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A splash of red on a gloomy day

May 142012

three friendly poppies
I love poppies. Ok, to be honest I don’t really care that much about the flowers themselves as much I find their rich, bright red color appealing to the eye. And what I love even more is the red-green complementary contrast going on when I see poppies surrounded with green grass. I just like pretty, colorful things, especially on a cloudy, rainy gloomy Monday such a this.

So, there you go, a bit of bright red and some greenery captured on one of my walks:

blurry poppies

poppies

more poppies

couple of more poppies

pretty poppies

three poppies

More weeds I find pretty:

plant

yellow weed

I hope you all have colorful week

Photo diary: black & white world

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May 112012

World sometimes looks much more simple when captured in black & white:

zg panorama
touristy shot
I never get bored of taking typical tourist pics of Zagreb even though I’m clearly not one.

st. marko church

street lamp

passage

fence

arlen and hisNolta

fountain

pidgeons

chatedral

old roof

staged

summer open air theater

path

old and crusty

Photo diary: random Zagreb

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Apr 132012

I love wandering around and exploring the city with a camera in my hand. Here are some completely random pics I took during recent photo walk.

red mask This is the least creepy mask displayed in front of one of the stores in Radićeva street. I believe all other mask I saw in said store were designed with only one purpose in mind: to give small children nightmares.

red pillows old bench A seemingly comfy bench in front of closed hair salon in one of the backyards in Radićeva street.

the right time This photo was taken in Gornji grad in yard of one of the branches of law school. I liked that simple old clock…

…but what I liked even more was this old clock you can see if you wander up the stairs next to the entrance to law school. I coudn’t get a good photo of it since I used my 85mm lens, but that old Ludvik Hainz sure knew how to put together an interesting clock mechanism.

tulips Tulips, who wouldn’t like them? They look so pretty and elegant…

heavy metal door …unlike this “heavy metal” door which was spotted in one of the backyards in Tkalčićeva street (if I can remember well).

all white Old white window, there is something nostalgic and maybe even romantic about it. Or it’s just an antiquated piece of carpentry, you decide.

oranges in the window Another old window that caught my attention, or to be precise a bowl of oranges caught my attention, I’ve must’ve been hungry.

basket case

I titled this pic : basket case.

And this one: a case of many baskets.

dog I love dogs, and this one was so cute waiting for his owner so patiently I had to snap a picture of it!

pug Hello there another canine friend! I like pugs but I think they are one of the rare breeds that look cuter when they grow up. I mean they are still cute as puppies but also kinda ugly at the same time

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I wish you all happy Friday and great weekend. Do you have any plans? I’m about to embark upon a belated Spring cleaning (ouch!) and then hopefully indulge in a fun craft project over the weekend.

Whatever you do I hope you enjoy it to the fullest ♥♥♥

Spring, I like you

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Apr 112012

No words, only images today. I express myself better through pictures than through writing anyway.

Enjoy:

yellow background

water

tree

water and light

little red berries

hello birdie

reflection

blue haze magnolia

blossom detail

bloom

A walk through botanical garden, Zagreb

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Apr 092012

Last week we took a leisure walk through botanical garden in Zagreb. Weather was nice and garden was full of blossoming flowers and trees, lush greenery and pleasant scents. The place was also packed with people: families with kids, couples, teenagers making out, photographers, elderly sitting on benches and reading, a group of students with their teacher, an artist painting magnolia flowers in ink, tourists and many more. I took many photos , mostly of flowers since I’m still in phase of drawing mostly abstracted flowers and shapes.

Without much further explanation here are some pictures I took in botanical garden on a lovely Spring afternoon:

botanical garden collage
botanical garden colage more details
botanical garden magnolia tree path I was impressed by beauty of magnolia trees.

botanical garden magnolias collage

botanical garden ballerinas

Three ballerinas taking pictures of themselves.

botanical garden girl reading Girl reading. I like how her bag matches the environment.

botanical garden arlen Arlen taking a picture.

botanical garden red house Red pavilion.

botanical garden red tulips collage
The garden was bursting with beautiful colors and I enjoyed taking many pics of flowers.

botanical garden yellow collage

botanical garden orange collage

botanical garden purple collage

botanical garden collage blue and white

botanical garden little lake Little lake and its inhabitants: sleepy ducks and active turtles.

botanical garden tree branches collage

Beautiful blossom.

