Where's the wabbit?

My friend Frikosal brings to his blog an interesting question. Regarding the quality of his images, he asks himself what part of the beauty comes from the image itself and what part comes just from that magic moment that he experienced when taking the picture? In other words, how can we measure our pictures taking out all of our emotional links that brought us the magic moment of that shoot. It's a hard question.

Yesterday morning I saw this little rabbit. I couldn't take any good picture out of it, but besides the total lack of image quality I want to post it because I know that many of you will understand the strong emotions that I felt having this little rabbit so close to me. In the first image the rabbit was ~3 meter from my lens.

A Cistus for Katie

If an admired photographer asks for something, one has to respond.

Once, another admired photographer asked for a fork, and later for a ball pen. I had to do something. Now Katie asks me for a flower, but not any flower, a special one. This is the same flower from two posts ago but 17 minutes older and some nasty photoshop arrangements in the background to make it look better.

If you don't know Katie Barnes, take a look at this slideshow and tell me, besides the grate photos and the nice music and explanations: don't we need a hotel like this here in Europe?

With the fall of 'the wall' there is no alternative to Capitalism, we have ruled capitalism in Scandinavia, wild in Russia, and polluted in China, we have all kinds of capitalism flavours but no viable alternative. A place like 'the hostel in the forest' were everything is different it's an oasis were one can dream in a better different sustained world.

Sabadell

Sabadell, the city you see under this sunset sun, it's a really nice town. Streets smell like roses, birds freely sing and love is in the air... It's people are nice and friendly. From the many parks and gardens it's to mention the 'parc de Catalunya' with 45 Hectare, you must see it. But the best thing that Sabadell has by far is that it's only 15 minutes from Terrassa.

* To understand this post you need to be from Sabadell or Terrassa, two neigbour cities with similar population

Cistus 10 minutes before opening

This flowers are kind of magic, they live just a day. They open in the morning and on the afternoon they have lost their leaves. The next day new flowers will bloom.

I dream on a picture with many of this flowers. I have it on my mind but I'm unable to capture it. It's escaping me.

Montserrat

Photography manuals tells you that subjects at 1/3 of the image look better than in the center. I think this is an exception but I can't say if from another point of view the image would improve.

Wild Narcissus

I've never seen so many wild Narcissus all together in one place. It was one of those magic days. So beautiful. The wind was strong and chilly and there was still some snow from last night. Not usual in our March.

Praying Cistus

The first flowers of Cistus albidus from this spring.

Last year that slug called bufaforat took this image from a bee approaching a pink cistus flower. Well... I've found the location of a wonderful spot full of this plants... and they are ready to bloom...

I'm going to pray to the Indian god of photography for a dreaming day full of flowers and insects, magic light and inspiration.

Another bumblebee, this time in background

Crab spider on first term while a bumblebee stays in backfocus

Don't think that I was capturing the crab spider when a bumblebee decided gracefully to collect some nectar just in the next floor. What really happened is that I found a poor bee restless on the floor. I placed the weak bee over a nice flower and started taking some pictures. Then I realized about the spider and got this nice composition.

Bumblebee II

This is the same bumblebee over the same Viburnum Tinus flowers from previous post. Which picture do you like more, this or the previous one?

This morning I've been shooting for half an hour to all insects around a beautifully pink tree. I've been all day excited at the office dreaming about the pictures I may get from that session. Well... My excitement came to zero in front of my PC this night. All useless. All pathetic. It's hard and disappointing.

Bumblebee

The Bombus terrestris queen is the only one from her colony allowed to survive the crude winter. When she wakes up from hibernation her first task is to raise a first generation of workers to asist her. I believe the bumblebee from my image is one of the firs workers from this spring.

Treehugger through Sauron's Eye

MP-E-65 macro lens extended at 5x and f=8

Another challenge from Frikosal: take a macro picture from a ball point pen. Precisely a 'BIC' one with red ink. I increased the challenge by wondering if I could portrait myself mirrored on something as small as a pen's ball. After many tries, here it is. I believe I can do better, but I don't have what I most need, time.

Sunset in the forest

Today back from work I took this image. Look at all the branches laying in the ground, they had been there since last autumn. I hope they will clean it all before summer.