About my new online friend, lovely Ana
Making new cool friends via Internet was always my favorite online activity. Especially in the creative circle of people. Some of them are now my real (I also call them face-to-face) friends and I’m such a happy person because of that.
This special blog post is about my new dear online friend Ana also-known-as le vent le cri. Ana is a young 16-years-old photographer from Croatia and you can see some of her shots in this post. FOR MORE VISIT HER AWESOME FLICKR PHOTOSTREAM!
Ana is such a lovely person and I can feel that through her photos, so inspiring. She’s interesting and her photostream is telling one wonderful story. I’m glad she had enough confidence to tell me more about her life. After our call I’m loving her more and more. What has grown from just a few comments, continued via mails? An beautiful friendship! We are still just online friends and I’m looking forward to meet her in person, finally.
Thank you Flickr!
Sep 04 by Danijel
FEELING THE LIGHT
In photography everything is about the light, right?
I’d like to introduce you my new Flickr group “FEELING THE LIGHT“. Last month I saw so many comments as “Wow, look at that light” or “Love the light…”. So I wanted to start a collection of all those beautiful shots, hoping people will understand what I want from them. We are looking for shots with the great light, even they are taken by day or night. Every shot you adore because of the light. Beautiful sunset or awesome long-exposure ghost at dark. My friend Ana is helping me (Thank you dear!) with all those submissions, over 80 accepted so far. The group is very young, so I invite you to share your light with us, let’s feel it together.
LINK ONE MORE TIME! flickr.com/groups/feelingthelight (;
Sep 01 by Danijel
It’s time to… COLOR YOUR SPACE
Michal Sycz also-known-as Noeeko is a freelance digital artist based in Cracow, Poland. He did this cool interior design and made me think about redesigning my current office. Yes, really inspiring! Open to any form of expression, Michal combines photo manipulation, vectors, hand drawn elements and 3D shapes. I especially like the pinky toilet because it looks like a Super Mario level, I’m playin it sometimes when I’m bored. After this few examples I’m about to change something in my office, maybe I have to hire this guy.
Aug 18 by Danijel
Nadia, the camera that thinks
Unlike a conventional camera Nadia has no display of the photographs to be taken, but rather gives the judgment of aesthetic quality to the machine, displaying only a current rating as feedback about when and what to snap.
The world is full of many different new technologies and each is more or less useful. Artificial intelligence has been a topic that is approached with hope, fear, cynicism, curiousity and caution. However many intelligent devices have already been effortlessly absorbed into our culture and everyday lives. Soon we’ll see devices and systems that have the ability to think creatively and infer beauty. Maybe better then us, no? This novel little device with beautiful name Nadia improves and works its way into consumer devices, watch the video!
Realised in the Digitale Klasse under Joachim Sauter and Jussi Ängeslevä at the University of the Arts Berlin, Germany. Congratulations guys!
Aug 05 by Danijel
Creepy in a creative way, meet cute Jolene
I took up photography because I wanted to be able to create something artistic without drawing it all out. I love drawing but sometimes it’s very difficult to illustrate certain things so I use photography instead.
You can’t find so much information about Jolene on the internet, but I’ve tried to find out a bit more directly from her. Her really real name is Jolene Yeo and she lives in Singapore, wow! She’s 18 years old taking a diploma in Apparel Design. Jolene speaks Chinese and English as well. She’s posing on many of her photos and that is very commendable because we know how hard is to find a model and even photograph yourself, self-timers, remotes and so. Jolene loves staying at home and doesn’t like parties or social gatherings. “…I must sound like a very boring person…” – she said. No you’re not, at all! Your creativity is probably connected with your lifestyle and that is very good. I can see your story in your photos, even when it’s kind of acting – I’m serious!
Looking forward to see your new work, feel free to submit it. Lovely regards to you, Jolene and to all my other dear readers. Be good, I’m very busy now… back to work.
