A night out

Last week me and my friend Itamar went on a spontaneous trip to try our new camera's at night. We went to Jerusalem and made a whole lot of pictures, some came out nice som not at all. Making pictures in the dark is quite new for me and is not the same as during daylight. We kept on until around 5.00 in the morning and really enjoyed it.
Here are some pictures I took that same night and with that, these are the first pictures I publish here I took with my new camera.

A Dream Come True

It's been a while since my last post, but I've been very busy lately. I've opened my own web shop I've also been to Holland and I've made a dream come true. I've been dreaming of this for a long long time already. And I finally did it. I bought a new camera!!! I bought the CANON 40D. I've been looking for a good deal for a long time already and when I was in Holland I found the best deal I saw so far, so….. I was/am as happy as a little boy with his new toy he really wanted. This camera is very scary as well. It is so big and can do so much that I have to learn the whole thing. Because it's a professional SLR camera and not DSLR like I had before, I also have to change some concepts and techniques about photography, but that's part of the fun!! So far I'm learning fast while practicing and soon you'll see the results!

The sea

Today was the birthday of the children and we went a bit up north to celebrate it.
We went the coast, to a place called michmoret. There's a nice beach with a nice restaurant watching over the sea. Besides the good food, just being there next to the sea was very nice and relaxing. We didn't plan to go there, so unfortunately we didn't bring our bathing suited, maybe next time. So instead of jumping in the water, I made some pictures of the water!

Sorek stream

Last weekend me and my photography partner Itamar went to Sorek stream.
It's one of the streams which have streaming water, even in the summer, and it's a beautiful place. Once you get down and follow the stream you're surrounded by lots of green and the sound of streaming water breaking the silence. I really enjoyed being out in the nature and of course photographing. The following pictures are some of the high lights of our trip.

This first one, in my eyes the most beautiful one, is a caterpillar we found there and agreed to be a model for a few minutes.

The cactus

In my last post I put a picture of a one cactus flower. Look what happened a week after.

At home

This time I stayed home and did some "home work". I just went outside on our balcony/garden and made some pictures.
The first one is a cactus flower which opens in the morning when the sun light falls on it and closes the moment the sun loses it's strength in the late afternoon. We have it for a couple of years already and this year for the first time it gives those beautiful red flowers.




This is also a dessert plant and a couple of weeks ago one of it's flowers, just like this one, broke off and…….



This is what came on the place where the flower broke, By the way, the broken flower I put in a pot and he is doing very well on his own.



And look who was again watching every move I made.

Barbwire

This time I'd like to share with you a picture I liked a lot myself. I liked the effect of the sharp front and the blurred back ground. By the way the barbwire didn't stop us from getting where we wanted to be.




This is me after taking the shot