The “equipment” was pretty basic — a simple underwater camera (from DM stores) x 2:
– 28 mm fixed focus (1-2m to infinity),
– ISO400 film (27 shots),
– fixed exposure/F-number (sunny/sunny with clouds),
– water resistant up to 3 m (0.3 bar),
– price — EUR 5.00 (including film).

( Here’s the camera in action:

…very funny camera! Swim underwater, press the shutter and hope something to come out of it… )

Here’s a small selection of our best shots:

Next time — more!

Somebody broke the necklace…

I am watching carefully. Every one of these little crystal balls knows more than me about yesterday, today and tomorrow.

Some will never fly. They learn to live with their choice. There is beauty in this, too.

If you don’t know why, ask Google Images.
For the rest of you, enjoy:

Looks like it’s not only Michel, who enjoys taking macro shots of all kinds of small flowers & insects;-)

The photos are made by Michel, because the camera is always with him – my part (as usual) is to ask “Shoot this for me, please, no, no this way, otherwise, if you can”… One day I’ll have my own camera!

I’ve met for the first time Beatrix Potter and her lovely little friends when I was in high schoold and a classmate gave me her book.
There’s lovely movie about this gorgeous woman, don’t miss it – “Miss Potter” will tell you more about her than I can.

I fell in love with her amazing and delicate illustrations and style. Often tried to redraw them from reference.
Also her name sounds nice to me, so close connected with pottery.

The bikes are dusted off and wait for us to ride away again…
Well, it needs good health to be able to do every little thing…

This week’s forecast is for rain, but the thought is not depressing for me, right the opposite.
When people complain about the rain, it is not worried. It knows that people are always complaining – if sun is shining, they’ll mumble it’s too bright or strong and they’ll put on black sunglasses.
But the Little Queen of Rain knows how important she is, so she is just quietly smiling. Her delegate knows well his work… knows where is needed and expected.

When I consider how to turn an idea into a picture or a thing, it seems the time stops… or at least loses limitation.
I am drawing very intense lately. Remembering forgotten pleasures. Remembering how extremely good is the feeling of timelessness.
I like it, because I am usually such a paranoid person… always in a hurry, always in worry for not to be late. I have to learn how to be slower.

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* You may be interested to know more about this expression in other countries and languages?
In many English-speaking countries there is a word for this phenomenon and it is “sunshower”.
But in all languages there is an expression, associated with animal and wedding or birthday.
For example, in Southwest England, Finland, Japan, Malaysia and Portugal they say “fox wedding”, or “the fox is getting married”.
In some parts of Italy – “the fox is making love”, in Korea they say “fox rain”, in South Africa and elsewhere you can hear it as “the monkey birthday” or “monkey’s wedding”.
In Arabic “the rats are getting married”, but in other languages you can meet jackals (Hindi), tigers (Korean), witches (Spanish), poor people (Greek) or even the devil himself (English, Dutch, Hungarian and German).
I guess the fox alone was able to cross the world and reach from Japan to Armenia.

For all the linguists out there – here is some more information about this.