Spring Awakening

Around midday the sun finally broke through again, and in our village garden you could admire the first early bloomers of the year.

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The summer season is quietly coming to an end, and one of the first hidden signs is the appearance of this tiny flowers. They are often called September snow! Every year, we have a little secret competition to see who can spot it first in the terrain.
As soon as we have the first heavy morning dew, these delicate white bells begin to bloom. They rise almost unnoticed among the dry grasses, glistening with droplets, fragile yet full of promise. Promise of the beginning of the growing season, the slow awakening of the earth after summer’s rest.

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The summer season is coming to an end, and one of the first signs is the appearance of this tiny flower -we always rush to be the first one to spot it on the terrain, it is a secret little competition between us. It is known as autumn snowflake or September snow. As soon as the first showers fall or even just with some serious dew, they start growing. It marks the start of the growing season!

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The Language of Light and Leaf

Sometimes, beauty hides in the smallest and simplest things — like the way sunlight passes through a single leaf. During my walk in Surea, I noticed how the low morning sun lit the trees from behind, turning their leaves into glowing jewels of orange, yellow, and green. I raised my Canon 7D Mark II with the Sigma 100–400mm lens and focused on a single leaf, backlit by the warm sunlight.

But what you see here isn’t just colour — it’s chemistry in motion. When autumn arrives and the days grow shorter, trees start reclaiming the nutrients stored in chlorophyll — the pigment that gives leaves their green colour and fuels photosynthesis. As chlorophyll breaks down, other pigments emerge: carotenoids, responsible for yellows and oranges, and anthocyanins, which add red and purple tones. These pigments have been there all along — just hidden behind the green curtain of summer.

So, in a way, autumn is nature’s gentle way of revealing what’s always been there, waiting for the right light to be seen. Through my lens, it’s a reminder that endings can be beautiful too.

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