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If you are in Zagreb, I highly recommend visiting botanical garden.

Working hours of the garden are:

Monday-Tuesday: 9.00-14.30
Wednesday-Sunday: 9.00-19.00

Photo diary: a visit to a museum, Dolac market and a secret backyard

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Mar 302012

Hello, hello! I took a mini blogging break but now I’m back (well, sort of). I’ve been low on energy over the past week and more but I still managed to see some exhibitions and go on a few photo walks.

Couple of weeks ago we visited Mimara museum to see exhibition of Islamic, Mogul and Bhutan objects. Here are few pics:

mimara museum

mimara museum01

mimara museum02

mimara museum03

And more objects from Mimara collection I found interesting. Currently I’ve been drawing a lot of abstract and flower patterns so it feels inspiring to see these old displays.

mimara museum04

mimara museum05

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Since Spring is in full bloom, I couldn’t resist visiting flower and Dolac market and treat myself with some fresh flowers.

dolac flowers

dolac 01

A view from Dolac market and a detail of one of the fruit stands on the market itself.

dolac wooden products
Traditional Croatian souvenirs made of wood and other charming wooden products caught my eye.

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markov trg yard
On our walk through Zagreb Upper Town we noticed an open door leading into one of backyards on Trg Sv. Marka. The backyard is full of old pieces of sculptures, scrap and feral cats (that are fortunately being fed by someone). It’s almost fascinating how such neglected place, almost a junkyard can be rights across Croatian parliament.

markov trg yard inside

markov trg yard01

markov trg yard cats

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Since I’m still in a need of a break, things may remain a little silent over here, at least until Easter holidays are over. After that I’ll be having a giveaway (my two year blogging anniversary is near!) and I’ll be back with much more photos, art and writing

Have a great Friday everyone!

Photo diary: out and about

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Mar 022012

This week, just like the last one, turned out to be very busy for me. I’ve been working hard on several projects and I might even have some results to show next week

But, before that would you fancy taking a stroll around Zagreb center with me?

fićo

Hey, look! There’s a little Fićo, how retro and cute that car is? This particular one looks really loved and cared about.

my tram

For some reason, I love taking pics of trams.

street musician

Street musician taking a break and checking his messages.

hipster spotting

Hipster spotting on Main square!

for bob

Here is a photo for Bob: Scottish tourists in Zagreb!

for isidora

…and here is one photo for Isidora. When I saw this old sign in Obrtnički prolaz I instantly thought of her and her lovely pics of old (and often funny) signs in Varaždin. This one says: Institute for decontamination of apartments and selling products.

Also, Isidora is currently having a GIVEAWAY on her blog. She’s giving away one of her crocheted hats, so hurry and check it out!

dirty zagreb

I discovered that behind every fancy, recently restored facade in Zagreb there is an old, unloved often deteriorating backyard . Here are examples of few prettier ones.

blue details

Zagreb city blues.

urban colors and shapes

big e

Urban shapes and (mostly warm) colors.

shoes

Hanging glittery shoe display in front of Ulični ormar (Street Closet ), a second hand shop.

ulični ormar

A detail of front of the said shop. I like the white picket fence.

spring flowers

Spring is here! Flowers on Cvjetni trg.

trojan horse

Somebody dragged a Trojan horse on Cvjetni trg. I wonder who’s hiding inside of it.

green table

Decoration on one of the outside tables of one of the restaurants.When I downloaded this photo from my camera it reminded me of Ines Perković photography. Her work is beautiful, check it out if you haven’t yet.

