A moment of suspense :-)

An update

Hello Dear Visitors of This Blog,

I apologize that this blog hasn't been living up to its name lately (i.e. "Daily"), personal circumstances have seriously derailed my posting activity here, but I hope to get back on track before long.

Thanks and stay tuned!

It was a bad day for trolleybuses

The street was more crowded than usual that day because there was a major problem with the trolleybus line and they all stopped running. Don't you love when that happens?

A photo of stray dogs

This is a pack of stray dogs at the park at Mitic's Hole near Slavija Circle. Which one do you think is the pack leader? From my observations it's the tiny one, who's furthest on the right.

Speaking of stray dogs in Belgrade, if you want to help out please visit Katya's Dogs.

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Texture overlay on a photo

This is a snapshot taken on a windy day + a texture overlay.

An anonymous poster in my comments asked for a tutorial, so I'll try. This can be really simple to do. You just need an image of a texture to lay over your photo, it can be one you made or photographed yourself (I know a lot of people take texture snaps just for this purpose) or find some online, such as these very nice free textures.

Then all you do is open your main photo,
open the texture image in another layer that's placed above the main photo,
Set the blend mode of the texture layer to "multiply"
and that's it, you're done.
If your image doesn't look the way you want it to when you set the blending mode to "multiply", try "overlay" or some of the other blending modes to see which one works best with your particular photo and texture. And of course you can also tweak the texture's opacity level or saturation and so on until you're happy with the way it looks.

If you find it helpful to see things being done or need it more step-by-step, here's a good tutorial I found on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7SKVvR8kzM

Lilly drogerie

This is the entrance to Lilly, a chain of stores kind of like what in America is called a drugstore, selling makeup and toiletries and household cleaners, but until just this year they didn't have pharmacies in the stores. Now some of the stores have expanded to include that and I personally love it.

If you are looking for Lilly's website it's here: www.lilly.rs

There's not too much information there, though. In fact, this is all that's there (besides the logo).

Lilly Drogerie

Francuska 61-65, 11000 Beograd
Tel/fax: +381(011)2620-033, 620-797, 2626-127, 2627-486, 2622-074
e-mail: office@lilly.co.yu

Duck family

This picture is from the summer. They say that you should always have people or animals moving into a photo (with space in front of them) and I tend to agree. But these ducks were fast!

The cemetary a few months ago

Man. That week+ without internet access disturbed my posting groove here at Belgrade Daily Photo. And the cold weather has me feeling reluctant to get out to take pictures. But, this too shall pass, I'm sure things will be back to normal before long.

February 23, 2009

Cool garage sign

February 19, 2009

February 17, 2009

Icicles!

There are icicles on one side of the trees on one side of the street. I was taking this picture today when a man walking by said, "That'll make a good picture!" Hey, thanks.

This should have been for Skywatch Friday

Right now we've got tons of snow so this picture doesn't show the current state of Belgrade, this was taken last week when we had a warm day and gorgeous skies.

This internet issue was a fiasco. First of all I'm a complete moron when it comes to internet connectivity because I've always had my brother to set everything up for me, but not anymore. Our internet provider kept telling us, "try this and call us tomorrow if it doesn't work (to supposedly give the modem time to reset I guess?" "we're sending a guy to you within 3 business days (weekend doesn't count)" and then tack another three days onto that. Finally two guys show up late one evening and after doing some stuff say, "Give the modem an hour and if it doesn't work take your modem in to exchange it, or even if it DOES work take it in" of course it doesn't work, we take it in when we can and then are told to wait another day for the internet company to somehow activate the modem on their end blah blah blah. Ohhh well. At least now it's pretty much working.

Finally

Got some connectivity and will be back to regular posting (and visiting your blogs)!!!

Computer problems

Hi All,

I'm having major IT issues but hopefully I'll be up and running again before long!

Paper in a window

A path in Tasmajdan Park - Monthly Theme Day

This was taken a few weeks ago, the snow has since gone.

Click here to view thumbnails for all participants

Snack stand

This picture was taken in slightly warmer weather. He's got popcorn, chips, and lots of other snacks, and refreshments such as water, juice, and beer...
(If you're curious, I upped the tonal contrast and put a slight sepia tone on this picture).

Some lamps that's all

Just some lantern-like lamps.