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We want to the countryside on this Sunday…

I ‘catched’ this small spider using our modest Canon S5 IS, a few seconds before it was lost somewhere in the grass… :-)

…this morning was very beautiful, and so was the sky…

(Usually I sleep at this time of the day, but there are exceptions to the rule… like today. And now I go to make tea and coffee and wake up my beloved;-)

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Sometimes you forget about some photos.

…And sometimes you can find one, while browsing your own photo archives on the hard-disk, and say to yourself ‘Wow! I like this one! Why don’t I post it on my blog?’…

And so I did, with this one:)

I like it. It was made while on the bicycle, after a heavy rain, and with the sun shining brightly…

I call it Magic.

Some call it optical illusion, or physics.

For me, it will be Magic forever, and I’ll never forget this moment, when I first saw this “gem” glimmering in the grass…

Rila mountain is a magic place, I love to return there again and again…

[Note: Shot in a forest in Rila mountains, on Oct. 1st, 2006; for full EXIF, check the thumbnails]

I am a lucky owner of a Canon EOS 350D digital camera, plus 3 sets of lenses — 28-105 mm, 90-300 mm, and one 50 mm for macro shots.

But this is just for a few days… I’ve borrowed the Canon from a friend, to experiment, and will have to return it soon; still, I have some time to experiment…

…and today I tried to make a photo of the Moon, when it was rising above the horizon.

To make the long story short, here are my modest results (click the thumbnail for full-size):

I tried a lot of manual settings, before I achieved some acceptable results. Also, the 90-300 lens is not very good at its long end (after the 220-300 mm range images tend to become a bit blurry), and still…

…I am very happy with this shot of mine - the first one in my life, in which you can see actually the Moon, and not a blurry yellow dot instead! ;-)

Maybe I’ll publish some more shots these days…

The 350D is a marvellous machine — pity that I can’t afford myself one like it… But maybe one day, who knows? :-)

PS If you’re curious about the full EXIF info (ISO, exact aperture, exposure, etc.), check the thumbnail!
PPS As if by accident, NASA Image of the Day (APOD) published yesterday a very interesting photo of the moon, too - reason is the full lunar eclipse which happened on the 28th of August and lasted for 90 minutes:)

This is one of my favourite shots from this summer’s going to the Black Sea — I liked the sunset colours a lot, the clouds, the sun rays, shining through the trees, and the seagull, which passed though my field of vision by accident right in the moment when I was pressing the trigger of my Pentax! :-)

(14 August 2007 @ ~19:00 h, St. Constantine and Helena resort, near Varna, Bulgaria; the photo was made from a small pier in the sea facing the shore; for full EXIF, check the thumbnail)

The photo is from the Black Sea (a park in the resort St. Constantine & Helena, near Varna), the original is in full color, but I like this edit in black & white:)

From time to time, I still struggle to publish a word or two in the English version of my blog.

Here’s a photo from my recent vacation on the Black Sea (in the resort St. Constantine & Helena, near Varna city). On it, you can see two waves meeting:)

Note: Except for the brightness & contrast, and a 1-degree horizon-leveling, nothing was changes on the bigger variant of the photo:)

This photograph is from July 20th, 2005 (or from almost 2 years ago); the place - Sofia, “Khadji Dimityr” district.

I was accidentally there, I liked the sunset a lot, then just took out my digital camera and pressed the shutter… :)

Do you like strawberries? I like them a lot! Here’s one, the picture is from yesterday… A true giant! :)

PS I start a new category - Daily Photo. Why not? I always dreamt of being able to post from time to time one photo along with a one-line explanation (or none at all)… So here’s my dream coming true :-)