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colorized shadows and simc…

photos of the weekend #2 colorized shadows and simc…   This beautiful iron staircase was shot in my friend’s summerhouse… I noticed the shadows…   I shot all these black and white but wanted to play with them…                           More shadow shots here

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shadow shots and pony horses…

Photos of the weekend #1     Shooting coffee pearls is my obsession…   This is a shadow of – what?     tadaaaa…my slipper! 🙂   Shadow Shot Sunday     They love football…       …and they don’t hate to see rubbish in the heart of the city in Casablanca!    

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Atlantic Ocean and pearls of coffee…

We had a long walk on Sunday. Corniche Casablanca was too crowded so we only went there to shoot pictures… 🙂         flowerpower in Casa – no snow! That’s positive 🙂   Too cold to swim…but nice to look and dream…   I have an obsession to shoot coffee pearls… 🙂  

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Happy New Year 2011!

First a couple of photos of the weekend #52 At Christmas we had a lot of candles around the house…       wow, I saw some SHADOWS on the snow in Helsinki! 🙂     But here in Casablanca I see flowers. This was shot after morning rain…   no snow… 🙂    

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WARNING to all expats moving to Casablanca, Morocco

We’ve lived in Casa soon 7 months. I have nothing good to say how housing is taken care of in this city. Owners are greedy and don’t keep their word. They are worst of all countries we’ve lived! TRUST is totally unknown word here.   What I’ve experienced corruption, nepotism are far more important than

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snapshots from Casablanca, Morocco…

We had a long – and slow – walk at the weekend. It was slow because I had my camera with me! 🙂                                           When was the last time you sharpened you knives?    

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to comment or shut up?

    I get about 20-30 spam comments per day. Here are some examples. I know Christian Louboutin would NOT send spam comments to me. I checked their homepage.   This shows it’s no news to them – they have a warning on their homepage… It looks like Mike knows me. But hey, he thinks

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still in Bilbao, Spain…weekend #35 photos…

weekend photos #35 Did you read my post on my main blog about commenting? How Name/URL option or DISQUS would help us when commenting on BLOGGER blogs… If not you find the post here >>>why blogger bloggers are so stubborn?   •   We are still in Bilbao, Spain…now around the city…hope you enjoy!  

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Moroccan engagement celebration

La Fete d’engagement in French or Haflat Khoutouba in Arabic.   We were honoured by an invitation to a Moroccan engagement celebration a couple of weeks ago… It was an intimate family gathering with dance and good food. Laaziza – thank you and your family for the hospitality and opportunity to celebrate with you and

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"Moroccan bachelors seek wives who work"

Here are short excerpts of an article which I found this morning on Magharebia web site. “Once upon a time, a primary school teacher could easily support his family single-handedly, but that has become very difficult now. The marriage age has risen in Morocco due to the increase in the cost of living. The concept

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