The year was 2010. I spent a couple of hours in the city of Rijeka, but I can't remember why.
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As always, my camera was there with me, so I have a bunch of photographs to show you today.
Some of the photographs will be presented in color ...
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... others in black & white.
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In one of the side streets near the main promenade of the historic center of the city, a man was energetically playing the guitar and singing ...
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... while other people were passing him by.
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I can't tell you why I drove 120 kilometers to Rijeka on that cold, humid morning in February, there is nothing in my memory about that, but ...
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... but I still remember the music.
I didn't recognize the few songs I heard on that occasion nor can I recognize them now, but the music sounded like some old, folky (folky in the American sense of the word), singer-songwriter stuff. It sounded very good. Well, at least to me. The rest of the mobile audience didn't look very entertained by the repertoire.
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According to the metadata of these JPEGs, it appears that I observed the scene for fifteen minutes. Fifteen minutes and some additional seconds, more precisely.
The light was pretty dull ...
... and the colors washed out.
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In many cases, there wasn't much difference between the color and black & white versions of the shot.
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The building shown in this photograph is the National Theatre Ivan Zajtz (Zajc).
Ivan Zajc was a composer, conductor, director, and teacher born in this city. A man who dominated Croatia's musical culture for over forty years. Through his artistic and institutional reform efforts, he is credited with its revitalization and refinement, paving the way for new and significant Croatian musical achievements in the 20th century. He was born in 1832 and died in 1914. On the 16th of February 2010, when the photograph was taken, Ivan Zajc was a sculpture made of bronze ...
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... and a pigeon was resting on his hat.
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In this monochrome shot, the pigeons are flying all around the bronzified composer in Theatre Park.
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The pigeon on the composer's hat wasn't an ordinary pigeon. I think. I mean, I rarely see pigeons with plumage this dark.
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Rijeka is a coastal city with a fairly big industrial port.
These structures in the port look a bit like some mechanical giraffes. Or dinosaurs.
Here you can see some lamps from the same seaside area. In the following shot ...
... I changed them a bit through the simple invert option in Photoshop.
Here you can see the same mechanical giraffes (or dinosaurs) but from a slightly different point of view. In the following photograph ...
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... a jackdaw entered the scene.
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Here you can see some big, and probably very heavy, blocks of stones. I mean, it looks like stones ... so... I don't know, I'm not an expert in this industrial stuff.
In this shot, you can admire a bunch of simple but kinda artsy lines on one of those blocks.
This place looks like a storage area. I don't know where exactly I was in the city, at that point.
Here you can see a group of high-rise buildings photographed through the empty space between the blocks of stones.
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Here I zoomed in on one of those buildings ... and on some lovely old buildings situated lower on the hill.
In this shot, you can see both kinds of buildings in their entirety, but you can't see any color.
Here you can see some details on one of the buildings closer to me.
This photograph was taken closer to the promenade.
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Some work was in progress on one of the rooftops there.
Here you can see a more down-to-earth scene from the same area.
Soon I left the city. I have no more urban photographs to show, but ...
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... but, I did take a few more shots on the way back home.
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Here you can see the friend who was there with me. In many colors and in black & white too.
The clouds looked cool ...
... and this small olive tree was fairly photogenic too.
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Rijeka is one of the largest ports on the Adriatic. I live close by, I often go down to see concerts in the clubs because there is good rock music there.
That's all true. 😀 I don't go there often lately, but I used to.
Isn´t every pic enlargable? At least on peakd?
In my photoposts I rely on this fact, so I never pointed out to people that one can enlarge pics. But maybe good now and then to mention it, for newbies who would not otherwise know about this 😄
Yes. 😀 On PeakD it is. It's not necessary to show them enlargeable as I do it. For me is a way to accentuate technically better photographs that are worth seeing in a larger format for the details. It's also a habit that started a couple of years ago.
An excellent demonstration of photographic acuity!... As always excellent to see!...
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I think we see the world in a similar way :)
I also notice details the way you do. Textures of objects, one lone tree in the wilderness because of the way it bends against the sky etc.
Your photographs make me smile. They feel a bit like "home".
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Even if you were in Rijeka for no reason, it was good you were there so we could get to see this cool images of the town and the people of Rijeka. Nice post, @borjan 👍
Beautiful photos. Are the high rise buildings in the mountainous area?
Yes. There are hills in that area and the coastal slopes are high in some places.
Interesting take on the different locations, I liked the shots of the singer on the street.
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Lovely pics mate....
These one is the best for me...
It just has so many things put in it, that it's fire😭🔥
I absolutely love these urban photography. I never thought I'd like seeing buildings in photos. Wonderful adventure borjan!
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I love the piegon shot who is resting on the hat. It seems you always like to capture all things in very detailed and beautiful way. Nice :-)
This is a very interesting picture that my friend displays.
very beautiful picture capture.
natural prayer expression of parents who play the guitar and I like it
looks quite a beautiful view of the area sir. @borjan
You had a beautiful photograhy and specially the bird on hat looking beautiful also the photography of cloud is looking beautiful.
I like to see photos of your buildings
All of the pictures are very beautiful
I really like them
@borjan Great post friend!❤️
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Some street Musicians are really very good. I have stopped and listened to many playing in the back streets of London, while visiting there in the evening. Some will even play requests for you if asked nicely (of course for a cash tip!) !LOL
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