Photo mash-up #10

Celebrating the color red, in the animal world for a change: today theme will be LADYBUGS!

Happy ladybugs day :-)

Blur in the air

So, I've been doing some attempts at taking different types of blur in pictures recently: a bit of bokeh here, and a tad of shadows in the foreground or in the background there... 

The aim was to bring some shadowy and mysterious figures into the photos: kind of experimental of course, yet very funny to create!

Eerie scenery


Game of shadows


Blurry atmosphere

Red as a ladybug

On a previous sunny day, I managed to borrow - again... -  my friend's macro lens to go hunting for some Spring pictures. So, off I went to the Bois de Boulogne!

I had been taking far too many photos of flowers recently, so I wanted to get something different this time. And, well, I ended up with more animals than flowers - mostly insects :-)

Ladybug moment

Larvae lunch

Firebugs in a heap

Daisy portraits

What is more common and unoriginal as a daisy?

You can find it in every garden, meadow or field, and it spreads so easily and in such quantities hat you just ignore them after the first Spring growth...

I remember having lots of fun with daisies as a kid though, building heaps of flowers from piercing the center of one flower with the stem of another one and so on.

So here are a few daisies portrait in memory of my childhood, and maybe yours too?

Twin daisies


Garden lights


Beside a stone wall

Insect ballet

With Spring coming and the trees blossoming everywhere, of course, there are also lots of insects around.

At first feeling slightly annoyed at them (not that I'm so afraid of stings but well... not that fun either...), I decided to try and take a few pictures.

Not so easy though ,they were moving so fast! It was a real insect ballet up there :-D

Ballet dancer mosquito


Pollination dance


Light footed choregraphy

Fabric stores

Among other places, I really enjoy having a stroll around some streets near Montmartre, just below the Sacré-Cœur Basilica.

That is because you can find lots of fabric stores in the area, with their wonderfully colorful pieces of fabric that are shown every two meters. They are sure to lure me into coming closer and brushing the soft fabric samples with a light hand.

Even if you might not be interested in fabric and pattern as much as I am, don't you agree the colors just feel so nice to look at? ;-)

Vichy print fabric


All fabric rolls in a row


Liberty print fabric

Jiaozu heap

Having noticed a jiaozu-specialized store (Chinese version of the Japanese gyoza - though I don't know from where the recipe originates), I couldn't help trying 'a few' of these marvelous little things.

This heap of various little jiaozu delighted my camera more than my stomach, yet it was still a very nice thing to test :-)

Almost too beautiful to be eaten...

Jiaozu with garlic & chili pepper sauce


Jiaozu with meat and vegetables filling


A heap of jiaozu