Posts by Julia Jakovleva
How Using One Lens Makes You More Creative
What happens to your creativity when you limit yourself to just 1 lens ? This is what I found through my experiment. In 2021 I had my hands on the Sigma 35mm f1.4 rental lens. The following year I decided to have it in my lenses arsenal for good and continued my challenge with this…
Read MoreSpring Road Trip With Our Dog, Pt 2
Malaga: Torcal de Antequera Late night arrival to the parking below the natural park meant less sleep with alarm set before the sunrise. The downside of this parking was that it was 45 minutes walk from the entry to Torcal. Essentialy I spent my sunrise time in this walk rather than on the trail of…
Read MoreSpring Road Trip With Our Dog, Pt 1
Ever thought of traveling with your canine friend but never knew how to approach this ? In the end of February we adopted Luna, a 3-year old border collie, from the pet shelter and one month later she was already boarding onto a camper van trip with us. We opted for local Rumbo Tierra camper…
Read MoreApril Snow
Out of all things, waking up to a complete whiteout in the end of April is the least one you expect in Spain (unless you live in Iceland or Norway or elsewhere in the north where spring snow is a regular thing) . So on April 20 we woke up, opened the shutters and voila!…
Read MoreTwo Weeks Of Vanlife In Gran Canaria
In pandemic we got stuck in Madrid community for a while and when the restrictions were getting lifted, Juan got stuck at the project which wasn’t going to end any soon. The next thing on the horizon was relocating from Madrid to a new place that would mean no time for any travels for…
Read MoreManzanares Walks
It happened that in the month of April we stayed grounded in our San Fermin district and to challenge my creativity within the neighborhood I made a series of walks in Manzanares park. It was the time observing spring, trees turning all to green, flowers blooming, sportsmen and cyclists doing their morning activities or watching…
Read MoreMadrid 35 mm
In a post-lockdown Spain I needed to have a vacation away from home. An idea of exploring the city with 35mm lens has been brewing on my mind for a while. It struck me that if there is any place I should start with, it’s where I live. In late March I rented a Sigma…
Read MoreAutumn Escape To Guadarrama
2020 kept us grounded in Madrid community more than we wanted, so once again neither La Rioja, nor Pyrinees happened in the golden autumn. What happened was Sierra de Guadarrama. In one of my earlier posts about places around Madrid I mentioned this mountain range briefly and how we hiked a mountain in the winter.…
Read MoreRoad Trip In The Northern Spain, Part III
With Asturias we learned it could be either a good fog or a bad one. You can’t choose it, it chooses you. From San Vicente de La Barquera we drove by the coastal road, making a first quick stop at Playa de La Fuentes. After discovering it was full of people we headed to our…
Read MoreRoad Trip In The Northern Spain, Part II
In the road we are ready for surprises from the weather, good ones or bad ones, or all in one. This is what happened when we drove off to reservoir Ebro, the weather caught us in its playful mood, sharing an abundance of fog, rain and wind with us. Cantabria Province As we spontaneously opted…
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