Prague

Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of nearly 2.0 million. 

 Prague has been a political, cultural, and economic centre of central Europe during its 1,100 year existence. Founded during the Gothic and flourishing by the Renaissance eras, Prague was the seat of two Holy Roman Emperors and thus then also the capital of the Holy Roman Empire. It was an important city to the Habsburg Monarchy and its Austro-Hungarian Empire and after Worl War I became the capital of Czechoslovakia. The city played major roles in the Protestant Reformation, the Thirty Years' War, and in modern history generally as the principal conurbation in Bohemia and Moravia whose second city is Brno.

Prague is home to a number of famous cultural attractions, many of which survived the violence and destruction of twentieth century Europe. Main attractions include the following: Prague Castle, the Charles Bridge, Old Town Square, the Jewish Quarter, the Lennon Wall, and Petrin hill. Since 1992, the extensive historic centre of Prague has been included in the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites. 

A modern public transportation system connects the city. Its rich history makes it a popular tourist destination2011. Prague was the sixth most visited city in Europe. (Summary from Wikipedia)

Here are my photos,

The lobby of our hotel, in Prague , which was not at the center, but cute because of its design full of pictures about music, the piano there and the flowers... 

Around the location where the hotel was cituated, there were old, but colorful buildings and each of them had its own decoration or color. Some of them had little statues on their surfaces.

Me and Kaan:)

From my perspective...

The entry of the famous Charles Bridge. So mystical...

The Charles Bridge was full of different statues, and of caurse full of tourists, too:)

People used to put their hands on this statue to pray; some still do.

The big castle's entry

And then, there was the castle!

I loved this painting, which an artist was selling in Prague, and couldn't stop myself to buy it=)

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Find the differences:)

We found a restaurant, which was famous in Prague, because of the little trains that brings your drinks. Railways were constructed on all the tables in the restaurant. ALsoi the food was delicious! 

This is the famous Milunic and Gehry's Dancing house. The left building is "the woman" and the other one is "the man". They are dancing!

Good bye Prague... We're going to Amsterdam.

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Vienna

Some informations about Vienna:

 "Vienna is the capital and largest city of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million, and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its culturai, economic, and political centre.  In 2001, the city centre was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Vienna is often said to be "The City of Dreams" because it was home to psychologist Professor Sigmund Freud. Its roots lie in early Celtic and Roman settlements that transformed into a Medieval and Baroque city, the capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The city is well known for playing an essential role as a leading European Music Centre, from the great age of Viennese Classicism through the early part of the 20th century. The Historic centre of Vienna is rich in architectural ensembles, including Baroque castles and gardens, as well as the late-19th-century Ringstrasse lined with grand buildings, monuments and parks." (summary from Wikipedia)

Photos that I have taken there ( I only visited there for 5 hours, so I don't have a variety of photos. I wish I could have stayed there more...

Phateons! I liked them:)

Details from the Stephansdom Church at center.The interior is colorful and mystical thanks to the reflections from the stain glasses.

These are the stain glasses.

Peterskirche at the center.

When it get darks, the exterior of the gothic church starts to be enlighten by these colorful light games, which refers to the interior lighthning  with the stain glasses.

Vienna, Prague and Amsterdam

I made a trip to Vienna, Prague and Amsterdam with a tour called Interfly. We stayed in these cities totally for 5 days, so it was not a long trip, but I tried to see as much as I could. I've been in Amsterdam before, but not in Vienna and Prague, which we stayed less:( So I want to go to those cities again, if I will get another chance, because being in Vienna, Prague and Amsterdam made me feel good. Vienna was clean, sophisticated with its big church and statues at center and phaetons ("fayton" in turkish) which can make you visit the city center for a while. Prague was mysterious with its statues on the famous bridge and the gothic castle. It was full of history, while having a new independent part. Amsterdam was full of independence, where I would like to live. I adore its typical houses and to sit in cafes while watching the ducks in a cannel.

Details From Antalya

I didn't forget my promise of sharing my photographs that I took in Antalya.

Magical Sunset

At first, the sky had more blues in it which looked magical,

And then slowly it started to change into a colour like pink and orage, which was even more magical for me...

Sally Mann: "What Remains"

Sally Mann has a documentary film, that our teacher showed us in class, that impressed me very much.
Here is a part from it...By the way, she uses the wet plate process.

Sally Mann

Today, I want to put an essay of mine about a very talented photographer called Sally Mann.

“IMMEDIATE FAMILY”

“Immediate Family” is the name of Sally Mann’s exhibition that has opened in 1992, at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia. Then, she was 41 years old, and was not famous as she is today. Photographs that she exhibited were taken in 1984 to 1991, Virginia, which focused on the childhoods of her own children; Jessie, Virginia and Emmet. However she thought that her images were “little more than tender, maternal photographs of her children” (http://www.americansuburbx.com/), they created a scandal. Controversy to her aims and thoughts, people criticized her photographs as child pornography.

She first discovered her perfect models after one of her children came with a blown up eye to her. She immediately took her photograph as she was, which is a very effective and a unique photograph, because she had caught the moment and her child’s feeling as they are, in a very natural way. Also its softness and putting the model at the center with a close shoot, without any background makes it even more effective. We know that she continued to take her children’s photographs for more than 10 years. She sometimes used their nude bodies, in her shoots, too, which is the reason why people criticized her work as pornography and thought that she was indecent. But, in fact her real goal was to show her children’s real or fictional lives. Mostly her images were from their ordinary lives from a mother’s view point. It is known that every mother sees their children nude, with a blown up eye or with a bloody nose. These are natural things, for me. Also I think that Sally Mann is very courageous to show her own family’s ordinary lives, because people were not used to see these kinds of things, then. For example, nobody wanted to see a nude child, because it was labeled as pornography, but she did not care about everybody; she had the power to change some people’s view points, because the way she looked was vey different and pure.

Belmin Pilevneli

Citation:

Valerie Osbourn “Sally Mann’s Immediate Family- The Un Flinching and Unafraid Chilhood” 27 october 2006

<http://www.americansuburbx.com/2009/11/theory-sally-manns-immediate-family.html>

 Sally Mann discovers her litttle models after her daughter comes to her with this kind of a look:)

 Her children: Virginia, Emmet and Jessie

Her daughter.

My First Advertisement Project

This is an advertisement of a make up product that I have created as a project. The actor is my roomie  Ela Atila:) Director is me, of course. It describes the feeling of attractiveness that the lipstick makes...