Proud to share my joy with whoever reads my blog: my photo (Am Wall Mühle from "Bremen by Night" collection) won a photo contest on G+ organised by Pixum!

Pixum (www.pixum.de) is one of the leaders in print-on-demand services worldwide and I was actually checking how to integrate their API in my website when I discovered they were launching their first contest on G+ and I was happy to participate.

The contest (with theme "Night") ended on 25th February 2014 and I'd like to thank once again my G+ followers who voted for my photo and support me every day in my photographic endeavour.

Light and Dark. Old and New. Black and White. Love and Hate. Positive and Negative. Strong or Weak. Past and Future. We relate everything to dual entities. Duality is deep inside us since we opened the eyes in this world. Should we embrace it or reject it ? Accept or deny ? Is our eternal search for a soul-mate related to this duality ?

We start dreaming about life and how it should be since childhood. As teenagers, we take crucial step into fulfilling our dreams. Later, as adults, we live the life as we made it, running between job, home, travel, family, hobbies, another job, chords, paperwork, car, money, internet...rolling with speed between all these so at the end of the day we can say "we made it". We made it to get over another day, another trip, another job, another year...

It's known an image worth a thousand words...but how do we measure it in unspoken words ? In non-words or unwords or "necuvinte" as a famous Romanian poet wrote about ? And what is the point of having words if we can express so much better in images ?

Have you ever wondered what color love has? Sometimes is red, like fire and passion, sometimes yellow as autumn flowers or jealousy, sometimes green as a deep mountain lake or a tree valley...But it always has shades, light and dark combined together like salt and pepper in a gourmet dish...

For the coming year I have prepared more calendars, with various themes. First of all, 2014 it was a good year for flowers...or for my flower photography...or for my photography in general. What I know is that at the end of the year I have a nice collection of flowers photos, which I want to share with my photography fans as a monthly wall calendar.