Surprise, I have a new lens in the bag! I’ve been wondering about this problem of mine when going on hikes and trying to carry light, that I most often have to sacrifice the heavy 150mm macro. Which then leaves me only with the ”macro” function on the 24-105mm lens, and let’s be honest… it…

I have some more flowers coming up now, so I got to try my white theme on non-white flowers. The fake background sure has some benefits, as for example with this glory of the snow the natural background was a disaster and I couldn’t have pulled off anything usable even with the lens wide open,…

It’s now when I start to warm up for April. Landscape is still very bleak, but in the garden the first snowdrops are in bloom and a lot of other flowers are coming up. And with almost all of the dirt roads (even those which were not plowed in the winter) are free of snow,…

Now that the nights can be quite cold, there’s often mist in the morning. I saw from the weather forecast that the conditions were right and this time I wanted to capture the mist, even if it meant getting up early on a Saturday. This time of the year, the sun doesn’t rise so frightfully…

It’s almost a month from my last post. Must be the longest break I’ve ever taken and I’m not happy about it. I mean, all things considered, the blog is not important. It’s the reasons behind the silence. The last time I wrote this weird sickness that hit me. Well, it actually got worse since…

Earlier I said that I was feeling some fatigue towards the end of my vacation. I assumed it was because I had pushed my body to beyond what it’s capable of, but I shouldn’t have been so hard on myself – I was already fighting an infection by then. In fact, it had started about…