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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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Last Saturday, we met my grand-pa for the first time. On Sunday, he turned 95! :-)

Here, I’d like to share a few shots from this trip (we traveled from Sofia around 200 km to the East to meet him):

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…from the last few days:

(NDK, Sofia, May 1, 2009 ~ 18:00)

(water drops in the grass, near Dimitar Blagoev P&P house, Sofia, May 1, 2009 ~ 19:30)

(a tulip in the grass, Svoge, May 4, 2009 ~ 15:30)

(green grass at sunset, Svoge, May 4, 2009 ~ 19:10)

I love the grass, the Sun, the rain, the colors… :-)

This is the European Peacock butterfly (Inachis io)

(I’d say that Canon S5 IS has a lot of downsides, but sometimes its macro mode is amazingly good!:-)

The shot is from April 4th this year, from near the town of Svoge.

This is a photo experiment from a few days ago… It’s nothing spectacular (and with a Canon S5 IS this is almost the maximum you can achieve)… I added a bit of contrast and one effect (using Adobe Fireworks).

Still, I kinda like it. And sometimes I dream of the moment when I can make a photo using F 21 number and 2 minutes exposition time (at least)… :-)

A small walk this afternoon, with Emicha, in the center of Sofia.

The sun was bright, the snow was shining and melting around us… :-)

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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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