Claudia Curici Photography
Exploring my passion for photography
New York City skyline
Although I have already posted one of these photos (the last one), today I feel like New York skyline, so I thought I’d show y’all all the (final) versions I have from my recent trip to NYC. I didn’t have a tripod, so I had to figure out different ways of having the camera fixed. While this allowed for slow shutter speeds, it limited the angles I could work with. The photos are taken in different days and different stages of sunset, hence the difference in lighting. I’ve actually printed the last frame in large format metal print (at Bayphoto) and I’m really pleased with the result.
January florals
iPhone photography, again :). Today I had the camera with me, but not the right lens to get some interesting flower photos at Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden. Plus, these days is very sunny and hot (25 C) and although we are not complaining, the light is harsh for flower photography, even in the morning. These camellia blooms were too gorgeous not to capture, and the iPhone came in handy again. Some Snapseed grunge and voila, my January florals from Dallas.
PS: I was totally inspired by this guy who shot an entire (Indian) wedding with an iPhone and the result is wonderful! Link here.
Also, my entry for Vibrant, The Weekly Photo Challenge.
How does optimism look like
For me, it looks like this: blue, big skies, nature, friends, grace and strength. When I saw the Optimistic challenge, although I think I missed the deadline, these are the images that came to mind. There is also another reason they are optimistic to me: they reinforce my decision to take my love for photographing athletes to the next level; hence the new page that appeared on my blog lately: She moves. Photographing athletes.
These photographs were made in September 2015, at Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden, with Fujifilm x100S and my awesome model is Maggie Ma, a dear friend and wonderful yoga teacher in Dallas.
❤
The best camera is the one you carry
The first time I heard photographers saying this I didn’t really get it… If an iPhone camera is enough to be a photographer, why would anyone want to buy a professional camera anymore. Lately I used my iPhone minimally for photography I want to share because I thought is limiting. But today something clicked… I went out for a walk in Deep Ellum, a quirky neighborhood in Dallas and I didn’t have a camera. Usually at midday the sun is quite harsh in Dallas, so I did’t bother, but then I realized we had been blessed with a thin layer of fluffy clouds diffusing the light so perfectly, I could’t miss the opportunity. I took my iPhone out and I started to shoot wide angle, enjoying the big sky, the empty spaces, the distorted angles, the electricity wires, the soft colors. The photos I made are not perfect, but they are something I really needed.
The photos were processed in the phone with Snapseed (a vintage filter and frames).
The Kiss
“Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one’s self by entering into the real sense of things.” – Constantin Brancusi, Romanian Sculptor
Seen yesterday at Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, Texas.
Entry for CB&W (Sculpture) 🙂
Local lens
It’s been over seven months we moved from Dubai to Dallas/Fort Worth area and we always laugh when people, especially when we are out of Dallas, ask us where are we visiting from – because it’s obvious, once we say a word, we are not born around here :). We look at each other, smile, and start the story: we visit from Dallas, but are from Denmark, respectively Romania, and we moved here from Dubai, where we lived for seven years. It’s a good story, and we will probably keep telling it as long as people ask us where we are from :). Usually people around here think Dubai is so amazing and we are kind of downgrading by moving to Dallas, but we always make sure they hear from us how much we love this place. ❤
Today we went to visit The Amon Carter Museum of American Art and I have to say this will be high on the list of my favorite museums around the world. I don’t know if this is because we come from Europe, but there is something romantic about about all the American West visuals. From a photographer point of view, I learnt so many lessons today, not only from Laura Wilson photography exhibition “That Day” but from the use of light, composition and emotions in paintings (I know, from every piece of art one can learn this, but there is something about these paintings that resonate in a special way with my Spirit).
After the Museum we stopped by the Stock Yards, for more encounters with some good food, great music and crowds and zen animals.
Both must see if you are around Dallas / Fort Worth metropolitan area. And no, this will not become a travel blog, but I really wanted to share these thoughts this time :). And finally the photos, made with Fujifilm X-T1, 56mm.
View from the Museum:
The Fort Worth Stock Yards:
I love horses but I’m slightly afraid of them. I plan to fix this while I’m in Texas.
Texas flag flying high (everywhere) 🙂
OY – Alphabet
OY, the 8-foot-tall aluminum sculpture by artist Deborah Kass as viewed from the Brooklyn side. Obviously, from the other side will be YO, hence the complete name of the monument is OY/YO. Symbolically placed in between Brooklyn and Manhattan, next to the Brooklyn Bridge, and with a meaning appealing to many different cultures and languages, I see this a a metaphor for cultural bridging.
My contribution to Alphabet, the weekly photo challenge.
A walk in Fort Worth
This is an entry for this weeks photo challenge, Weight(less) / Gravity. Made in Fort Worth, in Sundance Square. It was a cold but sunny day, midday and what attracted me to compose the shot was the reflections of the nearby buildings in the water (and how their intensity and colors changed with the movement of the water). Camera: Fujifilm x-T1, 56mm (1.2) lens.
More photos from the walk in Fort Worth on a sunny but cold day.
Miniatures. I have three shots of this, and in the three of them the seventh dwarf is missing. I have no idea how I could left him out!
Patterns, there is beauty everywhere to be seen:
Architecture, memorials; the Hilton Hotel, where JF Kennedy had is last speech before being assassinated in Dallas.
More architecture:
Shadows and details:
Burst of light:
Brooklyn Bridge. Lines and symmetry
Architecture / engineering perfection from New York City. Made with Fujifilm x-T1, 18-55mm lens.
Later edit: entry for CB&W Lines and Angles challenge.
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