Rajd Kaszub
Rallye car. I used to shoot them a lot while I was in France. I loved it. We have 2 rallyes here in Tricity, and yet I didn’t have the time to attend any one of them. Too busy, and to be frank, I always realize we have a rallye just few days before, too [...]
X Fląder Festival
Fląder Festival. It’s rock, independent, grunge, punk, metal, in fact it’s good heavy music with some great polish bands (there was another place where they were playing electronic music, but I wasn’t in the mood for it). I totally loved Destructive Daisy, a girlish band playing grunge & punk, a bit like L7 if you [...]
Slow Food Festival in Sopot
Today, I took the occasion to shoot some pictures with my brand new 16-35. Finally. I took an hour off, and headed to the longest wooden pier in Europe. In Sopot, that’s right. Because today we had a Slow Food Festival. Numerous restaurants showing us their skills in making good food. There was plenty of [...]
EF-S 10-22 vs EF 16-35 II
When I bought my first digital camera, I also bought EF-S lenses, because for me it was the best choice at that time. I wasn’t really that much into photography, and because back there FF were really expensive too. Since, a lot of things changed for me. I bought a 7D and I’m much into [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Easter in Poland
As every year, I celebrate Easter in Poland with my family in law. If you remember, I already wrote something about this tradition there and there. It’s a very important religious tradition in Poland, maybe even more important than Xmas. It’s the end of a 40 days of fasting. On Good Friday, you’re not supposed [...]
EOS 10
I started photography before 1989 if I remember well, with my father in law camera. A Chinon something. But I bought my own camera quite quickly. An EOS 10. Canon so. I don’t remember that well, but compared to today, I think we didn’t have that many choices within a brand with cameras. I chose [...]
Night of the Jumps – Episode VI – The Jumps
So, this is the last post on the Night of the Jumps. And there is going to have a lot of pictures. It was difficult at the beginning to take pictures. Never shot such an event. But after a while, and with a better location, everything went smoothly. I can’t wait to do it again. [...]
Night of the Jumps – Episode V – The Pit Girls
Because in every sport event in Poland, there is girls. I know that you, girls, would love to have some Ryan Gosling like doing the same stuff. And I’m totally with you because there was as many women as men in the public. But I’m a male photographer…. Don’t worry, if one day Ryan is [...]
Night of the Jumps – Episode IV – Portraits
I went to photograph Night of the Jump this Saturday. Some crazy guys (strangely and sadly, there is no women doing that) jumping in the air on nice dirt bikes. It’s a show, only a show. The competition is just an act. The main purpose of this event is to entertain people. And it’s working [...]
Olympus Mju II
Few weeks ago, I stopped by an article on a french blog about the Olympus Mju II. It reminded me some good memories I had with that camera. When I first bought it, in 1997 I presume, as soon as it was available, it was for my mother. In fact I used it much more [...]
