It's a wonderful life :))

I had another dreamy day yesterday with my photographer friends.It was a long time we hadn't meet (2 months) and I was bored to death:) Luckily we met yesterday.
Our yesterday's safari visit places were some of the best places of Istanbul seaside.(Emirgan, Istinye,Yenikoy respectively, you can search them from google).
What I love most of this group of photographers is that everybody in here is so cool , easygoing,warm hearted,fun lover,good eater , good drinker , cool humble and the last but not the list great photographers with a great eye, each one with his/her own different ideas.
I have more fun taking photos when I'm with this guys, they just make my day:)
Ok , ok let me tell you, how the day passed.
First we had breakfast at a very well know old cafe et Emirgan (Cınaraltı Kafe).Right after it we just walked to the very well know Emirgan Grove.I had just been there one time , 8 years ago and I remember we had visited it with friends from university at a very late hour (24.00 or s.t like that) and I was enchaunted by its beauty.I just don't understand why it took so long to revisit it:)
Anyway, the grove was spectacular , maybe because of the wonderful tulips laying everywhere just like a carpet (and other lovely flowers as well) ...everybody was bursting energy and happines,maybe because of the beauty that surrounded us.There were some beautiful villa- cafes there , but we refused to sit and have a tea/coffe there just like some brainless aristocrats:) ( you see we are rebels as well:)
After some sweet errands in the grove we kept walking up to Istinye another Istanbul district, well known with its beautiful boats,yachts and seascape.We had some cool yachts and boats shots, but right at that moment we heard our poor stomachs screaming like crazy..We had a short stroll and controlled for the best place and found a very cool boat , and would have enjoyed a great lunch upstairs if it wasn't for that dumb of waiter who got on our nerves saying that we should eat apart from each other , by not joining the tables as it would disrupt the balance of the boat.To hell with all of you , we said and left from there..
We just leaped to a restaurant beside and luckily had a great lunch there.
Right after it , we kept walking up our last station : Yenikoy another well known , old Istanbul district and had some nice shots there.We even met a lady with a smaaaaall black dog and we asked her : wow, how sweet , how old is he?
And she said to us : well don't missapprehend his stature , he's had 4 ladies and a lot of puppies:)
Well , he was kinda small for a stallion :))
We finally had our last tea( turkish tea is the symbol of our group , everybody loves it here) and coffe in a small cozy coffe close to the Marmara Sea and so our day was over !
I had a splendid time again and I'm looking forward to our next safari (next week on 29th of April:))
I'm posting some pictures from yesterday.have fun..

Permbledhje shqip:dje dola me miqte e mij fotografe dhe shetitem ne disa lagje mjaft te njohura , buze detit.Ja dhe disa foto...

For photography's sake:)

Yesterday we were together with Majla and some other friends celebrating our friend's birthday.It happens that this guy (birthday guy) is also a photography freak just like me and , we almost forgot everybody and everything talking about photos and new used methods.We went to a cozy café and really were having a great time.There were some people , I saw for the first time , yet I found them really amusing.
This is some very new phenomenon happening to me.I enjoy meeting with new cool people, sometimes more than with people I know for ages.What might be the reason ; an urge need for change?I don't know.
Anyway , me and my friend , who has just bought his new camera and was so excited about this, kept on talking about photography.
In a moment we laughed loudly because both of us had choosen Majla's eye as our photo object for a macro shot..Majla first was surprised , then smiled , than after letting us shot her eye for some time , she screamed : Come on , get away from me you nuts:))
It was really hilarious:)
After it the birthday cake came , a really drooling one , chestnut,caramel and bitter chocholate mix , but it was to beautiful for me and my friend to eat it at once :) so we forgot everything , he even forgot to open his presents and both tried to get some cake macro's ..It was really fun.
Something as well as photography? Well dancing ...Which we had stright after we left the café:)

Underwater love

Today I was reading "Hurriyet" newspaper and my eyes were stucked in a very interesting photo.There was a couple kissing and huging underwater.
Right under I read that this photo belonged to the last project of The Sadler Wells Theatre in England .They have been screening Purcell's " Dido and Aeneas" , but in a very special way , underwater !!
The players are the dancers of Berliner Sacha Waltz Dance Theatre.
17 dancers are performing their show in a tank filled with 7.500 litres of water.
It's told that this tank has been produced by some engineers , especially for this show.

I'm in love with water and everything else underwater.It's one of the things that offers me endless peace and calm.For that reason I loved that performance , the pictures were great and I was fascinated to see how the dancers expressed their feelings and how they used their bodies underwater.I'm sure they made enormous efforts just to make it look delicate and not forced by the water press.And their mimics, God I loved them too..So dramatic , eventhough the circumstance.I wish I could be there:(

For more information : www.sadlerwells.com

photo source: www.hurriyet.com.tr

Photo therapy..

I just love photography..It seems like a cure to me..I loved this photo , which one of my photographer friends did.This is a spontaneous photo and really shows the way photographing cures me...I liked to see myself so peaceful:)

Thanks Nilgün:)