We’re in the middle of a short impro 4-days vacation (10-13/Jul/2023) and I’m just watching the sunrise now… :)

A beautiful jasmine blooming in the park nearby.

A yellow chestnut leaf in the late spring.

“The only constant is change.”

Yes, the only constant in life is change…

Yesterday me and Ani went to the little park nearby, to walk our dog Murphy and to see the nature enjoy a refreshing morning rain. These are a few shots from that walk — I am especially proud of the last one where I managed to “catch” a bee right in the moment when it was leaving a rose hip flower! :-)

Water drop pearls after the rain.

A mushroom hiding in the grass.

A white heart..

A blooming rose hip bush.

A little bee meets a spider!

All we need is love, yes. And it’s now even cheaper! :-)

This photo shows one the rare moments when my phone camera lens was able to create such a nice bokeh, a real explosion of light behind the object in focus! At macro focal lengths, I can compare the optics of the tiny Pixel 4 lens to my Pentax-M F1.7/50mm when shooting at normal portrait distances. This was an interesting experiment. :-) I love my Pentax-M lens, btw! (Here’s a sample shot with the 1.7/50, “Red and green” — in the distances between 0.4 and 2.0 meters, the large Pentax lens will truly shine!) But shooting in full manual mode is quite difficult and time consuming; so I am carrying with me much less often my Pentax K100D + 1.7/50.

When shooting macro, the Pixel 4 is as good as my old Nokia Lumia 830 with Zeiss optics (here’s a macro shot that I made with Lumia 830, “The Magical Kingdom of Mushrooms“), probably even better — which is to be expected, because it’s newer and has better optics and better imaging processor.

A real forest beauty! Shot in the forest of Marchaevo on 30-Oct-2021. (Shot with Pixel 4; macro subject distance, minor post-processing.)

Note: I have posted this shot also at 500px.

Update (01-Nov-2021): My little moment of fame… my photo made it to the “Popular” page on the 500px website! :-)))

This old water tower (designed and built by the engineer Franz Salbach in 1929) is located in Lozenets, Sofia. It is now the home of the +365 art gallery.

The old water tower. (Shot with Pixel 4; Night Sight mode, minor post-processing.)

I visited this place a few days ago, it’s autumn now and the tower looked absolutely magical at dusk… :-)

P.S. (27-Oct-2021) I’ve just remembered that a friend of mine, Nixo, posted a cool (and funny) set of pictures featuring this exact same tower! Take a look! :-)