A friend borrows a friend’s SLR and somehow loses the control knob. He then delays the return a couple days, finally giving it back with a new, beautifully etched wooden control knob. That is a good friend.

The other day, a photo that I made and published on my flickr profile got picked by gizmodo.com and, consequently, got a lot of attention. It’s a photo of a wooden control knob from my old Fujifilm S5600 FinePix digital photo camera.

I’m really happy with the way the new knob looks and feels.

To all the gizmodo readers I want to say that my friend is a good friend and I appreciate the time end effort he put into this little wooden knob.

UPDATE: HTML5 Webcam Photobooth Web App

Two days ago I made a little Flash app that will allow anyone to take a picture with a webcam connected to a computer. Everything worked fine in AS3. It was only when I got to the PHP part of the project when I felt like I should ask for help. And I did, I asked a friend or mine (Mihai Bojin) who in a few minutes explained to me exactly what I needed to know in order to get this project working as it should (a big part of the PHP code is made by him).

The project is now open source and you can find the code and the source files underneath 😉

This open source project is release under the MIT license.

A few days ago I went out for a photo-walk here in Bucharest with a girl that I know from flickr. She is a great photographer and she is very smart (at least that’s my first impression 😆 )
We had a lot of fun and we made lots of pictures. Below I posted a slideshow with her making different face expressions.

Just got back from Bucharest… Still have to accommodate with the life in the “Big City” because in a few months I will move there…
But I had some fun and I made some pictures 😀
Here is the last one… I shoot it last night in Herastrau Park