The topic of week 30 in Sari’s photo Projekt 52:
Special occasions
Well, this is rather a general setting:
Projekt 52 week 30: Special occasions
The News
Alternative medicine does not help
Not even the finally arrested Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić:
“Until he was tracked down and arrested by Serbian special forces last night, Dr Karadzic was working as an alternative medicine specialist in a clinic in the suburb of New Belgrade using the false name of Dr Dragan Dabic.”
(Times Online)
Porn spammers can continue
After a court has dismissed the lawsuit by lesb–, erm, residents of Lesbos against all lesbians (that is, gay women) calling themselves lesbians, porn spammers – no matter if they spam via e-mail or blog comments – can continue their profession without fear of lawsuits from Lesbos for using this word.
None of the porn spammers could be reached for comment.
A ghost scurries through the room
What an eerie snapshot I took the night before last – and it fits the topic of week 29 in Sari’s photo Projekt 52:
Snapshot
…i.e. without arrangement…
Isn’t it uncanny how that ghost glides horizontally through the room in the house across the street?
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Alright, it’s not a ghost (duh!), just a long-time exposure (25 seconds) with reflections of street lights and shop windows in a (dark) window while a car was passing by…
Here’s the full image with the window next to it:
The golden spire
At first, I only showed the first image and a little quiz “what do you think is special about this image?” Well, it’s a night photo as can be seen on the second image in original brightness, which has been slightly modified in brightness and contrast (with Corel PhotoPaint’s automatic function):
(click for large versions)
From the right, the moon is glaring into the photo, the elongated dots in the sky are stars which actually moved that far within the 20 seconds of exposure – and that there are brighter parts on which the moon doesn’t shine directly is also caused by the street lights, of course.
The “disturbances” seen in the bright spire in the following detail and the stripes that can best be seen in the bright image above are caused by the (black) mosquito net through which the photo was taken:
Like an elephant…
The scaffolding was removed recently from the department store that has been extended and received its new escalator in February, and so it shines in all its splendor – and, well, it somehow looks to me like an elephant with its tusks cut off:
Or what do you see? 