This series of shots came from a dark gloomy evening back in November 2018, when I took my babygirl to the Light festival - which luckily happened not too far from the place we live, we didnt have to travel

Greetings, Hiveans! Another week of my favourite contest — Alphabet Hunt — is back to life in Bangladesh community. This week we reached the letter 'G'. My random picks were: Gravure / Guinness / Gilded

The post goes for Photofeed #monochrome photography contest, Round 193 location: Vyritza, Russia June 2026 natural light camera/lens: Canon 5dm3 Canon 70-200mm raw-conv All images taken by me, copyright

I continue to introduce you to my stamps acquisitions. A while ago the snailmail brought me two slender envelopes stuffed with some ancient treasures. In this blog, let me present one of them. The letter

Greetings, hiveans! I want to share with you a series of visuals I harvested from my boat trip across St.Petersburg about its port. Gazprom building. Sufficient part of citizens dont approve it. The mouth

A slug on fungi micellium. Travelling caterpilar. A spider is hiding in ambush on a cornweed flower. Unidentified fly. Coral fungus popped up at my land, right 3m from the doors! A tiny pine sprout is

It was a while since I shared my cup of coffee in this blockchain. Here we go: a bodegon I created back in March. Two cups you see in the frame are, accordingly, my wife's and mine. Two crackers and a

Greetings, Hiveans! Another week of my favourite contest — Alphabet Hunt — is back to life in Bangladesh community. This week we reached the letter 'F'. My chaotic random picks were: Fly / Film / Flute

A one-click portrait of the street musician. From time to time I see many busking artists, sometimes they try to impress with strange or unique musical instruments, sometimes with extra featurees (like,

Going thru my archives, I stumbled upon this photo: the folks take mud baths in Turkey. I made this capture with the cheap kit lens that came with my very first DSLR camera (Canon 350D) and saved it as

Captured on one of the first days of year 2025; the image of folks full of Xmas mood walking across the decorated city. (Exact location is the Isaakiy Cathedral square.) I took many captures that evening,

A fluffy caterpillar is resting on a daisy flower. This capture is not about magnigication or rare specimen identification, hehe. Its all about the bokeh and the art of photography! I can’t stop smiling

In August I had amazing encounter. What you can find under an apple tree but not apples? Get down on your knees ...

I wanted to select something for this week Photofeed Black and White photography contest, and ended up with these three captures... At a fashionable district of the city. I did not like the color (it wasnt

Greetings, Hiveans! Alphabet Hunt contest is back to life, now run in Bangladesh community. This week is for E. My picks were: E-book / Easter eggs / Edible / Eyes / Easel / Entrance - 6 words and no

One from the very old part of my digital archives: from the 2nd time I traveled across the Ladoga lake skerries. We just obtained the Canon 350D camera, and especially for this travel I got my 2nd lens

Greetings, Hiveans! Today I want to share summer vibes from July, 2024. A friend of mine came to the city of St.Petersburg for a weekend with his family, and I was happy to show them a few spectacular

Greetings, Hiveans! A pleasure to see one of my favourite contests — Alphabet Hunt — is back to life, now run in Bangladesh community (check the rules and bravely join in). This week was for D; my's picks:

Greetings! Today I’m sharing a brief photo report on an encounter with—and observation of—a creature that was new to me. Yes, it’s a caterpillar again! (For some reason, this summer has been incredibly

Enjoying the Baltic sea seaside near Terijoki town. My post goes for Photofeed #landscape challenge, Round 189 location: Terijoki, Russia April 2026 natural light camera/lens: Canon 5dm3 Canon 70-200mm