Pics and other stuff

We went for a circular walk that goes along Derwent water, into the woods to Lodore falls, up more or less along the Watendlath Beck (smal...

on our way back from the lakes yesterday we took not the most direct of routes but went for scenic instead, going along the smaller roads...

we are back from Cumbria. Stayed in a cottage close to lake district. Weather weren't that great, but we did have two ok days, so not ...

Interesting name - the "zelkova" bit, "serrata" is pretty straightforward. I was half-expecting to find that it was na...

She's wearing a monkey-head knitted hat and no arms. In the article below it is explained that one hand went missing last week. When...

at least I am pretty sure they are. They don't give change in the parking meter on Mill road in Cambridge, and we didn't have the ...

Timur spend whole day doing activities with cubs and scouts. He came home looking like this. I am sure this war paint rendered him perfect...

continued experimenting with lights . I always wanted to do some pics with strong-contrast side light and now I have the wherewithal. Two ...

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...

received two huge bunches of birthday flowers today for tomorrow I mean yesterday for today :)

I am not great fan of them, I do eat them but I can just as happily eat something else. The colors are beautiful though, especially on bla...

Keywording processed images sometimes brings me knowledge that I somehow managed to happily avoid before. For example, I never knew that t...

Now it's Timur turn to learn the guitar. He himself seems like playing violin more, but I must say that it's a lot easier to extr...

after going through all the pics from zumba mastercalss with Naomi Mokoena I figured that this one might just be isolate-able. I caught ...

don't know about you, but for me full-face mask are always spooky, even the most beautiful venetian ones. fortunately, the one I have...

I don't know what to write here, really. Pepper was very bright and shiny and my "tabletop" setup suits this type of object ...

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...

some pictures from zumba masterclass yesterday in Chilford Hall with Naomi Mokoena (lady in grey above with her back to the camera) host...

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...

There was zumba demonstration on Saffron Walden market square. It was by my zumba instructor Luisa Curbelo (lady in blue belly dancing ...