Aug-2005/Aug-2006: Documentary movie "Traditional Oil Wrestling in Rodope: Chilia and Alantepe".

All these photographs are screen shots from the next videos. In these videos there is a remake of the videos of the previous post and I added also videos from Chilia oil wrestling.

Part 1/3: Aug-2005 Chilia.

Part 2/3: Aug-2006 Alantepe.

Part 3/3: Aug-2006 Alantepe.

The next days I will be traveling in the Balkans (Former Yugoslavia: Macedonia, Serbia and Bosnia) and when I will be back I will try to give a link with the full DVD version of the above videos if somebody wants to download it (here the quality of the video within the youtube is bad). As you see, in the videos everything is in Greek language ;-). When I will find some time I will add also English subtitles for the non-Greek audience of this blog ;-).

7-Aug-2005, 26-Aug-2006: Traditional oil wrestling, Rodopi, Greece.

The first photo is from 7-Aug-2005 from the traditional oil wrestling in the region of "Chilia" in Rodopi. The rest of the photos are from the traditional oil wrestling in the region "Alan-tepe" in Rodopi 26-Aug-2006. During August in the region of Rodope, there are 2 events of wrestling.. the first in the beginning of August in the region of "Chilia" and the other, at the end of August in the region of "Alan-Tepe".

It is not a turistic attraction and mostly people for the near-by villages are visiting these events.

26-Aug-2006: Traditional oil wrestling, Rodopi, Greece.

These photos are from the oil wrestling tradition that that takes place in north of Greece in the mountain region of Ropodi. In this wrestling the tradition is that wrestlers are daubed with oil. In this spectacle there are participants not only from Greece but from many countries of the Balkans (ie. Turkey, Bulgaria etc). In the next post I will publish some photos from the wrestlers, wrestling.

04-Apr-2007: Pomac bee-keeper, Ano Birsini, Rodopi, Greece.

March 2007: SiXT Advertisement, in airport in Germany.

Last March (2007) I was travelling in Germany and these photos are from an advertisement of car-rental company SiXT in the airport. We see several police officers from different countries/uniforms.

I find these photographs very interesting, and I like most the expressions of the portraits in these photos. All the photographs have a sense of humour. ;-)

The large grain in the photographs is because of my black & white film that I have used. General speaking the large grain in the portrait photography is a nice effect.

Update 3-Jul-2007: The translation from German language of the advertisement is "Natural enemies of our customers. (And how they become friends anyway)".

Update: 13-Sep-2007: The advertisement as it is presented by the web site of the SiXT company.

22/24-Jun-2007: Samothrace.

Last weekend I was in Samothrace and here are some of my photos from my trip. The first of these photos formalistically speaking is interesting. As we see the landscape of Samothrace reminds is mountain landscape. Samothrace is famous for these waterfalls and these small lakes, and not for the beaches.

The next photo, the sunset is from the village "Profitis Hlias" from the terrace of the old-Greek coffee-shop.

Unfortunately July-August Samothrace is overcrowded. Most of the visitors prefer camping in Samothrace. There is a camping owned by the municipality of Samothrace which is extremely expensive without facilities (i.e. 3 euros per tent, 3,5 euros per person, and 1,5 euro for motorcycle).

Aug-2002: Samothrace.

Tommorow I will be in Samothrace for holidays and I am publishing some photographs from that island. Samothace is an island famous for it rivers, its waterfalls and the natural lakes. There is a blog dedicated to Samothrace by the blogger from Samothrace: alpiega at the address: http://samothrace.wordpress.com/.

If you search this blog you will find my posts about Samothrace: my video Samothrace.Odyssey, the beach "Kipi" and the photo of my friend Dimitri.

July-1994: Omi, Cora & Dan, Bucuresti, Romania.

Today, while searching in my old negatives I found this image which is shot July 1994, in Bucuresti, Romania. These "children" that you see in that photo where collegues of mine in the Technical University of Bucharest.

Teodor Topoliceanu Omar works as a graphical designer in Bucharest, Romania and he spends most of his time on experiencing yoga.

About Corina Baczai (Cora) we do not know about her currnet life. 7-8 years ago I recieved from her a postcard from China. Nobody knows where she is now. ;-) Cora if you read this lines (probably you found this posting searching on internet), leave a feedback to us ;-). Dan Turcu works today as a professional photographer in Satu Mare (it is a city in Romania on the border with Hungary and Ukraine). The reason that I published this photo is because of him ;-), today he created a personal blog: http://dantphotography.blogspot.com/, where he will be publishing his work.

By the way, artisticaly speaking I like the above photo and I find the composition quite interesting. This photo was shot with a Russian Zenit camera and the film that has been used was a Romanian Azomures film at 100 ASA.