Aurel Manea Photography » Animals

An old elephant like feeling

Aurel Manea — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 14:37:04 +0000

This is me. I weigh 80 kg, I’m 1.82 meters tall, 28 years old yet only alive for 4. I have birthmarks on my right hand and a scar on my face from when a dog bit me long time ago. For one year I have been wearing long unattended hair and before that short shaved. People who don’t really know me would label me as introverted depressed person with weird habits . Those who do would say I am somehow bipolar, jumping from a state of complete and utter depression to one over-extroverted. I usually don’t get out of my boring daily routine but when I do, I do it all the way. When something new comes along my path I take my chance with it. I am usually very open minded about anything and like to put people in situation where I challenge their predefined patterns of thinking about taboo subjects. I like to argue . I like drugs and never say no to them .They played a crucial part in my life with the new perspectives and viewpoints they brought. I like music. I like the girl I love, and I know in my heart that there is a high chance when she will be gone forever beyond hope I will die. I spend my nights thinking about that and about perspectives but find none. I like and do a lot of things, I make enough money and one without knowing would otherwise say I have nothing to complain about. They would be wrong.

I like to photograph, I carry all the time with me a medium backpack that contains my camera ,3 lenses, an external hard drive, a cleaning kit, a green laser pointer, a high precision scale, a portable microscope, an extra card and battery, condoms, a cable and a pen. The backpack is custom adapted so it fits my own needs , the padding removed and made so that it is thin and I have the fastest access to the camera without taking off the backpack. Estimated time-to-photo : 4 seconds. If I see something I want to make sure I capture it. I do my best to facilitate travel, I have everything organized, I know how I’m going to carry all items in the plane and be as lite as possible.I spend a lot of time organizing everything in perfect order. There was a time when I was always in some place, on a volcano, around some glacial lake or in some European city with a camera . I enjoyed the strange and new feelings that each place made me live, the beauty of the new. And for that time it replaced the other feelings, the ones of desperation, it managed to fill the void .
I tough I was going to spend the rest of my life traveling and photographing. I loved each place, each new experience, each breath of new air alike.

Not anymore.

In reverse

Aurel Manea — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 10:14:00 +0000

You’re running high, I’m running low
It’s time to leave, I have to go
I took my chance, perhaps I lost
Or maybe things are as they must
This castle made of sand will fall
And sand that’s left shall bury all
Undream this dream and start again
A search so seemingly in vain

The wind is blowing things unknown
Birds start to sing a backwards song
All life in genes withdraws and dies
All things undoing, breaking ties
My heart is glowing in the dark
I see you first then loses spark
With flatline beats continues on
And then it’s dark, and then it’s gone.

A black on white crow story

Aurel Manea — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 21:12:53 +0000

Golden wings

Aurel Manea — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:37:14 +0000

Icelandic horses and their haircuts

Aurel Manea — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 05:33:15 +0000

Emo horse rulez !

Zandvoort, sunset (2)

Aurel Manea — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 09:32:20 +0000

Cute

Aurel Manea — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:50:49 +0000

Deer hunter

Aurel Manea — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:21:55 +0000

Ah, wilderness, feeling like I am in the middle of nature, no human tampering, no buildings, no stores, no streets. And all this in the middle of London. Amazing. Oh yeah, last weekend I went to London, so there is a whole bunch of photos coming alone.

There is no spoon

Aurel Manea — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:28:00 +0000

Literally .For 2 months now I have no spoon in the whole house. I either forget or I’m to lazy to buy and it makes things rather difficult for me., especially regarding eating.

Now what was I saying ? Oh yeah, pigeons in Istanbul . Lots of them.

The bad birds

Aurel Manea — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 20:38:53 +0000

And this would also be my first upload of something filmed with the 5d . This being my first please don’t criticize too much and forgive the badly chosen music

So I was walking in the middle of the nowhere when I see these beautiful, hawk-like birds sitting on the ground. As soon as I got a little closer they took off and attacked me (or at least tried to scare me off ).