The Green vs the rest
The colors of Polish autumn
Going shopping…
A tunnel?
An autumn walk in Warsaw
ELIOS 2010
Special Olympics European Summer Games (ELIOS) was an incredible event which fosters integration of mentally disabled people with the rest of the society. Still many people in Poland imagine mentally disabled as those who cannot communicate, not even thinking about playing basketball,
football, tennis, badminton, bowling, table tennis, running, jumping, shot putting, lifting weights or roller skating.
In fact, mental disability rarely comes with physical disability. It does not make affected people totally not communicative. Indeed, as a volunteer in the delegation services center, I had an opportunity to help competitors, too. One of the top achievements of my team was to understand a request of one of the athletes, who managed to convince us, using her native (even unidentified by us) Balkan language, that she would like to… have bussiness cards made for her! Was the mental disability a grave problem? No!
A conference in Iceland
I had an absolutely great opprotunity to participate in IceTAL 2010 conference on Natural Language Processing two weeks ago held in Iceland. I could not resist spending some week after it travelling to some remote locations not only for photography.
This was one of the most magnificent destinations I’ve ever seen, with gloriously colored rugged volcanic mountains, lava fields, a lot of ash everywhere and colorful sunsets. It was kind of cold and especially windy, but the memories will never be lost.
I brought back over 2500 photos. I proudly present the top 20-something ones below.
Want even more? The rest is on my gallery.
