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02 Mar 2025 • VatoAdmin

Marine Band

I didn’t feel like chasing photos outside, again, so I took photos of stuff with the Vivitar. I think this lens is great for still life photography as well.

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01 Mar 2025 • VatoAdmin

I’m a bit hooked on a Turkish podcast on YouTube today. Just as I was thinking that I forgot to take a photo today, I heard fireworks outside. I quickly picked up the camera and snapped this photo. It’s way out of focus and a perfect fit for my aesthetics. I take it as the […]

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28 Feb 2025 • VatoAdmin

Feeling Alive

I seriously love rain. I’ll bring out my big umbrella and hit the streets when it’s pouring. I’ll take a deep breath through my nose, say “aaaaah” when I’m breathing out through my mouth, and feel good about existing. I felt sad about a lot of things in my life. But today, probably for the […]

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27 Feb 2025 • VatoAdmin

5 on it

I’ve been having busy days lately, and honestly, I haven’t felt too eager to walk around chasing frames. So, today, I just took a snap of my belongings right before I left the office. This hat has been with me for a few years now. I picked it up from a thrift store. It was […]

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26 Feb 2025 • VatoAdmin

Why do you see?

I had so much coffee and so much to do today. So today’s photo is this quick snap that I can’t help but think “It could be better”. It could also be worse. And I focus on that. Because since my birthday, I have grown a lot.

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25 Feb 2025 • VatoAdmin

Thirty Six

I turned 36 today. I was going to write a long-ass post but I changed my mind. I’m gonna make this short. I’m very grateful for where I’m at in life, very proud of who I am, and I love the people I have in my life.

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24 Feb 2025 • VatoAdmin

The Old No. 7

After trying for a few days, I’m finally in the “I think I know what I’m doing” phase with the multi-exposure. From now on, I should get better photos and “Oh, I didn’t know about that” here and there. This is almost straight-out-of-camera. I just edited the contrast a bit so I marked it as […]

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23 Feb 2025 • VatoAdmin

Don’t Stay Alone

I took cleaner double-exposure photos today but this is probably the only one with a “message”. I edited the contrast a bit in Lightroom but then I decided to apply my “red” preset to it. It turned out more orange than red, possibly because it’s a JPG but I don’t know. I’m enjoying the double-exposure […]

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22 Feb 2025 • VatoAdmin

Attempts

Today, I made some more attempts at double exposure. I didn’t get absolute mess like I did yesterday but I feel like I can get better results with a zoom lens. Also, I found that digital crop works only for the first photo. You have to use the same digital crop for the following shots. […]

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21 Feb 2025 • VatoAdmin

Elektra

I wanted to make today’s photo an in-camera double exposure but I only got some trash results. I need more practice to understand what different double exposure modes do. Reading the manual wasn’t enough. I was so proud of how I kept photos rather minimal this week so I didn’t want to use the double […]

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20 Feb 2025 • VatoAdmin

Paint the town bl*t

This one is from the vault. Not a very old one though. I took this as a quick snap last Sunday. It’s a busy and very cold day today so I use my “serve from the vault” card. Plus it was a leg day. I’m gonna use my legs to carry me home, stand a […]

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19 Feb 2025 • VatoAdmin

0|1

After work, I took the long route back home. About 20 minutes into my walk, it was clear that I wasn’t getting anything. So I said to myself, “You know what, I’ll do it” in a British accent that I rarely use when I’m talking to myself, and took this photo. To me, this is […]

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18 Feb 2025 • VatoAdmin

B&W Thinking

Yesterday, Florian shared a list of 365 Projects, a collection of great photographers who’ll be posting daily for a while. I love seeing the world through others’ eyes. I love it even more when I relate to their photos, whether through a shared challenge or the same city. I don’t often shoot events, but when […]

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17 Feb 2025 • VatoAdmin

Pretty Woman

With this one, I reach new heights. “Overedited” is an understatement for this one. This is hyperedited. This is “WTF am I even looking at?” at first glance. Then you probably notice the road that leads you to the figure and things may or may not start making sense. I got the title from this […]

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16 Feb 2025 • VatoAdmin

The Yard

Some days I get more than one nice photo. So as a forward-thinking person (that’s a lie) I keep them as backups for days I might not be able to take photos for the challenge (this is true). I took some nice photos today but I picked this one because I need to edit the […]

