flowery friday

breakfast

sunflowers

old new

Meet the newest member of my photo family :) The legendary russian portrait lens, Helios, had been on my wishlist for almost 2 years, until i finally decided to buy it for myself :) If you follow me long enough, you may know, i am not the one to upgrade my photo gear often. being a firm believer that photography is all about eyes, i always take time to make decisions about any photo related investments and own a minimal amount of photo stuff. having said this, you can imagine, i am very happy to get something big like this lens :) I believe the lens is made at about 60'-70' ies, correct me if i am wrong. It is for my Zenit film camera, but i can teoretically also mount it on my digital Nikon with an adapter. My first impression, that the lens is very metallic, very huge and very heavy. i mean, veeery heavy. it is heavier than the camera itself, heavier than my both cameras together. I am very curiuos how many photos i will be able to take at one time without getting any physical pain in my hands:).

seeing pink

taken with Zenit, kodak portra 400 film.

Believe in pink & some recent reads

These pictures happen to be a bit too sweet for my todays taste, you see i do not normally have pink roses anywhere in the house and the color combination of this pink and this green is so not exactly my type. But i had so much fun making the poster and the books are really serious & good reads.

Coffee time

minolta

meet my new old camera, beauty, isn't it. I bought at a thrift store a few days ago and spend a bit more than 24 hours trying to open film compartment without any success. luckily, Darijus did it. he also removed the lens and i was able to clean the mirrors a bit. the minolta it is now with a film roll and beeing tested and i do my best not to hope too much but it seem to be working :)fingers crossed for many beautiful pictures.

the sweetest things

1,4 - dslr, 2,3 - film

comforts of my home, pleasure of my favorite things and inspiration

something you should know about me, i love photography, books and knitting, all of them a lot. knitting is the activity that had been neglected for so so long...i used to be one of those that knits a lot, knit all the time. but life has been a bit hectic lately. in fact, i can not remember the last time i had needles in my hands. we moved to a new (new to us...) house in the middle of this winter and it has been a lot of pleasure and a lot of work to keep it the place that we can call home. i've been involved in several big projects, that i never did before, painting and gardening just to name a few....of course, what comes with a house, that one also becomes very interested in interior, design and decoration, all the things that makes hose a comfortable cozy home. not to mention flea markets, antique furniture hunting and then painting and renovating :) and so much time that i spend with books and photography, especially now when summer and kids are at home, you can only imagine, knitting has been the last thing on my mind. it was, until i saw the pictures of what Maegan from Madeline Bea knits. (and haven't i mentioned, i love every single one photo she takes). she made me realize how much i missed knitting, how much i missed having needles in my hands. she was my inspiration. the morning after i went to search for the yarn and started to knit immediately. what hopefully will become a little cardigan for my little girl :)

blue sugar

chocolate cupcakes, homemade, deliciuos.

cherries

rhubarb pie

I am very easy to be pleased with any sweet foods, i like nearly everything that is made of sugar, butter & flour. I made a rhubarb pie the other weekend, with some help of my older kid. I think the pie was deliciuos. my kids did not like it at all and refused to taste, except of some tiny parts without rhubarb on. my husband was on my side :)




the first to pics taken with Zenit, film camera. the last one is dslr but processed to look like a film.