Probably today's post will be slightly longer than usual. I'll start by thanking @brumest for selecting one of my pictures as one of the winners for his Monomad 5th photo contest.
I was so excited to find this out. Seeing some of the other photographers and their work I consider myself very lucky for be one of the winners. Check the other winners at this link:
https://steemit.com/monomad/@brumest/monomad-photographic-contest-week-5-people-winners
I must say I am having such a great time here. I've been here on Steemit for around 3 weeks and so far I was selected in 3 contests. The other two are https://steemit.com/bwphotocontest/@daveks/4ecs4o-b-and-w-photo-contest-winners
and https://steemit.com/bwphotocontest/@daveks/6oq4t2-b-and-w-photo-contest-winners.
Seeing the feedback it determined me to cut some of the work and get seriously back to the photography I loved doing, instead of doing commercial stuff. The Steemit community is awesome. Lots of great photographers around here, and I hope that I'll get to know all of you better.
There's so much good quality content and, hopefully, Steemit as a platform will evolve and become more user-friendly for curating, following, sharing content.
Let's get back at tryingtodoart now. Back to 2011 to be more precise. The year when I found photography. In that same year I started seeing traveling with a whole new set of eyes. Traveling became the easiest way of taking pictures. When everything is new you get into the "zone" and you take pictures like frenzy. At least that's what I did.
Also, from time to time, you find some unique places. Landmarks. Places you'll take back home with you, and tell your friends about it. My first special place was L'Atelier Cafe in Cluj. In 2011 it was a recent opened place and it was quite hip. All the furniture, lamps, and decorations were made from recycled cardboard.
At first, I was skeptical, but those chairs are very sturdy. It's quite far from Bucharest, a 10-hour train trip, but I am visiting Cluj at least once a year. Every single time I am going in L'Atelier as well.
As years passed by, the pub changes as well. It's still cardboard everywhere, but the decorations changed, some of the lamps, the tables. Personally, I feel it lost its touch but thankfully I have a bunch of pictures to remind me how it was.
Enjoy...
