a Brno girl 16 - Sabina

Dobry den, (good morning, in czech) my fellow readers. After a hard Monday to start a nice week here you have Sabina:

   

  

You can see more photos of her in my collection of women/models from Brno in my website.

A Brno girl 15 - Mischelle

This oportunity is for Mischelle, one of the few girls I photographed that like metal music as much as me. She was great and had something different as she is not the typical model. Look at them and tell me if you don't agree with me.

at the end the one chosen for my series of portraits Intimacy is this.

Extras 014 - A Brno girl - Juliette

For those who wanted to know what are these "extras", well, there are the photos that did not pass the edition process for my protect Intimacy and as well photos that I made for them so they can have something "nicer" to share or to show to whoever they want to and not only my "conceptual" or serious portraits of them.

Now, because that project is finishing but I will still continue photographing women with other thematic and include some commercial work I made sometimes for some locals models I will change the title to this section to "a Brno girl" so it will be not only the girls that modeled for my project but my clients too.

In this opportunity is a Slovak girl, Juliette, who study here in Brno. Small and brunette different from the standart Czech girls (blond and tall) she was very versatile and despite the language barrier (she did not speak English) we could make some interesting images.

Enjoy them.

 

a poem - Hero

*

I was born to be a God,

to equal my creator in his goodness and anger.

It was written I would be praised,

that I could play with the fate of the man

but

I was cursed to be their savior.

**

I am not a God,

just a human hero,
murdered by them and honored later by the same.
I am
an old statue of stone,

forgotten and broken.

Father,  forgive their ignorance.

                                                           © Carlos Lopez, July 2011

 

Extras 012 - Mikaela

Hello, now is the turn for Mikaela, a very beautiful and brave student from Brno.

a poem - In your eyes is the universe I need to live

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Now that I have seen your smile

I know I have found you.

I know that in your eyes is the universe I need to live,

that I can on them imagine new worlds of wild fantasies

and create new words of surreal meanings.

I know that in your lips

I can feel the passion of a deadly kiss.

 

**

Every day

I dream I touch your hand

and feel how your hair

moved by the wind, caress my scarred face.

Every day

I dream we kiss in the forest

under the golden sunlight of a spring morning

and at night

I recite my humble poetry to you

while the moonlight shine on your pale naked skin.

***

I know ancient Gods have put you in my path, 

and is my fate to love you,

to make your soul smile

when your eyes cry.

                                                                           Carlos Lopez, June 2011

Brno Festival of Masks 2011

As a tradition in Brno every year it is held a masquerade party in the main square. This year was the last event of the "Theatre of the world" and the theme was Shakespeare so many of the characteres are indeed representations of his plays.

Enjoy the photos:

Anime Fest Brno 2011

Last weekend  was held in brno: The Anime Fest, the oldest and largest anime and manga convention in czech Republic. More than 1000 visitors and fans gathered to enjoy a rich program with conferences, workshops and protection of movies.

The most interesting and visual part is obviously the attendees who in their majority where dressed as their favorite anime/manga character, in other words they were the real stars.

As fan that I am too, although "old school', I remember my days watching the adventures of Saint Seiya or Knights of the Zodiac, Captian Tsubasa known too as Flash Kicker, Lady  Oscar, Candy Candy, and the best of all ever Goku and his friends in Dragon ball. And as a fan I wanted to portrait this fantasy world in a way that look like an anime with all its colors and fancy hairstyles.

So the words that I most pronounced those days were: "Mužu ty fotit?" that means "Can I take you a picture" plus some other little instructions in me poor czech but at the end I could survive, I could made myself understood plus the fact that many of them were acting as their characters which help me to make more interesting portraits.

One of the things that most caught my attention were the contacts glasses that make them look as animals. Simply great!

 

And of course the pretty girls:

  

This the first time I attend this kind of events and I really enjoyed, see all these young people (I am as well very young in spirit) living and sharing their fantasy world was a cool experience. So for next year my promise to myself is attend again but this time with a costume, which one?  I don't know yet.

 

Want to see more great photos? have a look to the Animefest photo gallery in my website.

Extras 010 - Nikola

Continuing with the series of models now is the opportunity for Nikola, another girl from South Moravia in Czech Republic.
About the images, if have seen any other previous posts of "extras"  you will have realized that I use a lot of the black background, and the reason is simple, I like more than the white, I think it is easier to get than the pure white and it give some theatrical feeling, no so commercial as the white that is very used.
These photos were taken at her apartment, not in a studio. To my photo sessions I always carry a black cloth which is hanged in some wall,  use a single small as a source of light, simplicity is the key.
I kind of hard for me to make glamour photos, is not that I cannot but you have to accept/know your "limits" not a good fashion photographer will be a good wedding photographer, they are different fields which demand different skills.

The previous image and the two next are nice glamour photos, few of the ones I have shoot in my career.

The following pictures are more personal than the previous ones, in these I don't pretend to show her beauty or sexy side, here is something no so superficial/common, something that we see do not every day when we look at pictures of girls. These are about feelings.

 

Ted videos: photographers

TED is a non-profit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. They held annually a conference where the world's most fascinating thinkers. artist, scientist, ect. are challenged to give a talk of their lives/work (in 18 minutes or less) and as well they have the award TED prize: which consist in:  “One Wish to Change the World.”.

Following I have made a compilation of videos of photographers who had the chance to show their vision of the world in such a important event.

Artist Chris Jordan show here an arresting view of what Western culture looks like. His supersized images picture some almost unimaginable statistics -- like the astonishing number of paper cups we use every single day.

Accepting his 2005 TED Prize, photographer Edward Burtynsky makes a wish: that his images -- stunning landscapes that document humanity's impact on the world -- help persuade millions to join a global conversation on sustainability.

Intimita - 5 days

Please don't cry in my empty hands...

 

Intimacy.