Prague Daily Photo

Theme day: Waiting

2009-12-01T20:59:00.003+01:00

What a great theme for December at City Daily Photo Blogs: Waiting. Finally a good reason to show you my stopwatch I use for developing films :) (it's Timer Utility)

Here you can find more photos from this month's theme:
Click here to view thumbnails for all participants

After the developing.

And a photo from Jessica waiting for a nice place on my wall :)

Night in Prague

2009-11-26T19:49:00.001+01:00

Crossing Libensky bridge to Maniny and Holesovice. At that time I always think of Kakna :)

And people waiting for the night bus at Museum near the top of Wenceslas square. Until now I even didn't know there was a bus stop. You learn something new every day.

Are you afraid of highs?

2009-11-25T19:41:00.002+01:00

Guess these people can't be... :)

This is my kind of autumn

2009-11-24T19:33:00.001+01:00

A lot of sun.

And a lot of leaves.

... in reality, it is spectacularly colorful.

PS: And it's here... every time I use word spectacular American Beauty comes to my mind. Sorry, I couldn't help it.

Urban beauties

2009-11-23T19:23:00.001+01:00

Yes, I am that weirdo who likes walks in the grey and ugly urban areas.
This is what you find in more than several places in Prague.

Sunday book club (directly from bed) - Jim Carroll and The Basketball Diaries

2009-11-22T11:07:00.005+01:00

After seeing the movie The Basketball Diaries last year I finally found the Jim Carroll's book in our library. Well, I didn't expect it to be in the (almost) children section, but whatever. It's my bedtime book for now. The movie would be a better fit if you don't have time for the book. And you will be able to see young Leonardo DiCaprio in it, too :) Have you seen This Boy's Life, What's Eating Gilbert Grape or Celebrity?

Mecca, Midnight Cowboy, Usti, Ocko, etc.

2009-11-21T09:04:00.015+01:00

Is there another way to start the weekend's long post than with Jirka? We were at this... ehm... "exhibition" where they forbade us to take pictures.

So we went to our favorite pizzeria near Holesovice fairground and looked at the cooks.

The first time we were in this restaurant was on Thursday July 14, 2005. For which I have a proof :) There are some great post on that blog from 2005... if you speak Czech.

... the view.

So it happened that we got a lot of tickets to Vogue party in club Mecca.

Here is Maruska, my unbelievably skillful, smart and cute colleague.

And here is the upstairs of Mecca.

Sorry, I don't know what was meant by this.

There was a fashion show by ODD:ROOM designers. I have to say Iva Burkertova and her skirts are my favorite. You can see them in all their beauty on her blog.

Oh, and there was champagne.

We went to see Midnight Cowboy on Saturday afternoon. You can see the poster just above the District 9 one.

It's a pretty intense movie.

And there were like 10 people in the small screening room in Svetozor cinema. Did I mention I adore that movie? One of my all time favorites. Not everybody fells like that, though.

Moving to Usti nad Labem. Bobek and Monika.

Bobek kind of became a photographer of the whole day. Starting with his camera and then with Monika's camera...

... and then with my camera. He took more good pictures that day with my camera than I took during the whole year. He's just good. And passionate.

Monika - being great, looking stunning... as usual. By the way, you can check Monika's blog. Well, it's only in Czech, but there are pictures sometimes :)

Chris and Monika. I like Chris DJing. The years of experience really shows. His talent helps a lot, too :)

Meanwhile, Bobek still on his photo-documenting quest.

Couldn't miss Adriana giving autographs.

Natural born photographer.

Natural born model.

And Radovan, the real pro-photographer. If you're into photo equipment (like I am), you can imagine my excitement when we (well, mostly he, I was just looking) did a photo-shoot for our client with his Hasselblad with a digital back a few years ago. He uses his 1Ds mark III for these smaller gigs now :)

Once, or twice, again Chris and Monika.

These nice girls had the hardest job. Recruiting people to Billa club from 8 am to 9 pm. In those cute-looking, but impossible-to-stay-all-day-in dresses.

In Ocko club, also known as former Pacha or former Hany Bany.
And Who's That Girl? (Do you remember the movie? :)

Monika... but that was easy.

Adriana was there, too. Actually, she was there to launch a new issue of a tabloid magazine. Not that easy life when you have regular job and you work hard on your singer career at the same time.

And then everybody went home.

The end.

Hilton hotel with its Cloud 9

2009-11-20T19:56:00.001+01:00

I recommended it before and will gladly do that again... Cloud 9 bar at the top of Hilton hotel at Florenc is one of my favorites. Nothing compares to sitting on the terrace and having a drink or two there :)

Foggy TV Tower

2009-11-19T19:38:00.004+01:00

Sunday's forest alley

2009-11-18T19:24:00.002+01:00

Thousands of people live literally few steps away from this alley near Novodvorska leading to a forest park. A great loss for those who didn't enjoy it on the perfect sunny Sunday we just had. It was hard to resist not to go out. Actually, we're having quite a nice autumn in Prague this year :)

Flowers, stamps, and the revolution

2009-11-17T16:15:00.004+01:00

Flowers at the Svetozor passage.

