500

It wasn't that long ago I was telling you about reaching the magic 100 visitors, but the magic 500 has arrived. Thank you for coming to read and for your nice, helpful comments. I'll keep posting and keep taking pictures!
Thank you!

Flowers and bugs

Just another of the many plants in our garden.

A cute little ladybug I noticed.

I loved this bug because it was shiny, and the bright flower as a background works well.

Tiny rose

Look at this carefully before you scroll down to see the actual pictures! It really was this tiny, which just proves my point that you have to look carefully, and you will find beautiful things everywhere. Because there is no need to leave your home or go to foreign countries to take pretty photographs.

And all I have to comment about these is that the macro (although it took me months to figure out what it was for) is what makes me so happy about my canon camera!

Here are some nontips!

I don't really like that word- tips. It suggests limits and rules: here is what you can do, here is what you mustn't do, and if you do this every photo will be breathtaking. But there are no such limits nor rules-

Your subject doesn't need to have his/her eyes open.

Your camera doesn't need to be level with the floor or even close to being level with the floor.

Your subject doesn't need to be doing anything funny, important, serious, amazing, unusual... well, you get my drift.

Your subject doesn't even need to be touching the floor!

To take a picture when someone is moving or jumping and you want to capture a precise moment, what I do is set everything up, take flash off and press the button to take the picture, but not completely. You have to fully press the button on the moment you want the picture to be. Also, you may want to practice that before the moment of the picture.

Just a pretty flower

Mountain beauty

St Jordi

St. Jordi is a celebration that's done in Catalunya, on the 23rd of April, in which we celebrate love and literature. Roses are very typical of this day, as well as seeing the Catalan flag everywhere (it has thin red and yellow stripes) and book stands everywhere. There is also a legend about how St. Jordi killed a dragon to save his princess.

Thoughtful

Flower

This flower in particular was very tiny, and I had to use macro to take it. I held it up against the sun to give it that nice background and light, because in photography it's all about the light.