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Night is falling, and it seems appropriate to me to share with you my (our) first attempts at light trails drawing, made with a Canon S5 IS digital camera, which was set up on a bench in the park (settings: 15 seconds exp., F/3.5, ISO 100).

The date is April 23rd, and the participants are: me, Ani, Nixo, Katya (and Raly).

We used a small bottle and a cup to mark the two boundaries of the frame, and 2 lighters (with blue lights). Here are some of the best shots:

First try! (Btw, I think I dropped the “E” from my name, but well… Flick’r also dropped theirs, so I can live with that!) ;-)

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Mid-winter, but the sun was shining, snowdrops were showing amid the grass, and we were again on our bicycles in the parc… nice! :)

(the photos is from today, and this is the original, no edit at all)

Photos are from Rhodope mountains, this Summer.

A beatiful bird! And it allowed me to come very close, maybe as close as 3-4 metres away! I got lucky! ;-)

Thinking of Africa, I remembered also this flower:

I’ve seen these flowers a couple of times, in South Africa, approx. 5 years ago, in October 2004…

I don’t know how they’re called, even today…

One of them I took with me and after 3 airports and 10’000+ kilometres, it came to Ani, as a present… :-)

The flower withered in a beautiful way. There were some seeds from it, we tried to plant it, but unsuccessfully — it’s too cold in Europe, I guess…

Today, in this rainy day of Autumn, I’d like to give this flower again to Ani… I can’t really do it, but I have it on picture, at least. With its bright colors, maybe it will make the day brighter, more colorful, too?… :-)))

I’d like again to visit these sunny places, between two oceans… but this time, with Ani! :-)

Maybe, one day?…

[Photos are from 2004/Oct/28]

One of my favourite things to shoot, during Summer…

The photo is from July 13th, near Borissov’s Garden… we were on some sort of photowalk, but no shot of mine turned out to be good, with the exception of this one, maybe… :)

(Here’s a variant, with a bit of sharpening applied…)

Shot on May 14th, 2009, at sunset…

(Canon S5 IS, F 3.5, 1/400, ISO 200; image slightly edited in Fireworks)

On our short trip, last week-end, I took a shot of a very nice green-blue lizard.

Later, me and Ani discovered that actually this lizard is called European green lizard, and is also known as Lacerta viridis.

Its name contains only ‘green’, but I would have called it green-blue, as its back is really green, but its stomach has a very intensive blue color (as you can see from the photo, too).

So I decided to publish a few more shots of it:

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