Richard Vanek - Black and White Photography

I am developing a lot of rols from France (holidays), but the quality is very bad. I am heavily dissapointed as I expected better results. I still don't know what is the problem, developing, camera, the way I overexposed, sea, missing UV filter, way of scanning. I need to find out!

Even after quite good success on Helmond tournament where I won against 1400 rated player I have a feeling that chess is taking me too much time and there are more important things to do.

After I had return from holiday, I developed quite a few rolls. I must say, that I am quite disappointed as a lot of shots is overexposed. It looks like Kodak TMY is very sensitive for correct exposure and with combination with XTOL 1:1 developer it is very sensitive for development time as well.

I like this shot. When I spot them they were together looking at one boy's gameboy and discussing something. Than they started to play, unfortunately this was shot number 36 on the roll and until I changed to new roll, boys moved to some other place. Pity it was situation when people are busy with something they do not care about you and you can take shots you always wished.

Sometimes, when we back in Slovakia we visit grand parents and further family. They live in nice village and have still quite few animals. I was walking there on back yard and when passing wooden house I met this cat of grandfather Charle.

It is about year ago, when I started chess page, now I am going to reduce it as my interest thanks to the lack of time is more focus on photography, and frankly, my chess knowladge isn't that great :-) So better to spent time on something which can possibly has some results.

When I went together with my wife, the other day to Amsterdam we were planning at the evening meet our friends in certain bar. We were late as we decided to walk there (we like to go using small roads to see other side of place). When we were approaching the place we saw two dark glassed mans arguing over the table, our friends :-)