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07.18.08

The 1st Day in USA Photographs, Traveling | (0)

I have not been writing for some time because I’ve been very busy. I am in USA to my company headquarters for technical discussions and some training. There’s a lot to do so the free time is kind of none. Here are some photos, the very few I had the time to take.

2008.07.15 - 1st day in USA

Lufthansa plane in the morning - at Otopeni Airport

2008.07.15 - 1st day in USA

Greenland from the plane

2008.07.15 - 1st day in USA

the car that the company rented for me

2008.07.15 - 1st day in USA

before going into my room at the hotel

2008.07.15 - 1st day in USA

the hotel room

2008.07.15 - 1st day in USA

the car that the company rented for me

Tagged: California, Canon EOS 450D, job, USA, visit to usa, work
07.08.08

My Dead ExRoses Photographs | (2)

Some time ago, after church, together with Denisa, I bought a small bush of roses. They looked so pretty. But I was gone away for a week and there was nobody to water my roses. So, they dried out. I cut them, leaving gust the roots. Maybe the roses will come back to life. Here is a photo of just the dried flowers.

Tagged: Canon EOS 450D, dried roses, fotografii la trandafiri, photo of roses, Photographs, Photography, roses, trandafiri fotogrsafiati, trandafiri uscati, wattering
07.01.08

Sunday Barbecue Photo Session with Emil near Comarna, in Iasi district Life, Photographs, Traveling, my recipies | (0)

On Saturday I went together with Denisa to Emima and Lucian’s wedding. I’ll post the photos soon. So, I planned to dedicate the whole Sunday morning to sleeping. But I just could not sleep. I woke up at 9 am. Because I got this free time I went with Emil for a swim. At noon we came back and took the barbecue grill from our landlord. Then we went and bought some chicken wings, 2 pieces of oceanic fish, 2 big shrimps. With all this in the car we went discovering a new quiet place to do some barbecue. After 1 hour of search we discovered a nice place near Comarna village, in Iasi district. Here are the photos…

Tagged: around Iasi, barbecue, barbecue chicken wings, barbecue shrimps, Canon EOS 450D, Comarna, Comarna vilage, EMil Bejan, fotografii, fotografii de langa Iasi, gratar, grilled oceanic fish, iarba verde, Iasi, Iasi district, Iasi-Romania, mancare, my recipies, Photography, photos, sunday, swim
06.26.08

Photos from the bus in Iasi Romania Photographs | (0)

Yesterday, I as was coming home by bus I took those two photos. In Romania people are not used with bigger cameras so I always get strange looks from them. So, I didn’t take photos with people on the street or in the bus, here in Iasi.

I didn’t know what I missed, I didn’t know the power of natural light coming from the window and lighting the face. So here they are… a man and a woman sitting next to the other in the bus.

Tagged: bluish photo, Canon EOS 450D, fotografie barbat in autobuz, fotografie femeie in autobuz, fotografie pe strada, Iasi, lumina naturala in fotografie, natural light, photo of man in the bus in Iasi Romania, photo of woman in the bus in Iasi Romania, Photographs, Photography, photography natural light, photos in the bus, Romania, street photography
06.25.08

What Is A Good Investment on the Long Term? Christianity, Life, Photographs | (0)

Photo of an old gate guarding a monastery near Ohrid Macedonia

The earnings of the righteous
(the upright, in right standing with God)
lead to life,
but the profit of the wicked leads to further sin.

Proverbs 10:16

This verse in Romanian says something like:

The righteous uses his earnings for life,
but the wicked one uses his earnings for sin.

Proverbs 10:16

Those two different point of views. But I think that they work together. They do not contradict one another. The first one says that the earnings themselves, the type of profit we make, if you are righteous, helps us to go go on the good path. And if we are wicked will will produce some kind of black profit that buries us deeper in sin.

The other translations says that if we are righteous and we live accordingly to our name, then we will use all we have to do good. But if we are wicked we will find out delight in sin and we’ll do that by investing in sin, so sin more.

In the same time if I am training now and if I want to be righteous, to become a wise man, I have to invest in the real life, in my eternity. But if I invest in sinful activities, then I will become wicked. Actually…

The heart is deceitful above all things,
and it is exceedingly perverse and corrupt and severely, mortally sick!
Who can know it [perceive, understand, be acquainted with his own heart and mind]?

Jeremiah 17:9

All this means that our hart is already wicked. So what can we do to transform it into a loving and caring one? Well, the only way is to give my hart to God. I did, but the struggle continues. It happens with people to become saints the next day. But this does not seem to happen with me. I still have my war against sin and evil. The Devil is not just letting me alone. I pray everyday to have the strength to fight, even if sometimes I loose like I did yesterday.

We don’t have just money to invest, Time, sentiments, feelings are also available to be invested in a way or other.

So what can I do? What can we all do about this fight? Well, as the verse says, to continue to fight the good battle. To continue to invest in the eternal life and try not to invest in sin.