Jul 15 by Danijel
The summer is magic… that makes me really busy
Animation work is great, I work with people, with kids and it’s never boring. In short… creative workshops, aqua aerobics at noon, bike tours, photo routes around the town; sports like beach volley, tennis, basket and so; plus show time program including dances, acting and other performances. I’m doing all this whole summer to buy myself a new photography equipment.
Such a poor free time doesn’t allow me to blog. This summer is crazy, kinda overbooked! About previous post “Academy of Arts is knockin’ on the door!” I have only to say door is closed, so I’m still making my plan for the future and I’ll come back to you in September with more information and some new special topics that are already in draft. News from Novi Sad are not so good, think this is gonna be a very interesting and creative gap year. September is calling!
Busy! Busy! Busy! Busy! Sorry! Be good and see you soon.
Jul 11 by Danijel
Academy of Arts is knockin’ on the door!
It’s my habit writing last minute posts before I go somewhere. Last minute writing is good because all thoughts are fresh, can we call them like that? Ok, let’s see what is this all about…
I worked hard over two loooong months to finish my portfolio and prepare to enroll the Academy of Arts – Photography department, in a very beautiful town Novi Sad, Serbia. This morning I’m going on a 600-km-long-trip from Novigrad to Novi Sad by car and my uncle goes with me. My dear friend Jelena, also know as Queen of the sunset, will be my host for a week or maybe more. Bags are ready, batteries are charging and my eyes are closing. Before I tap “Publish” I just wanna say “Big Respectable & Lovely Thank You” to all of my friends and supporters who wrote a few very kind lines for me. Hope my parents will sleep well these days.
I’M GONNA DO MY BEST, REALLY!
By the way, read my 3 months old post “Setting my goals, reachable targets” about my plans, it’s closely connected with this one, and it will explain a bit better what is in my head at this suppose-to-be-stressful-but-it’s-not-at-all moment.
PHOTOGRAPHY IS MY LIFE, SO WISH ME LUCK!
Jun 20 by Danijel
VISUALEYES PRODUCTION: Matteo Bertolio for “ORIS – Swiss watches”
As I wrote, we have more news from lovely Natalija…
Matteo Bertolio has worked on a visualeyes production in Shanghai for their client ORIS – SWISS WATCHES. For this project they were investigating for a suitable upcoming artist who fits to the CULTURE COLLECTION of their client. You can also see these images in one of the latest issues of Victor Magazine by Hasselblad.
Hope Natalija will inform us about new stuff!
Jun 19 by Danijel
VISUALEYES PRODUCTION: Hanspeter Schneider for “Magazin Z”
While I was at Photodays, I’ve met amazing gal Natalija Bajric, the head of visualeyes agency which is now representing 17 reknowned and international photographers. Thank you Photodays for getting me closer to people like Natalija. Today she has something for you from the very first issue of their magazine.
Hanspeter Schneider has worked on a visualeyes production in Paris for “Magazin Z”, which is a fashion suppliment of the NZZ, Switzerland’s most read newspaper. The production took place in a beautiful appartment in Paris and with 10 models on set. The shooting was accompanied by a TV station and documented in the daily reportage of GLANZ & GLORIA. Nice work!
Hmm… think we have some more news from Natalija. But not today, stay tuned!
Jun 17 by Danijel
Cool little photo app by Lisa Bettany, introducing Camera+
With Camera+ you’re able to use your iPhone to shoot the best photos you possibly can. Packed with several useful features that your standard camera app doesn’t include, your pics will improve the instant you start using it.
I know Apple has just presented the new iPhone 4 featuring a 5 megapixel camera with LED flash and HD video recording but I think this little app will kinda upgrade your iPhone camera features until you buy a new iPhone. You really have to try it out, it’s amazing!
Have you ever heard about the rule of thirds? Now you can use the grid to line up your shots and eliminate unsightly tilted photos – no more crooked pics! Goodbye blurry shots here’s the stabilizer to steady your iPhone and get the sharpest photos you can. There are many many cool and very useful features, read more at campl.us.
Good luck with the app Lisa!
Jun 12 by Danijel
