Nikki, Live Earth, Seaside
07/11/2007
I’m finally trying to recap last weekend. I was overjoyed to have received my Nikon D40 from Hannes and played around with Nikki as she’s been nicknamed a bit. So on Saturday, after lunch:
buckwheat/spelt pasta with veggies and home-grown basil
I took my bike out on the town. Stopping by at grandma’s first, I took this shot of a busy bee on wisteria:
and hortensia
and carried on to downtown Ljubljana. The first stop of course had to be our dear Green Dragon 🙂
I carried on to Kongresni trg where a group of enthusiastic folks put on a very enjoyable concert as part of the Live Earth happening, called Rock za prihodnje generacije.
One of the best gigs was the joint session of Benč & Grašič:
Thanks to all who organized the event, it must have involved so much work!
…after that, I rode my bike back home right past a Hare Krishna group,
changed it for my cutsey Micra and went South, to the seaside. Met with my sister and her boyfriend and continued with the concerts in beautiful Simonov zaliv. Still carrying Nikki with me, I took these shots of Big Foot Mama…
…and Kingston…
All of this in the best of company:
and before you know it, a new day dawned and we could all start having fun AGAIN! 🙂
Adriaan said,
July 11, 2007 @ 8:26 pm
I see you’be taken to the digital SLR like a “duck to water”! Is there a Slovene version of this phrase?
BTW have you amended any of the pictures with editing software?
dr. filomena said,
July 11, 2007 @ 10:18 pm
Hey thanks! Humm I guess “kot riba v vodi” (like fish in water) is a bit similar.
I cropped a few and resized all of them, but did not mess with sharpness, colours, brightness/contrasts and the likes. The ultimate goal being taking good photos without editing.
dr. filomena said,
July 11, 2007 @ 10:21 pm
Oh PS: except with the first photo (my makeupless eyes); I used “in camera” editing to choose “sepia” greyscale… think it’s amazing how much editing can actually be done with the camera itself just fiddling around the menus. Me likes! 🙂