Little Painter

It is fascinating to see pure curiosity and desire at its peak.

Our life, which is so long but also so short, a real paradox here, manages to chop these feelings. This doesn't happen suddenly, but day after day and year after year the desires and curiosity get smaller and smaller.

These thoughts with pretensions of a cheap philosophy of life came to me as I was struggling to convert some "normal" (color) photos into black and white.

I say they're normal now because people can easily take color pictures, it's within children's reach with today's technology.

"In my day" is a saying often used by older people when they remember their life.

In my day, black-and-white photography was the norm and color was an exception that few could achieve.

I'm talking platitudes now, and yet...

People forget easily and this conclusion comes from my long observation of myself in the first place. Not to speak of our children who don't know and aren't interested in the past.

For them, the saying that applies best is "Carpe diem", i.e. "live in the moment"!

Lost Among the Words is the name of a superb movie by Sofia Coppola, Lost in Translation, this is how it was translated into Romanian.

I'm like that now, lost among the words.

This movie has nothing to do with my story today but I remembered its title now and I remembered how beautifully it shows the relationship between two people from different generations, touched by an impossible love story!

Lost among the words distracted me from today's black-and-white story. So I'm trying to get back to the subject lost along the way.

I am fascinated by my granddaughter, my only granddaughter, Ilinca.

Ilinca wants to do it all and have it all... all the time. She doesn't get tired, I get ten times tired and she keeps doing and wanting.

Ilinca loves to draw.

It's a real show of what she does when she draws because she wants to do ten things simultaneously and her imagination is amazing. I hope you can see all this in the photos I managed to take.

It was hard to convert color photos to black and white. The strong rays of light turned into a bright, fiery white and it was hard to blur this effect. I don't know if I succeeded, hope to hear from you!

_{This is my entry for the #monomad challenge.}

_{I rely mostly on photos in all my blogs. Words don't help me as much as photos.}

_{I always start with photos when I want to write a blog. Photos remind me of places, events, and feelings that then turn into words. When I post in Photography Lovers the words have even less importance, they are a companion to the photos I want to show. This often makes the story uninteresting or common, yet it is necessary; otherwise, the photos would merely be a series of unexciting images.}

_{I make this statement as a plea to those reading not to over-judge the text and to focus on the photos. The story puts everything in context and provides the explanations and clarifications necessary for the blog to convey something of interest to the reader.}

_{Since we all love photography, let’s explore the captivating details captured in these photos.!}

_{A wise saying goes that a photograph is worth a thousand words, but I don't think so.}

_{It depends on the viewer.}