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Today I found out that www.yousaytoo.com is performing a new contest, holiday dream gift, all you need to do is write what I want for Christmas is I had a $1000, and maybe if I’ll win yousaytoo will buy me this thing. So let’s begin !

My Dream gift

The gift of me dreams is to have a new lens for my Nikon D80 DSLR. I want a Nikon AF 80-200 mm F/2.8 D ED, this is a great lens, but I can’t afford it. If I had this lens I’d have more opportunities to improve my photo skills, and a great inspiration to create new more interesting photos.

So I hope that I’ll win this contest, and will receive my dream gift.

You also can participate in this contest just add your existing blog to www.yousaytoo.com and write a post what is your dream gift and tag it with “yousaytoo awards” tag. Good luck !

Today I had a really interesting session with my good friends. I decided to make a retro style photos, something in retro train travelers style. So I searched my grandfathers country garret for props or stuff I can use for this session and found two vintage suitcases, just like in 50’s people used to travel with. We picked a nice location not far from my apartment, with railroad tracks and train hangars. As the weather was not so warm we were shooting for an hour or so, made some series of classic shots like “going away”, “catch that train” and other.

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I never thought about shooting a video, especially on a DSLR. But suddenly one day I had this strange idea to make a zombie movie on a DSLR, don’t know how it came to me but I liked it, so I told the idea to my friend and he didn’t think long and told me -”what the hell, lets do this !”. So we wrote the script, chose the actors and went shooting. It took us 3 hours of shooting, 1500 photos, 6-7 hours of montage and the film was created.

So behold !

Sanatorium

The second light festival Staro Rīga will took place from November 14 to 18, 2009. All around the city people could see unique objects of the art of light created with the help of the Rīga City Council, business people and the private initiative.

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Today I saw how this guy Dabe Alan shot the process of making his photography style tattoo sleeve. Pretty much impressive I think. Check out thees two videos.

Last week we went to visit my wife’s relatives, they live in the country, so I decided to take some pictures of a rural view, nothing special I say, but in the other side you won’t see that kind of landscape every day living in the city.

I had 2 cameras with me, my Nikon D80 and a holga. I am not actually satisfied with the shots I got with my holga, don’t know what went wrong this time, I used ILFORD Delta 400, but photos came out blurry, light and some of them had light leeks (that pissed me of a lot), I hate light leeks especially on B&W film.
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