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Fresh breeze, smell of the sea and getting away from the busy city streets even for 3 days are for me a good inspiration and a already nice holidays. That’s what I did at the end of March 2011 by going to the Belgian coast to De Haan city. Although I was raised and spent most of my youth in a city very close to the seaside, I haven’t had much chance to see the sea often lately as I spent much time in Brussels (probably too much ).

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I just want to give you a quick nudge about Brussels Photo Walk #5, which took place on Sunday, November 21, 2010. We were lucky again having pretty good weather without rain. I think this was one of the most exciting Brussels photo walks so far because we went to the part of Brussels that wasn’t discovered by anyone of us before. We went to the industrial part of Brussels – it was exciting and a bit scary at the same time. We run across many abandoned and squat buildings but I think that the most joy gave us an abandoned warehouse where we spent most of the time. Destroyed windows without glass, wires sticking out of the walls and floor, plants growing inside the warehouse and many other things became the photography subjects and inspirations for Brussels Photo Walk #5 in this amazing abandoned warehouse. It was a really inspiring walk and thank you all for participating!

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I don’t know how many times photographers repeat it to their students but I’m sure that you’re already familiar with it: take your camera anywhere you go (when possible of course). I think it was the very first thing I learned when I was starting my adventure with photography few years ago and so far it’s the easiest thing to remember. Probably because I really can’t move anywhere without my camera anymore. My friend once said that a camera has glued onto my hand.

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I met with Norbert Sokolowski (www.norbertsokolowski.com), a fellow photographer, in Brussels for a short walk to Fiesta Latina Festival in August 2010. The day started a bit rainy but soon sun came out and it really felt like Fiesta Latina Festival!

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I was going to update you on this photo shoot already a couple weeks ago but because of an extremely busy calendar and lots of photography assignments recently, I’m able to publish these pictures only now.

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It’s been a while I posted something on the blog since last time and I thought I would just give you a quick update what was and what will be going on in my photography life. Let’s start with the past events then, shall we? I spent 2 weeks in Poland in August visiting my family and friends. Besides taking some snapshots at the countryside and while traveling a bit around, I also had a photo shoot at the Polish seaside. The pictures from this shoot are ready to be published but I think I’ll put the online next week or so.

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I went to the area near Brussels Airport with my friend Lourdes (her photo website) in May 2010 to hunt for interesting locations for the upcoming photo shoots and assignments. We found some really interesting spots for portraits and creative pictures in the area of Brussels Airport. I ended up taking few portrait test shots with Nikon SB-900 speedlight but I have to admit I was much more fascinated by the airplanes.

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I was looking over some of my older photography gear few weeks ago and obviously I ran across my old film cameras and old memory cards from my first digital cameras. I started to recall the times of film photography and compare it with the experience of the digital world.

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I met a group of young photographers in Brussels (Belgium) few days ago. I overheard them discussing various aspects of photography so I joined them of course. At some point, they got to the point of talking about exposure as if they were talking about shutter speed (for example that the exposure was 1/60 sec.). To be honest, I was confused at first and I started to question my knowledge on the differences between exposure and shutter speed. Thankfully, it didn’t take me long to do a quick and quiet analysis in my head and to assure myself that I was right in the first place:

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One of the most interesting (and probably unexpected features when Aperture 3 was first released) is the possibility to edit and compile movies from pictures, videos and sound files. I already heard from few people the following question: Ok, but iMovie does the same thing, so why do I need the same feature in Aperture 3? Some of you would react quite right saying that it’s finally possible to manage both pictures and videos from one application (Aperture 3) and compile a nice movie within it. I agree, the video features and the possibility to create slideshows with audio and video from within Aperture 3 makes it quite a powerful tool. But I believe that there is a second and even more important answer to the question: Why video in Aperture 3, which is essentially a photography software and not a movie-making software?

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You might recall that I mentioned in my previous blog article I would be moving away from Aperture 3 and I promised to tell you why. Well, things have changed in the past week and they’ve changed quite dramatically, but in a good sense. Apple released update to Aperture 3 with the number 3.0.2 on 25 March 2010. Although, this update number looks insignificant, it includes many crucial updates and fixes (at least for the most part) what was bothering me the most: extremely low performance of Aperture 3. The detailed description of the fixes in Aperture 3.0.2 update are provided on Apple’s website here.

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Every kid has nightmares once in awhile. I remember when I was a kid, I had quite few nightmares and bad dreams and oh boy… how scared I was of those monsters hiding under my bed and in my closet. But I remember one particular nightmare quite vividly: a scary, dark and empty playground with mysterious noises coming out of nowhere.

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