Yesterday (8th of August) I decided to go for a drive and ended up at the Şerpeni Memorial, roughly 65km away from Chişinău.

First we went to Bulboaca village, after that to Speia and in another 20km we were at the Şerpeni Headbridge Memorial (Complexul Memorial Şerpeni), which wasn’t a planned stop. But the memorial looks clean and neat, with a very cool view over the Dniester (Nistru) river.

I decided to take only HDR photos (with the 18-55mm lens), though it was a cloudy day.

Quick Stop on the Road to Serpeni

Serpeni Headbridge Memorial Entrance

Serpeni Headbridge Memorial

Serpeni Headbridge Memorial View to Dniester (Nistru) River

Serpeni Headbridge Memorial View to Dniester (Nistru) River

Two days ago I had the chance to catch this young cat on a fence, in a small Ukrainian village. Just look at his attitude :)

P.S. my 18-55mm lens was on, the bokeh turned out surprisingly good.

About 2 weeks ago I finally visited the Dendrarium Park (Chisinau, Moldova) for the first time in my life :)

Thankfully I had two beautiful girls with me, Alina and Snejana, and my camera of course, so here’s the result of our quick session.

And as always, I used the Nikon D5000 with f/1.4G AF-S Nikkor Lens, no filters.

During the period 24/04 – 01/05 I went on a small vacation to Turkey. My main point of interest was to take some cool HDR photos of different structures as well as under various weather/lighting conditions.
All in all it was a very pleasant experience.

All photos were created from 3 bracketed (+2) shots taken with a Nikon D5000 and a 18-55mm VR lens. HDRs created with Photomatix Pro 3.

P.S. if you would like to use any of these photos please contact me, maybe I could provide a RAW / unaltered version of the images.

Today I was finally able to go outside with my Nikon D5000 and take some shots in the great outdoors (the playground in front of my parents house).

I have used only the Nikon AF-S Nikkor 50mm f/1.4G (portrait) lens with an ISO of 250 and an average shutter speed of 1/1000s, with an aperture of 1.4.
P.S. The weather was cloudy :(

If you don’t like animals, especially cats, then you won’t find these photos interesting :)

I would like to thank my dog Hammer for his protection and for the reason to go out and take my camera with me :)

After last week’s offline with Vlad Filat, prime-minister of Moldova, today I participated at a more casual and informal offline with Dan Negru, a romanian TV presenter. Later we were joined by Cosmin Guşă (last photo).

Today I had the opportunity to participate at an offline with Vlad Filat, prime-minister of Moldova.

Unfortunately I didn’t get the chance to take good photos (the place was crowded), but I caught him during an interview after the event.
Decided to share them with you :)

This is a quickly captured photo of Olia Tira, the artist that will represent Republic of Moldova at Eurovision Song Contest Oslo 2010, during an informal offline meeting.

Two versions: color and black&white.

As winter refuses to make room for spring, I keep taking indoor photographs… And what better model than my parents’s cat Sonya? This time in black and white :)