Stamps shop at the Svetozor passage.

... and Prague was full of reminiscences of the Velvet Revolution. It's a 20 years anniversary today.

Looking up to Industrial Palace

2009-11-16T23:57:00.002+01:00

Inspiration from Rome and other places

2009-11-15T09:36:00.002+01:00

I have to share these notecards from Jessica with you because they are so beautiful :) Well, I said it many times before, Jessica is my inspiration.

And since it's Sunday you certainly have time to check other blogs for much more photo-inspiration, don't you? :) Here are my all time favorites:
Jamie Stoker
Severin Koller
Gonzale
Suzage
Bernhard Wolf
Chris Weeks

... ok, maybe it's for more than a Sunday afternoon. I'd better go developing films now. Something Prague related tomorrow, I swear :)

A bit of true from our office and welcome!

2009-11-13T23:42:00.003+01:00

I just wanted to say hi to all of you from Digital Photography School! Please feel free to comment so I know who you are :)

Wall art

2009-11-12T21:44:00.000+01:00

Don't you think? :)

Airport Prague

2009-11-11T21:32:00.004+01:00

It was a slow day. I had to wait for 15 minutes to actually see an airplane. At the airport.

If you have a lot of time waiting for the flight you can go see this exposition section and watch some documentaries.

Or if you just want to kill a few minutes this exhibition right in the departure hall might be more convenient :)

In and Out

2009-11-10T21:29:00.002+01:00

Metro station.

Train station. I like how they made it half steps half flat.

Bella Italia

2009-11-09T20:57:00.001+01:00

No doubt about that, Italy is beautiful (unlike the photo from our metro that is rather depressive). At that moment I immediately remembered Jessica's Rome Photo Blog and Valeria's Verona daily photo. Both of which are my favorite blogs from Italy. I can't wait for summer when there are also direct flights to Sardegna from Prague :)

By the way, would anybody like to visit Annie Leibovitz exhibition in Wien?

What I saw in Kosice

2009-11-08T15:17:00.011+01:00

So we were in Kosice, Slovakia a week ago. Here are Lubka (left), JunioR from Fun radio (right), and Komajota (in the middle).

... and Jan (from the night before).

... and in the morning.

See the sandwiches being made? That's our lunch :)

At this very moment I decided to have kids only to justify buying this pram. The proud mother of this one told me she bought it in London and how difficult it was to ship it to Kosice. But it's the one to die for.

And that's all.

Synchronized photographers

2009-11-06T22:55:00.001+01:00

Tram and Metro

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Let's meet in Frantiskanska garden. Every day at 3pm.

2009-11-04T23:47:00.004+01:00

We were just talking about how it was possible to meet when we didn't have mobile phones. Well, this might be a good way to leave a message for an appointment.

Always empty

2009-11-03T22:04:00.003+01:00

It's near Uhelny trh, near my old elementary school. And as much as I remember it was always that empty. Which is direct opposite to nearby Havelska street with a market full of people.

Designblok (with those glorious shoes) and a lot of photos with Jirka

2009-11-01T23:59:00.007+01:00

At Designblok I fell in love with those shoes by Hana Vaňátková. They were fantastic! It was part of exposition of Old school - a group of three talented artists. I had a chance to speak with Pavel Brejcha who also designs shoes. He studied fashion design in Paris and worked for Balenciaga. Isn't that cool? You can see the shoes above in color here and more photos from their exposition in this article. Ok, enough of my obsession.

Jirka and his new friend. Also at Designblok. I hope Jirka won't kill me for posting all those photos of him.

We also met editors from Marianne Bydleni and Elle Decor magazines. This is Zuzana Bernasovská who presented her line of furniture here. She basically didn't find the right fit for one of her interior designs so she designed it herself and they are now producing it in a Czech factory.

Fountain outside the exhibition building in Holesovice. I think the building used for exhibition is going to be a building full of lofts.

Old school promo book and first issue of Okolo magazine. "Okolo" is a mix of words "around" and "bike" - it makes sense in Czech, you have to believe me :) If you're into bikes you will like their videos.

Exhibition hall in Holesovice. We were there to see a watch exhibition. But I captured only this small restaurant.

Unfortunately they weren't much customer oriented. But when you're hungry...

This is Jirka again with his wallet after dinner in "At the penguin's" restaurant.

We thought we would visit this bar at Svandovo theatre at Ujezd. Have a bottle of vine and have an intellectual talk unlike our usual silly chitchating.

Jirka under the horse at Wenceslas square.

Jirka at a restaurant he used to go when he was younger (that's like in the forties of fifties).

Jirka in McDonald. He doesn't like it there, I had to force him.

And now you know Jirka who's like the older brother I've never had.

Butcher's

2009-10-30T23:19:00.000+01:00