Pics and other stuff

Almonds of Tejeda This year, since we are allowed to go out and look at the beautiful spring of Gran Canaria, we try to do it as much as...

An eruption? A wildfire? Nah... After years living on Gran Canaria I have identified for myself the three main "hanami" events...

Alien tentacles! Cthulhu raising to the surface! Tremble, you feeble humans... etc When I went up the Mount Teide two years ago I didn...

Silver Leaf, Silver Feather, silver tansy, Magarza Plateada — common names describe the silvery leaves of the plant. Taken mid-May, in a ...

Erysimum albescens , "wallflower" endemic to Gran Canaria It is extremely rare not to see at least something flowering in Las...

Tajinaste azul Last year I found these beautiful blue flowers for the first time, but I set out to look for them a bit too late. Th...

Today we started to talk about plants and what can and can't grow round here with Rosa. I was mostly interested in whether it's wor...

Once setup for "black mirror" photos is set up, so to speak, it's difficult to stop making small still-life images with it. ...

My visit to Norway was short (less than one full day), but there was no plan, only a vague idea that I want to see more white flowers ( woo...

it's second year in a row that I go to Norway in early May, to visit my friend and to see wood anemones (hvitveis) everywhere. Last yea...

The pink phalaenopsis was opening more and more flowers for about two months now, and I got tired of photographing it somewhat. Now the...

As one of my birthday presents, two small-ish studio flashes (similar to ones on amazon, but different ones) arrived a few days ago. I ne...

It seems that I am slowly but surely going off monochrome images. I used to convert to monochrome a lot, which was not altogether unconne...

our oldest orchid plant is starting to bloom again. it's one of those objects in our house that paid for itself many times over - I ju...

original plan was to go to Wandlebury for a little walk or something. but soon as we got off the front porch it started to drizzle, so went...

our next door neighbours had a problem with their house alarm - it went off during daytime a couple of times over the last few days, last ti...

I might have already posted photos from this series. clematis vine definitely stopped flowering a while ago, so that's gone, but now the...