I got a Canon EOS 10 and a Minolta 7xi, I went back to Canon, with their beautiful EOS 5. That was a hell of a camera, really. Well build, solid, relatively quiet, with a good [...]
Is it a good idea to scan 20 years old slides?
I finally bought a flat scanner, an EPSON. So I started to sort all my negatives and slides out. I started to scan slides first. And most of the time what looked nice on them don’t really look nice once scanned. They suck big time. Their actual colors are bad, really bad, so bad that [...]
Miss Politechnika Gdańsk 2013
Okay, I did some interesting shooting last night. The election of Miss PG 2013. It was funny. Really. If I understood well, they are all students in that University of Technology in Gdańsk. So they have the brain and the body. Not bad. Then, as always with these kind of elections, you may or may [...]
Seahawks ate some Spartans for dinner today…
It’s by a lovely sunny day that the Seahawks ate some Spartans for dinner. A 76:0 trashing of the Warzsawa team. They were inexistent. Their poor quarterback didn’t help… Poor and sloppy throws that were intercepted few times and that were sanctioned by touchdowns. Defense was weak. But enthusiasm was there. (I: 20:0 – II: [...]
Soccer Sucks, But…
Soccer sucks big time. I mean when there is nothing happening, it’s so bloody boring, and there is nothing exciting to photograph at all. So for last game I just wondered what the hell was going on on the field, and if I would be able to shoot anything good enough for the website. Only [...]
Amber Brewery
It’s by a very nice sunny polish day that my wife and I went to visit a quite small and independent family run brewery – Browar Amber. As a beer addict, not as a photographer. The brewery is located outside Tricity, but not so far. In the countryside, by a narrow road, here it is. [...]
Moms Demand Action
Thanks to a good friend of mine, I stopped by these american ads. I think I don’t have to write more. You will understand. And make your own opinion. And visit their website HERE.
Minolta Dynax 7xi
I got 4 film camera in my life. 3 AF and one manual. I already wrote about my real first camera. The Canon EOS 10. Now, let’s say few words about my second one. A Minolta Dynax 7xi. A little drift in my life of Canon fanboy. It was a nice camera. Totally different that [...]
Left Hand Brewing Co.
We are starting to have more and more American beers here, in Tricity (hum, may be in just 2 or 3 shops). I don’t mean the disgusting shit that they try us to drink (Coors, Bud, etc.), but the beers from “small” breweries, made by passionate people. Recently I wrote about a Trappist style beer, [...]
Sweetcorn and Coconut Milk Soup with Popcorn and Coriander
Crème de Maïs au Lait de Noix de Coco, Popcorn et Coriandre I’m making a similar soup at work, without the popcorns and Coriander and with some secret ingredients. It’s a nice one, I just love it. It’s sweet, rich, and has a lovely color. For 8 peoplePreparation time: 5+5 minutes Cooking time: 30+5 minutes [...]
Lechia Gdańsk vs Jagiellonia Białystok – 2:3
What a nice weather for that match. For a change. It’s nice to photograph sport with a single layer of clothes instead of winter clothes. It’s easier to move. There was plenty of actions and goals. Both team were on the same level. I don’t understand why, but I had plenty of badly focused pictures [...]
Chicken Tajine & A Trappist Beer
Chicken Tajine What’s great with cooking, is that you can practically do whatever you want with your recipe. You take a recipe, any recipe, a basic recipe, and you adapt it to your needs and likes. You can revisit a classic, remove something and replace it with something else if you like, you can add [...]
Mango and Lemon Tart
Mango and Lemon Tart Last Sunday, my wife decided to make us a little treat. A nice lemon and mango tart. She found the recipe on that blog www.kwestiasmaku.com. The recipe is in Polish, but as it was a nice tart, here is the english version (with some slight changes). For a nice tartPreparation time: [...]
American Football in Poland
Today took place the first match in Gdynia of the 2013 American Football season (and second of the season – they hammered Warsaw 2 weeks ago 0:48). Gdynia Seahawks vs Katowice AZS Silesia Rebels. The match was very entertaining, the domination of Gdynia was unanswered and they finally beat Katowice 35-6. Big score, numerous touchdowns [...]
Maya
C’est dur. C’est dur de voir son chat mourir jour après jour d’un cancer C’est dur de l’amener chez le vétérinaire et de décider d’en finir avec ses souffrances C’est dur de ne pas se demander si on a pris la bonne décision C’est dur de la mettre dans le cercueil avec ses objets favoris [...]
Lechia Gdańsk vs Wisła Kraków – 0:0
This was my second soccer match. Weather was so cold, and it was snowing most of the time. Just a detail, I took my Doc Martens because of the snow. Wrong. Very wrong move! Doc Martens are great shoes, but not when it’s freezing cold!!! Shoes are a very important piece of equipment for a [...]
Pascha Wielkanoca
For lots of peoplePreparation time: 20 minutes Resting time: 12 hours Ingredients: 1 kg cottage cheese well drained – It’s called Twaróg in Poland 5 egg yolks 200g soft butter 25cl cream (36%) 250g caster sugar The seeds of 1/2 vanilla pod 200g walnuts, hazelnuts and sultanas Method: Drain the cottage cheese as much as [...]