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06.19.08

God Guide me on the Road of Eternal Life Christianity, Life, Photographs | (2)

Photo of Lake Ohrid from Macedonia. IFES graduates conference

Investigate my life, O God,
find out everything about me;
Cross-examine and test me,
get a clear picture of what I’m about;
See for yourself whether I’ve done anything wrong—
then guide me on the road to eternal life.

Psalm 139:23-24

1-2 God, come close.
Come quickly!
Open your ears—it’s my voice you’re hearing!
Treat my prayer as sweet incense rising;
my raised hands are my evening prayers.

3-6 Post a guard at my mouth, God,
set a watch at the door of my lips and eyes.
Don’t let me so much as dream of evil
or thoughtlessly fall into bad company.
And these people who only do wrong—
don’t let them lure me with their sweet talk!
May the Just One set me straight,
may the Kind One correct me,
Don’t let sin anoint my head.
I’m praying hard against their evil ways.

Psalm 141:1-6

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06.18.08
Trip to Ohrid Macedonia for the IFES University Graduates Conference Christianity, Life, Photographs, Traveling | (1)
For a few days I will be away for the IFES University Graduates Conference that takes place in Ohrid, Macedonia.

Bellow are the photos from the trip to Ohrid, Macedonia. Enjoy the photos and feel free to comment. If you want any of the photos in high quality, please contact me. The ones from bellow are just for preview purposes, if you want to see them bigger please go to the links at the end of the post.

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You can see the photos I took at the IFES university graduates conference bellow, for each day:
- photos from trip from Bucharest to Ohrid - click here (on Zooomr)
- photos from Friday - the first day of conference - click here
- photos from Saturday - the second day of conference - click here
- photos from Sunday - the third day of conference and the trip back to Romania - click here .
Tagged: Canon EOS 450D, Christianity, IFES, IFES university graduates conference in Ohrid Macedonia, Life, Macedonia, Ohrid, OSCER, Photographs, Photography, photography blog Ohrid Macedonia, photos, Traveling, Travelling, Zooomr
06.06.08

We Trust in and Boast of the Name of the Lord our God Christianity, Life, Photographs, Uncategorized | (5)

Group photo of friends at Ruben Schipor’s birthday party in Iasi Romania

7 Some trust, in themselves,
in what they have
or what they think that they can do,
but we will trust in and boast of the name of the Lord our God,
not in what we have,
neither in out own power.

8 The others are bowed down and fallen,
but we, even if we fall sometimes,
we are risen and stand upright,
by God’s help and mercy.

adaptation after Psalm 20:7-8

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05.19.08

My Repentance Prayer Christianity, Life, Photographs | (0)

1 Have Mercy upon me, O God,
according to Your steadfast love;
according to the multitude of Your tender mercy
and loving-kindness blot out my transgressions.

2 Wash me thoroughly [and repeatedly]
from my iniquity and guilt
and cleanse me and make me wholly pure from my sin!

3 For I am conscious of my transgressions
and I acknowledge them;
my sin is ever before me.

4 Against You, You only, have I sinned
and done that which is evil in Your sight,
so that You are justified in Your sentence
and faultless in Your judgment.

5 Behold, I was brought forth in [a state of] iniquity;
my mother was sinful who conceived me [and I too am sinful].

6 Behold, You desire truth in the inner being;
make me therefore to know wisdom in my inmost heart.

7 Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean [ceremonially];
wash me, and I shall [in reality] be whiter than snow.

8 Make me to hear joy and gladness and be satisfied;
let the bones which You have broken rejoice.

9 Hide Your face from my sins
and blot out all my guilt and iniquities.

10 Create in me a clean heart, O God,
and renew a right, persevering,
and steadfast spirit within me.

11 Cast me not away from Your presence
and take not Your Holy Spirit from me.

12 Restore to me the joy of Your salvation
and uphold me with a willing spirit.

13 Then will I teach transgressors Your ways,
and sinners shall be converted and return to You.

14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness and death, O God,
the God of my salvation,
and my tongue shall sing aloud of Your righteousness
(Your rightness and Your justice).

15 O Lord, open my lips,
and my mouth shall show forth Your praise.

16 For You delight not in sacrifice,
or else would I give it;
You find no pleasure in burnt offering.

17 My sacrifice [the sacrifice acceptable] to God
is a broken spirit;
a broken and a contrite heart
[broken down with sorrow for sin
and humbly and thoroughly penitent],
such, O God, You will not despise .

Psalm 51:1-17

Tagged: Canon EOS 450D, Christian blog in Iasi and Botosani Romania, Christianity, freelance photographer in Iasi or Botosani Romania, Life, My Repentance Prayer, photo of violet flower took at Denisa in Iasi Romania, Photographs, prayers blog
05.10.08

Photos of My Mother’s Flowers from Botosani Photographs, Traveling | (1)

For Easter I went to Botosani (Romania) to spend the holidays with my family. Just a few days before I got my new Canon EOS 450D . Going home to Botosani, to see my parents, was also a good opportunity to test my camera. I am really happy with the new acquisition.

Now that I am back in Iasi, I hope to post also the other photos I took. Here are a few photos I took of my mother’s flowers that she has around the house.

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