Richard Vanek - Black and White Photography

time is running very fast these days. After I change department at the beginning of the new year, my load at work increased quite a lot. On one hand I like it as I have more challenging and interesting work and learning a lot of new things. On other hand I have much less time for my family and most of the time I am tired at the end of the day.

The customer is still considering which picture to choose and I am going to take some day off. Looking forward to some skying.
Yesterday I have received mail from the theater group who did performance I shoot 10th of January (man it is already almost month ago). I offered some prints for them. Not sure what they will choose or if they will choose anything. Well I shall see. Taking my camera with me with bunch of films in hope I can do some nice winter shots again. I am sure when I come back I need to do little cleanup in my photo area. Still need to summarize last year and published shots from Nov & Dec 2004. I wish you nice time and I let you know how is snow on other side of Europe!

I am writing this note backwards in time, but I like to mark this day, because it happens this Monday. We visited my parents and after busy day of arranging all stupid but necessary bureaucratic stuff I finally was sitting and talking with my parents.
The talking turn out to my grandparents and mama brought old photo album. As I was looking at those old pictures I felt like flying back in time. This incredible power of photos is amazing. I saw my grandfather who died when I was young boy. I have felt again walking with him and my sister hands in hand. He in dark suit with hat and smoking cigaret. I was back there.
Than on other page my mother showed me picture of her grandparents and even picture of grandparent of her mother. Those pictures where dated somewhere in 1880.

I was planning to add all my thought and news from last two weeks in back order as I couldn't write everything while was on holiday, but days are so buys for me that I just do not have time.
Today is very special here. Heavy, I mean really heavy snow flakes are slowly falling. When I woke up it just started, the grass was still green. Now one our later everything is covered by five cm of snow. It creates compete panic here in south on The Netherlands. Especially on streets, long lines of cars driving slower than bicycle. Just about little more than week I was back in Slovakia where was about one and half meter of snow and temperatures bellow -20C. I was really enjoying nice blue sky and Sunny winter weather. I love it!