Taken at Bon?ida Banffy Castle. This time I tried something a bit different and didn't focus on the main building. The tower appears to be quite old and in a very poor state, yet the adjacent building is an a perfect condition (it cannot be seen in this photograph; the window from the far background is actually from the main building).
Usually it takes me a few days, weeks or months before I publish a photo. One of my literature teachers from the primary school advised us to always read our compositions again the next day, because in this way we'll spot errors that might not seem so obvious at first.
Pascal Bruckner never ceases to surprise me. "The Divine Child" is the story of a mother-to-be, that believes the unborn children have too much spare time on their hands; time is one of the most valuable things in the world and babies are basically wasting all this time sitting and being little dummies.
Lately I've came across a very underrated feature of Microsoft Windows, the ability to use an HTML page as a desktop wallpaper. When I've first seen this feature (I think it was in Windows 98 or Windows 95) it seemed very odd and pointless. Those were the times when web pages were seen as a dangerous ground, especially those that contained some form of scripting.
But tomorrow, dawn will come the way I picture her,
barefoot and dishevelled, standing outside my window
in one of the fragile cotton dresses of the poor.
She will look in at me with her thin arms extended,
offering a handful of birdsong and a small cup of light.
~ William Collins
I have neglected the photography section for a few weeks, one of the main reasons being the fact that I'm a bit reluctant of writing descriptions. Nevertheless, I really want to stick with this "custom" - a textual description can provide further insight regarding a photo, especially with regard to what I want express.
This started to become annoying. Although GIMP has some very nice features and can be considered a real candidate to Photoshop, some of them can be quite hard and counter-intuitive to use. One of them would be the ability to paste a layer inside a layer mask - or in other words use another layer as a layer mask.
Haunted by this story for weeks, I must admit that this book managed to make me feel more alive and aware of my surroundings. It started out as something normal, a story encapsulated very well in borders of the reality - but as the story progressed, it started to run into the fantasy realm.
Sometimes a conjunction can make us feel more powerful than we really are. It can take us to uncharted territories, to places that we only dreamed of, while in the same time making us capable of doing the impossible.
“There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.”
~ Elie Wiesel
For those times when we wish to be in some other place.
