Photography in manual mode and nice award

Hello, lovelies! How are you? Hope you all are well and have a nice start of the week :o) Here in Moscow a bit cold and we`re expected snow this week. So we`ll need some scarfs, hot tea with large small piece of baking and more lighting during the dark season. But I do love this time. And the most important reason to love this season is... preparations for Christmas! So magic time!!! For me it`s the most joyful part of the year :o) Lovely lightings, yummy dishes, handmade decorations, homemade sweets, festive and bright wrapping, lot of brilliant ideas... and so much job full of joy and fun :o) And what about you? What do you think?
I`m already started my preparations for Christmas. I want to make a great pics of my Christmas tree, of my kids and of my Christmas makes, of course :o) So I start to learn more about photography in manual mode. And the best way to make it - is practise. Here they are some pictures in manual mode again:

ISO 800   f5,6   1/2000

ISO 800  f8  1/800

ISO 800  f8  1/800

ISO 800  f5,6  1/2000

ISO 800  f10  1/800

ISO 800  f6,3  1/640

ISO 800  f5,6  1/500

ISO 800  f5,6  1/2000

ISO 800  f5,6  1/200

ISO 800  f5,6  1/100

ISO 1600  f5,6  1/100

ISO 1600  f5,6  1/100

ISO 800  f5,6  1/125

Nice news!!! I was awarded by sweet Angelica at Decora y Adora with Versatile Blogger Award! Thank you so much Angelica :o)

And the difficult part is choose some blogs I love to pass the award. Here are some of them:

Het Bloeiende Buitenleven

Blue Hortensia

Crafted by Carly

HATTATT

An English Travel Writer

Raindrops and Daisies

Riet`s Photoblog

Tangled Sweetpea

Sky-blu-pink

Helen Philipps

homemade@myplace
Audrey Finch
Knitsofacto
Heart and Soul
Maria Glazacheva

But there are much more blogs I love and I`d like to award :o) If you`re not in list, please don`t be upset. It will be another award and more blogs I love ;o)

Thank you for reading, for leaving your nice messages and for following me too :o)
Very warm welcome to my new followers Annie at Knitsofacto and Gracy at Casa Coisas e Cia :o)
Wishing you all the best for this week my dear friends
Love
Natasha

Autumn

Hello, dear friends
In my part of world comes deep yellow Autumn. It`s cold now in Moscow by this time of year and no sun, but still beautiful. Nature is the best picture in any season, isn`t it? Hope your week goes well and autumn brighten your days :o)
This time I`ve tried a new cam setting - all manual. And I found this setting much better than Auto/Middle auto ones. What do you think? Some pictures for you:

Last flowers at my Balcony Garden. Cornflowers are still fresh and bright :o)

Thank you so much for stopping by, for reading and for leaving your kind comments. I love to read your sweet messages :o)
And very warm welcome to my new follower Eugenia at Orvalho e Geada :o)
Wonderful autumn to you all
love
Natasha

Vacation

Hello! Hope you all are well. This is my last post before the vacations. I`ll be back in last dates of August. This time I`m going to visit Dortmund with my middle daughter. If you know some lovely places there to visit, please let me know :o) I`ll be so happy to hear from you :o) All advices appreciate it. And thank you all for making my blogging life rich of inspirations, funny and lovely things and nice meetings :o) Thank you my dear friends for all your supporting messages to me and your friendship. Through my small blog I found so much creative and talented persons. I found YOU :o) with your own individuality and style. See you soon in August!
For you some pictures of my garden and my last makes :o)

Warmest wishes to you all from Russia
love
Natasha

Lavander Box

Hello, lovely friends :o) Thank you very much for your so useful comments on my last post. Gardening is a realy new thing for me. And I was so sad when I found the thrips at my balcony garden. I  just didn`t know what to do with them! I`ve tryed a soapy water, but I was not shure that it`s what  I need to do. So, I`ve asked you. You all are so good in gardening :o) I`m so glad that a soapy water works :o) Sadly, some of my plants are gone.

And here is one of my last makes for my balcony garden:

  

Here the picture how it looks BEFORE:

And some pictures of my balcony garden too :o)

Wishing you all the best for the rest of the weekend and for the comming week too :o)

Lot of love

Natasha

Berries and flowers

Hello, there! Hope you all, my sweet friends, are well and having a nice time right now :o) We all are doing well and having a warm weather :o) But my poor plants are sick.  Last week I found at my balcony garden some thrips :o( And they were so terrible that damaged most of my poor plants. So I made a liquid natural soap to kill them and spray it on my lovely plants. Hope it will helps. What do you think?
Some pictures from my balcony garden:

Red Basil

 Thank you so much for visiting me here and for your lovely comments. I enjoy reading them every time and every single one :o) Thank you, my dear friends. You are the best.
And very warm welcome to my very new followers Anne at Heart and Soul, Emma at The Blooming Times ,Riet at Riet`s photoblog . I`m your newest follower too, lovely ladies.
Wishing to all of you who came here having a sweet time
love
Natasha

Moscow Flower Show

Hello, sweet friends! How are you doing? Hope you all are well :o) It`s hot here in Moscow! Hooray! Summer is here :o) Last week I`ve visited a lovely Moscow Flower Show and I was so happy to be there :o) Here some pictures to share with you:

I was kindly awarded by sweet Victoria at Tangled Sweetpea with Liebster Blog Award! Thank you so much Victoria :o) With me were awarded Emma at The Blooming Times and Shelley at All4meggymoo.

Thank you so much for reading and leaving your sweet messages to me. I enjoy reading them so much :o)
Happy and warm week to all of you
love

Natasha