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15 Feb 2025 • VatoAdmin

IG Famous

I didn’t read the book. But you can tell that because I’m not Instagram famous. Plenty of people got famous doing absurd things, but I’d bet a stick of gum that no one made it big just by reading this book. P.S.: I made this new preset that I really like. I edited all the […]

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14 Feb 2025 • VatoAdmin

Apples

When I left home for the office, I realized that I had forgotten to take my fruit bag. So, on my way to the office, I stopped by the market to get me some fruit. As I entered the market, some apples wrapped in plastic bags caught my attention. Were they something special? Limited edition? […]

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13 Feb 2025 • VatoAdmin

Reflexion

It’s one of those days. No message, no technical stuff, nothing special. Just a photo that I like to look at. It be like that sometimes.

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12 Feb 2025 • VatoAdmin

Train of Thought

I never edited any photo like this. It’s a bit too dark but I like it like that. It’s not red enough but that’s where I had to stop myself. This photo reminds me of the following lyrics from French Montana: “I could paint you another skyCould sing you a lullabyFlowers never bloom, babyWish I […]

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11 Feb 2025 • VatoAdmin

Florian

TL;DR: I got the inspiration for this challenge and some features of my website, like the Stats page, from Florian Ziegler. In 2016, my dear friend Tomas convinced me to attend WordCamp Europe after he attended for the first time in 2015. Ever since then, it has become a tradition for us and I haven’t […]

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10 Feb 2025 • VatoAdmin

City Skyline

“Listening to In My Lifetime in the night timeLookin’ at the city skyline, gettin’ sky high” Nipsey Hussle

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09 Feb 2025 • VatoAdmin

Full Moon

I had two options for today but felt it was only right to keep going with the moon theme. I feel a little under the weather so I had to cancel today’s plans. I don’t feel like writing either. Tomorrow Inshallah: Tomorrow Inshallah · Looking For Sun

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08 Feb 2025 • VatoAdmin

Between Us

Second consecutive day featuring the moon. I probably mentioned before that I love sunny winter days. Today was one of them. After struggling a bit to decide which camera/lens to take, I took the X100VI and went out for a walk. My favorite coffee shop was packed for some reason. I drank my espresso at […]

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07 Feb 2025 • VatoAdmin

Tree Fiddy

I thought I had something when I took this, but it didn’t turn out how I envisioned it. Too tired to head out again, so this will have to do for today.

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06 Feb 2025 • VatoAdmin

E for Effort

I was served the letter E from the office birthday cake. I would normally get V out of W, but I decided to limit my OCD activities to asking the guy who cut the letters in half “Why?”. I shouldn’t ask questions like these to people holding knives. It’s a busy day. I’ll probably take […]

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05 Feb 2025 • VatoAdmin

Big-n-small

I took out the big boy again. I call it the big boy because the X-T2 + Vivitar 135mm is probably the heaviest combo I have. I took this self-portrait from across the street. While I think it’s not the best idea to keep switching focal lengths, it brings out unexpected creativity sometimes. I go […]

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04 Feb 2025 • VatoAdmin

Stay Inside The Lines

I shot this photo using the vintage Vivitar 135mm f/2.8 lens, which I got with my Olympus OM-10 for less than 20 euros. Wide open, it produces very soft images, and I love that about it. Although I’ve taken many photos of buildings and objects with this lens, I’ve never tested it for portraits. I’d […]

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03 Feb 2025 • VatoAdmin

The Eyes, Chico

I like to overedit. If this photo had natural colors, I don’t think it’d look as interesting. Painting by https://kaziulionis.art/

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02 Feb 2025 • VatoAdmin

Three Six

February started slow. I’m backdating posts. I don’t have anything I’m satisfied with from today so I’ll probably take a short walk to get it or use the one I shot at my desk in the office. We’ll find out later today or tomorrow 👀 Three Six because of Three Crosses and six lightbulbs. I’m […]

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01 Feb 2025 • VatoAdmin

Let’s Face It

January was a successful month for the challenge. I have a few favorite photos from January. Would I take those if I wasn’t doing this challenge? I don’t know. Let’s see what February shots will look like.