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Wednesday, November 22, 2017

Golden autumn

Autumn leafs 6 by Milen Mladenov on 500px.com


Those image that you will find here are the last ones from this year's autumn season. I will not bother you with long sentences about how beautiful this season could be, but I will let you decide for yourself.
Autumn leafs 7 by Milen Mladenov on 500px.com
Autumn carpet

Wednesday, November 1, 2017

My Autumn

I will begin my post with an apology - I am very sorry for not posting too often in this blog, but I was really busy lately.
So, excuses away, I want to share with you some of my autumn images.

Autumn 007 by Milen Mladenov on 500px.com


Thursday, August 31, 2017

My favorite sunrises

Dreamy sunrise by Milen Mladenov on 500px.com
There is something very special about a sunrise. It has become some kind of a ritual for me, each morning to make a cup of coffee and stood up on the balcony waiting for the sun to rise up. Each sunrise is different by itself - sometime there are clouds and its magnificent, other times there is just the sun and the hot colors it provides during the time it is rising.

Jacobina macro

Pink flower 05 by Milen Mladenov on 500px.com
 I got this flower as a gift from my parents after finishing the renovations in my home few years ago. Till this year it hasn't bloomed. I wasn't able to find the correct name of the flower in order to read how I was supposed to take care of it, till recently. This year I took it on the balcony and try my best to watch after it. One day I saw that there were forming three blooms - two bigger ones and one smaller. I waited them to become bigger and started photographing it. My idea was with black background and lots of details, that's why I've put a macro filter of 4x (and sometimes 10x) and used focus stacking to get the following photos.

Saturday, August 12, 2017

In pursuit of a sunset

This was one of the hottest summer days for this month and I was waiting for the clock to strike 7:00 pm in order to go out and find myself a nice landscape shot. In the afternoon there were magnificent clouds and they gave med fake hope for a nice sunset scene. I prepared myself and went out with a hope in my heart.
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Just when I went out I met this old men taking his horse for a walk and graze. I just snaped some shots to make my settings and adjustments. I’ve selected Aperture priority at my Nikon D3200, at f/11 and ISO 100, with daylight white balance.

Monday, May 29, 2017

Flowers

Just some of my late spring flower shooting.
I am still learning how to take better photographs and most of them doesn't look good, but for this is a huge step. I don't have a macro lens, so for macro shots I use macro filters. Some of the shots are made by stacking lots of images (each focused on a different place) in order to get more detail from the shot.
Have a nice time looking at them!


Raindrops on Purple Iris by Milen Mladenov on 500px.com

Clouds

There is something very appealing in the clouds, don't you think? Since I was a kid - watching the clouds and their forms and shapes was one of my favorite things to do.
This first image is from a stormy evening in my town. The clouds were moving fast and soon after that there was a lightning storm.
Approaching storm by Milen Mladenov on 500px.com


Monday, April 10, 2017

Spring spirit

In the tulip cup by Milen Mladenov on 500px.com


Pink dreams by Milen Mladenov on 500px.com



Three Tulips by Milen Mladenov on 500px.com


Pink spring 2 by Milen Mladenov on 500px.com


Pink blossoms by Milen Mladenov on 500px.com


Pink spring by Milen Mladenov on 500px.com


Apple tree blossom by Milen Mladenov on 500px.com


Peach blossom by Milen Mladenov on 500px.com


Cherry blossom at sunrise by Milen Mladenov on 500px.com


Meeting the sun by Milen Mladenov on 500px.com


Tulip by Milen Mladenov on 500px.com


Spring colors by Milen Mladenov on 500px.com


Pink tenderness by Milen Mladenov on 500px.com


Pink blossom by Milen Mladenov on 500px.com


Bit of tenderness by Milen Mladenov on 500px.com


Red tulip by Milen Mladenov on 500px.com


Delicate bllue spring by Milen Mladenov on 500px.com


Pink spring by Milen Mladenov on 500px.com


Red tulips by Milen Mladenov on 500px.com


Spring feelings by Milen Mladenov on 500px.com

Spring is here

After a nice winter, what we haven’t seen from some years, here in the North-West of Bulgaria, we finally got spring. Everything was blooming, becoming more and more colorful, the air was full of nice flower smells, so I decided to take my camera and shoot some spring images. I went to my village Valchedram with the task to prep the vineyard for the upcoming season.
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Friday, March 10, 2017

Thursday, February 2, 2017

Alone in the filed 2 - story continues

Alone in the field 2
© Photographer: Milenmladenov | Agency: Dreamstime.com


This is the rest of the story that sits behind this image. 
It all started when I decided to buy my DSLR back in November 2015. My idea for this purchase was to be able to make better images of my village - Varbovchets. I wanted to make the perfect image that will describe the village. I was seeing the image in my mind as one that includes the century tree that is in the village. I tried many different angles of photographing it, but the nearby house and road limited me. 

Thursday, January 19, 2017

The approaching storm



The storm is near
Approaching storm
© Photographer: Milenmladenov | Agency: Dreamstime.com 

Near the small village of Varbovchets, Bulgaria, there is this magical place, where the mountain ends and becomes valley. Most of the fields are workable and last year (2016), just after they cropped the fields and gathered the production I was able to take a shot. This place is special for me for a simple reason – we used to have a small part of the field and it’s just behind the plumtree. Each time we were coming here I was using the plumtree as a landmark in order to find easier our field.

Alone in the field

Alone in the field
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Little grey rascal

Sleepy Kitten
© Photographer: Milenmladenov | Agency: Dreamstime.com

Sunday, January 8, 2017

Winter in Montana

The year 2017 starts with sun and warm weather in my town. Located in the North-West part of Bulgaria, Montana is a small town in witch January usually means - snow, cold and bad weather. Well few days after the beginning of the new year we got some serious amount of snow - over 35cm over one night.
It began to snow around 10:00pm on Thursday