Art Prints from photographer/web developer and designer, va103 aka Victoria Avvacumova

Dawn’s Moon | Moon gazing | Polychrome Moon | Blue Madness

When I was 12, my brother bought me my first camera: lomo Smena 8m. I began enthusiastically photographing my friends and kittens, developing the photographs myself in our bathroom which my brother used as a darkroom. But my brother moved out, took his developing equipment with him. Next I lost my lomo camera. My passion was postponed for years.

I shoot digital nowadays, and I am never without my camera and 2 lenses: Canon 16-35mm f/2.8 + macro 100mm f/2.8.

Haha, it's unusually cold this winter in Houston, isn't it

Oh gosh, you're very welcome.  I'm glad you didn't mind.  It was a spur of the moment type of thing where I was just bored and had some time.  I love photography and find it very inspiring.  I have a rather romantic notion about how trees and rocks and such.  If they could tell stories what would they tell?  A photograph is a single moment in time.  What other moments have we missed?  What could have happened?

Haha, you couldn't tell that with the story I wrote.  :) But I do really enjoy writing stories to fit photography. I just don't usually share them..

Ohhh! Just to brag about being one of your favourites I’ll happily reply to this one Va. :)

1. I will always lose one or more bad habits every New Years eve as a gift to Me. I have giving up already on drinking and partying, smoking, eating fast or frozen food, coffee, to name a few, and I’ll probably take it on Facebook next.This much free time away from the crowds made me grow my love for Photography.

2. I’m learning gardening, its my second year growing my own garden, or at least trying to. I will love to sustain myself with own grown vegetables and fruits in the future, but I’m not into flower/garden type of photography. Yet.

3. I wake up every day and watch the sunrise, probably with a yogurt in one hand or some tea, and my camera in the other.

4. I try to conquer each one of my fears, and lately I’ve been pushing myself to talk to strangers, ask them for a photograph. I once read a quote from Tony Benn posted by Lensblr that said: ”Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure”.. from that point on, that’s my motto. 5. I’ll try to make the best out of every situation but I strongly believe that the most difficult/painful experiences in Life are the greatest teachers, we just have to find out what is trying to teach us and learn from it.

Thank you! :)

5 nice things about myself... Very tough at the moment tbh... But I'll try

I do believe in "Happy Ends", which is a "nice thing", because I do my very best to make them happen

I think, I am a positive thinking and acting person

I am a talker. But also a listener. (The second thing is the "nice thing")

I try to be genuine and not "wear a mask" to please others. Not on Tumblr and not in so called "real life"

I try to have a good as ever possible relationship to the followers of my blog(s)