It was a beautiful Sunday today in my city, not like the previous week when we suffered from another winter's revengeful comeback. The sky have cleared, the sun appeared and shined in full-scale, the temperature increased for some bearable numbers... and we decided to pay a visit to the St.Petersburg's Botanical Garden. (I took three lenses with me: 50mm, 16-35mm and 150mm macro; this post includes photos taken with macro-telephoto).
Me and my wife were not disenchanted - there were no green lawns yet, but a lot of flowers were in bloom, not only crocuses.
And looking at the first pic you may decide there were no snow around... wrong! Last week granted us with 2cm of fresh fluffy and very very cold snow...
Some shady areas (like this one, near a bench) still keep a thick blanket of snow, which makes you wonder how those silly crocuses dare to pop up? how can they survive thru this, at all ?..
The answer is (my guess): good training! maybe thousands of years long... lol.
This picture is a macro focus stake created from two separate captures. It looks the most successful for me, so I submit it to this week's Photofeed #Macro photography contest. And what was your favourite photo from this selection?..
And while I was capturing muscari flower (which has several funny names: Viper's onion, Mouse hyacinth) - a scout bee appeared in the frame; it was in front of my eyes for three seconds only - and thats exactly how many shots I took with it. (The first bee of the season!)
These were pion's sprouts. Very very spectacular!
I forgot the name of this flower - cant be rare, there were thousands of these blooming!
There are a lot of acorns all around, and some of them looked more attractive for a man with a camera...
This one was waking up. Soon, soon...
Another fave find from today's walk, to round up my blog. I made so many shots that really cant fit even half of them into one post. So - more will follow! Thanks for walking with me, see you next time!
| location: | St.Petersburg, Russia | April 2025 | natural light |
| camera/lens: | Canon 5dm3 | Sigma 150mm | raw-conv |
