1.4 milliard people have no access to safe drinking water at this moment.
One child dies every 17 seconds from water related diseases.
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Team building
This is our world. Every penny is identical with the next one, every company with the one across the street, every product with the next one. The only difference is the form, essence remains the same.
Ikea simplicity and plastic fantastic, we found concepts and now concepts are replacing us.
Nine hours each day I'm the concept of employee. What concept are you ?
Rupture
A film image is created based on imperfections. A perfect crystal network is unable to retain the latent image that will eventually emerge in the final picture.
There are no perfect colors. Each color is a wavelength and each wavelength is part of the whole spectrum. When choosing one, you will chose based on the whole not on the bits that creates micro-realities in the final image. And each color will interact, play, join and merge in order to create what will be the chromatic of the picture. Chromatic which will be part of the bigger goal - equilibrium, which has the sole reason to give meaning, meaning which transfers the one behind the viewfinder in the final holistic creation.
Creation, which will become part of the one behind the viewfinder.
One will seek equilibrium and meaning and a mind should run away from entropy and disorder, from meaningless ruptures and lack of sense.
Each particle of light is unique and without repetition, leaving a small trace in a small imperfection that will eventually give birth.
You can disprove almost everything, but you can't disprove light.
And this is one of the reasons I love this.
Cat
I actually do not like them.
That's all, no more cats next 5 years.
I'm trying to adapt myself, as every photographer shoots cats, why shouldn't I ? Cats are the new pink.
Highlights
"Which is the most important thing in life?", the girl asked the old man.
"To be free", he answered.
"But what means to be free?", she asked starring as she knew everything and no new things she had to learn.
"To ask", he said
And then the old man perished in a warm sea of leafs, leaving so many unanswered question.
Worlds
When I was little I was thinking that this world might be a world in another bigger one and the bigger one in another and so on. Then I’ve read a story (inspired from the myth of Iona) which ruined my dreams of innovation.
Now I’m thinking that this world might be part of many other worlds, bigger and more complex, created by us.
Some are ugly, some are sweet, some are shallow, some are erotic, some are contemplative. And maybe Iona, is looking and laughing, knowing that he seen them all. Inside a fish.
My world is just confuse. Incoherent, full of contractions, sometimes illogical, sometimes too logical, sometimes screaming, sometimes quiet. Maybe that’s why I still like the sea, somehow it resembles my general mood.
Overall, I’m just waiting.
Deben-world
text by Natalia
Pull up a flag and salute the new leader. Let the flag blow proudly into the wind while checking out the mark downs. The new symbol of casual, elegant and trendy is here. It is here and it's open on Sundays! So you have seven days a week to worship this fall's new line.
Yes, that is right; it's not a Mall it’s more than that. It's the Debenhams-world. It may not have autonomy, but it's got style. And there were no human lives sacrificed for the sake of its birth. I mean other than the lives of those in sweat shops in third world countries. And, of course, the occasional rare animal killed for its fur. But this is all done for the greater good of humanity's fashion.
So come, come and shop! Enter this wonderful world of expensive colon and flashy jewelry. Drink coffee for twice it's worth because this is the new temple of the contemporary, cosmopolite and independent woman.
Be unique, be free, be the Deben-woman!
Translation to Romanian (by Natalia):
Ridică steagul şi salută noul lider. Lasă steagul să fluture mândru în vânt şi uită-te după reduceri. Noul simbol al hainelor de zi cu zi, al eleganţei şi al noilor tendinţe este aici. Este aici şi e deschis duminica! Deci ai şapte zile pe săptămână pentru a venera linia de toamnă-iarnă.
Da, exact: nu este un Mall este mai mult decât atât. Este lumea Debenhams. Şi chiar dacă nu are autonomie măcar are stil. Nicio viaţă omenească nu a fost sacrificată de dragul naşterii acestei noi lumi. Vreau să zic nicio altă viaţă afară de cele irosite în fabrici uriaşe din lumea a treia care plătesc muncitorii cu trei cenţi pe oră. Şi, desigur, din când în când animale pe cale de dispariţie care au fost omorâte pentru supravieţuirea fragilei haine de blană. Dar toate aceste contribuie la mai marele bine al modei umanităţii.
Aşa că vino, vino şi cumpără! Intră în acestă lumea minunată a parfumului scump şi a bijuteriilor strălucitoare. Bea cafea la supra preţ pentru că trebuie să plăteşti tribut acestui templu al femeii contemporane, cosmopolite şi independente.
Fii unică, fii liberă, fii Deben-femeie!
Bizzare art play
When we discovered relativity, everything became art.
A bizarre art play that surrounds us. Everybody is an unique artist, in an unique world full of unique similarities. 
Older story ...
... which continues, through a window, in a strange and far away room.
A chair from which something just departed, in a fuzzy atmosphere.
A blurry feeling is born, looking in that room. Was it a quiet slide in time and space, searching for a real island?
Miscellaneous
I realize more and more that the sun, the heat and the quiet tends to suck someone's life.
I will also shoot Holga from now. Because I want to show myself that technology should not matter that much (this being said by someone who shoots FE2). Because it's fun. Because size don't matter and because it's challenging.
Watch the movie Eastern Plays. It doesn't need any word.
I realized that if I will buy a Leica, I will stop photographing. When you have one, you don't need anything else.
I'm starting to understand employees which after 10 years shoot half of their colleagues in a sunny quiet morning.
