The beginning and end of the path that chooses us. You must choose your path! - this phrase is heard by those wandering in the forest or the desert, heard by children in high school, heard by young men

The bridge between an idea and its implementation. Once upon a time, long ago, sitting on a chair after school in the office of the design institute where my mother worked, I was examining the complex

A strange hobby. If you're passionate about something and occasionally find yourself in, or even touch upon, a circle of hobbits (not to be confused with hobbits), you've realized that hobbies can sometimes

A dream of sleeping nature—that's how you could describe this photograph, because it's a moment when nature is clearly tired and has fallen into hibernation. Moreover, this isn't just a landscape, but

Among useless things, a used AA battery is probably at the top of the list. Furthermore, it's difficult to dispose of and, as a rule, should be disposed of separately from other waste. Besides being useless,

False calm. False calm, or false boredom—that's how I could describe those moments when I decided to hunt with my camera for various insects that usually catch the blooming sage, but for some reason, they

If someone says that I am a bad part-researcher, then he will be absolutely right and I will not argue with this, because there is no point in arguing with the truth lol. Yes, I know this well, but the

Sometimes, only a puny piece of paper with dates written on it in typographic type, called a calendar, can give us a clue as to what time we're in. And if we were deprived of the calendar, it would be

Dawn is always beautiful and always inspiring, bestowing something akin to hope for something good. And sometimes, dawn can even be unexpectedly beautiful, like a festive fireworks display, a bright flash

Flower Charades. Do you enjoy solving various kinds of charades? No? Perhaps you're too busy and don't have time for such silly games, but I sometimes enjoy doing this, and you don't necessarily have to

A lost star in a tiny galaxy. Science fiction writers tried to convince us that galaxies can be tiny, and we saw this in the movie Men in Black, and you know, there's quite a bit of truth in that fantasy

Like people. The photographs you'll see below show only representatives of the microworld, which we call mosses and lichens, molds and various types of fungi, or fungi. Their lives seem very slow to us,

Cautious steps. There's a saying that sometimes, to achieve something, you need to act quickly, decisively, even at lightning speed, without giving your opponent a chance to figure out what's going on.

The annual, crucial exam. When I was in school, I waited for it all to finally end and I'd stop thinking about exam time and preparation at the end of spring. Maybe some people enjoyed that feeling of

It doesn't smell like lilac yet. I noticed one thing, perhaps insignificant: it smells like lilac, gentlemen! Yes, usually at this time of year, the deep scent of lilac, which is abundant around here,

A little fantastical, a little realistic, a little moody and a little cheerful, a little sunny and a little shady, this landscape emerged after working on a photograph of an old, lifeless tree stump, which

When I think about what people call a portrait, I dwell on the idea of ​​emotion. If we see emotions in a painting that literally speak to us, it's definitely a portrait, no matter who's in front of me—a

Sunbathing. Sunbathing is wonderful, especially when you're lying on the warm sand on the first day of vacation after a hard year of work and you're able to get to the sea. But even acorns in the forest

It doesn't matter when exactly you return home, whether at sunset or sunrise, but the sun's rays at these times transform the return home into something special and symbolic. For the next competition,

Simplicity without nuances. Simple things, or simple tasks, at first glance seem devoid of any complex nuances, like the simple communication of two birds that understand each other with a half-glance,