Santa Claus apparition?

Merry Christmas to all of you.......

Is it beauty in the eye of the beholder ou...

es-tu toujours aussi belle?

Tripura Sundari as Cristina

Tripura Sundari, the Great Cosmic Power of Beauty, Truth and Harmony as she appeared to me after many meditations.

Tara as Cristina

Tara, the Great Cosmic Power of Compassion and Divine Grace as she appeared to me after many meditations.

Kali as Cristina

Kali, the great Cosmic Power of Time as she appeared to me after many meditations.

After the earthquake

From my window this morning, 2 mn exposure for this "pinhole" photograph.

Que les filles sont belles...

Four of the countless beauties who come every year to the the yoga camp in Baile Herculane.....

Bucarest: Protest against Biometric Passports

Protest in Bucarest on march 7 against the new Identity card and the Passport with microchips. The black and white photos are with little details because they are pinhole images....

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Mahashivaratri

Meditation in a yang spirale on the night of Mahashivaratri at the yoga hall "Pipera" in Bucarest.
I used a special analog camera without lens to record on film the energy field of this meditation. The exposure time was 45mn from 11.30 pm feb 23 till 0.15 am feb 24.
The above photograph is very soft because of this unique procedure....

Alexandra on Tripura Sundari

The second day before full moon is charged by the great cosmic power of Tripura Sundari. The most beautiful energies are then surrounding us; perfect afternoon to go for a walk with Alexandra and cameras...



I removed the lense from my leica rangefinder and replaced it with the body cap and a 0,2mm pinhole; focal length became 30mm, aperture f/150, exposure was 2s with film speed of 400 iso in the late afternoon sun......

the Icon

the Path of the Sun

Beeing able to capture a period of time far beyond our own vision is incredible and yet very simple.
The analogue camera was facing south and loaded with photographic paper instead of film. Exposure time was of 24hrs. The Sun traced it's arc from east to west.

Synchronicity

In july 2004 I gave a workshop on photography at the "International Spiritual Art Camp ARTE DIEM" in Romania.
On the last day, I photographed friends for Yoga Magazine.
Four years latter, on the month of September, two french publications (Sciences Humaines & Muze) used these very images. Click on them if you want to read (les textes en français)....




Iringo with flowers.


Nicu in the yoga posture "Brachmacharyasana"

Cristina as Kali

Cristina as she appeared to me after a meditation with Kali, the great Cosmic Power of Time.

Ardha Chandrasana

This silhouette belongs to Julia, a swiss goddess living in India...
As for the technique behind this photo, it was of course shoot on film and printed on Ilford warm tone fiberbase paper, sepia toned and gold toned, a combination that give this redish color....The final and unique image is a silver print coated with gold. Try this with digital....

what's her name ?

Can anyone reconize this woman? I photographed her last summer in Costinesti/Romania....
She is till the end of this week in Bucarest for a beauty contest...
She did win of course....

the grim

When Diana asked me to photograph her as a "Grim Reaper" I did not know what that was but I made the picture anyway.
She likes to play all kind of caracters, but she is much more of an angel than a Grim.

Falling from the sky, landing on snow.....

Diana just got selected to be part of the national sky-diving team of Romania. She went to find out today about the rest of the team and discovered other girls to be "animals"...
So, back to the gym with a personal trainer and serious "mise en condition" in perspective...
Jumping off airplanes is the most natural thing to do for this beauty...

if you read romanian here she is

Yoga camp in Baile Herculane/Transylvanian Alps

On the way to Herculane or how to travel by train in Romania for half the fare of a second class ticket and be at ease in first class… Thanks to Iringo; she never buys a train ticket but takes her friends with her and hypnotizes the controller….

girls are girls and fashion magazines are everywhere.... Simona, top shaktie, top yogie, great friend...

meditation: Raluca relaxed, Iringo focused…

Mira performing Trikonasana (triangle pose), conferring psychic balance, courage, will-power, self confidence; qualities related to Manipura Chakra….

Simona in Garudasana, a posture on Ajna Chakra (the third eye)...


Anca, she could be doing trataka (staring at some external object as a way of developing concentration) but she is actually trying to keep her blue eyes open in the strong light....


Tarot cards and divination, first lesson for Raluca who is always searching for something new….


afternoon meditation...

meditation in a yang spirale, a few thousands participants.....


photo escapade with Victoria....

Cristina

Cristina, probably my sister from another life and a very dear friend in this one...we both are in the same yoga school and we even live in the same ashram...that is to say in a big family of about 25...she was playing in the courtyard with the water hose last july when I remembered that it was her birthday... I interrupted the game to photograph her... it is said that we are the closest to our self on this day...this must be why she seems so centered...