Everybody knows - diamonds are girls best friends...
...well, not until they are fake ones, like these (Mother Nature shaped them from ice and snow, and they slightly ephemera). The last snow slowly melting on the dead oak leaves.
This became one of (many) highlights of today's walk across Elagin park (I will make a separate post or two about it later, when I breath out). We chased a squirrel with some nuts treatment 😃 and said squirrel lured us into her secret spot, where some mushrooms were growing, and there was fallen bark of an old tree lying on the ground. Unfortunately, it had already experienced various weather changes and was therefore very dirty... if I had picked it off the tree myself, the inner surface would have looked better in the photo, of course. But nevertheless; look at these magnificent drawings made by wood-boring beetle larvae. I really like looking at them and photographing them, I can never calmly pass by if I see this (rather rare) picture. By the way: if you look closely, at the end of some of the "channels" you can see the corpses of these larvae. Curious.
Certain trees decorated themselves with 'ear-rings'. This macro turned out not so well as I hoped, but the weather was pretty windy and cold, it was absolutely out of options to create dozen captures for further macro-focus staking... so I walked away with just this single take.
And the snowdrops.
Three days ago was the 1st time I noticed them, probably a bit too late, guess they pop up earlier. Anyway I did not miss too much, here they are! Today I shoot them in a proper morning light. They are awesome, a quint-essence of spring!
| location: | St.Petersburg, Russia | March 2025 | natural light |
| camera/lens: | Canon 5dm3 | Sigma 150mm | raw-conv |
