this place is not dead, yet..

now when winter is just around the corner (this morning we had the first snow!), I thought it would be a good enough reason to share some snaps as a flashback from my summer.

my sister visited Latvia again. just liked their synchronous poses here.

we played hide’n’seek behind the sofa and this is the final shot I got.

On our way to the celebrate the Midsummer’s night, we came across this field of poppies.

one of the rare photos of us together. later that night it turned so it could have been the last.

preparations.

we caught a firefly. saw it first time in my life – the timing was perfect for this night!

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liked the following sequence of shots.

blue sky with(out) meaning.

somewhere in Latgale, just a few moments before it started to rain pretty heavily.

here is a finished image next to RAW file without adjustments. looks so dull because having no Grad ND filters I wanted to capture as much dynamic range in one exposure as possible to later extract two images – one with exposure adjustments for the ground and the other for the sky – and blend them together. it has always been interesting for me to know how starting material looked for others so I thought I’d share mine

before leaving, had to step-in in this badass awesomeness.

on the road home, after the rain this rainbow broke though the clouds.

went fishing with my dad. good times.

the G10!!!!

the sea, now just a few minutes drive from my new home.

certain someone had a birthday, so we decided it’s a good reason to throw the first pizza-party in our new place.

before heating up

and this is the end result.

meet our long awaited and wanted home spirit – LÅ«sija. or Lucy, in english. it was a love from the first ‘miaow’ : )

cheers.