As crazy as it might sound, I miss some places in Bucharest. Although not many ...
I'm starting to wonder why the smaller number of people saying something here. I see hits, I don't see words. Are my pictures that bad? Joking, I know they're not.
Are they ?
I would like to recommend a wonderful place where I jumped by mistake not so long ago. It is called the floating bridge of dreams and you will find a fascinating world of photographs and words there. An art that so few still know how to appreciate, in the contest for less noise, more sharpness and more flashes. I hope you will be reminded that photography feeds on imagination.
Floating bridge of dreams - Roxana Ghita
P.S. Roxana I hope you don't mind for my sudden recommendation.
Most used clichés.
For me, photography is, above all, a space. A space where I try to build on my feelings, my thoughts or my ideas, using light as the main material, a space where I try to transform the bits of reality I see everyday into other structures, or just add to the ones already there. (1)
For others, photography is just a way of relaxing and remembering places they’ve been to, things they saw, but trying to improve their skill. (2)
And some try to improve and reach new levels. They try to discover photography along with themselves. (3)
There is also a vast majority for which photography is just a tool used to keep simple snapshots and memories. They never strive to improve and there is nothing wrong with it. (4)
As a photographer who gives some advice to beginners, considering my small experience I can publish the following list of dos/dons. All of the bellow are from my point of view (1) to people in categories (2) or (3) (I'm also in 3).
· A cat/dog is just a cat/ dog and no matter how much you like it, your photo will resemble millions other. A photo with a cat/dog doesn’t express “animal love” or “sadness” or “fluffy-puffy-world” no matter how much you believe this. Wake up and use your imagination, or go fishing. If you insist adding one more banality to this world, keep it on your hard drive and don't talk about photography. Maybe later.
· Don’t just snapshot a flower, there are millions. Put that flower in a context. Wait for an exceptional light, try an unusual angle, use something around you; give your picture some action. When I say “action” I’m not talking about a bee, as there are millions of bees eating flowers around the internet. Make your picture say “wow” not just “another flower”. Imagination, again, or fishing.
· Do not just photograph a sunset or sunrise. Use the same rules as above, give something special to it. You have great light, don’t waste it with just a simple 1/3 horizon line.
· Do not use HDR excessively. HDR shouldn’t be noticeable, as that tends to be kitsch. HDR should be use like sharpness from my point of view, if you really want to do it. If you want dynamic range, go film.
· Avoid easy subjects. Don’t photograph a church and name your picture “faith”. Same with pigeons.
· Avoid easy motifs. Don’t say you shoot macro because you want to show the world the wonderful tiny little world living in the grass. I’ve heard that a million times, is like everybody tries to find the holly grail of grass-hoppers. If you start with that idea, you’ll photograph any bug and end in banalities too.
· I like nature too. I like dogs, flowers and bugs. But I love photography.
· Don’t get too excited when taking a photo. You’ll miss.
· Do not photograph flags, statues or other people drawings without using an imagistic context for them.
· Don’t shoot landscapes from the car or at 12'oclock, unless you know what you're doing. That is lack of respect for the ones who wake up at 4 in the morning for a landscape and you won’t probably get nothing good.
· Do not say Photoshop is bad or be proud you never touch your photographs after the shutter clicks. You might be considered an idiot.
· Compose. If it worked so many years, it will work now too. When you will grow up, you’ll learn how and when to break it, but first learn it and make it be part of you. Composition gives equilibrium and most of it is based on human physiology or nature order. You're not smarter than them.
· Search Magnum and count how many cat and flowers pictures are there. Search on 1x.com and see why the pictures with cats/flowers/dogs posted there are way better than yours. If that doesn’t work, go fishing or keep your pictures on your hard-drive.
Basic tips (google if you don't know what they are):
- idea and message; innovation;
- compositional equilibrium; balance; harmony;
- compositional rules (that will become guidelines)
- chromatic equilibrium;
- tension;
- perspective;
- simplicity;
- negative space;
- light;
Please, do not s...t on photography. 
Water reflections
Without the usual diffraction, inside some constant thoughts, so blurred as she's one with everything, she gently stepped into the sea, lost in a world of freedom.
Plastic orgy
I see around me a world full of plastic orgy. We overflow everything with kitsch, full of colors, full of sparkle and full of sex.
The streets smell like sex, the people smell like the streets and I see everything becoming a space where beauty equals sexuality.
Thank Freud for explaining and thank the machines that could produce millions of sexual accessories in an hour. Everything is starting to look like a ...
We make art from s***t and everything is plastic fantastic in our brave new world.
Air vertigo
He floats into the air, forgetting the long way made until this point.
He doesn't remember what was on the road, being unable too see what will follow.
Just floating, into some kind of thin air, with a perspective so large that it becomes everything in a world full of perspective, where perspective is all and all is nothing.
He still cares for simple things, but passes by them quickly, amused.
Inside is air. Outside is air. And light passes through it, emerging in a simply ray that vanishes in infinity.
Seeking for something that is everywhere. Seeking for... a breath of air.
Suddenly, he realizes the irony. And breaths.
Appearances in a dark place
In dark place, in empty rooms and in void.
From dark light emerges, enters the room and blows away the void.
Creation takes place as the feeling is born.
We live in darkness. We only have our feelings which lightens our ways. The rest is useless, material nonsense. 
In the nature
In the nature we find love, time and creation.
From the nature we can feed, learn and grow.
With the nature we can play, walk and live.
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