A City Without History – Part 2

One by one, we demolish our city’s landmarks … piece by piece, we let go our memories and histories …

Queen’s Pier

When the night has come
And the land is dark
And the moon is the only light we’ll see
No I won’t be afraid, no I won’t be afraid
Just as long as you stand, stand by me

Stand By Me

My faith was so much stronger then
I believed in fellow men
And I was so much older then
When I was young
When I was young
When I was young

When I was Young

Olympus Color

We “Olympian” believe Olympus DSLRs produce the best color pictures … but many of us worried about the change of the image sensor from Kodak to Panasonic. My E-1 and E-300 use Kodak sensor and E-510 uses Panasonic sensor. So here is a picture with the new toy E-510 … is the color OK ?

IFC 2

IFC 2

Exchange Square

Handshake

I finally found one more good benefit of getting old – that is, you can no longer hold your camera steadily and you can buy a new camera with build-in image stabilization (IS). So … after the Panasonic FX-30, I bought the first Olympus DSLR that comes with IS – Olympus E-510.

Being a Olympus fans, it’s the third DSLR in my arsenal, after the legendary E-1 and E-300. We were all told before that E-1 and E-300 are compact DSLRs, but E-510 is definitely smaller – incredibly small with so many features inside it. See the following beauty E-510 and the beast 50-200 zoom …

E-510

Sample pictures in future blog posts.

Cocktail Party in Museum

There was a news on TV couple of days ago concerning the museums in our city. Basically, it was reported that the local government wants to pass the responsibility of running museums to the private sector; such that they can draw in more citizens to visit the various attractions. One of the new ideas is to run cocktail parties in the museums.

Geez … exactly 10 years ago this week, I was in one museum cocktail party in Prague … exchanging business cards with some Eastern Europe computer software companies. You see, our city has not developed a bit in art scene for the whole 10 years, and still we keep kidding ourselves that we are in the best time of recent 20 years. Looks like we all have to pray …

Virgin Column in Lapidarium

And when talking about Prague, of course every one shall visit the old Town Square and the Charles Bridge Tower.

Old Town Square

Old Charles Bridge Tower