The Moon overlooking the city at night:

Almost at it's peak, the eclipse gave the moon a bright red color

  PS: I hope 4 years from now I'll have a telephoto with me :)

   Cause that's how I'm chillin'!

    Poaching 

Large numbers of fishing nets are set on a weekly basis on the surrounding areas of Bacău

Not only fish are caught in the nets

    Summer is here!
    And this means you can stay late to capture that beautiful warm light just before sunset.
    The calm water adds to the tranquility of this pictures shot moments just before sunset on Lake Bacău II.

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       Just a glimpse of the ceremony from Bacau, last Saturday night. Didn't stay out too long, it was shivering cold. I did managed to bring the burning candle back home, though :)

Priests spreading The Light to the people at midnight

Hundreds of people walking alongside the priests, preparing for the sermon

The Holy Light

 

    Some pictures shot recently on a waste management campaign put together by CRE Bacau in collaboration with local high-school volunteers. Approximately 200 young ecologists managed to gather hundreds of kilos of waste, finishing in the end with the planting of wicker in an area that was previously affected by fire. More about it here (only Romanian).

A dog den

Knee deep in waste

Planting wicker

Planting wicker

Planting wicker

Planting wicker

Hard work pays off

Off to the dump

      Bacău celebrated Earth Hour with a small public display on "Tricolorului Square" Saturday night, 26th of March, 2011. There was a nice act put together by "In The Spot", a local artist's group and, of course, we've switched off at half past eight PM.
      More on Earth Hour here.

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Beginning of the show

"In The Spot" performing

Lights out!

Games in the dark

    And it looks like it's never gonna end!

  Peeking through the fence of an old soccer field at sunset. Pretty desolated. I hate winter!

  Yay, a new year awaits us! And a blistering cold one to begin with. I went outside yesterday night to shoot something snowy but nothing really came up. On one hand because, well, I wasn't able to find something worth capturing and on the other hand, I almost froze my ass out, trying to find a subject. So I shot this one on my way back home. Nothing special, I just like the deserted feel of it.

   Astazi dimineata a avut loc o puternica explozie intr-un bloc de locatari de pe strada Martir Horia, Bacau. Din cate am inteles este vorba de o acumulare de gaze care a produs intreaga explozie. Doua persoane au ajuns in stare grava la spital. Din fericire nimeni nu a decedat insa pagubele sunt enorme. Abia m-am intors de acolo si, avand in vedere ca au trecut cateva ore bune de la deflagratie, inca se simte un miros innecacios pe toata aria accidentului. 

     On my way Răcăciuni, some couple of days ago, I passed by this district heating power plant, operating at its full capacity. I stopped the car near the road and snapped some photos away, cause I thought that backlit steam cloud would make a good picture. I was right :)

    Oh, and by the way, that's not pollution, that's just water steam blowing off. But people like calling it that way, it's more catchy :)

 ... or a big withe goose, or a swan, or a Cygnus olor. 

 Btw, I think I've seen this picture a thousand times before, don't you?:D

In mid October I went on a small boating trip with a friend of mine on Lake Bacău, the "too-familiar" place where I used to go swimming when I was a kid. He did some monitoring and waste management round the area, I did some shooting. Good deal!