snowdrops

Galanthus nivalis, common snowdrop, flowering on a roadside. My jeans' knees are now dirty :)

fractal feather background

free large format of this image will be available for a week at hiero.ru image hosting. Careful, over 6Mb there

other fractals for sale at shutterstock

instant sunshine

today is quite gloomy here, so a pic from costa del sol with (appropriately) sun in it. Btw, when you fully close the aperture in order to take this type of "star sun" image, what does the number of visible rays depend on? )there are eight of them on this one). My guess is the number of "petals" in the lens, but not sure.

btw2 - not dissimilar picture remains my bestseller on istockphoto site, accumulating over 400 dollars by now. There are pictures with lot more sales there, but they belong to other people, alas)

true colors : photovandalism

almost monochrome image of narrow street in Fuengirola. Was too boring in original shape, so played with it in photoshop and quite like the results :)

perching

Spain, Fuengirola beach. Well, you can't see where it is, you have to take my word for is

full frame at lori

fractal "flying notes"

at lori.ru

another one

at shutterstock

lipsticky lips

it's amazing what Apophysis software can do almost with no input from me



at lori.ru

twisted surfaces

big format on flickr

still snowing

still snowing today. as it is a wrong type of snow (as usual), schools opened in the morning but then closed again.

dragon

I've tried to teach Timur "wet-into-wet-on-limited-area" technique (see example here).
He watched with interest, nodded wisely, said that he understood everything and then produced this dragon - that has nothing to do with the technique, but is very pic in his very own style.

catkins

Cape of Good Hope (square format)

today's snow

horizontal crop is here

Puzzleball

Yuri completed his Ravensburger Puzzleball

more pics of the same thing - 1, 2, 3, 4