Samsung NX10

World Photography Day 2022 It was one of the hottest days this year. It still is: 32°C / 90°F at 10 pm. I think that I already long for winter. And as we are told to expect some shortages of natural gas in December or so (no need to explain why) I already have one of my garages almost full of wood ready to be put in my fireplace and stove when need arises. This is a sample of what is still waiting to be chopped and stashed in my basement maybe. One of these days, when it gets colder. For now it is just something to shoot on the World Photography Day (in lack of more interesting objects). ----- Samsung NX10 and Silver Efex Pro 2

My grapes will turn pink and sweet in September. Provided starlings won't rob them first. ----- Samsung NX10

It is not much of a shot but there is a story there. It looks like my tenants (Eurasian collared doves living on my garden) played a prank on me. You see, last Friday (on the World Photography Day) I went out onto my south second floor terrace to check upon those magnolia seeds No big change there, not worth documenting. Then I looked a bit up and just in front of me I saw this! A nest placed on a magnolia branch, less than 2 meters from me. Obviously nobody was home. The family moved out, but I can observe them almost every day when the three of them sit at the balustrade of my upper balcony and the parents feed the little one (it is a bit smaller than the adults). Now how come that I didn't spot them earlier when they occupied the nest? How did they disguise? No idea! Do doves laugh? They must have been laughing seeing me so near and not noticing them. ----- Samsung NX10

Meet my youngest girl. Her name is Orzeszek (literally a little nut, Peanut maybe but she looks more like some sort of a conifer cone, doesn't she?) Pip and Cookie aren't ready to accept her yet. They are adults and she is a kiddo so we are working on their relations (not hurrying things up). - - - - - Samsung NX10

Autumn has arrived... I have to deal with those aronia berries in no time - before I'll be forced to deal with black spots on a pavement beneath ;) ----- Samsung NX10

cold and windy day over the Narew river ----- Samsung NX10

There was a tree... ----- Samsung NX10

Have a great and healthy weekend! HFF! - - - - - Samsung NX10

Have a great and healthy weekend! HFF! - - - - - Samsung NX10

Have a great and healthy weekend! HFF! - - - - - Samsung NX10 I remember seeing the fence 40 years ago. There was a field there, no trees, no forest. Things changed...

Three weeks ago my daughter brought me an old Pentacon 4/200 M42 lens and I decided to test it only today with a digital camera for starters. I went out into my garden and immediately found out again that manual focusing became harder for me than I expected. I was trying to get in terms with it when I spotted my dog laying inconspicuously in shadows (as usually she wanted to observe me while avoiding to be photographed). I clicked the shutter trigger obviously misfocusing a bit but when I was trying to adjust the focus she realized what I was doing and looked at me with much distaste - a moment later she was gone and that was it :/ - - - - - Samsung NX10 + Pentacon 4/200

My tenants' kids. The first one is probably 3-month-old. The other one is just a baby. The whole family lives at a big thick spruce just outside my kitchen window. The walnut tree is kids' playground. ----- Samsung NX10

not so happy Friday fence at least the pump is working but it is raining again ----- Samsung NX10

My dawn redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides) is the only tree (or plant) happy now. It simply loves having its roots in standing water. ----- Samsung NX10

My sweet magnolia is coping with aftermath of two frosty nights but I'd rather not show the frost damage in color. ----- Samsung NX10 and Silver Efex Pro 2 press [Z]

my grown-up girls ----- Samsung NX10

My trumpet wine has certainly got my attention with this! It didn't want to bloom in spite of me caring, pruning, feeding it... This year I neglected it totally. Then I got flowers and now some seed pods. Allegedly they (seed pods) are very rarely seen in Poland, and if so then in the western, warmer part of our country... Oh well... ----- Samsung NX10

Have a great and healthy weekend! HFF! ----- Samsung NX10 ----- I tried to befriend this young common wood pigeon but he (she?) rejected my advances ;)