Random Images {City Center}

Love Groningen. Love the city. Love the buildings. Love the details.
You just can't get enough taking pictures here. Literally anything would be a great object for my photography excercises.

So..Enjoy!

I took it on our way back home. It's actually from my neighbour garden.

Random Images {City Center}

Went out to the city center with Zhavar to buy a pregnancy diary at the book store. I wasn't on top of my stamina(well, maybe it's a hormonal thing). I could only grab a few pictures on our way there. Which I regret later on, coz it was a nice sunny day and it wasn't as hectic as weekends.

#1. The Netherlands. Famous of its flowers. No wonder there are so many street florist. This is one of them.


#2. Bike. Bike. Bike. Oh, you'll see so many bikes here. But this one is a peculiar one. I love the front wooden basket with fake flowers all over it.


#3. They're really ordinary delivery motorbikes. I shot'em coz I love the bright yellow colour. I just thought that it would make a nice picture.


Anyway, while we were heading back home, hubby called and asked where we were at that time. And so, he caught up with us. Then together we went home.

Since his father were there, Zhavar refused to sit on his stroller. So he walked all the way home. I've got a shot of this moment, he was holding hand with his daddy. Soooo cute...

Photos of Today

I was planning to take pictures on our way to Zhavar's school, this morning. Literally, anything that I'll see on the road would be my object victim. My primary intention is to get used to the camera. Get better in composition. Nailing the exposure. And finally..has the "it" eye.

So I had my camera & my favorite lens. I wore my shootsac lens bag. And I also brought a lot of spirit with me. For me, the latter was the most important thing. Coz you've no idea, how difficult it's for me to just hunt for pictures. We've no relatives who live here, whom we could ask to babysit Zhavar fo a while. And Zhavar, who's 16 mo, isn't old enough to take care of himself. I wouldn't want to abandon him just to take some(good) pictures. I could, however, ask hubby to watch him. But that means, I should wait until he got home from the University, which is usually around 6 pm. And that's not a good timing, since it's almost dinner & Zhavar's bed time. Above all of that, as I mentioned in the previous post, I'm a full time mom who takes photography just as a hobby. I'm not going to make it a big deal for not regularly producing good pictures. I want to have fun with it. I want to learn it without any burden whatsoever. I want to make progress and still have time for my family(esp Zhavar).

So anyway, this morning didn't turn out just the way I planned it to be. Coz suddenly, on our way to Zhavar's school, it rained. I, myself, had to paddle quickly to arrive faster at school.

Luckily, when the school was over, around 12 o'clock, the rain stopped. So on our way home, I could take some random pictures. Just so you all know, I took all the pictures with only one hand. While the other hand was holding my bike, on which Zhavar sat on it. I couldn't risk parking the bike while Zhavar was on it. Or even to let Zhavar off the bike. You'll never know what could happen to him while I shoot.(wouldn't want to imagine it either). So I dragged the bike for the whole journey.



Ready to go to school.
















Sleeping on the bike, while on our way home.