Orange chairs are photogenic!

us in a ball

An obligatory selfie in a shiny silver ball.

amazing art

And, for the last photo of this week’s photo diary I saved something special for you, a capture of an awesome art piece displayed in one of the photo studio windows

I hope you’ve enjoyed our stroll around Zg downtown. I wish you great weekend!

Photo diary: details and impressions

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Feb 242012

collage photo diary

I’ve been very busy last week and couldn’t find time for taking personal photos as I usual do for the love of photography and for the love of documenting my life

However, I did find a little time on Tuesday to take a walk in Zagreb downtown and take a few shots, casual impressions and details some of which you can see above and they officially make this week’s installment of photo diary.

I wish you all fun, exciting weekend!

Photo diary: more snow, doodles and getting awesome things in mail

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Feb 172012

Wow! I can’t believe it’s Friday already! Time flies so fast, I’m almost ready to believe in all that “2012. time is speeding up phenomena”, hehe. Anyway, here is a second installment of my photo diary:

small red fence

small pine tree
Last weekend Winter was still in full force, it was freezing cold and snowing like mad. Walking outside felt like taking a stroll inside of a snow globe. It was so beautiful!

doodles 01

card01

Even though everything looked so pretty covered with snow, a true Winter Wonderland, it was also extremely cold so a lot of time was spent inside. I worked on some more demanding drawings but also did some casual doodling in my Moleskine and on card paper which you can see above.

sunshine outside

At the beginning of the week sunshine lured me out. Again, it was so beautiful, surface of snow sparkled like millions tiny crystals! I love this kind of weather and as you can guess I don’t mind the cold much

winter 01

We went into the nearby woods to do a little photo shoot that you can see in my previous post!

harry octane chapman

Yesterday I got super happy to get this amazing package in mail! Last year Christian Papazoglakis asked me if he could use some of my textures on his upcoming comic book project and of course I said yes. He promised to credit me in the book and to send me copies when they’re out and he stayed true to his word. He sent me copies of Harry Octane and Chapman, both of which you can see above.

P2156972

P2156968

…and how awesome is the way he autographed the books for me? Seriously awesome, I’d say! It really made my day!

You can see more of his work here:

Xtian’s Illustration Friday

studio pakap

www.papazoglakis.net

I wish you all wonderful weekend! I will spend my weekend drawing, shooting, photo editing and generally being crazy busy (but in a good way!!). What are your plans?

A story of a white dress

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Feb 152012

Last Summer, while taking a walk with Mr Dean near where I live I noticed an area of woods going through some sort of woodland maintenance (uh, I’m sure there’s better expression for that, but I can’t really think of one now). Lots of old trees were trimmed, new paths were made, there were big piles of old, cut down branches everywhere. Air was filled with heavy dust and whole scenery looked a bit sad and unloved but I felt I need to shoot there.

“This could be a good location for a photo shoot“, I said. “I’d love to shoot some selfies here. But I need something, a prop maybe, something to be in contrast with this dirty, dusty environment.” So I decided I need a simple, feminine, white dress, maybe a bit old-fashioned or romantic. Since that’s not something I’d wear in “real” life and generally don’t own anything white I started searching for it. It turned out it’s not easy finding such a simple piece of clothing but after almost two weeks I found my perfect white dress at a flea market.

The photo shoot was about to happen! I asked Mr Dean to help me and we took a collaborative series of photos. Some of them I edited shortly after and posted on my flickr yet I wasn’t satisfied. I felt there were a part of a some visual story and that still haven’t been finished. So, this weekend sitting in my cozy, warm living room watching a blizzard outside I said “It would be great to wear my white dress again, in the snow.” I shared my idea with Mr Dean and he suggested that we shoot at the very same location as last Summer. It was a deal!

When we took another series of photos, this time in snowy environment I felt a story of a white dress is now complete. Here is the entire photo story including both photos from this week and re-edited photos from last Summer:

woods in the summer small
summer white dress
white dress summer 01 small
tree of life small
in circles
circle