Baptism of fire

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What's in the garden in the middle of April?

Loquats since now is the month that they get ripen, bugs as spring is their favourite time of the year and of course cats because cats are always there :)

I like a lot of things about having a garden. The fruits that I collect, the vegetable beds with all the goodies that I plant, the pets strolling here and there, the shadow of a tree during a warm summer noon. The things that most people like, that is.

But as a photography weirdo I also like taking pictures of all the above and enjoying it as much as the real thing :)

Let's start with the juicy, sweet loquats!

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And move on to the cats. Curious, proud and above all, adorable! I have to admit that they made me angry more than once, especially with their totally disrespectful attitude towards my vegetable beds but I forgave them, every single time :)

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And after a couple of shots of the aloe vera's flower, just before blooming, let's move a bit closer, using the full potential of my macro lens and enter the kingdom of the bugs!

Don't ask me about their names, I have no idea. Except of course the bright red ladybug with its lovely black dots!

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I took those pictures on 11/4/2018 in the garden of my house (at the time) in Crete. I had just joined the blockchain and I was still posting one picture per day while I was trying to figure out what is going on around here :)

Actually this was the first time that I took a picture with the exclusive intention to post it. Kind of a baptism of fire in the blogging arena! It was this one, my entry to one of the first #photogames. Six years ago but it feels so much longer :)

The next day I posted one more picture from that day and I forgot about them, until a hot windy day of another April that I opened my hard drive and starting messing with old folders :)

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_{The camera that I used is a Canon EOS 7D with an EF-S 60mm f/2.8 macro lens attached. I edited the photographs in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic}

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All the pictures and the words are mine.

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